from
A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.html
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
(US poet, writer of celebratory free verse; democrat, patriot and homosexual)
Works
Whitman, Walt. Poems in the Democratic Review. 1841-45.
_____. Franklin Evans; or, The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times. 1842.
_____. "Song of Myself." In Whitman, Leaves of Grass. 1855.
_____. Song of Myself. (Penguin 60s Classics). Harmondsworth: Penguin.
_____. "Song of Myself." 1855. In Whitman, Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. Ed. Michael Moon. New York: Norton, 2002.
_____. "Song of Myself." From Leaves of Grass. Online at Day Poems
http://www.daypoems.net/plainpoems/1900.html
2014
_____. "I Sing the Body Electric." In Whitman, Leaves of Grass. 1855.
_____. "There Was a Child Went Forth." In Whitman, Leaves of Grass. 1855.
_____. Leaves of Grass. 1st ed (anon). New York, 1855. 2nd. ed. 1856. 3rd. Ed. 1860. 4th ed. 1867. 5th ed. 1871-2. 6th ed. 1876. 7th ed. 1881-2. 8th ed. 1882. 9th ed. 1892 ("Deathbed" edition).
_____. Leaves of Grass: Comprehensive Reader's Edition. Ed. Harold Blodgett and Sculley Bradley. New York: New York UP; London: U of London P, 1965.
_____. Leaves of Grass. Ed. Sculley Bradley and Harold W. Blodgett. New York: Norton, 1973.
_____. Leaves of Grass.Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987.
_____. Leaves of Grass and Selected Prose. Introd. Sculley Bradley. New York: Holt, 1960.
_____. Leaves of Grass. Ed. Sculley Bradley and Harold W. Blodgett. (Norton Critical Edition). New York: Norton, 1973.
_____. Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. Ed. Michael Moon. 2nd ed. (Norton Critical Edition). New York: Norton, 2002.
_____. Leaves of Grass. Ed. Jerome Loving. Oxford: Oxford UP.
_____. "Hojas de Hierba" - El Prefacio de 1855. Bilingual ed. Introd. trans and notes Viorica Patea. (Taller de Estudios Norteamericanos). León: Ediciones Universidad de León, 1999.
_____. "Salut au Monde." Poem. In Whitman, Leaves of Grass. 2nd ed. 1856.
_____. "By Blue Ontario's Shore." In Whitman, Leaves of Grass. 2nd ed. 1856.
_____. "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." In Whitman, Leaves of Grass. 2nd ed. 1856.
_____. "Spontaneous Me." In Whitman, Leaves of Grass. 2nd ed. 1856.
_____. "Song of the Broad-Axe." In Whitman, Leaves of Grass. 2nd ed. 1856.
_____. "Starting from Paumanok." In Whitman, Leaves of Grass. 3rd ed. 1860.
_____. "Starting from Paumanok." Bartleby.
http://www.bartleby.com/142/10.html
2016
_____. "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking." In Whitman, Leaves of Grass. 3rd ed. 1860.
_____. "Facing West from California's Shores." In Whitman, Leaves of Grass. 3rd ed. 1860.
_____. "Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City." In Whitman, Leaves of Grass. 3rd ed. 1860.
_____. "Once I Passed through a Populous City." From Leaves of Grass. Online at Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com/142/26.html
2012
_____. "We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd." Leaves of Grass. 1867.
_____. "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Elegy on Lincoln. From Drum Taps & sequel, rpt. in Leaves of Grass 4th ed. 1867.
_____. "O Captain! My Captain!" Elegy on Lincoln. From Drum Taps & sequel, rpt. in Leaves of Grass 4th ed. 1867.
_____. "'O Captain! My Captain!" From Leaves of Grass. Online at Poetry Foundation.*
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/45474
2016
_____. "Chanting the Square Deific." From Drum Taps & sequel, rpt. in Leaves of Grass 4th ed. 1867.
_____. "Pioneers! O Pioneeers." From Drum Taps & sequel, rpt. in Leaves of Grass 4th ed. 1867.
_____. "One's Self I Sing." From Drum Taps & sequel, rpt. in Leaves of Grass 4th ed. 1867.
_____. "Preface." In Whitman, Leaves of Grass. New York, 1855. (National character; Poet; Transcendentalism; American literature; Nature of poetry)
