1975
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Abrams, Robert E. "The Function of Dreams and Dream-Logic in Whitman's Poetry." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 17 (Fall 1975), 599-616.
Allen, Gay Wilson. The New Walt Whitman Handbook. New York: New York University Press, 1975.
Andrews, Linda L. "'I Am the Poet of the Woman the Same as the Man': Whitman's View of Women as Depicted in 'Song of Myself.'" Ball State University Forum 16 (Autumn 1975), 69-76.
Askin, Denise Theresa. "Prophet of the Square Deific: Savior and Satan in the Works of Walt Whitman." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Notre Dame, 1975. [DAI 36 (July 1975), 265A.]
Aspiz, Harold. "Whitman Handbook Revised." Walt Whitman Review 21 (December 1975), 165-166. [Review of Gay Wilson Allen, The New Walt Whitman Handbook.]
Asselineau, Roger. "Humor in Leaves of Grass." Calamus 11 (November 1975), 4-11. [Reprinted from the American Transcendental Quarterly.]
Asselineau, Roger. "Whitman et Millet." La Quinzaine Littéraire [Paris] (Novembre 16 au 30, 1975), 18.
Babic, Ljiljana. "Napisi o Whitman na srpskohrvatskom jeziku." Filološki Pregled [Belgrade] iii-iv (1975), 109-129. [Notes on Whitman in Serbo-Croatian.]
Beckett, Lucy. "Upper- and Lower-Case Bards." TLS: The Times Literary Supplement No. 3809 (March 7, 1975), 243. [Review of Diane Wood Middlebrook, Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens.]
Berryhill, Michael Kenneth. "Walt Whitman and Post-Modern Consciousness." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1975. [DAI 38 (September 1977), 1376A.]
Bickman, Martin Elliot. "Voyages of the Mind's Return: A Jungian Study of Poe, Emerson, Whitman, and Dickinson." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1974. [DAI 36 (July 1975), 266A.]
Black, Stephen A. Whitman's Journey into Chaos: A Psychoanalytic Study in the Poetic Process. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.
Blackwood, R. T. "William James and Walt Whitman." Walt Whitman Review 21 (June 1975), 78-79.
Blasing, Mutlu. "'The Sleepers': The Problem of the Self in Whitman." Walt Whitman Review 21 (September 1975), 111-119.
Borges, Jorges Luis. "Note on Walt Whitman." Other Inquisitions 1937-1952. Ruth L. C. Sims, trans (1964; rpt. Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1975), 66-72. [See also "Valéry as a Symbol," 73-74.]
Borges, Jorges Luis. "Walt Whitman: Man and Myth." Critical Inquiry 1 (June 1975), 707-718.
Bowers, Fredson T. "The Facsimile of Whitman's Blue Book." In Essays in Bibliography, Text, and Editing (Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia by the University Press of Virginia, 1975), 440-446.
Brien, Dolores Elise. "A Study of the Poetry of Robert Creely and Robert Duncan in Relation to the Emerson Whitman Tradition." Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University, 1969. [DAI 35 (February 1975), 5388A-5389A.]
Brien, Dolores Elise. "Robert Duncan: A Poet in the Emerson-Whitman Tradition." Centennial Review 19 (Fall 1975), 308-316.
Cavitch, David. Review of Diane Wood Middlebrook, Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens. JEGP 74 (1975), 268-270.
Chalfin, Norma Jean. "Walt Whitman's Philosophy of History." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern California, 1975. [DAI 36 (December 1975), 3708A-3709A.]
Chan, Lester. "And He Spoke." Calamus 11 (November 1975), 2-3. [Poem.]
Chiclens, Edward E. "Whitman's Specimen Days and the Familiar Essay Genre." Genre [University of Illinois at Chicago Circle], 8 (1975), 366-378.
Coale, Samuel. "Whitman's War: The March of a Poet." Walt Whitman Review 21 (September 1975), 85-101.
Cohen, Martin Steven. "'Every Child May Joy to Hear' [Literary Appreciation].", Ph.D. Dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1975. [DAI 36 (September 1975), 1495A.]
Cooke, Harry James. "The Individuation of a Poet: The Process of Becoming in Whitman's 'The Sleepers.'" Walt Whitman Review 21 (September 1975), 101-110.
Cowley, Malcolm, ed. Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition. With an Introduction. Viking Compass Editions. New York: The Viking Press, 1961. [17th Printing, June 1975.]
