Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
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"Going to Bed": A Recovered Whitman Article from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Get PDFReprints and analyzes a recently rediscovered 1847 newspaper article by Whitman about sleep, and associates the article with "Song of Myself" and "The Sleepers.
Whitman's End of History: "As I sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shore," Democratic Vistas, and the Postbellum Politics of Nostalgia
No full textExamines the 1867 poem "As I sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shore" and compares it to its antebellum version ("Poem of Many In One") and to Democratic Vistas, interrogating Whitman's "refusal to engage with the complexities of the present moment" as, with "Hegelian logic," he "proposes the end of history in the rise of the United States," conflating poet, people, and nation in a kind of transcendence of history, a transcendence that is troubled (but not defeated) by the Civil War and the social unrest of the Reconstruction period: "both his antebellum and postbellum poetry in fact show a frustration with politics that flows directly from his desire to identify himself with the nation, to unite his poetic will with an American democratic essence.
Grossman, Jay. Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation [review]
No full text"Yesterday's Military Show": An Uncollected Piece of Whitman Journalism
Get PDFReprints and analyzes a recently rediscovered Whitman article from the Washington, D.C., Daily Morning Chronicle (1871) about a parade marking the anniversary of the Battle of North Point, Maryland, in the War of 1812
A Tribe Called Text: Whitman and Representing the American Indian Body
Get PDFExamines "the language with which Whitman represents the American Indian body" and argues that "the image of the Indian" marks Whitman's failure to "project actual physical presence in a literary text" because he "textualizes and . . . obscures the Indian body, aligning the indigenous American with the trope of writing and the composition of the text itself"; focuses on "Song of Myself," "Starting from Paumanok," "The Sleepers," and Whitman's story "The Half-Breed.
Walter de la Mare and Walt Whitman: A Bibliographic Note
Get PDFReprints a 1965 letter from the editor's secretary at the London Times Literary Supplement, verifying that de la Mare was indeed the author of a 1915 TLS essay on Drum-Taps
The Civil War as Revolutionary Reenactment: Walt Whitman's "The Centenarian's Story"
No full textArgues that Whitman's "poetic formalism" in "The Centenarian's Story" "stemmed from conventional themes deeply rooted in remembrances about the Revolution that pervaded the nation throughout the nineteenth century," and offers a reading of Whitman's poem against the backdrop of popular writings about Revolutionary War veterans, concluding that Whitman was "a participant in the trends of collective remembrance located in popular literature" as he "portrayed the Civil War . . as a revolutionary reenactment--an intricate replaying with new variations--of challenges and heroics past.
The Texts and Contexts of "Calamus": Did Whitman Censor Himself in 1860?
Get PDFExamines the recent controversy over the relationship of the "Live Oak, with Moss" sequence to the 'Calamus' cluster and argues that, "when paired with contextual evidence, an examination of the manuscripts of the 'Calamus' poems offers no basis for the charge of self-censorship and defeat" in this sequence of poems