So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death

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With Walt Whitman in Camden, ed. Gertrude Traubel and William
White, vol. 6 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982).
With Walt Whitman in Camden, ed. Jeanne Chapman and Robert
MacIsaac, vol. 7 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1992).
With Walt Whitman in Camden, ed. Jeanne Chapman and Robert
MacIsaac, vol. 8 (Oregon House, Calif.: W. L. Bentlely, 1996).
With Walt Whitman in Camden, ed. Jeanne Chapman and Robert
MacIsaac, vol. 9 (Oregon House, Calif.: W. L. Bentlely, 1996).
WWBB Harold Aspiz, Walt Whitman and the Body Beautiful (Urbana: U Illi-
nois P, 1980).
WWQR Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, ed. Ed Folsom.


Introduction

1.WWC, 8:334; Horace Traubel, comp., The Book of Heavenly Death by Walt
Whitman (Portland, Me.: Thomas B. Mosher, 1907), xix–xxiii.



  1. Daniel Brinton, eulogy, in The Walt Whitman Fellowship Papers (Philadelphia,
    May, 1892), Unnumbered page.

  2. Havelock Ellis, The New Spirit (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1890), 111;
    Robert Ingersoll, “At the Graveside of Walt Whitman,” Conservator (April, 1892).

  3. D. H. Lawrence, “Whitman,” in Whitman: A Collection of Essays, ed. Roy
    Harvey Pearce (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1962), 17–23; Padraic Colum,
    “The Poetry of Walt Whitman,” in Walt Whitman and the World, ed. Gay Wilson
    Allen and Ed Folsom (Iowa City: U Iowa P, 1995), 57–58; Fernando Alegría, “Whit-
    man in Spain and Latin America,” ibid., 73.
    5.LG, 276–277.
    6.NUPM, 3:976; “Preface 1855,” LG, 715.
    7.NUPM, 1:60–61.
    8.NUPM, 1:408, 4:1313.
    9.NUPM, 6:2097.
    10.NUPM, 6:2052.
    11.LG, 690–691. Whitman’s alternate reading for “Divine is the body” is “Divine
    is the Person.”

  4. “Preface 1872—As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free,” LG, 74–; NUPM, 6:2011–


  5. 13.NUPM, 4:1515–1516.



  6. “Preface 1876—Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets,” LG, 747–795. Whitman’s
    interest in photography is evident in the slide show imagery.
    15.Specimen Days, in PW1892, 1:259.

  7. Walt Whitman, “Diary in Canada,” in Daybooks and Notebooks, ed. William
    White (New York: New York UP, 1978), 3:614–615; UPP, 261–266, passim; NUPM,
    3:1185–1186. On Dr. Hunt, see WWBB, 47, 257, n. 34.

  8. Thayer is cited in Joel Myerson, ed., Whitman in His Own Time: A Biographi-
    cal Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Memoirs, and Interviews by Friends
    and Associates (Detroit: Omnigraphics, 1991), 303; Helen Price in a memoir included


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