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Front Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 24, no. 1
No full textFront Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, v. 24, no. 1
The Sesquicentennial of the 1856 Leaves of Grass: A Daguerreotype of a Woman Reader
Get PDFDiscusses a daguerreotype of an unidentified young woman holding a copy of the 1856 Leaves of Grass; the daguerreotype is reproduced on the back cover of this issue of WWQR
Oliver, Charles M. Critical Companion to Walt Whitman: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work [review]
No full textThe Cover of the First Edition of Leaves of Grass
Get PDFOffers a close examination of the floriated font on the cover of the 1855 Leaves of Grass, compares that font to the font used on the title page, and discusses the significance of the way Whitman shaped the letters of his title; goes on to examine a Whitman poetry manuscript that unveils some otherwise disguised homosexual references in the poem eventually entitled "The Sleepers.
Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Summer 2006
No full textWalt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Summer 2006
Folsom, Ed and Kenneth M. Price. Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work [review]
No full textFront Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 23, no. 3/4
No full textFront Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 23, no. 3/4
"A Woman Waits for Me": Anne Gilchrist's Reading of Leaves of Grass
No full textExamines Anne Gilchrist's education, her courtship with and marriage to Alexander Gilchrist, and her reading habits in order to analyze "the intersection of interpretation and fantasy, sex and religion, author and reader" that her response to Whitman's writings entails; works toward identifying "the change triggered by her interaction with Whitman's book," which prompted what she called a "new birth.
David McKay: Whitman's Final Publisher
No full textExamines the relationship between Whitman and his Philadelphia publisher, David McKay, and explores the motivation for McKay's surprising decision to publish an "unauthorized" collection of Whitman's poems eight years after the poet's death