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WHITMAN: A CURRENT BIBLIOGRAPHY Alegria, Fernando. "Cual Whitman? Borges, Lorca y Neruda." Texto Critico, 7 (July-December 1981), 3-12. Alterman, Eric R. "Feasting on Literary Intrigue by the Seine." The Boston Globe, 30 June 1985, pp. B25, B28. [On the Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Company, run by George Whitman, who claims to be the illegitimate son of Walt Whitman, but he was born in 1913, and the poet died in 1892.] Andrew, Helen, Helen Everitt, Aaron Kramer, and Betsy Vondrasek, editors. West Hills Review: A Walt WhitmanJourna~ 5 (1985), 1-128. [Contains 75 poems, by George William Fisher, Charles Fishman, Maggie Jaffe, Helen Andrew, Mimi Krutzel, Hugh Abernethy, Edmund Pennant, Sue Kain, Susan Astor, Robert De Maria, Frane L. Heiner, Virginia R. Terris, Gloria G. Murray, Norbert Krapf, Sydney Lea, Michael Hood, Martin Tucker, Boydie C. Patterson, Maxwell C. Wheat, Jr., Claire Nicolas White, Adam D. Fisher, Robert Friend, David Zeiger, Fritz Hamilton, E. M. Schorb, Winter Owen Calvert, Gwyneth Owen Hand, Edwin Honig, Norine Radaikin, Rose Graubart Ignatow, William Stafford, Rita Juul Steinle, Gary Pacernick, John Ciardi, Linda Past an, B. Z. Niditch, Richard Bodtke, Janet Sullivan, Sam Abrams, William Heyen, David Ignatow, Raymond Patterson, Stephen Unsino, Donald Kummings, James Schevill, and Norman Rosten; music by Ned Rorem; and 6 prose pieces on Whitman (listed below, by author).] Asselineau, Roger. "Nationalism vs. Internationalism in Leaves of Grass." In James Woodress, editor. Critical Essays on Walt Whitman. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1983, pp. 320-329. [Original essay, one of two in the volume.] Bandy, W. T. "Whitman Viewed by Two Southern Gentlemen." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 3 (Summer 1985), 16-22. Bonetti Paro, Maria Clara. A Recepfao Literaria de Walt Whitman No Brasil: Primeiro Tempo Modernista (1917-1929). Sao Paulo: Disserta~ao de Mestrado, area de Teoria Literaria de Lingilistica e Linguas Orientais da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciencias Humanas da USP, 1979. 235 pp. [In Portuguese.] Breitwieser, Mitchell Robert. "Who Speaks in Whitman's Poems?" Bucknell Review, 28 (1983), 121-143. Broderick, John C. "Traubel's Biographical Technique Revisited." Studies in the American Renaissance 1984, pp. 425-427. Christensen, Inger. "The Organic Theory of Art and Whitman's Poetry." In Karsten Engelberg, editor. The Romantic Heritage: A Collection of Critical Essays. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen, 1983, pp. 93-104. Cooper, Henry R., Jr. "Infiu5nces and Affinity: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and the Early Poetry ofoton Zuancic." In Franc Zadravec, Franc Jakopin, and France Bernik, editors. Obdoje simbolizma v slovemskem jeziku knjizevnosti in kultur: Tipolos-problematika ob jugoslovanskem in IirIem evropkontekstu. Ljubljana: Filozofska fakulteta, 1983, 1:267-276. 38
Couteau, Robert. "A Sort of Visitor in Life: Some Autonomic Thoughts on Walt Whitman." West Hills Review, 5 (1985), 93-99. Durand, Regis. "'A New Rhythmus Fitted for Thee': On Some Discursive Stratgies in Whitman's Poetry." North Dakota Quarterly, 51 (Winter 1983), 48-56. Ferlazzo, P. J. Review of Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman, Choice, 22 (October 1984), 273. Fishkin, Shelley Fisher. From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. [Chapter on Whitman p. 11-51.] Folsom, Ed. "'The Manly and Healthy Game': Walt Whitman and the Development of American Baseball." Arete, 2 (Fall 1984), 43-62. Freedman, Florence Bernstein. William Douglas O'Connor: Walt Whitman's Chosen,Knight. Athens, O)1io, and London: Ohio University Press, 1985. xiv, 368 pp. $35.00 [To be reviewed.] French, Roberts W. "Whitman and the Poetics of Lawrence." In Jeffrey Meyers, editor. D. H. Lawrence and Tradition. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1985, pp. 91-114. ---. "Whitman on War: Four Poems from Drum-Taps." