Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography
1977
This bibliography last revised September 7, 2001.
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Abernethy, Peter J. "Frank Lloyd Wright, Walt Whitman: The Expatriate's Dream of Home." American Studies [University of Kansas] 18 (No. 2, 1977), 45-53.
Adams, Richard P. "Whitman and the Rhythms of Life." Calamus: Walt Whitman Quarterly: International [Tokyo] 14 (July 1977), 17-24.
Ahluwalia, Harsharan Singh. "The Private Self and the Public Self in Whitman's 'Lilacs.'" Walt Whitman Review 23 (December 1977), 166-175.
Allen, Gay Wilson. ed. Walt Whitman Abroad: Critical Essays from Germany, France, Russia, Italy, Spain and Latin America, Israel, Japan, and India. Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, 1977. [Reprint of the 1955 Syracuse University Press edition. Also reprinted by Richard West, Philadelphia, 1978.]
Allen, Gay Wilson. Aspects of Walt Whitman. Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, 1977. [Contains a New Preface, p. ix; a reprint of Walt Whitman as Man, Poet, and Legend (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1961), 1-260; and "New Material for Enlarged Edition" (plus Index), 263-317. The "new" material consists of reprints of "Walt Whitman's Reception in Scandinavia," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 51 (1946), 259-275; "The Problem of Metaphor in Translating Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass," English Studies Today, edited by G. A. Bonnard (Bern, Switzerland: Francke Verlag, 1961), 269-280; and "Walt Whitman's Inner Space," Papers on Language and Literature 5 (Summer 1969), 7-17.]
Allen, Gay Wilson. Review of Maurice Mendelson, Life and Work of Walt Whitman. American Literature 49 (November 1977), 461-464.
Allen, Gay Wilson. Twenty-five Years of Walt Whitman Bibliography, 1918-1942. Folcroft, Pa.: Folcroft Library Editions, 1977. [Reprint of 1943 F. W.Faxon Company edition .]
Asselineau, Roger. Review of Stephen A. Black, Whitman's Journeys into Chaos. Etudes Anglaises 30 (April-June 1977), 254-255.
Asselineau, Roger. "Spanish Leaves from Argentina." Walt Whitman Review 23 (June 1977), 94-96. [Review of Walt Whitman, Hojas de Hierba, selected and translated by Leonardo Wolfson.]
Asselineau, Roger. Review of Gay Wilson Allen, The New Whitman Handbook. Etudes Anglaises 30 (April-June 1977), 255-256.
Asselineau, Roger. "'Passage to India.'" Calamus 16 (August 1978), 11-14. [An enconium to Professor Asselineau by the Adam Mickiewicz University of Posnan (Poland) and his response on receiving an honorary doctorate, 22 August 1977, appears in Calamus 15 (November 1977), 51-53.]
Asselineau, Roger. Review of Jerome M. Loving, ed, The Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman. Etudes Anglaises 30 (April June 1977), 257.
Bayley, John. "Songs of a Furtive Self." TLS: The Times Literary Supplement, No. 3913 (March 11, 1977), 258-259. [Review of Ivan Marki, The Trial of the Poet: An Interpretation of the First Edition of "Leaves of Grass," and Maurice Mendelson, The Life and Work of Walt Whitman.]
Bentley, Eric. "The Homosexual Question." American Review 26 (November 1977), 288-303.
Bickman, Martin. "Occult Traditions and American Romanticism: A Jungian Perspective." In Luanne Frank, Ed., Literature and the Occult: Essays in Comparative Literature (Arlington: University of Texas at Arlington Press, 1977), 54-64.
Birdsall, Eric Reed. "Translating the Hints: Walt Whitman's Poetry of Indirection." Ph.D. Dissertation, The Johns Hopkins University, 1977. [DAI 37 (April 1977), 6482A-6483A.]