Cuddy, Lois Arlene. "Elegy and the American Tradition; Subjective Lyrics on Life and Experience." Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University, 1975. [DAI 37 (July 1976), 273A-274A. Whitman is among the poets discussed.]
De Grazia, Emillioa. "More on Whitman's Twenty-Eight Young Men." Walt Whitman Review 21 (December 1975), 158-160.
Del Grego, Robert David. "Walt Whitman and the Epic Impulse." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1975. [DAI 36 (November 1975), 2819A.]
Dendinger, Lloyd. "The Meaning of Poetry." Southern Literary Messenger: A Quarterly, 1 (No. 1, 1975), 6-10. [Analyzes poetry of Whitman and Frost.]
Dressman, Michael Rowan. "Walt Whitman's Study of the English Language." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1974. [DAI 36 (July 1975), 338A.]
Eberwein, Jane Donahue. "The Education of the Poet: Stovall on Whitman's Influences." Walt Whitman Review 21 (March 1975), 37-39. [Review of Floyd Stovall, The Foreground of Leaves of Grass.]
Fleck, Richard F. "A Note on Whitman in Ireland." Walt Whitman Review 21 (December 1975), 160-162.
Freedman, Florence B. "Emerson Giving Joy: Summer of 1855." Walt Whitman Review 21 (December 1975), 162-163.
Gelpi, Albert. "Walt Whitman: The Self as Circumference." In The Tenth Muse: The Psyche of the American Poet (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975), 153-216.
Girgus, Sam. "Culture and Post-Culture in Walt Whitman." Centennial Review 18 (Fall 1974): 392-410
Goldberg, Bernard A. "Patriotic Allusions in Sections 15 and 33 of 'Song of Myself.'" Walt Whitman Review 21 (June 1975), 58-66.
Grant, Barry Keith. "The Word En-Masse: Language and Form in American Literature: 1800-1860." Ph.D. Dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1975. [DAI 36 (September 1975), 1504A.]
Greasley, Philip Alan. "American Vernacular Poetry: Studies in Whitman, Sandburg, Anderson, Masters and Lindsay." Ph.D. Dissertation, Michigan State University, 1975. [DAI 36 (June 1976), 8058A-8059A.]
Guttry, Lottie Lipscomb. "Feminine Roles in Leaves of Grass." MA Thesis, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1974. [Masters Abstracts 13 (March 1975), 24.]
Hamilton, David. "Music." The Nation 220 (April 19, 1975), 478. [Says that Lilacs, a cantata by Roger Sessions, performed at Harvard in March, is the best treatment ever of a Whitman text, superior to Delius's Sea-Drift and Hindemith's A Requiem for Those We Love.]
Hanson, R. Galen. "Anxiety as Human Predicament: Whitman's 'Calamus' No. 9." Walt Whitman Review 21 (June 1975), 73-75.
Harkins, William E. "Walt Whitman and Jaroslav Vrchlicky." In Xenia Slavica: Papers Presented to Gojko Ruzicic on the Occasion of His Seventy-Fifth Birthday, 2 February 1969 [SPR 279] (The Hague: Mouton, 1975), 55-60.
Hirsch, David R. Review of Diane Wood Middlebrook, Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens. Sewanee Review 83 (1975), 334-347.
Howes, Victor. "Whitman's Powerful Poetry Sweeps Over the Globe." The Christian Science Monitor (November 3, 1975). [Review of Gay Wilson Allen, The New Walt Whitman Handbook.]
Hunt, Russell A. "Whitman's Poetics and the Unity of 'Calamus.'" American Literature 46 (January 1975), 482-494.
Ignoffo, Matthew F. What the War Did to Whitman: A Brief Study of the Effects of the Civil War on the Mind of Walt Whitman. New York [etc.]: Vantage Press. 1975. [Argues that Whitman's "profound message . . . for America Today" lies not in the "childlike optimism" of the pre-Civil War writings, but in the "experienced idealism" of Drum-Taps and the elegy to Lincoln.]
Ivanetich, Aloysus. "Gentlemen, Your Facts Are Useful." Calamus, Walt Whitman Quarterly: International 10 (April 1975), 2-17; 11 (November 1975), 26-40.
Johnson, David J. "The Effect of Suspension Dots, Parentheses and Italics on Lyricism of 'Song of Myself.'" Walt Whitman Review 21 (June 1975), 47-58.
Johnson, Linck C. "The Design of Walt Whitman's Specimen Days." Walt Whitman Review 21 (March 1975), 3-14.
