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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century
Whitman looked to the Americans whirring around him for inspiration, perceiving "a teeming nation of
Whitman's conviction that America and its citizens were poems in and of themselves echoed the zeitgeist
During this American Renaissance, as it came to be known, authors and philosophers such as Hawthorne,
" in the book's first poem, there were no other clues to his identity.
The third edition of , released in 1860, was the first released by a publisher.
The Walt Whitman Archive was the first hit in both searches; also highly-rated were the Library of Congress's
We began to build what we were then calling the Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive (we later dropped the
There were also problems with the navigation of the site.
There were some important consequences from this undertaking.
These volumes were originally contributed to the by Ed Whitley.
Whitman's Dispersed Poetry Manuscripts Kenneth Price, the Hillegass Professor of American literature
Existing images were gathered, permissions secured, and fees paid.
The poems were often not given the same title, and some were left untitled.
Transcriptions were encoded with Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).
Manuscript images were 24-bit color TIFF images with a minimum resolution of 600 dpi.
, there were 146 new poems.
Such images were viewed by many as pornographic in this Victorian era, as were Whitman's images of fathering
in the "Year 85 of The States. / (1860–61)," indicating Whitman's decision to use a new American calendar
The notes go on; some of the types were used; others were not.
for the 1860 edition in 1879.
Making Whitman is available from the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 308 EPB, University of Iowa, Iowa City
Intimate Script and the New American Bible: "Calamus" and the Making of the 1860 Chapter 5.
Walt Whitman is thus of the first generation of Americans who were born in the newly formed United States
In Whitman's school, all the students were in the same room, except African Americans, who had to attend
The published versions of his New Orleans poem called "Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City" seem to
But the exotic nature of the Southern city was not without its horrors: slaves were auctioned within