The Walt Whitman Page
( 1819-1892 )

Major Works
Justin Kaplan selected and annotated the texts and wrote the chronology in the Library of America Whitman volume, Prose and Poetry, 1982.
Franklin Evans ( 1842 ). A novel promoting temperance.
Leaves of Grass ( 1855 ).
Democratic Vistas ( 1871 ).
Specimen Days and Collect ( 1882 ).
Leaves of Grass ( 1891-92 ).
Whitman's Poetry On Line from Bartleby.

About Whitman
Gay Wilson Allen, The Solitary Singer. Macmillan ,1955.
Ezra Greenspan, Editor, The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman. Cambridge, 1995.
Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life. Simon and Schuster, 1980.
Walt Whitman from Poets.Org.
The Walt Whitman Archive.
Commentary on Leaves of Grass from U. of S. Carolina.
On Whitman's "Drum-Taps".
Whitman Criticism from Internet Public Library.
Library of Congress Walt Whitman Home Page.
Web Study Text of "Song of Myself" from American Transcendentalism Web.

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