Kalita, Dwight. "Walt Whitman: Ecstatic Sea-Voyager." Walt Whitman Review 21 (March 1975), 14-22.
Kalita, Dwight. "Whitman and the Correspondent Breeze." Walt Whitman Review 21 (September 1975), 125-130.
Kidney, Jennifer. "An American Prelude: Nostalgia and the Sense of Death in American Poetry." Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1974. [DAI 36, (July 1975), 275A.]
King, Terrance J. "Whitman and Stevens: A Review." Walt Whitman Review 21 (March 1975), 39-41. [Review of Diane Wood Middlebrook, Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens.]
Koch, Richard Earl. "Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, and the Dilemma of Modern Consciousness." Ph.D. Dissertation, Michigan State University, 1974. [DAI 36 (July 1975), 319A.]
Kummings, Donald D. "A Note on the Americanness of Walt Whitman." Calamus, Walt Whitman Quarterly: International No. 10 (April 1975), 18-27.
Lackey, Robert Samuel A. "The Argument of 'Song of Myself' (1860 Edition): An Archetypal and Rhetorical Analysis." Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Tulsa, 1975. [DAI 36 (September 1975), 1505A.]
Ledbetter, J. T. "Whitman's Power in the Short Poem: A Discussion of 'Whispers of Heavenly Death.'" Walt Whitman Review 21 (December 1975), 155-158.
Leithauser, Galdys. "Arch-priggery: A Note on Bertrand and Alys Russell's Copy of Whitman's Leaves of Grass." Russell: The Journal of the Bertrand Russell Archives No. 19 (Autumn 1975), 15-17.
Loving, Jerome, M., ed. Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman. With a Foreword by Gay Wilson Allen. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1975. [Contains a 35-pp. introduction on the Whitman family and the efforts to gain George Whitman's release from prison; 61 letters, all but 15 unpublished (see Clarence Ghodes and Rollo G. Silver, editors, Faint Clews & Indirections, Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1949, 143-182); G. W. Whitman's Civil War Diary; George's letter to Walt Whitman, 6 September 1871; a military report on the Battle of the Crater, 8 August 1864; and "The Question of Andrew Jackson Whitman's Military Activities." As Allen writes, this volume "is a worthy contribution both to Civil War history and to the biography of Walt Whitman."]
Loving, Jerome M. "The Estate of George Washington Whitman: An Horatio Alger Story in Walt Whitman's Family." Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society 31 (January 1975), 105-110.
Lozynsky, Artem. "S. Weir Mitchell on Whitman: An Unpublished Letter." American Notes & Queries 13 (April 1975), 120-121.
Lozynsky, Artem. "The Letters of Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke . . ." [See Walt Whitman Review 21 (March 1975), 42]. Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (June 1975): 7913A.
Lozynsky, Artem. "Walt Whitman on Marriage." Notes and Queries n.s. 22 (March 1975), 120-121.
Lozynsky, Artem. "Whitman and Man's Moral Nature." Walt Whitman Review 21 (March 1975), 36-37.
Lozynsky, Artem. "Whitman the Man and Hawthorne the Artist: An English Evaluation." Nathaniel Hawthorne Journal (1975), 270-271.
Lozynsky, Artem. "Whitman's Death Bed: Two Nurses' Reports." American Literature 47 (May 1975), 270-273.
Marki, Ivan. "The Trial of the Poet: An Interpretation of the Text of the First (1855) Edition of Leaves of Grass." Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1974. [DAI 35 (January 1975), 4437A-4438A.]
Martin, Robert. K. "Whitman's Song of Myself: Homosexual Dream and Vision." Partisan Review 42 (No. 1, 1975), 80-96.
McCullagh, James C. "'Proud Music of the Storm:' A Study in Dynamics." Walt Whitman Review 21 (June 1975), 66-73.
McMartin, Gaines Noble. "A Perspective on Unity in the poems of Bryant, Longfellow, Emerson, and Whitman: The Use of Analogy and Example in Metaphor." Ph.D. Dissertation, UCLA, 1975. [DAI 36 (January 1976), 4494A.]
Mersch, Arnold. "Whitman and Buber: In the Presence of Greatness." Walt Whitman Review 21 (September 1975), 120-125.
