Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
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Whitman, Race, and Literary History: A Recently Recovered Dialogue
Get PDFTranscribes and analyzes a Whitman manuscript from the Huntington (New York) Public Library, examining the significance of Whitman's writing around a newspaper clipping about "Greeks, Romans, and Hebrews," on which he comments and with which he argues, "reinscribing the literary and cultural contributions of non-European, non-Judeo-Christian people.
Whitman and the Afterlife: "Sparkles from the Wheel"
Get PDFReads "Sparkles from the Wheel" as a poem "about time, especially in relation to the afterlife," that views life as "an ongoing sequence of spiraling trajectories in which every ending is always a new beginning.
Front Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 20, no. 1
No full textFront Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 20, no. 1
A Sheaf of Uncollected Nineteenth-Century Whitman Notices and Reviews
Get PDFLists and quotes relevant parts of "eight items in nineteenth-century magazines and newspapers that have been hitherto lost to Whitman scholarship," including mentions in 1841 and 1842 of Whitman's early fiction in the New York Tribune, an 1856 review of Leaves of Grass in Dublin Review, 1865 reviews of Drum-Taps in the Independent and San Francisco Bulletin, an 1882 review of Leaves in Boston Sunday Globe, and 1882 reviews of Specimen Days in the New York Sun and the Philadelphia Press
Bloom, Harold, ed., Walt Whitman; J. Michael Leger, ed., Walt Whitman: A Collection of Poems; and Gary Wiener, ed., Readings on Walt Whitman [review]
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A Newly Discovered Walter Whitman, Sr., Document
Get PDFReports on and reprints a recently discovered 1834 payment draft for Whitman Sr.'s work in the construction of the Norwich Methodist church
When Time and Place Avail: Whitman's Written Orator Reconsidered
No full textExplores Whitman's hope for "a written speech" and looks to "the culture of nineteenth-century American oratory" for precedents in the search for "a fusion of speech and writing," particularly "the epideictic or commemorative oratory of Daniel Webster and Edward Everett"; uses these materials to read "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.
A Manuscript Draft of Whitman's Preface, 1876
No full textTranscribes and discusses a draft of Whitman's preface to the Centennial Edition of Leaves of Grass
