Sunday, March 8, 2015

Walt Whitman

Deathbed edition text for Children of Adam poems in Leaves of Grass.

Deathbed edition text for Calamus poems.

The entirety of the deathbed edition of Leaves of Grass.The 1860 Calamus poems. The 1859 proto-Calamus manuscript, "Live Oak with Moss." A close-up view of calamus, or sweet-flag (Acorus calamus).

The kind of awesome Whitman Archive landing page.

A late 1850s photograph of Whitman, "one of the roughs." Whitman seated, in Boston, 1860. Whitman in D.C., 1863: "Do you detect a scowl?" Whitman in 1866 or so by Matthew Brady. Whitman in 1880.

The first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass. The 1860 edition. The 1872 edition.

Phrenology, the pseudoscience of head bumps! More phrenology. American popular "science" in lots of books from the 1850s. Mesmerism. Whitman's early work as a temperance writer.

All about Peter Doyle. Whitman with Peter Doyle. Whitman with Harry Stafford.

A delightful and very non-scholarly Whitman fan blog. Remembering Robert K. Martin. Colm Toibin on Edward Carpenter. A nonacademic Carpenter fan site, with unreliable editions of Carpenter's writings (check before you quote!)

Sherman Alexie's poem "Defending Walt Whitman."

Federico Garcia Lorca's "Oda a Walt Whitman" in Spanish and in one English translation b A. S. Kline. Mayakovsky's looking at you.

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