So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death

With Walt Whitman in Camden, ed. Gertrude Traubel and William White, vol. 6 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982). With Walt ...

in Richard Maurice Bucke’s 1883 biography of Whitman (Myerson, Whitman in His Own Time, 29). 18.WWBB, 58–63. On Whitman’s suppos ...

¤fty of Dickinson’s poems feature deceased narrators and twice that number feature “ambiguous” narrators. On the relation of Lyd ...

Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, in Darwin: A Norton Critical Edition, ed. Philip Appelman (New York: Norton, 1975), 131; ...

Ivan Marki, The Trial of the Poet: An Interpretation of the First Edition of Leaves of Grass (New York: Columbia UP, 1976), 123 ...

ville: U Florida P, 1949), 96–97, suggests that in this passage Whitman was trying to pour old wine into new bottles. “Spirit t ...

mysticism, Fourierism, various “socialisms,” Unitarianism, and Shakerism. Spiritual- ism professed to embrace both science and s ...

Marki, Trial of the Poet, 172. Harold Aspiz, “Mark Twain and ‘Doctor’ Newton,” American Literature 44 (1972), 130–136; on Whitm ...

Waldo Emerson, ed. Stephen E. Whicher (Boston: Houghton Mif®in, 1957), esp. 198–199. Brinton’s remarks appear in the Walt Whitm ...

Armstrong (Stony Brook, N.Y.: Museum of Stony Brook, 1980) 107–124. In 1881, Whitman made a return visit to the family burial gr ...

Putnam’s Monthly Magazine in June, 1855, a month before the appearance of Leaves of Grass. 22.LG1855, 75–76; LGVar, 243–244. Com ...

Matteson, “Liebig, Justus,” in Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J. R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland, 1998 ...

Savage, Life beyond Death, 31. Many scholars have lauded Whitman as one who afforded dark-skinned peoples equal respect with wh ...

The phrase occurs in Nolan, Poet-Chief, 180. Tenny Nathanson, Whitman’s Presence: Body, Voice, and Writing in Leaves of Grass ( ...

8.LG, 15n. 9.LG, 182. Whitman revised the 1860 version of the poem extensively, eliminat- ing the couplet about “the mad-sweet d ...

Staten, Eros in Mourning, 60; Kerényi is quoted in Hyde, The Gift, 32. 31. “Myself and Mine,” originally “Leaves of Grass, 10,” ...

46.NUPM, 4:1366; Allen Ginsberg, “I Love Old Whitman So,” in Walt Whit- man: The Measure of His Song, ed. Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom ...

67.LGVar, 452. See Kuebrich, Minor Prophecy. 21. Rajahsekhariah, 418; Roots of Whitman’s Grass, quoting from James C. Thom- son ...

per’s Weekly and the New York Leader on September 28, 1861; see Joann P. Krieg, A Whitman Chronology (Iowa City: U Iowa P, 1998) ...

31.LGVar, 493–494; “staunch” was later correct to the more commonly used “stanch.” See, for example, M. Wynn Thomas, “Fratricid ...