_____. Drum-Taps. Poetry. 1865, Sequel to Drum-Taps. 1866. Incorporated into Leaves of Grass 4th ed.
_____. Democratic Vistas. Prose. Washington, D.C., 1871. (American literature; Transcendentalism; Politics; Commerce; Nature; Nature of literature)
_____. Democratic Vistas. 1871. Selection in The Great Critics. Ed. J. H. Smith and E. W. Parks. New York: Norton, 1932. 553-54.*
_____. "Democratic Vistas." 1871. In American Literature, American Culture. Ed. Gordon Hutner. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 121-38.*
_____. Passage to India. 1871.
_____. Memoranda during the War. Prose. 1875.
_____. Two Rivulets. 1876.
_____. "My Tribute to Four Poets." 1882. In Whitman; Complete Poetry And Collected Prose. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982. (Longfellow; Emerson; Bryant; Whittier; American literature)
_____. Specimen Days and Collect. 1882. Added to Leaves of Grass.
_____. November Boughs. 1889.
_____. "A Noiseless Patient Spider." In Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense. By Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson. 8th ed. Boston (MA): Thomson Learning-Heinle & Heinle, 2002. 809-10.*
_____. "Had I the Choice." Poem. In Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense. By Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson. 8th ed. Boston (MA): Thomson Learning-Heinle & Heinle, 2002. 932.*
_____. "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer." Poem. In Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense. By Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson. 8th ed. Boston (MA): Thomson Learning-Heinle & Heinle, 2002. 1103.*
_____. "Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand." Poem. In García Landa, Vanity Fea 14 Sept. 2012.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/09/whoever-you-are-holding-me-now-in-hand.html
2012
_____. "Years of the Modern." From Leaves of Grass. In Classic Literature.
http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/wwhitman/bl-ww-yearsmodern.htm
2013
_____. "Shakespeare—Bacon's Cypher." In Leaves of Grass. Ed. Harold W. Blodgett and Sculley Bradley. London: U of London Press, 1965.
_____. The Gathering of the Forces. 2 vols. 1920. (Contributions to The Brooklyn Eagle).
_____. The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman. 2 vols. 1921.
_____. The Half-Breed and Other Stories. 1927.
_____. I Sit and Look Out. 1932. (Contributions to the Brooklyn Times).
_____. Walt Whitman: Representative Selections. Ed. Floyd Stovall. American Book Co., 1934.
_____. Complete Poetry And Collected Prose. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982.
_____, ed. The Long Islander. 1838-38.
_____, ed. The Brooklyn Eagle. Democratic Party paper. 1846.
_____, ed. Brooklyn Times. Journal.
Biography
Bucke, Richard M. (Biography of Walt Whitman). 1883. (Partly written by Whitman).
Hart and Leininger. "Walt Whitman." (From the Oxford Companion to American Literature). In García Landa, Vanity Fea 5 Dec. 2012.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/12/walt-whitman.html
2012
Traubel, Horace. With Walt Whitman in Camden. 3 vols. 1906-14.
_____. With Walt Whitman in Camden. 3 vols. 1953, 1963, 1982.
Criticism
Allen, Gay Wilson. A Reader's Guide to Walt Whitman. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1997.
Arvin, Newton. Whitman. 1938.
Bauerlein, Mark. "The Written Orator in 'Song of Myself': A Recent Trend in Whitman Criticism." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3.3 (1986): 1-14.
Bloom, Harold. "In the Shadow of Emerson." (Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens). In Bloom, A Map of Misreading. New York: Oxford UP, 1975. 1980. 177-92.*
_____. "Walt Whitman as Center of the American Canon." In Bloom, The Western Canon. 1994.London: Macmillan, 1995. 264-90.*
Brooks, Van Wyck. Makers and Finders. Vol. 4: The Times of Melville and Whitman. 1947.
Burroughs, John. Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person. 1867.
Ceniza, Sherry. Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and 19th-Century Women Reformers. U of Alabama P, 1998.
Chase, Richard. Walt Whitman Reconsidered. 1955.
_____. Walt Whitman. 1961.
Cohen, Tom. "Only the Dead Know Brooklyn Ferry (voice)." In Cohen, Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. 127-51.*
Cowley, Malcolm. "Walt Whitman: The Poet and the Mask (excerpts, 1947).; The Buried Masterpiece (excerpts, 1959)." In The Portable Malcolm Cowley. New York: Viking Penguin, 1990. 138-64.*
Davis, Robert Leigh. Whitman and the Romance of Medicine.