Moore, William Luther. "Haughty This Song: A Drama for the Stage Out of the Essence and American Times of Walt Whitman." Calamus 4 (December 1970), 35-51 (Act I); 5 (April 1972), 29-42 (Act II, Scene 1); 6 (September 1972), 35-49 (Act II, Scene 2); 7 (February 1973), 38-50 (Act III), 8 (August 1973), 35-41 (Act IV, Prologue and Scene 1); 9 (May 1974), 41-57 (Act IV, Scene 2); 10 (April 1975), 40-56 (Act V); 11 (November 1975), 41-51 (Act VI).
Moyne, Ernest J. "Folger McKinsey and Walt Whitman." Walt Whitman Review 21 (December 1975), 135-144.
Murphy, Francis. Review of Diane Wood Middlebrook, Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens. Modern Language Quarterly 36 (June 1975), 209-213.
Murphy, Francis. ed. Walt Whitman: The Complete Poems. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England; Baltimore [etc.]: Penguin Education, 1975.
Murphy, Kevin Christopher. "Poetics of the New World: A Study of Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself.'" Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Rochester, 1974. [DAI 36 (July 1975), 281A.]
Neilson, Kenneth P. "Lab Theatre Production of Joseph Scott Kierland's 'Drum-Taps.'" Walt Whitman Review 21 (June 1975), 76-78.
Nelson, Cary. "Whitman in Vietnam: Poetry and History in Contemporary America." The Massachusetts Review 16 (Winter 1975), 55-71.
Nelson, Charles Alan. "Patterns of Water Imagery in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass." Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Wisconsin, 1974. [DAI 35 (January 1975) 4444A-4445A.]
Nuhn, Ferner. "Walt Whitman and the Divine Process: A Bicentennial Reflection." Religion in Life 44 (Winter 1975), 412-417.
Pallikunnen, A. G. Eastern Influence on Whitman's Mysticism, and Other Essays in Literature. Alwar, India: Pontifical Institute Publications, 1975.
Randle, Betty, ed. Catalogue of the Collection of Walt Whitman Literature Presented to the Dunedin Public Library by W. H. Trimble. Dunedin, New Zealand: Dunedin Public Library, 1975.
Reissman, Rose Cherie. "Recurrent Motifs in Good-bye My Fancy." Walt Whitman Review 21 (March 1975), 28-35.
Renner, Dennis Kent. "Walt Whitman's Religion of the Republic: A Study of His Journalistic Writings and the First Three Editions of Leaves of Grass in Relation to Sectionalism and the Prospect of Civil War in America." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Iowa, 1975. [DAI 36 (October 1975), 2208A.]
Ross, Donald. "Emerson's Stylistic Influence on Whitman." American Transcendental Quarterly No. 25 (Winter 1975), 41-51.
Sâmpetrean, Viorel. " Walt Whitman: Poemul Neíntrerupt." ["Walt Whitman: The Uninterrupted Poem."] Amfiteatru [Bucharest] 10 (No. 6, 1975) 168.
Scholnick, Robert J. Review of Joseph Jay Rubin, The Historic Whitman. American Literary Realism: 1870-1910 8 (Autumn 1975), 367-368.
Shapiro, Karl. "The First White Aboriginal." In The Poetry Wreck: Selected Essays 1950-1970 (New York: Random House, 1975), 156-174. [Reprinted from his In Defense of Ignorance, 1960.]
Simon, Myron. "Dunbar and Dialect Poetry." In Jay Martin. ed., A Singer in the Dawn: Reinterpretations of Paul Laurence Dunbar (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1975), 114-184.
Slote, Bernice. "Whitman and Dickinson." In James Woodress, ed., American Literary Scholarship: An Annual/1973 (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1975), 85-98.
Smith, A. Helen. "Walt Whitman's 'Personality' Figure." Ball State University Forum 16 (Spring 1975), 23-28.
Smith, Michael John. "The Changing Nature of Whitman's 'Song of Myself.'" Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Nebraska, 1975. [DAI 36 (February 1976), 5305A.]
Snyder, John. The Dear Love of Man: Tragic and Lyrical Communion in Walt Whitman. Studies in American Literature, Vol. 28. The Hague: Mouton & Co. N. V., 1975.
Spencer, Benjamin T. Review of Diane Wood Middlebrook, Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens. American Literature 47 (May 1975), 275-277.
Stebner, Gerhard. "Discovery of Self and Utopian Vision of Humanity in 'The Sleepers.'" Calamus 11 (November 1975), 12-25.
Steuhler, David M. "Significant Form in Whitman's 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking.'" Calamus 10 (April 1975), 28-39.
Stillgoe, John R. "Possible Lockean Influence in 'The World Below the Brine.'" Walt Whitman Review 21 (December 1975), 150-155.
