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Whitman's Disciples: Editor's Note
No full textIntroduces a special double issue of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review devoted to studies of Whitman's disciples
"If He Be Not Himself the Age Transfigured": The Poet, the "Cultivating Class," and Whitman's 1855 "Song of Myself"
Get PDFExplores how Whitman defined issues of class in his poetry in an effort to address the working people of the United States and describes the poet's "attack on oppositional categorization" as an effort "to provide a common ground between the poet and his people," showing that Whitman "removed his subjects to a 'place' away from the 'pulling and hauling' in order to preserve his own poetic role as the transcender of oppositions.
Whitman, Pater, and "An English Poet"
Get PDFShows how Walter Pater's "suppression" in 1889 of his 1876 reference to Whitman and his reluctance to complete "An English Poet" "converge as textual events" to reveal Pater's "anxious interest in Whitman" which he tried to hide from his own readers
"To Destroy the Teacher": Whitman and Martin Farquhar Tupper's 1851 Trip to America
Get PDFExplores the possible influence of British author Martin Farquhar Tupper on the development of Whitman's poetics, concluding that "while the differences between Whitman and Tupper clearly override the similarities, the similarities should not be ignored.
From the Material to the Spiritual in the Sea-Drift Cluster: Transcendence in "On the Beach at Night," "The World below the Brine," and "On the Beach at Night Alone"
Get PDFFocuses on three critically neglected poems in Whitman's Sea-Drift cluster ("On the Beach at Night," "The World Below the Brine" and "On the Beach at Night Alone") and reads the poems as an important "interruption" in the cluster as a whole, in which the poet establishes crucial ideas of mortality, materiality and spirituality
The Idea of Music in "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"
Get PDFReads Whitman's "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" in terms of the poem's indebtedness to music, especially Italian Opera, arguing that music plays "not only a structural role, but a symbolic one," and that the "solution ('clew') to the ultimate mystery of being is, for Whitman, an essentially musical solution.
Walt Whitman and Frederick Delius, Endlessly Rocking
Get PDFExplores the relation between Whitman's Sea-Drift and the musical compositions of Frederick Delius, arguing that "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" and Delius' composition "'rock' in exquisite complementarity"; traces the formal and philosophical congruities between the works
Without Walt Whitman in Camden
Get PDFExamines the lives of some of Whitman's friends and followers in and around Camden, New Jersey, in the time shortly after the poet's death; uses the correspondence of Horace Traubel, Richard M. Bucke, Thomas Harned, John Symonds and others to explore how Whitman's sexuality, reputation, and writing were debated and interpreted by his followers in the wake of the poet's death