Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist born on Long Island, New York. His most famous work is the collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass. Today, Whitman is widely regarded as one of the greatest American poets.

Leaves Of Grass Selected Critical Bibliography

• Adolph, Robert. "Whitman, Tocqueville, and the Language of Democracy." In Donald E. Morse, ed., The Delegated Intellect: Emersonian Essays on Literature, Science, and Art in Honor of Don Gifford (New York: Peter Lang, 1995), 65-88.
• Ceniza, Sherry. "'Being a Woman . . . I Wish to Give My Own View': Some Nineteenth-Century Women's Responses to the 1860 Leaves of Grass." In Ezra Greenspan, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 110-134.
• Erkkila, Betsy. "Whitman and the Homosexual Republic." In Ed Folsom, ed., Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994), 153-171.
• Greenberg, Robert M. Splintered Worlds: Fragmentation and the Ideal of Diversity in the Work of Emerson, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.
• Maslan, Mark. "Whitman and His Doubles: Division and Union in Leaves of Grass and Its Critics." American Literary History 6 (Spring 1994), 119-139.
• Newfield, Christopher. "Democracy and Male Homoeroticism." Yale Journal of Criticism 6 (Fall 1993), 29-62.
• Olsen, Robert. "Whitman's Leaves of Grass: Poetry and the Founding of a 'New World' Culture." University of Toronto Quarterly 64 (Spring 1995), 305-323.
• Reynolds, David S. Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography. New York: Knopf, 1995.
• Stansell, Christine. "Whitman at Pfaff's: Commercial Culture, Literary Life and New York Bohemia at Mid-Century." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 10 (Winter 1993), 107-126.
• Thurin, Erik Ingvar. Whitman Between Impressionism And Expressionism : Language Of The Body, Language Of The Soul. Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press ; London:Associated University Presses, 1995.