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Hayes, Nicholas Alexander. "Definition (after "A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman, 1819-1892)." In Raymond Luczak, ed., Lovejets: Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Walt Whitman (Minneapolis, MN: Squares & Rebels, 2019), 96. [Prose poem, ending "His cheekbones are now promontories from which spiders launch filament, filament, filament seeking only to connect."]
Waitinas, Catherine. "'A Noiseless Patient Spider': Whitman, Wikis, and the Web." Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2 (Spring 2009), www.teachingamericanlit.com/Spring_2009.html. [Reviews the Walt Whitman Archive (www.whitmanarchive.org) and reports in detail on how the author used the Archive as the "exclusive course 'textbook' for both primary and secondary readings" in an upper-division college course, "Literature and the Digital Archive: Walt Whitman," in an attempt to discover whether it is "viable, academically sound, and/or pedagogically effective to ask students to access not only secondary but also primary texts online"; concludes that "for Whitman, . . . the answer is a definite Yes."]
Chen Hongfu. "An Analysis of 'A Noiseless Patient Spider': Probing a Lonely Singer's Creative Imagination." Journal of Fuzhou Teachers College 22 (June 2002), 16-19. [Analyzes "A Noiseless Patient Spider" in light of its historical background; in Chinese.]
Zhu Li. "Structural Analysis of Whitman's 'A Noiseless Patient Spider.'" Appreciation of Literary Masterpieces 3 (May 2000), 72-74. [Offers a structural analysis of the poem; in Chinese.]
Andriano, Joseph. "George Rice Carpenter," "'A Noiseless Patient Spider,'" "Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts," "Parodies," "Society for the Suppression of Vice," "Charles Warren Stoddard," "'To a Locomotive in Winter.'" In J. R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings, eds., Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland, 1998), 107, 464-465, 468-469, 505-506, 649-650, 690-691, 726. [Encyclopedia entries.]
Diehl, Paul. "'A Noiseless Patient Spider': Whitman's Beauty--Blood and Brain." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 6 (Winter 1989), 117-132. [Examines the evolution of "A Noiseless Patient Spider" from notebook jottings through manuscript draft, original publication in The Broadway, revision in Passage to India, and final appearance in the 1881 Leaves of Grass.] Full text available.
Mersch, Arnold. "Teilhard de Chardin and Whitman's 'A Noiseless Patient Spider.'" Walt Whitman Review 17 (September 1971):99-100. [In Whitman's "A Noiseless Patient Spider," the spider and the soul both metaphorically proclaim Teilhard's evolutionary understanding of a yet incomplete world of becoming and process.]