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WHITMAN: A CURRENT BIBLIOGRAPHY Aarnes, William. "'Almost Discover': The Spiritual Significance of Soldier Talk in Whitman's Specimen Days." Walt Whitman Review, 28 ijune-december 1982), 84-91. Abrams, Robert E. "Space, Image, and Language in Leaves of Grass." American Transcendental Quarterly, 41 (1979), 75-83. Aspiz, Harold. "Whitman's Literary Enemy: A. R. Spofford." Walt Whitman Review, 28 ijune-december 1982),92-98. - - -. "Whitman's Reputation: The First Century." Walt Whitman Review, 28 ijune -:- December 1982), 101-103. [Review of Scott Giantvalley, Walt Whitman, 1838-1939: A Reference Guide.] Asselineau, Roger. Reviews of Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems; Harold Aspiz, Walt Whitman and the Body Beautiful; and Betsy Erkkila, Walt Whitman Among the French. Etudes Anglaises, 35 (October December 1982), 487-489, 489, 490. - - -. Review of Betsy Erkkila, Walt Whitman Among the French. Journal of American Studies, 16 (April 1982), 130-131. Bernard, Sidney. "Walk on the Whitman Side." The Mickle Street Review, 2 (1980), 56-59. Brilliant, Alan. [How Whitman and James Law changed his life.] The Mickle Street Review, 2 (1980), 26-27. Browning, John. "A Whitman Oral Hist()ry." The Mickle Street Review, 3 (1981), 80-82. [From Charley Humes's column, Camden Courier-Post, 6 July 1950.] Carlisle, E. Fred. Review of Stephen A. Black, Whitman's Journeys into Chaos: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Poetic Process, JEGp, 76 (1979), 271-273. Christiansen, Rupert. "Pottering Prophet." TLS: The Times Literary Supplement, 4158 (10 December 1982),1377. [Review of Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Vol. 6.] Cory, James, M. Review of Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A LzJe. Street Review, 3 (1981), 101-107. The Mickle Folsom, Ed. "The Whitman Project: A Review Essay." Philological Quarterly, 61 (Fall 1982), 369-394. [Not only is this a well-balanced and detailed review of the New York University Press Collected Writings, but there are valuable critical comments on With Walt Whitman in Camden, Vol. 6, and Whitman books by Scott Giantvalley, Justin Kaplan, Walter H. Eitner, Harold Aspiz, Betsy Erkkila, James E. Miller, Jr., and others.] French, Roberts W. "Talking Back to Whitman." Walt Whitman Review, 28 ijune December 1982), 104-105. [Review of Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom, and Dan Campion, editors, Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song.] 49
Myerson, Joel. "Walt Whitman." In his Antebellum Writers in New York and the South. Vol. 3 of DLB: Dictionary of Literary Biography. A Bruccoli-Clark Book. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1979, pp. 350-371. [Excellent short account of Whitman's 'Life and Career,' with 16 illustrations, and a list of his major works (Leaves of Grass editions and annexes), other writings (36), editions (2), bibliographies (13), concordance, biographies (42), letters and journals (9), criticism (65), papers (Feinberg collection).] Nandakumar, Prema. Review of V. Sachithanandan, Whitman and Bharati: A Comparative Study. Journal of Indian Wn'ting in English, 7 (No.2, 1979), 99-101. Nelson, Raymond. "Stalking Whitman with Shotgun and Bludgeon." The Virginia Quarterly Review, 55 (Summer 1979), 536-537. [Review of Walt Whitman, Daybooks and Notebooks.] Reilly, Charlie. "Walt Whitman in Camden." New Jersey Monthly, 3 crune 1979), SJ3. Scholnick, Robert J. Review of Betsy Erkkila, Walt Whitman Among the French. Comparative Literature Studies, 19 (Winter 1982),487-489. - - -. "The Galaxy and American Democratic Culture, 1866-1878." Journal of Amen'can Studies, 16 (April 1982), 69-80. Sill, Geoffrey M., editor. The Mickle Street Review, 2 (1980), 1-80. [Contains 22 poems by Will Inman, Joanne Seltzer, Norman MacAfee, Kate Britt, Ken Fontenot, Judith Saul Stix, Theodore Weiss, Richard Eberhart, Philip Dacey, John Gill, Jean,E. Pearson, Joseph McCullough, Dave Smith, Frank Allen, Jon Bracken, Daniel Wolff, John Appling Sours, Joy Walsh, Harry Smith, and Martin Itzkowitz; and 4 articles, listed above.] - - -. The Mickle Street Review, 3 (1981), 1-112. [Contains 45 