Folsom, Ed. Walt Whitman's Native Representations. (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 80). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, pbk. c. 1998.
Frau, Juan. "Una traducción polémica: León Felipe ante la obra de Whitman y Shakespeare." Hermeneus 4 (2002): 33-70.*
Hollis, C. Carroll. "Speech Acts and Leaves of Grass." In Carroll, Language and Style in Leaves of Grass." Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1983. 65-123.
Fernández Nistal, Purificación. "Problemática de la traducción de "Song of Myself" al castellano." ES 11 (1981): 201-48.
_____. "La acogida de la obra poética de Walt Whitman en el mundo de habla hispana: las traducciones.¨ ES 12 (1982): 283-300.
García Martínez, Dolores. "Walt Whitman y Dylan Thomas: Canto al cuerpo humano." XVI Congreso de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. Valladolid: Secretariado de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Valladolid, 1994. 539-48.
Golkhosravi, Mehrad. "'Panentheistic' View of Divine Love in Man and Nature: A Comparative Study in Whitman's Leaves of Grass and Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi's Mathnavi." BELLS 13 (Autumn 2004):
http://www.publicacions.ub.es/revistes/bells13/
Greenspan, Ezra. Walt Whitman and the American Reader. (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 46). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.
Grossman, Jay. "The Canon of the Closet: Matthiessen's Whitman, Whitman's Matthiessen." American Literature 70.4 (December 1998): 799-832.
Jackson, Holbrook. The Rise and Fall of 19th Century Idealism. New York: Citadel, 1969. (Carlyle, Ruskin, Thoreau, Morris, Whitman, Emerson).
Larbaud, Valery. "Walt Whitman." In Larbaud, Ce vice impuni, la lecture… Domaine anglais. Paris: Gallimard-NRF, 1936. 185-217.*
Lawrence, D. H. "Whitman." In Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature. 1924. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971. 171-87.
Leimberg, Inge. "The Myth of the Self in Whitman's 'Song of Myself' and Traherne's 'Thanksgivings': A Hypothesis." Connotations 5.2-3 (1995-96): 167-86.*
Martí, José. "José Martí on Walt Whitman." In Mutual Impressions: Writers from the Americas Reading One Another. Ed. Ilan Stavans. Durham (NC): Duke UP, 1999. 31-43.*
Martín, Félix "Whitman y Crane: Fantasías de la Imaginación Adánica." In Critical Essays on the Myth of the American Adam. Ed. Viorica Patea and Maria Eugenia Díaz. Salamanca: Ediciones U de Salamanca, 2001. 125-46.*
Martin, Justin. Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians. Da Capo Press, 2014.*
Mathiessen, F. O. The American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman. New York, 1941.
Miller, James E., Jr. "Walt Whitman: 'Song of Myself'." In Landmarks of American Writing. Ed. Hennig Cohen. Washington: Voice of America (Forum Series), 1969. 163-76.*
Navarro, Santiago Juan. "Beyond the Myth of Narcissus: The Role of the Reader in Walt Whitman's Song of Myself." Atlantis 12.1 (1990): 109-14.*
O'Connor, William. The Good Gray Poet. 1866.
Olney, James. The Language(s) of Poetry: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1993.
Patea, Viorica. "La apología de Whitman a favor de la épica de la modernidad." In Walt Whitman, Hojas de Hierba - El Prefacio de 1855. León: Ediciones U de León, 1999. 9-72.
_____. "The Power of the Poet and the Power of the Word: Emerson and Whitman's Mythologies of Power." Atlantic Literary Review, 2.3 (2001): 15-37.
_____. "The Poet and the Scientist in Emerson, Whitman and Hawthorne." In Critical Essays on the Myth of the American Adam. Ed. Viorica Patea and M. Díaz. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2001. 99-124.
_____. "The Power of the Poet and the Power of the Word: Emerson and Whitman's Mythologies of Power." In New Perspectives on American Literature. Ed. Ishteyaque Shams. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2004. 75-101.
