Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
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Nolan, James. Poet-Chief: The Native American Poetics of Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda [review]
No full textWhitman's Leaves of Grass and the Writing of a New American Bible
No full textArgues that Whitman scholarship has minimized the extent to which the poet envisioned Leaves of Grass--especially the 1860 edition--as a "New Bible," and explores the possibilities of "neo-biblical intent" as a way of understanding the poet's ambition and accomplishment
Stopping History in Walt Whitman's "Drum-Taps"
No full textArgues that the Drum-Taps poems tell two different histories, one the "larger story of the war" and the other--inserted in moments of "frozen" time--the story "of comradeship and homoerotic desire.
Whitman's Aging Body
No full textExamines Whitman's "Sands at Seventy" and "Good-Bye My Fancy" poems as works that offer "one of our relatively few literary representations of pain" and a "moving and thought-provoking . . . description of aging.
Whitman's Specimen Days and the Culture of Authenticity
No full textAnalyzes Specimen Days as a work "that both prefigures and furthers the culture of authenticity.
Walt Whitman and the Sister Arts
No full textExamines Whitman's attitude toward the visual arts and toward contemporary and historical beliefs about the relation between poetry and painting, focusing especially upon Whitman's relation to art patron William Cullen Bryant and sculptor Henry Kirke Brown, and upon how Whitman "boldly reconfigured the transgenre appeal of the sister arts.
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 17, no. 1/2
No full textBack Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 17, no. 1/2
Walt Whitman and the Culture of Pragmatism
Get PDFArgues that Whitman's writing "first persuaded Willia
Seeds of Quakerism at the Roots of Leaves of Grass
Get PDFExplores Whitman's poetry in the light of Quakerism, presenting both those Quaker concepts "directly relevant to the vision of democracy that Whitman wanted to promote" and those not found in the poet's vision; contends that in Leaves of Grass--especially the "Calamus" poems--Whitman sought to "win for the gay minority in nineteenth-century America what the Quaker minority had won in England in the seventeenth," and that what is missing of Quakerism in the poems leaves "his democratic programme partial and unfinished.
Walt Whitman, the Bachelor, and Sexual Politics
Get PDFExplores Whitman's negotiation of bachelorhood, examining how and why the poet avoided the word "bachelor" and its idea in print, yet embraced it in his persona; argues that Whitman's relation to bachelorhood "demonstrates the complexity we face in restructuring concepts like 'bachelorhood' from our own times, when the word has lost most of its resonance.