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Walt Whitman
Scope|Circulating Books|Critical Sources|Periodicals,
Journals, & Trade Publications|Web Sites
Scope: Walt Whitman s writing career began with brief stints on New York newspapers. His work Leaves of Grass is a monumental example of one of the finest examples of great literature. Whitmans writings speak to the common man. There is universality to his work in that it is a shared experience of man.
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Books of Walt Whitmans works are listed in the Baddour Library's on-line catalog under Whitman, Walt and under individual titles, i. e. Leaves of Grass.
Books written by and about Walt Whitman have the call number(s):
PS3200
PS 201
PS310
PS 3054Z63
PS 3238
Some representative books from the circulating collection that is located upstairs in the library are:
Callow, Philip. From Noon to Starry Night: A Life of Walt Whitman. Chicago: I.R. Dee, 1992.
Erkkila, Betsy and Jay Grossman. Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Folsom, Ed. Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994.
Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. The Growth of Leaves of Grass: The Organic Tradition in Whitman Studies. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1993.
Klammer, Martin. Whitman, Slavery, and the Emergence of Leaves of Grass. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.
Reynolds, David S. Walt
Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography. New York: Knopf, 1995.
Whitman, Walt. Selected Letters of Walt Whitman. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1990.
CRITICAL SOURCES
There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate, but pages may be photocopied. The following titles are appropriate to this topic:
REF Z1231.F4G4 The American Novel 1789-1959
REF PS 303.C64 1993 The Columbia History of American Poetry
REF PR 502.C85 1992 Critical Survey of Poetry
REF PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 3 Antebellum writers in New York and the South
REF PS 94.M34 1993 Masterpieces of American Literature
REF PS 3230.W35 1998 Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the links for a
list of full text journals available through our
databases in:
WEB
SITES
Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu
Literary Resources on the Net
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html
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02/08/2007
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