Black, Stephen A. "Ivan Marki on the 1855 Leaves." Walt Whitman Review 23 (June 1977), 92-94. [Review of Ivan Marki, The Trial of the Poet: An Interpretation of the First Edition of Leaves of Grass.]
Blasing, Mutlu Konuk. "'Walt Whitman, a Kosmos, of Manhattan the Son.'" In The Art of Life: Studies in American Autobiographical Literature (Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1977), 25-53.
Blodgett, Harold W. Review of Ivan Marki, The Trial of the Poet: An Interpretation of the First Edition of Leaves of Grass. American Literature 49 (May 1977), 278-279.
Bone, Larry Earl. Review of Artem Lozynsky, ed. Richard Maurice Bucke, Medical Mystic: Letters of Dr Bucke to Walt Whitman and His Friends. Library Journal 102 (September 15, 1977), 1852.
Brasher, Thomas. Review of John Snyder, The Dear Love of Man: Tragic and Lyric Communion in Walt Whitman. American Literature 49 (March 1977), 127.
Bunge, Nancy L. "The Midwestern Novel: Walt Whitman Transplanted." The Old Northwest 3 (1977), 275-287.
Bunge, Nancy. "Walt Whitman's Influence on Hamlin Garland." Walt Whitman Review 23 (March 1977), 45-50.
Burroughs, John. "This Was Walt Whitman." Calamus 14 (July 1977), 2-16. [Excerpts reprinted from Whitman: A Study, 1897.]
Cahoon, Herbert, Thomas V. Lange, and Charles Ryskamp. American Literary Autographs: From Washington Irving to Henry James. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., and The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1977. [Of the 73 authors (and 98 MSS reproduced--almost all from the Morgan Library) Whitman is one of 11 having three authographs: "Introduction" (unpublished?) to the London Edition of Rossetti's Poems of Walt Whitman (1868), "Diary of War" (excerpt from November Boughs), and "O Captain! My Captain!", Nos. 52-54.]
Camboni, Maria P. "La molteplicita del messaggio in Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone di Walt Whitman." Lingua e Stile 12 (1977), 21-43.
Cantoni, Louis J. "Walt Whitman, Secular Mystic." South and West: An International Literary Quarterly [Fort Smith,Arkansas] 12 (No. 4, 1974), 20-24.
Carr, W. H. "Whitman Still Walks." Conservationist 32 (July 1977), 23.
Carter, Everett. "Romantic Defense of the Idea." In The American Idea (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1977), 79-133.
Carter, Stephen Leroy. "'From the "Sacred Selfe" to the Separate Self': A Study of the Mystical Elements in the Five American Poets Prior to 1900." Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas Tech University, 1977. [DAI 38 (February 1977), 4823A.]
Chaffin, J. Thomas, Jr. "Give Me Faces and Streets: Walt Whitman and the City." Walt Whitman Review 23 (September 1977), 109-120.
Chari, V. K. "Whitman and His Reader." Calamus 15 (November 1977), 23-33.
Chari, V. K. 'Whitman and the Language of the Romantics." Études Anglaises 30 (July/September 1977), 314-328.
Chesin, Martin F. "The Organic Metaphor and the Unity of the First Edition of Leaves of Grass." Calamus 15 (November 1977), 34-50.
Colakova, Vjara. "Uolt Witman, Kosmos, na Manhatan Sin" ("Walt Whitman, a Kosmos, of Manhattan the Son"). Rod,na rec [Sofia], 5/6 (1977), 110-114.
Cooper, David Dale. "The Paradox of Spirit and Instinct: A Comparative Examination of the Psychologies of C. G. Jung and Sigmund Freud." Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University, 1977. [DAI, 38 (June 1978), 7330A-7331A. Analyzes, among other things, Whitman's "There Was a Child Went Forth."]
Crawley, T. E. Review of Ivan Marki, The Trial of the Poet: An Interpretation of the First Edition of Leaves of Grass. American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 10 (1977), 320-322.
