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Front Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 16, no. 2
Front Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 16, no. 2
Passage to Modernity: Leaves of Grass and the 1853 Crystal Palace Exhibition in New York
Provides a historical background of the London (1851) and New York (1853) Crystal Palace Exhibitions and, situating Whitman's response in relation to global contemporaries including Dostoevsky and Benjamin, argues for the importance of Whitman's attendance at the New York exhibition as an influence on Leaves of Grass
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 16, no. 1
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 16, no. 1
Martin Tupper, Walt Whitman, and the Early Reviews of Leaves of Grass
Explores why a number of early reviewers compared Whitman to his best-selling British contemporary Martin Tupper, compares the poetry of these writers, and argues for Tupper's importance to Whitman
Perlman, Jim, Ed Folsom, and Dan Campion, eds., Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song (Second Revised Edition) [review]
Of Subjects and Cowboys: Frontier and History in Pedro Mir's "Countersong to Walt Whitman"
Reads Pedro Mir's "Countersong to Walt Whitman" as a critique and renewal of the Whitmanian vision of democracy, arguing the poem "does not cast Anglo-America as an essentially antagonistic force but rather as a paragon of democracy taken hostage by monopoly capital.
Whitman's "Shadowy Dwarf": A Source in Hindu Mythology
Argues that Vamana, an avatar of Vishnu in Hindu mythology, is the subject of Whitman's reference to a "shadowy dwarf" in Democratic Vistas