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From:The American Poetry Review (Vol. 48, Issue 3)In his essay Democratic Vistas (1871) Walt Whitman writes, "Democracy ... is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten, because that history has yet to be enacted." And he was right, of course. Whitman's...
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From: Religious Thought in the Greater American Poets[(essay date 1922) In the following essay, Bailey argues for Whitman’s place among the great poets, answering some of the claims made against his worthiness.] Whitman has not yet been given his final place among...
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From:Gay & Lesbian BiographyWalt Whitman's effusive lyrics perfectly mirrored the exuberance and variance that characterized the young maturity of the Republic. During his lifetime and for some years afterwards, rumors of his sexual unorthodoxy...
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From: Whitman Noir: Black America and the Good Gray Poet[(essay date 2014) In the following essay, Folsom argues that although Whitman attempted to “speak black experience” in some of his early works, he later “systematically erased race from his published writings.”] A...
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From:The American Poetry Review (Vol. 43, Issue 2)JOYCE CAROL OATES'S HIGH ACCLAIM FOR James Dickey's work ranked him alongside our supreme early master: "It might be argued that Dickey is our era's Whitman, but a Whitman subdued, no longer innocent, baptized by...
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From:Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (Vol. 31, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAT THE END OF a 1992 article in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, entitled "Walt Whitman's Voice," Larry Don Griffin mentions the existence of a recording of "Whitman reciting the first four lines from his 1888 poem...
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From:Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (Vol. 29, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"I TELL NOT THE FALL OF ALAMO." begins what would eventually become Section 34 of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself," yet despite this alert from the poet regarding what he will "tell not," the section was summarized in...
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From:Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (Vol. 27, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedOn November 19, 1888, Walt Whitman's chronicler and long-time friend Horace Traubel found it worthwhile to record a conversation regarding a "strange little Washington-Lincoln photo" kept on the mantelpiece at Whitman's...
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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 53, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAlthough critics and commentators have been fascinated with the question of Whitman's sources, I suspect that what is original and important about Whitman lies not in any particular idea or source of inspiration but in...
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From: English Institute Annual, 1941[(essay date 1942) In the following essay, Bradley discusses the publication history of Leaves of Grass and notes some of the editorial challenges associated with the work. Bradley maintains that a “true variorum” of...
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From: Gnomon: Essays in Contemporary Literature[(essay date 1958) In the following essay, originally published in 1955, Kenner discusses the critical response to the centennial of the publication of Leaves of Grass. He laments the extent to which “Whitman has been...
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From:Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMy topic is the left margin, that space of reinauguration that has traditionally been emphasized, perhaps almost by default, when a poet deliberately refrains from using traditional right margin resources such as rhyme...
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From: Whitman East and West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Myerson surveys various illustrated editions of poems from Leaves of Grass, focusing especially on how the visual components affect readers’ interpretations.] Anyone writing...
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From: Bulletin of The New York Public Library[(essay date 1965) In the following essay, Golden provides background information on Whitman’s annotated copy of the 1860 Leaves of Grass, known as the “Blue Book,” which was not published until 1968. Golden summarizes...
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From:Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (Vol. 35, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedAs HAS OFTEN BEEN POINTED OUT in Whitman studies, the speaker of "Song of Myself" shares two essential traits with the collection the poem is part of: mutability and limitlessness. Leaves of Grass was published in six...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 39, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedI FIRST SAW THE DYING GAUL WHEN I WAS EIGHT. THE STATUE, A PLASTER cast of the original, was tucked away under a back staircase in the Burke Gilman Museum. The Burke Gilman was my favorite place: my mother, who was...
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From:Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (Vol. 31, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAt his request, after death, his brain removed for science, phrenology, to study, and as the mortuary assistant carried it (I suppose in a jar but I hope cupped in his hands) across the lab's stone floor he dropped it....
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From:Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography," now covering work on Whitman from 1838 to the present, is available in a fully searchable format online at the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review website (ir.uiowa.edu/wwqr/) and at...
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From:Notes and Queries (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA letter by noted author Walt Whitman to a certain Dr. Le Baron Russell shows him busy with attending to the wounded and dying in a hospital during the height of the American Civil War. This manuscript, dated Dec. 3,...
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From:Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (Vol. 36, Issue 2-3) Peer-Reviewed"HE HAD A FACE LIKE A BENEDICTION," Laurence Hutton (1843-1904) said of Walt Whitman, quoting Cervantes. (1) "Few men ever impressed me so strongly.... It was not his verse.... It was his wonderful physical beauty"...