Stubblefield, Charles. "The Great Circle: Whitman's 'Passage to India.'" Prairie Schooner 49 (Spring 1975), 19-30.
Stuehler, David M. "Significant Form in Whitman's 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking.'" Calamus, Walt Whitman Quarterly: International No. 10 (April 1975), 28-39.
Suzuki, Yoshiaki. "Kuo Mo-jo Nu-shen to Whitman." Chugokukoten Kenkyu 20 (1975), 180-191. [Relations between Muo Mojo's Nu-shen and Whitman, with reference to Arishima Takeo.]
Taylor, Estelle W. "Moments of Silence in Leaves of Grass." Walt Whitman Review 21 (December 1975), 145-150.
Vanderbilt, Kermit. "'I Hear America Singing:' Whitman and Democratic Culture." Walt Whitman Review 21 (March 1975), 22-28.
Van Doren, Mark. ed. Walt Whitman: The Viking Portable Library. Revised by Malcolm Cowley. With a Chronology and a Bibliographical Checklist by Gay Wilson Allen. New York: The Viking Press, 1973. [Second printing, May 1975.]
White, Gertrude M. "20th Century Poetry & Whitman: A Review." Walt Whitman Review 21 (December 1975), 164. [Review of Ronald Hayman, Arguing With Walt Whitman: An Essay on His Influence on 20th Century American Verse.]
White, Gertrude M. "Whitman, American Meter, Metaphor, Diction: A Review." Walt Whitman Review 21 (June 1975), 79-80.
White, William. "A New Whitman Letter to J. Q. A. Ward." Walt Whitman Review 21 (September 1975), 131, 132.
White, William. "'Beat! Beat! Drums!': The First Version." Walt Whitman Review 21 (March 1975), 43, 44.
White, William. Review of Stephen A. Black, Whitman's Journey into Chaos: A Psychoanalytic Study in the Poetic Process. Library Journal 100 (December 1, 1975), 2250.
White, William. "Walt Whitman and Friends." Modern Maturity 18 (October-November 1975), 26. [Owen Niger Cholmeley-Jones, now 91, and his sister, photographed by George C. Cox with Whitman in 1887.]
White, William. "Whitman: A Current Bibliography." Walt Whitman Review 21 (March, June, Spetember, December 1975), 42-43, 80-81, 130-131, 166-167.
White, William. "Whitman-Borroughs: A Kennikat Reprint." Walt Whitman Review 21 (March 1975), 41-42. [Review of Clara Barrus, Whitman and Burroughs: Comrades.]
White, William. "Whitman in 1881: Five Frank Hill Smith Sketches." Walt Whitman Review 21 (June 1975), 82.
White, William. "Whitman's Short Stories: More Addenda." The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 69 (Third Quarter 1975), 402-403.
White, William. "Whitman to J. A. Symonds: Unpublished." Walt Whitman Review 21 (December 1975), 168.
White, William. ed. "Women in the Life of Walt Whitman," Walt Whitman Annual Supplement. The Long-Islander 137 (May 29, 1975), 16-17, 22. [Includes "Anne Gilchrist," "Nelly O'Connor," "Ellen Eyre: 1" ( by Gay Wilson Allen), and "Ellen Eyre: 2" (by C. Carroll Hollis), as well as photos of Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, Mary Oakes Davis, Anne Gilchrist, and Nelly O'Connor.]
Whitman, Walt. I Hear America Singing. Boston: Seymour Lawrence, Inc., 1975. [With pictures by Fernando Krahan.]
Wright, Scott. Review of Jerome M. Loving, ed., Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman. Library Journal 100 (November 15, 1975), 2140.
Zochert, Donald. "A Note on Whitman's 'Port of Destination.'" Walt Whitman Review 21 (June 1975), 76.
Unsigned. Review of Diane Wood Middlebrook, Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens. Choice 11 (February 1975), 1779.
Unsigned. Review of Jerome M. Loving, ed., Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman. History: Review of New Books 4 (November 1975), 40.
Unsigned. Review of Walt Whitman's Autograph Revisions of the Analysis of Leaves of Grass. Catholic Library World 46 (April 1975), 401.
Unsigned. Review of Walt Whitman's Autograph Revisions of the Analysis of Leaves of Grass. Choice 11 (February 1975), 1782.
Unsigned. Review of Walt Whitman, I Hear America Singing. Kirkus Reviews 43 (March 15, 1975), 303.