REFERENCES
Stanton's A Manual of American Literature.
Alden's Magazine Writing and the New Literature.
Perry's A Study of Prose Fiction, Chap. IX., Realism.
Howells's Criticism and Fiction.
Burt and Howells's The Howells Story Book. (Contains biographical matter.)
Henry James's The Art of Fiction.
Phelps's William Dean Howells, in Essays on Modern Novelists.
Brownell's Henry James, in American Prose Masters.
Canby's The Short Story in English. (James.)
Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1897), 446 pp. (Contains all of his poems, the publication of which was authorized by himself.)
Triggs's Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Walt Whitman. (The best for general readers.)
Perry's Walt Whitman, his Life, and Work. (Excellent.)
G. R. Carpenter's Walt Whitman.
Platt's Walt Whitman. (Beacon Biographies)
Noyes's An Approach to Walt Whitman. (Excellent.)
Bucke's Walt Whitman. (A biography by one of his executors.)
In Re Walt Whitman, edited by his literary executors. (Supplements Bucke.)
Burroughs's Whitman: A Study.
Symonds's Walt Whitman: A Study.
Dowden's The Poetry of Democracy, in Studies in Literature.
Stevenson's Familiar Studies of Men and Books. (Whitman.)
Whitman's Works, edited by Triggs. (Putnam Subscription Edition.) Vol. X. contains a bibliography and reference list of 98 pp.