Paz, Octavio. "Whitman, poeta de América." In Paz, El arco y la lira. 1956. México: FCE, 1972. 297-300.*
_____. "Whitman, poeta de América." In Paz, El arco y la lira. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 1999. 345-50.*
Peterson, David. "Beyond the Body: Walt Whitman's Lavender Language and Out the Cradle Endlessly Rocking." World Englishes 17.2 (1998): 239-248.
Piñero Gil, Eulalia, and Cecilia Piñero Gil. "La poética musical de 'Song of Myself' de W. Whitman y Canto a mí misma de A. Terzián." In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference of AEDEAN (Asociación Española de Estudios Anglonorteamericanos). Lleida, 17-19 December 1998. Ed. Pere Gallardo and Enric Llurda. Lleida: Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2000. 305-9.*
Powys, John Cowper. "Walt Whitman." In Powys, The Pleasures of Literature. 1938. London: Village Press, 1975. 440-78.*
Ramón Sales, Elisa. "Traducción comentada de 'O Captain! My Captain'." Cuadernos de Filología Inglesa n. s. 4 (1995): 63-74.*
Rascoe, Burton. "Whitman the Prophet." In Rascoe, Titans of Literature. London: Routledge, 1933. 454-58.*
Read, Herbert. "The Figure of Grammar: Whitman and Lawrence." In Read, The True Voice of Feeling. London: Faber, 1968. 87-100.
Rodríguez Mosteiro, Ana María. (U de A Coruña). "Ginsberg and the Presence of Walt Whitman in His Poetry." In Fifty Years of English Studies in Spain […] Actas del XXVI Congreso de AEDEAN, ed. Ignacio Palacios et al. Santiago de Compostela: U de Santiago de Compostela, 2003. 807-12.*
Santayana, George. "The Poetry of Barbarism." In Santayana, Interpretations of Poetry and Religion. 1900. (Browning, Whitman).
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. "Toward the Twentieth Century: English Readers of Whitman." In Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. New York: Columbia UP, 1985. 201-18.*
Sola, Ricardo. "Hudson: The East River." (Whitman). REDEN 8 (1994): 17-28.
Stevenson, R. L. "Walt Whitman." In Stevenson, Familiar Studies. New York: Current Literature, 1909. 81-114.
Tapscott, Stephen. "Walt Whitman in 1860: Democracy, Citizenship and Gender." BAS (1997): 117-25.*
Vendler, Helen. Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery. 2005.
Vincent, John. "Rhetorical Suspense, Sexuality, and Death in Whitman's 'Calamus' Poem." Arizona Quarterly 56:1. (2000): 29-48.
Wardrop, Daneen. "Whitman as Furtive Mother: the Suplementary Jouissance of the Ambushed Womb in 'Song of Myself'." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 40.2 (1998): 142-157
Waters, William. Poetry's Touch: On Lyric Address. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2003. (On W.C. Williams, Catullus, E. Bishop, Else Laske-Schüler, Rilke, Plath, Whitman, Dickinson, Keats).
Audio
Martin, Justin. "Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians." Interview by Oline Eaton. Audio. New Book in History 10 March 2015.*
http://newbooksinhistory.com/2015/03/10/justin-martin-rebel-souls-walt-whitman-and-americas-first-bohemians-da-capo-press-2014/
2015
Bibliography
García Landa, José Angel. "Walt Whitman." From A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology. Online at Scribd (javier_1000) 21 April 2011.*
http://es.scribd.com/doc/53512530/Whitman-w-doc-universidad-de-zaragoza
2013
Internet resources
The Whitman Archive. Ed. Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price.
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/
2010
Music
Rorem, Ned. Selected Songs. Carole Farley, soprano. Ned Rorem, piano. (American Classics). CD. EC: HNH-Naxos, 2001.* (On poems by Theodore Roethke, Walt Whitman et al.).
Related works
Crane, Hart. "Cape Hatteras." Poem. (On Whitman).
Laforgue, Jules. Trans. of Walt Whitman in La Vogue.
García Lorca, Federico. Poeta en Nueva York.
Video
Walt Whitman: American Experience. Online at YouTube (FuckingYouth)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yK_XPzYwic
2012
Wood, Barry. "Walt Whitman's Song of the Soul." Video lecture at YouTube (University of Houston) 17 Feb. 2010.*
http://youtu.be/7cIjiYpbtTk
2012