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Huntington Library Quarterly 19 (1955): 1–11.Whitman, Walt. Complete Poetry and Collected Prose.

the scene's temporal requirements were among the formal qualities Whitman admired most (Uncollected 1:

artists], ardent, radical and progressive" to strengthen this country's artistic base (Uncollected 1:

art's moral value and his equation between the "perfect man" and the "perfect artist" (Uncollected 1:

widely criticized by Whitman and his circle, who dubbed it the "parlor" Whitman (With Walt Whitman 1:

Vol. 1. 1906. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961; Vol. 2. 1908.

Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1984. Pantheism

Vol. 1. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906. "Passage to India" (1871)

meet new Walt Whitmans every day," he said; "I don't know which Walt Whitman I am" (With Walt Whitman 1:

life: "It is hard to extract a man's real self . . . from such historic débris" (With Walt Whitman 1:

than the oils," Whitman said; "they are perhaps mechanical, but they are honest" (With Walt Whitman 1:

Vol. 1. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906; Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908; Vol. 3.

(Correspondence 1:44), a turn of events probably encouraged by Samuel R.

Vol. 1. New York: Appleton, 1906.Wallace, James K.

Whitman's belief that "the best government is that which governs the least" (Gathering 1:60) borrowed

Democratic candidate in 1844 would be "carried into power on the wings of a mighty re-action" (Uncollected 1:

Whitman, who hoped the nomination would lead to a "renewed and vital [Free Soil] party" (Correspondence 1:

must be continual additions to our "great experiment of how much liberty society will bear" (Gathering 1:

Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1962. 1–14.____. "The Eighteenth Presidency!" A Critical Text. Ed.

Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9 (1991): 1–14.Campos, Geir, trans. Folhas das Folhas de Relva.

Vol. 1. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1971. 3–45.Nathanson, Tenney.

Vol. 1. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906.Warren, James Perrin. Walt Whitman's Language Experiment.

Most significantly, after the 1871 edition Whitman excised from the end of section 1 a strikingly explicit

In the wet dream or masturbatory climax of section 1, the dreamer's penis, in the symbol of a pier, reaches

These critics have persuasively interpreted the tangled imagery accompanying the wet dream of section 1

This reading, while offering a persuasive explanation of sections 1 and 2, has more difficulty justifying

Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 8 (1990): 1–15.Hutchinson, George.

He writes in his American Primer that nothing is "more spiritual than words" (1).The poet's relationship

substantial words" are all around us—in the "ground and sea . . . in the air . . . in you" (section 1)

Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 5.1 (1987): 1–11.Whitman, Walt. An American Primer. 1904. Ed.

(section 1)More broadly, the image has taken precedence over substance, the abstract simulacra has replaced

(section 1) But the earlier version begins on an intimate, even erotic note:Come closer to me,Push closer

Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1984. "Song of Joys, A" (1860)

In section 1, he takes on the mysterious name of the Answerer (always capitalized in the later editions

Especially in section 1, the vision of the poet as an all-permeating divine force, something like Ralph

Early versions of what becomes section 1 also include a passage, excised when Whitman created "Song of

(section 1)The emphatic rhythm of these lines suggests a riddle (see Peavy), or perhaps, as M.

Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2.1 (1984): 1–11.Knapp, Bettina L. Walt Whitman.

of the road's sights and sounds and his translation of them into a visionary consciousness (sections 1–

The Nassau Review 1 (1965). 101–110.Hollis, C. Carroll. Language and Style in "Leaves of Grass."

speaker in "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" (1859), hears the tree's voice in his "soul" (section 1)

This implied divine promise will be the culmination of humankind in an "empire new" (section 1), which

masters"—i.e., the true poets—"know the earth's words and use them more than audible words" (section 1)

: if the true words are "inaudible"—and, as Whitman later adds, "untransmissible by print" (section 1)

passage pivots on a description of the earth as a woman, "her ample back towards every beholder" (section 1)

Thus translated into visual terms, the "eloquent dumb great mother" (section 1) begins to seem oddly

Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1.1 (1983): 1–8. Hollis, C. Carroll.

which the poet witnessed in America following the Civil War "[n]estles the seed perfection" (section 1)

Vol. 1. Santiago, Chile: Editorial Nascimiento, 1939.Erkkila, Betsy. Whitman the Political Poet.