poems by Gary Miranda, John Lane, Eric Nelson, M. F. Hershman, John J. Soldo, Bernie Earley, Jim Bogan, C. A. Smith, Edith Segal, Dan Gerber, Peter Hoheisel, Lawrence Hayes, Marc Widershien, Robert Sargent, Judith Offer, Joanne Seltzer, Ida Fasel, Kathryn H. Greenwood, David Citino, Sanford Pinsker, Lasse Soderberg, Walt Whitman (Letter to W. S. Kennedy, 26 September 1890), William Pitt Root, David R. Slavitt, David Walker, Calvin Andre Claudel and Alice Moser Claudel, Lois V. Walker, Nancy G. Westerfield, Ennis Rees, George Bishop, E. Louis Mull, Stephen Knauth, Franz Douskey, Paul Rice, Joseph Lisowski, Judith Minty, Gary C. Busha, Janet McCann, Gerald Parks, Maria Gillan, J. Lawrence Lembo, Martin Tucker, Roger Mitchell, Ron Atkinson, and Len Roberts; review of poems by Eric Nelson; and 4 articles and 1 review, listed above.] - - -. The Mickle Street Review, 4 (1982), 1-94. [Contains 31 poems by Eric Nelson, Antler, Janet Reno, Richard Radcliffe, Michael Chandler, Roger Mitchell, B. Z. Niditch, Elizabeth Searle Lamb, Howard Nelson, Diane McColley, Michael West, Alan Mac Dougall, SheilaE. Murphy, John Appling Sours, Louis McKee, Peter M. Johnson, Michael Covino, and Lamont B. Septoe; fiction by Martin DiCarlantonio; 3 reviews of poems by Geoffrey Sill, Susan Chromiak, and Eric Nelson; and 4 articles, listed above.] 51
Viswanathan, S. Review of V. Sachithanandan, Whitman and Bharati: A Comparative Study. Indian Journal of Amen'can Studies (Hyderabad), 9 (No, 2, 1979), 83-85. White, William. "Whitman: A Current Bibliography." Walt Whitman Review, 28 (March, June - September - December 1982), 37-38, 81-83,106-108. - - -. "Whitman to Hezekiah Butterworth: Unpublished." Walt Whitman Review, 28 ijune-december 1982),108. Whitman, Walt. Specimen Days in America. Introduction by Gavin Ewart. London: Folio Society, 1979. 254 pp. [Reprint of the revised English edition ofi887.] Unsigned. Review of Walt Whitman, Complete Poetry and Collected Prose (The Library of America edition). Choice, 20 (October 1982), 271. On the back cover: ' A NEW WHITMAN LETTER TO THE PHILADELPHIA RECORD-This hitherto unpublished letter from Walt Whitman to the Editor of the Philadelphia Record-printed here with the permission of the Feinberg Collection - Library of Congress-refers to an edition of Leaves of Grass with an appendix containing the opinions of Whitman by George Eliot, Ruskin, Tennyson, Swinburne and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A wonderful idea, and one eagerly wishes it were so, but no such appendix or edition ever existed; As Whitman says, it may be a mistake for the Wilson & McCormick (London, 1884) edition, printed from sheets (or plates) of the James R. Osgood & Company (Bos~on, 1881-1882) edition, with a new title page. 52
Viswanathan, S. Review ofv. Sachithanandan, W'hitman and Bharati: A Comparative Study. Indian Journal of American Studies (Hyderabad), 9 (No.2, 1979), 83-85. White, William. "Whitman: A Current Bibliography." Walt W'hitman Review, 28 (March, June - September - December 1982), 37-38, 81-83, 106-108. - - -. "Whitman to Hezekiah Butterworth: Unpublished." Walt W'hitman Review, 28 aune - December 1982), 108. Whitman, Walt. Specimen Days in America. Introduction by Gavin Ewart. London: Folio Society, 1979. 254 pp. [Reprint of the revised English edition ofl887.] Unsigned. Review of Walt Whitman, Complete Poetry and Collected Prose (The Library of America edition). Choice, 20 (October 1982), 271. On the back cover: ' A NEW WHITMAN LETTER TO THE PHILADELPHIA RECORD-This hitheno unpublished letter from Walt Whitman to the Editor of the Philadelphia Record-printed here with the permission of the Feinberg Collection - Library of Congress - refers to an edition of Leaves of Grass with an appendix containing the opinions of Whitman by George Eliot, Ruskin, Tennyson, Swinburne and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A wonderful idea, and one eagerly wishes it were so, but no such appendix or edition ever existed; As Whitman says, it may be a mistake for the Wilson & McCormick (London, 1884) edition, printed from sheets (or plates) of the James R. Osgood & Company (Bos.ton, 1881-1882) edition, with a new title page. 52