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 3 (Summer 1985), 22-24. Grossman, A. R. "The Poetics of Union in Whitman and Lincoln: An Inquiry Toward the Relationship of Art and Policy." In Walter Benn Michaels and Donald E. Pease, editors. The American Renaissance Reconsidered. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, pp. 183-208. Guenther, Charles. "Literary Criticism, Writers' Letters Closely Analyzed." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 4 August 1984, p. 4B. [Review of Dear Brother Walt: The,Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman.] Halpern, Sue M. Review of Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman. The New York Times Book Review, 17 June 1984. Hansen, James Daniel. "Walt Whitman's Democratic Universe: A Consideration of 'Song of Myself.'" West Hills Review, 5 (1985), 23-27. Horne, James R. "Walt Whitman's Morality." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses: Revue Canadienne: A Canadian Journal, 11 (1982), 437-444. Hudgins, Andrew. "Leaves of Grass from the Perspective of Modern Epic Practice." Midwest Quarterly, 23 (Summer 1982), 380-390. Johnson, Richard Colles. "Richard Williams (Ramsey) Colles." Notes & Queries, 30 [228] (August 1983); 317. Kaye, J. "Whitman's Anti-Grammar of the Universe." In R. W. Butterfield, editor. Modern American Poetry. London: Vision Press; Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble Books, 1984, pp. 11-21. 39
Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. "Sentimentality and Homosexuality in Whitman's "Calamus.'" ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 29 (1983), 144-153. Kinkead-Weekes, Mark. "Walt Whitman Passes the Full-Stop by... " In A. Robert Lee, editor. Nineteenth Century American Poetry. London: Vision Press; Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble Books, 1985, pp. 43-60. Kramer, Aaron. "The Learn'd Astronomer." West Hills Review, 5 (1985), 62-67. Kramer, Lawrence. "Conclusion: On Time and Form ['Proud Music of the Storm']." In his Music and Poetry: The Nineteenth Century and After. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984, pp. 223-241. Lindenberger, Herbert. "Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson." In Martha Woodmansee, and Walter F. W. Lohnes, editors. Erkennen und Deuten: Essays zur Literatur und Literaturtheorie: Edgar Lohner in Memoriam. Berlin: Schmid, 1983, pp. 213-227. Loving, Jerome, "Emerson, Whitman, and the Paradox of Self-Reliance." In James Woodress, editor. Critical Essays on Walt Whitman. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1983, pp. 306-319. [Original essay, one of two in the volume.] Mansfield, Howard. "Whitman on the LIRR." West Hills Review, 5 (1985), 100-102. Matchie, Thomas. "Letter and Leaves: McGrath's Indian Culture vs. Whitman's Poetic Tradition." North Dakota Quarterly, 53 (Winter 1985), 5-25. [Influence of Whitman on Tom McGrath, especially his long poem, Letter to an Imaginary Friend.] Mottram, Eric. "Law and the Open Road: Walt Whitman's 'America.'" In A. Robert Lee, editor. Nineteenth Century Amen'can Poetry. London: Vision Press; Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble Books, 1985, pp. 13-42. Nelson, Raymond. "The Knot of Contrariety," The Virginia Quarterly Review, 60 (Autumn 1984), 723-728. [Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet.] Perlman, James. "An Unpublished Whitman Letter to John Burroughs." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 3 (Summer 1985), 48. Renner, D. K. "Tradition for a Time of Crisis: Whitman's Poetic Stance." In Jan Wojcik and Raymond-Jean Frontain, editors. Poetic Prophecy in Western Literature. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984, pp. 119-130. Rhode, Robert Thomas. "Hankering, Gross, Mystical Nude: The Persona in Leaves of Grass." Dissertation Abstracts International, 42 (January 1982), 3160A. [Ph. D. thesis, Indiana University, 1981. 225 pp.] Schmitz, Neil. "Our Whitman." Parnassus, 12 (Fall/Winter 1984),4-19. [Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet; Stephen Tapscott, American Beauty: William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman; Walt Whitman, American Bard; and Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song.] 40
