A History of American Literature

by Percy Holmes Boynton

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.