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The Transatlantic Walt Whitman Association
Get PDFAnnounces the formation of a Transatlantic Walt Whitman Association and prints the group's charter
Front Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 25, no. 1/2
No full textFront Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 25, no. 1/2
Whitman and Modern Dance
Get PDFRecounts the history of the creation and performance of choreographer Helen Tamiris's Walt Whitman Suite, a dance created in 1936 for the Federal Dance Project and based on "Salut au Monde," "Song of the Open Road," and "I Sing the Body Electric"; proposes that Tamiris is "a translator of Whitman's words into the new language of modern dance.
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 25, no. 1/2
No full textBack Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 25, no. 1/2
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 24, no. 4
No full textBack Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 24, no. 4
"Damn 'em, God bless 'em!": Whitman and Traubel on the Makers of Books
No full textExamines Whitman's many comments on bookmaking in his conversations with Horace Traubel during the final four years of his life, including the poet?s views on various publishers, printers, and binders as well as his views on typesetting, page design, proofreading, inking, title pages, and other material aspects of the bookmaking art; concludes with some examples of Traubel's views on bookmaking
Folsom, Ed. Whitman Making Books / Books Making Whitman: A Catalog & Commentary [review]
No full textSchmidgall, Gary, ed., Conserving Whitman's Fame: Selections from Horace Traubel's "Conservator," 1890-1919 [review]
No full textThe Disorder of Drum-Taps
Get PDFExamines the printing history of Drum-Taps, comparing "the March 1865 advertising placard to the final table of contents," establishing "the high cost of paper in the late Civil War and Whitman's financial concerns," identifying "the different type designs in Drum-Taps," showing "how each change reveals a new stage in the production process," and reexamining "the surviving documentary evidence of the printing process to create a more complete chronology of the process of revision and publication"; concludes that the book was largely arranged to economize space and save paper and that Drum-Taps becomes a "poignant reflection of the war, embodying in its very arrangements the wounds and scars of April 1865.