Leaves of grass : the sesquicentennial essays

Print version:

What we're still learning about the 1855 Leaves of grass 150 years later / Ed Folsom Foregrounding the first edition

Whitman, Marx, and the American 1848 / Betsy Erkkila

United States and States united: Whitman's national vision in 1855 / M. Wynn Thomas

Reading the first edition

"One goodshaped and wellhung man": accentuated sexuality and the uncertain authorship of the frontispiece to the 1855 edition of Leaves of grass / Ted Genoways

Whitman at night: "The sleepers" in 1855 / Alan Trachtenberg

Complaints from the spotted hawk: flights and feathers in Whitman's 1855 Leaves of grass / Thomas C. Gannon

Contextualizing the first edition

Leaves of grass and the poetry marketplace of antebellum America / Susan Belasco

Leaves of grass (1855) and the cities of Whitman's memory / William Pannapacker

The lost Negress of "Song of Myself" and the jolly young wenches of Civil War Washington / Kenneth M. Price

"Bringing help for the sick": Whitman and prophetic biography / Vivian R. Pollak

Aftereffects

The visionary and the visual in Whitman's poetics / M. Jimmie Killingsworth

Walt Whitman as an eminent Victorian / Lawrence Buell

"To reach the workmen direct": Horace Traubel and the work of the 1855 edition of Leaves of grass / Matt Cohen

"Profession of the calamus": Whitman, Eliot, Matthiessen / Jay Grossman

Whitman and the Cold War: the centenary celebration of Leaves of grass in Eastern Europe / Walter Grunzweig

The Life behind the book

"A Southerner as soon as a Northerner": writing Walt Whitman's biography / Jerome Loving

Why I write cultural biography: the backgrounds of Walt Whitman's America / David S. Reynolds

A poet responds

"Strong is your hold": my encounters with Whitman / Galway Kinnell

The critical response

The first Leaves of grass: a bibliography / Donald D. Kummings