Cuddy, Lois A. "Symbolic Identification of Whitman with Hawthorne." American Notes & Queries 15 (January 1977), 71-72.
Culbert, Gary A. "Whitman's Revisions of 'By Blue Ontario's Shore.'" Walt Whitman Review 23 (March 1977), 35-45.
Cummings, Peter M. "Walt Whitman's 'Sang om Mig Selv'--et Stykke af Fremtidens Historie" ("Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself'--a Piece of the History of the Future"). Dansk Udsyn [Vejen, Denmark] 54 (1977), 234-247.
Daiches, David. Two Studies: The Poetry of Dylan Thomas, Walt Whitman Impressionist Poet. Folcroft, Pa.: Folcroft Library Editions, 1977. [Reprint of The Shenval Press, London, 1958, limited edition of 70 copies.]
Debus, David Warlag. "A psychological History of Walt Whitman: Erikson's Stages Applied to an Artistic and Religions Personality." Ph.D. Dissertation, United States International University, 1977. [DAI 40 (August 1979), 910-B.]
Del Greco, Robert. "A New Whitman Letter to Talcott Williams." Walt Whitman Review 23 (March 1977), 52-53.
Donaldson, Thomas [C.] Walt Whitman the Man. Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, 1977. [Reprint of the 1897 Gay and Bird edition.]
Donez Xiques, C. N. D. "Whitman's Catalogues and the Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855." Walt Whitman Review 23 (June 1977), 68-76.
Doudna, Marin K. "The Atlantic Cable in Whitman's 'Passage to India.'" Walt Whitman Review 23 (March 1977), 50-52.
Dressman, Michael R. "Whitman, Chaucer, and French Words." Walt Whitman Review 23 (June 1977), 77-82.
Easson, Angus. Review of Francis Murphy, ed, Walt Whitman: The Complete Poems. Notes & Queries n.s. 24 (October 1977), 475-476.
Engel, Wilson F., III. "Two Biblical Echoes in 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.'" Walt Whitman Review 23 (June 1977), 88-90.
Fender, Stephen. "Walt Whitman." In The American Long Poem: An Annotated Selection. (London: Edward Arnold, 1977), 13-14.
Ferlazzo, Paul J. "Dylan Thomas and Walt Whitman: Birth, Death, and Time." Walt Whitman Review 23 (September 1977), 136-141.
Fickert, Kurt J. "Walt Whitman in West Hills (Long Island)." Poet Lore 72 (Spring 1977), 5. [Poem.]
Fisher, Marvin, and Willis J. Buckingham. "Whitman and Dickinson." In James Woodress, ed, American Literary Scholarship 1975: An Annual (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1977), 83-102.
Fonseca, Clotilde. "'Canto a Mi Mismo' de Walt Whitman o la aventura humana hacia una conciencia cosmica." Kanina 1.1 (1977), 39-46.
Fowle, Farnsworth. "Emory Holloway: 1885-1977." Walt Whitman Review 23 (December 1977), 179. [Reprinted from the International Herald Tribune (Paris).]
French, Roberts W. "Symbolic Values in Whitman's 'The Dalliance of the Eagles.'" Odyssey: A Journal of the Humanities 2 (November 1977), 11-15.
Gay, William. Walt Whitman: His Relation to Science and Philosophy. Folcroft, Pa.: Folcroft Library Editions, 1977. [Reprint of the Melbourne, Australia, 1895, edition.]
Green, Jesse D. "Whitman's Voice in [Williams's] 'The Wanderer.'" William Carlos Williams Newsletter 3 (Fall 1977), 17-22.
Hamblen, Emily S. Walt Whitman: Bard of the West. Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, 1977. [Reprints the Haldeman-Julius, Girard, Kansas 1924, Little Blue Book, No. 529, edition.]
Hanson, Howard. A Sea Symphony. NewYork: Carl Fischer, Inc 1977. [Settings of poems by Whitman for a choral group.]
