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Suppressing the Gay Whitman in America: Translating Thomas Mann
Get PDFExamines Mann's 1922 speech "On the German Republic," in which Mann uses Whitman's Calamus poems to evoke Eros as "the figurehead of his democratic republic"; investigates why the key passage about Whitman's "manly love of comrades" is missing in Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter's English translation of the speech; reprints the missing passage in the original German and an English translation; and gives an overview of "the history of Leaves of Grass in German-speaking countries" and "Mann's encounter with Hans Reisiger's Whitman translations.
The Manuscript of Walt Whitman's "Sunday Evening Lectures"
No full textIntroduces and reprints the recently rediscovered manuscript of Whitman's lecture notes on German philosophers including Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, in a reader's transcription by Wihl (110-119) and a diplomatic transcription by Ed Folsom and Matthew Miller (120-133)
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 19, no. 2
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Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 18, no. 3
No full textBack Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 18, no. 3
"Dear Miss Ella": George L. Chase's Whitman-Inspired Love Letters
No full textAnalyzes and reprints Minnesota minister Chase's 1872 courtship letters to Ella Wheeler, in which Chase, who knew Whitman, writes at length about Whitman and his work
Poetic Value and Erotic Norms: A Response to Helen Vendler
Get PDFTakes issue with Vendler's "Poetry and the Mediation of Value: Whitman on Lincoln" (Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2000), arguing that "Vendler's formalist and broadly humanist reading of value . . . mainly focuses on repressing the particulars of Whitman's Americanness, of his racialized politics, and of his sexuality"; suggests that Whitman "was not interested in preserving the purity of lyric as a genre" and in fact "encourages us to transgress generic ideals and the limiting conventions of authorship with which they are associated," thus making "his poetry . . . inseparable from his prose" and leading us "to honor the idiosyncratic.
Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Summer 2001
No full textWalt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Summer 2001
"The Suppressed Book!": A Previously Unreported Whitman Broadside
Get PDFReprints and discusses a broadside published by E. C. Walker in the early 1880s, advertising Leaves of Grass