Schwind, Jean. "Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' and Whitman: A Study in Source." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 3 (Summer 1985), 1-15. Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. "Coda: Toward the Twentieth Century: English Readers of Whitman." In her Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985, pp. 119-130. Sharp, Richard Dale. "The Poet's Witness: A Comparative Study of the Civil War Poetry of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville." Dissertation Abstracts Internationa4 43 (February 1983), 2670A-267IA. [Ph.D. thesis, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1978. 280 pp.] Siegel, Eli, Ellen Reiss, Nancy Huntting, and Sarah Smith. "Contempt Causes Insanity: What Walt Whitman Did Not Do." The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, 641 (17 July 1985), [1]-[2]. [Whitman, they say, was no homosexual.] Slaughter, William. "Walt Whitman, Inc." West Hills Review, 5 (1985), 71-74. Smrchek, M. N., and Margaret Winchell, translators. "Of Time and the River: Wolfe, Whitman, and America." Thomas Wolfe Review, 9 (Spring 1985),24-30. Stevenson, John. "A Trustee's Tribute to Betsy Vondrasek." Starting from Paumanok, 1 (September 1985), 1. Thomas, M. Wynn. "A Comparative Study of Emerson's 'Friendship' and Whitman's Calamus." American Transcendental Quarterly, 55 (January 1985), 49-61. Waring, Walter. Review of Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman. Library Journa4 109, (15 April 1984), 807. Warren, James Perrin. "'The Free Growth of Metrical Laws': Syntactic Parallelism in 'Song of Myself.'" Style, 18 (Winter 1984),27-42. Welty, Ward Paul. "Walt Whitman, Kosmos: A Study of the Persona in 'Song of Myself.'" Dissertation Abstracts International, 41 (April 1981), 4401A. [D.A. th~sis, Drake University, 1980. 103 pp.] White, William. Review of Edward F. Grier, editor. Walt Whitman, Notebooks and. Unpublished Prose Manuscripts. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 3 (Summer 1985), 25-27. ---. "Walt Whitman: A Bibliographical Checklist." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 3 (Summer 1985), 28-43. --. -. "About Walt Whitman: Hempstead Tragedy." The Long-Islander, 148 (27 June 1985), 11. ---. "About Walt Whitman: Short Story Writer." The Long-Islander, 148 (1 August 1985), 2. ---. "About Walt Whitman: The Best Whitman Edition." The Long-Islander, 148 (8 August 1985), 2. ---. "About Walt Whitman: Best Biography: Cont." The Long-Islander, 148 (5 September 1985), 4. 41
---. Review of Gay Wilson Allen, The Solitary Singer (University of Chicago Press). The Reprint Bulletin-Book Reviews, 30 (No.2, 1985), 38-39. Zeiger, Lila. "From Walt to Willis." West Hills Review, 5 (1985), 46-50. [Followed by poems by Keisha Boykins, Fernando Grella, Willis, and Lucrezia Aiello.] Ziff, Larzer. "Whitman and the Crowd." Critical Inquiry, 10 (June 1984),579-591. Unsigned. Review of Donald D. Kummings, Walt Whitman, 1940-1975: A Reference Guide. Booklist, 8 (15 December 1983), 625. ---. Review of Jerome Loving, Emerson; Whitman, and the American Muse. Choice, 20 (April 1983), 1139. ---. "Whitman, Walt [Nine Autograph Letters, 1840-1841]." Sotheby's Fine Books and Manuscripts. New York, 22 May 1985, Item 385. [Facsimile of 1841 unpublished letter from Whitman to Abraham Leech, with three pages detailing the Leech-Whitm,an relationship; facsimile of the envelopes. These letters, Leech drafts of letters and MS notebook sold for $28,000. Item 386 is an 8-page MS of "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," with the printed poem and autograph revisions and corrections by the poet, with one page in facsimile. The letter to Leech (1841) is reproduced in Saturday Review, 11 (September-October 1985), 20.] ---. "Walt. Whitman Tonight!" Starting from Paumanok, 1 (Summer 1985), 1. [On Will Stutts in "Walt Whitman: Liberal and Lusty as Nature," a one-man play.] ---. "Whitman in Amityville." Starting from Paumanok, 1 (Summer 1985), 2. [Other unsigned pieces: " [W. A.] Fahey to Edit Review," p. 3; meetings of the Birthplace Association, new members, "Whitmania," membership information.] Oakland University WILLIAM WHITE 42