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Greenspan, Ezra. Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself': A Sourcebook and Critical Edition [review]
No full textReview of Ezra Greenspan, ed., Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself': A Sourcebook and Critical Edition. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 23 (Winter 2006), 148-151
The Census of the 1855 Leaves of Grass: A Preliminary Report
Get PDFOffers the results to date for the census of copies of the first edition of Leaves of Grass, reporting that 158 copies have so far been located; goes on to suggest how the census results change our understanding of the first edition, and offers a "printer's examination" of the 1855 Leaves, emphasizing the enormous number of variations in the copies. Raw census data updated on 12/1/2016
From Language to Empire: Walt Whitman in the Context of Nineteenth-Century Popular Anglo-Saxonism
Get PDFExamines Whitman's relationship to nineteenth-century Anglo-Saxonism (as seen in such periodicals as The Anglo-Saxon) and proposes that "his vocabulary of Anglo-Saxonism problematizes his call for equality and universality," producing tensions in his work--"his changing focus from language to racial superiority and then to the postbellum negation of that superiority demonstrates the complexity of Whitman's politics"-and leading him after 1860 to employ "both new vocabulary and new ideas which actively contradict the familiar strains of Anglo-Saxonism.
Introduction: Whitman as a Bookmaker
No full textIntroduces a special double-issue of WWQR on Whitman as a bookmaker, with essays growing out of the "Whitman Making Books / Books Making Whitman" symposium held at the University of Iowa in November 2005
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 24, no. 1
No full textBack Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 24, no. 1
Emerson, Whitman, and Eros
Get PDFSeeks to correct the "sanitzed and stilted view of Emerson" that prevailed among Emerson's Brahmin friends and still dominates much Whitman criticism, and argues that Emerson and Whitman share a belief in "the body and the senses" as "essential elements of human nature"; using Norman O. Brown's theories, goes on to posit that for Emerson and Whitman "one of the primary drives of Eros . . . is desire for union with the world, with the natural environment," and that both writers sought a "sensual language" to express this desire: "For both Emerson and Whitman, humanity must literally come to its senses, in word and deed.
The Sesquicentennial of the First Edition of Leaves of Grass
Get PDFLists and describes various sesquicentennial conferences and events taking place nationwide during 2005
Front Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 22, no. 4
No full textFront Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 22, no. 4