Vol. 1 of Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. New York: New York UP, 1963.

Silent Sun," Whitman describes the desire to "warble spontaneous songs recluse by myself" (section 1)

lengths.After identifying himself and announcing that he "will strike up for a New World" (section 1)

[s]olitary" identity all other identities are fused, he will "strike up" for "a New World" (section 1)

Rocking," which was composed in 1858–1859, but to "the hermit thrush from the swamp-cedars" (section 1)

peace" was Epictetus's prescription that what is good for nature is good for oneself (With Walt Whitman 1:

Vol. 1. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906; Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908; Vol. 3.

Vol. 1 of Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. New York: New York UP, 1963. Stoicism

loafe and invite my soul, / I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass" (section 1)

With the hope that this caveat will be kept firmly in mind, here are some suggestions: (1) biographies

fears of annihilation, expresses terror ("Something startles me where I thought I was safest" [section 1]

section 2) of which is packed with "all the foul liquid and meat" of "distemper'd corpses" (section 1)

Saint Paul's sermon on the conquest of death and the rebirth of the soul (1 Corinthians 15) speaks of

Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1980.____. Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. 2 vols.

Vol. 1 of Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. New York: New York UP, 1963.

Vol. 1 of Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. New York: New York UP, 1963. Timber Creek

Accentuating the circularity of time, the poet observes that the sun that is now "half an hour high" (section 1)

He writes, "Not Time affects me—I am Time, old, modern as any" (section 1).

ATQ 1 (1987): 291–299. "To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire" (1856)

The first (lines 1–17) is a chanting apostrophe, cast as a "recitative."

The "you" and "I" of line 1 thus become interchangeable, with "you" as reader/patron or poet.BibliographyAllen

Garden the World" (1860)"To the Garden the World" (1860)First published in Leaves (1860) as number 1

the amative love of woman" and treating Adam "as a central figure and type" of the new man (Notebooks 1:

States" in line 1 is not a shorthand for a radically unified and single-willed United States of America

(section 1)—it develops persuasive answers.

Whitman described his ongoing work on Leaves as "the Great Construction of the New Bible" (Notebooks 1:

arrived at the junction of the Mississippi, which Walt called "the great father of waters" (Uncollected 1:

journeying companions in "Song of the Open Road" (1856) or the "gay gang of blackguards" in section 1

Before the present line 1 there appeared, "You and I—what the earth is, we are," and the following after

From an analysis of Whitman's copy, Golden concludes that the poet first transposed lines 1 and 2, by

Whitman's poetry, as when the speaker of "Song of Myself" puts "Creeds and schools in abeyance" (section 1)

wartime hospital experiences and his urge to be the war's memorialist, "to be witness again" (section 1)

fascinating it is, with its hospital surroundings of sadness & scenes of repulsion and death" (Correspondence 1:

as a seasoned veteran summoning up ("resuming") memories of "the mightiest armies of earth" (section 1)

and I resign'd myself / To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or silently watch the dead" (section 1)

Vol. 1 of Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. New York: New York UP, 1964.____.

Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (Summer 2001): 1–17.

Allen, , 1, 3, 5.

, 1:373.

letter is mistakenly assigned to the Trent collection ( , 1:369; , 72, n. 1; Miller, Correspondence,

"about" September 3, 1863 ( , 1:144–145, n. 33).

For Miller's punctuation of extended quotations, see , 1: 308, n.16; 1:341, n.6; 2:20, n. 3, and 2:36

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