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Walt Whitman (1819-1892)


 
Walt Whitman

 American Literature Sites
Foley Library Catalog 

Selected Bibliography on Leaves of Grass
Common Questions on Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, America's Poet (PowerPoint) (web)

  • Online Audio Recording of Whitman's Voice, from the Chronicle of Higher Education site, courtesy of Ed Folsom of the Whitman Hypertext Archive. (requires RealPlayer).
  • Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive. This excellent and innovative site by Professors Ed Folsom of the University of Iowa and Kenneth Price of the University of Nebraska is an essential stop for those working on Whitman.(Photo courtesy of this site)
  • Walt Whitman and Slavery.  Part of the excellent Whitman and Dickinson project, this site by Kenneth M. Price of the University of Nebraska includes a critical essay, a bibliography, quotations, and teaching materials.  (Note: This site currently appears to be undergoing a reorganization, so some links don't work.)
  • Foregrounds and Apprenticeships.  This site focuses on Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, including Dickinson's relationship with Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Whitman's with Emerson. It contains a timeline, excerpts from letters and criticism, and a bibliography.
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  • John Townsend Trowbridge's"Reminiscences of Walt Whitman"(Atlantic, 1902)
  • "Walt Whitman's Democracy" by Walter Blackburn Harte (1892)
  • "Portraits of Walt Whitman" by R. M. Bucke (New England Magazine, March 1899).
  • "Constructing Walt Whitman" discusses critics' responses to Whitman's sexuality.
  • An essay on Drum-Taps by Angel Price at the University of Virginia's Crossroads site. 
  • "Walt Whitman and the Development of Leaves of Grass." Online catalogue and descriptions of an exhibit curated by Anthony Szczesiul at the University of South Carolina library.
  • "The Poetry of Walt Whitman." Brief biography and pictures of the poet's birthplace in West Hills,  Long Island.  See also another Long Island perspective, "The Paumanok Poet," for a biographical sketch and more pictures of Whitman's family and birthplace.
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    Selected Works  Online 

    "Leaves of Grass at the University of Virginia (New URL). This important Whitman site includes "Song of Myself" from the 1855, 1881-2, and 1891-2 editions of Leaves of Grass as well as reviews of Whitman's works and other materials. (Note: This site currently appears to be undergoing a reorganization, so some links don't work.)

    Leaves of Grass (1900). Illustrated HTML version from Project Bartleby.

    Whitman's Notebooks at the Library of Congress's American Memory Collection. These four notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Collection were lost in 1942 and recovered in 1995. They contain some early fragments of Leaves of Grass.

    "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" from Leaves of Grass (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1892). HTML at the University of Toronto. 



    Comments to D. Campbell.