Hunzicker, Karen Dell. "Whitman the Teacher: The Poet in a Democratic Society." Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1977. [DAI 39 (September 1978), 1569A-1570A.]
Irwin, Mabel MacCoy. Whitman the Poet Liberator of Woman. Philadelphia: Richard West, 1977. [Reprint of the 1905 edition.]
Jarvis, Douglas R. "Style, Technique, and Communication in Whitman's poetic Theory and Practice: Leaves of Grass." 1855-1860. [MA Honors Thesis, University of Sydney, 1977.]
Johnson, Mark Andrew. "American Visions, American Forms: A Study of Four Long Poems." Ph.D. Dissertation, Ohio University, 1977. [DAI 38 (February 1977), 4828A].
Kehler, Joel R. "A Typological Reading of 'Passage to India.'" ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 23 (Second Quarter 1977), 123-129.
Kelly, Erna Emmighausen. "Whitman and Wordsworth: Childhood Experiences and the Future Poet." Walt Whitman Review 23 (June 1977), 59-68.
Killingsworth, Myrth Jimmie. "Another Source for Whitman's Use of 'Electric.'" Walt Whitman Review 23 (September 1977), 129-132.
Kinkead-Weekes, Mark. "Walt Whitman Passes the Full Stop By ." In Brian S. Lee, Ed., An English Miscellany: Presented to W. S. Mackie (Capetown: Oxford University Press, 1977), 163-178.
Kip, W. F. "Walt Whitman." In Richard M. Smoley, ed., First Flowering: The Best of The Harvard Advocate (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1977), 19-21. [Reprinted in facsimile form The Harvard Advocate of 1876.]
Kolinsky, Muriel. "'Me Tarzan, You Jane?': Whitman's Attitudes Toward Women from a Women's Liberation Point of View." Walt Whitman Review 23 (December 1977), 155-165.
Kroll, Barbara. "The 'Confession' in 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry' and the Jewish Day of Atonement Prayers." Walt Whitman Review 23 (September 1977), 125-129.
Kuebrich, David. "Whitman's Politics: Poetry and Democracy." In Harry E. Garvin, ed., Literature and History (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1977), 116-130.
Kummings, Donald D. "The Venacular Hero in Whitman's 'Song of Myself.'" Walt Whitman Review 23 (March 1977), 23-34.
Labianca, Dominick A. and William J. Reeves. "'A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown': A Chemical Analysis." American Notes and Queries 15 (April 1977), 110-111.
Lane, Gary. "Connoisseurs of Chaos: A Unified Poetics of Whitman and Emerson." Calamus 14 (July 1977), 35-42.
Long, Haniel. Walt Whitman and the Springs of Courage. National University Publications. Port Washington, New York: Kennikat Press, 1977. [Reprint of 1938 Edition.]
Lourenco, Eduardo. "Walt Whitman e Pessoa." Quaderni Portoghesi 1.2 (1977), 155-84.
Loving, Jerome. "The Good Gray Poe: The Poe Reburial and William Douglas O'Connor's Forgotten Tribute." Poe Studies 10 (June 1977), 18-21.
Loving, Jerome. "Genesis of The Good Gray Poet." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 19 (Summer 1977), 227-233.
Lozynsky, Artem. Review of Stephen A. Black, Whitman's Journeys into Chaos: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Poetic Process. Criticism, 19 (Summer 1977), 267-269.
Lozynsky, Artem, ed. Richard Maurice Bucke, Medical Mystic: The Letters of Dr. Bucke to Walt Whitman and His Friends. With a Foreword by Gay Wilson Allen. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1977.
Lozynsky, Artem, ed. The Letters of Dr Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1977.
Lozynsky, Artem. "Title Page for With Walt Whitman in Camden, Vol. 1." Walt Whitman Review 23 (March 1977), 55, 56.
