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1995, the purpose of the Archive has been to make Whitman's enormous oeuvre—poems, essays, letters, journals
American editions of Leaves of Grass , as well as the "deathbed" printing, along with manuscript drafts, journal
English Journal 26 [1937]: 51–52; emphasis added).
Cross, George Eliot’s Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals, 3 vols.
Indeed, we can say that Whitman left journalism for a career as a poet only if we narrowly define journalism
American Phrenological Journal 22, no. 4 (October 1855): 90–91.
Canadian Journal, n.s., 1 (November 1856): 541–51.
still surprised to find Whitman wrote a novel and published fiction in some of the country's best journals
mixed diction, and endless catalogs of the commonplace, itself reads more like some cross between journalism
Scripture and journalism, epic and etiquette manual, sublime transcendental philosophy and obscene filth
project in 1996 was to make all of Whitman's work freely available online: poems, essays, letters, journals
gathered and edited; his letters; his notebooks; his daybooks; his other books; his voluminous journalism—and
Keeping a commonplace book edges toward database; keeping a journal, toward narrative.