BOOK LIST
Individual Author
Walt Whitman. Works. Selections from the prose and poetry of Whitman. O. L. Triggs, editor. 1902. 10 vols. The best single volumes are Leaves of Grass, Complete Poetical Works, and Complete Prose Works. (Small, Maynard.) 1897 and 1898. During Whitman’s lifetime ten successive enlarged editions of Leaves of Grass were published: in 1855, 1856, 1860, 1867, 1871, 1876, 1881 (Boston), 1881 (Philadelphia), 1888, 1889, 1891. Other titles are as follows: *Drum-Taps, 1865; *Passage to India, 1871; *Democratic Vistas, 1871; Memoranda during the War, 1875; Specimen Days and Collect, 1882, 1883; Two Rivulets, 1876; *November Boughs, 1888; *Good-bye, My Fancy, 1891. (Titles with the mark * were included as new sections in the next forthcoming edition of Leaves of Grass.)
Bibliographies
Selections from Whitman. O. L. Triggs, editor. 1898.
Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors, Vol. VIII, pp. 129–153. C. W. Moulton, editor. 1905. Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. II, pp. 551–581.
Biography and Criticism
There is no complete standard biography. The best single volume surveys are Walt Whitman, by G. R. Carpenter, 1909 (E. M. L. Ser.); and Walt Whitman: his Life and Works, by Bliss Perry, 1906 (A. M. L. Ser.).
Binns, H. B. A Life of Walt Whitman. 1905.
Boynton, P. H. Whitman’s Idea of the State. New Republic, Vol. VII, p. 139.
Brooks, Van Wyck. America’s Coming of Age. 1915.
Burroughs, John. Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person. 1867.
Burroughs, John. Whitman: a Study. 1896.
Carpenter, Edward. Days with Walt Whitman. 1906.
Chapman, J. J. Emerson and Other Essays. 1892.
Dart, W. K. Walt Whitman in New Orleans. Pub. Louisiana Hist. Soc., Vol. VII, pp. 97–112.
Elliot, C. N. Walt Whitman as Man, Poet, and Friend. 1915.
Ferguson, J. D. American Literature in Spain. 1916.
Foerster, Norman. Whitman as Poet of Nature. Pub. Mod. Lang. Assoc. of Amer., Vol. XXI (N. S.), pp. 736–758.
Gould, E. P. Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman. 1900.
Gummere, F. B. Democracy and Poetry. 1911.
Holloway, Emory. Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. II, Bk. II, chap. i.
Jones, P. M. Influence of Whitman on the Origin of “Vers Libre.” Modern Language Review, Vol. XI, p. 186.
Jones, P. M. Whitman in France. Modern Language Review, Vol. X, p. 1.
Lanier, Sidney. The English Novel. 1883.
Lee, G. S. Order for the Next Poet. Putnam’s Magazine, Vol. I, p. 697; Vol. II, p. 99.
Macphail, Andrew. Walt Whitman, in Essays in Puritanism. 1905.
More, P. E. Walt Whitman, in Shelburne Essays. Fourth Series. 1906.
Pattee, F. L. American Literature since 1870, chap. ix. 1915.
Perry, Bliss. Walt Whitman: his Life and Work. 1906 and 1908.
Santayana, George. Walt Whitman, in Interpretations of Poetry and Religion. 1900.
Stedman, E. C. Poets of America. 1885.
Stevenson, R. L. Familiar Studies of Men and Books. 1882.
Swinburne, A. C. Studies in Prose and Poetry. 1894.
Traubel, H. L. In re Walt Whitman. 1893.
Traubel, H. L. With Walt Whitman in Camden, p. 473. 1906. (This is Vol. I of Traubel’s diary notes made during Whitman’s life. Vol. II, 1908; Vol. III, 1914. Vol. IV is announced for early publication, and the whole work, when completed, will fill eight or ten volumes.)
Walling, W. E. Whitman and Traubel. 1916.