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Commentary

Selected Criticism

Introduction

Books

  • Allen, Gay Wilson, and Ed Folsom, ed. Walt Whitman & the World (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995). PDF
  • Asselineau, Roger. The Evolution of Walt Whitman: An Expanded Edition (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999). PDF
  • Athenot, Éric, and Cristanne Miller, ed. Whitman & Dickinson: A Colloquy (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2017). PDF
  • Belasco, Susan, Ed Folsom, and Kenneth M. Price, ed. Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007). PDF
  • Blake, David Haven, and Michael Robertson, ed. Walt Whitman, Where the Future Becomes Present (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2008). PDF
  • Buinicki, Martin T. Walt Whitman's Reconstruction: Poetry and Publishing between Memory and History (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011). PDF
  • Cohen, Matt. Whitman's Drift: Imagining Literary Distribution (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2017). PDF
  • Erkkila, Betsy. The Whitman Revolution: Sex, Poetry, and Politics (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2020). PDF
  • Erkkila, Betsy, ed. Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus" (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011). PDF
  • Folsom, Ed. Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman (Iowa City: Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, 2005). HTML
  • Folsom, Ed, and Kenneth M. Price. Re-Scripting Walt Whitman (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005). HTML
  • Folsom, Ed, ed. Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994). PDF
  • Folsom, Ed, ed. Whitman East & West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002). PDF
  • Gerhardt, Christine. A Place for Humility: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2014). PDF
  • Grünzweig, Walter. Constructing the German Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995). PDF
  • Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. Walt Whitman and the Earth: A Study in Ecopoetics (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004). HTML PDF
  • Krieg, Joann P. Walt Whitman & the Irish (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000). HTML PDF
  • Krieg, Joann P. A Whitman Chronology (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1998). PDF
  • Lawson, Andrew. Walt Whitman & the Class Struggle (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006). PDF
  • Levin, Joanna, and Edward Whitley, ed. Whitman among the Bohemians (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2014). PDF
  • Mack, Stephen John. The Pragmatic Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002). HTML PDF
  • Martin, Robert K, ed. The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman: The Life after the Life (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992). PDF
  • Miller, Edwin Haviland. Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Mosaic of Interpretations (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989). PDF
  • Miller, Matt. Collage of Myself: Walt Whitman and the Making of Leaves of Grass (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010). PDF
  • Myerson, Joel, ed. Whitman in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Memoirs, and Interviews by Friends and Associates (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000). PDF
  • Pavese, Cesare. Interpretation of the Poetry of Walt Whitman, Honors Thesis (University of Turin, 1930), translated and with an introduction by Lawrence G. Smith (© Smith 2023; The Walt Whitman Archive, 2023). PDF
  • Price, Kenneth M. To Walt Whitman, America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004). HTML
  • Schmidgall, Gary, ed. Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman's Conversations with Horace Traubel, 1888–1892 (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001). PDF
  • Schmidgall, Gary, ed. Conserving Walt Whitman's Fame: Selections from Horace Traubel's Conservator, 1890–1919 (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006). PDF
  • Sten, Christopher, and Tyler Hoffman, ed. "This Mighty Convulsion": Whitman and Melville Write the Civil War (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2019). PDF
  • Thomas, M. Wynn. Transatlantic Connections: Whitman U.S. / Whitman U.K (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005). PDF
  • Tuggle, Lindsay. The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman's Civil War (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2017). PDF
  • Whitman, Walt. The Correspondence, vol. 7, ed. Ted Genoways (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004). PDF
  • Whitman, Walt. Selected Letters of Walt Whitman, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1990). PDF
  • Wilson, Ivy, ed. Whitman Noir: Black America and the Good Gray Poet (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2014). PDF

Articles

  • Corona, Mario. "The Furtive Hen and the Cat Whose Tail Was Too Long: On Whitman's Traces." HTML
  • Folsom, Ed. "'A spirit of my own seminal wet': Spermatoid Design in Walt Whitman's 1860 Leaves of Grass." PDF
  • Helms, Alan. "Whitman's 'Live Oak with Moss'." HTML
  • Helms, Alan, and Hershel Parker. "Commentary." HTML
  • Jewell, Andrew, and Kenneth M. Price. "Twentieth-Century Mass Media Appearances." HTML
  • Murray, Martin G. "Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle." HTML
  • Murray, Martin G. "Traveling with the Wounded: Walt Whitman and Washington's Civil War Hospitals." HTML
  • Nelson, Robert K., and Kenneth M. Price. "Debating Manliness: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Sloane Kennedy, and the Question of Whitman." HTML
  • Parker, Hershel. "The Real 'Live Oak, with Moss': Straight Talk about Whitman's 'Gay Manifesto'." HTML
  • Price, Kenneth M. "Love, War, and Revision in Whitman's Blue Book." PDF
  • Santayana, George. "Walt Whitman: A Dialogue." HTML
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