Lozynsky, Artem, and John R. Reed. A Whitman Disciple Visits Tennyson: An Interview Describing Dr Richard Maurice Bucke's Visit of 9 August 1891 at Aldworth. With Introduction and Notes. Tennyson Society of Monographs: Number Eight. Lincoln, England: The Tennyson society, Tennyson Research Centre, 1977.
Luyat, Jean R. "The Poem as Esthetic Process." Calamus 15 (November 1977), 6-22.
MacLachlan, C. H. "The Bystander." The Long-Islander 139 (April 7, 1977), 1. [On the serious problem facing the Walt Whitman Birthplace, 246 Walt Whitman road, Huntington, New York.]
Madsen, Valden. "W. D. Howells's Formal Poetics and His Appraisals of Whitman and Emily Dickinson." Walt Whitman Review 23 (September 1977), 103-109.
Marsden, James Douglas. "Modern Echoes of Transcendentalism: Kesey, Snyder, and Other Countercultural Authors." Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University, 1977. [DAI, 38 (February 1978), 4830A-4831A. Influence of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman.]
Martin, Willard E. Jr. "Whitmaniana from the Boston Journal." Walt Whitman Review 23 (June 1977), 90-92.
Matz, Catherine. "That Enormous Calm. . . ." Calamus 15 (November 1977), 2-5.
McLeod, A. L., ed. Walt Whitman in Australia and New Zealand: A Record of His Reception. Folcroft, Pa.: Folcroft Library Editions, 1977. [Reprint of the Wentworth Press, Sydney, Australia, 1964, edition.]
McSweeney, Kerry. "Melville, Dickinson, Whitman and Psychoanalytic Criticism." Critical Quarterly (Manchester, England), 19 (Spring 1977), 71-82.
Miller, F. DeWolfe. "Whitman in Russia: A Review: Rev. of Life and Work of Walt Whitman: A Soviet View by Maurice Mendelson. Trans. Andrew Bromfield. Walt Whitman Review 23 (June 1977), 96-97.
Montiero, George. "The Pilot-God Trope in Nineteenth-Century American Texts." Modern Language Studies 7 (Fall 1977), 42-51.
Moore, R. S. "Literary World Gone Mad: Hayne on Whitman." Southern Literary Journal 10 (Fall 1977), 75-83.
Mulqueen, James E. "Toward a Morphology of American Poetry." Arizona Quarterly 33 (1977), 293-310.
O'Higgins, Harvey [J.] Alias Walt Whitman. Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, 1977. [Reprint of the Carteret Book Club, Newark, N. J., 1930, edition.]
Peña, Horacio. Ruben Dario y Walt Whitman. Managua: Universidad Centroamericana, 1977.
Platt, Isaac Hull. Walt Whitman. Folcroft, Pa.: Folcroft Library Editions, 1977. [Reprint of the Small, Maynard and Company, Boston, 1904, edition.]
Porter, Andrew. "An American Requiem." The New Yorker 53 (May 16, 1977), 133-140. [Review of Roger Sessions's setting of 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd,' performed by the Boston Symphony.]
Pugh, C. Scott. "The End as Means in 'A Riddle Song.'" Walt Whitman Review 23 (June 1977), 82-85.
Ramsey, Roger. "Whitman Rhapsode." Research Studies of Washington State University 45 (1977), 243-248.
Reed, Michael D. "First Person Persona and the Catalogue in 'Song of Myself.'" Walt Whitman Review 23 (December1977), 147-155.
Rivers, W. C. Walt Whitman's Anomaly. Folcroft, Pa.: Folcroft Library Editions, 1977. [Reprint of the G. Alien and Company, London, 1913, edition, with an Introduction by Gay Wilson Allen, iii-vi.]
Sallee, Jonel Curtis. "Circles of the Self." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Kentucky, 1977. [DAI 38 (May 1978), 6730A.]
Saunders, Henry S. An Introduction to Walt Whitman. Folcroft, Pa.: Folcroft Library Editions, 1977. [Reprint of the H. S. Saunders, Toronto, 1934, limited edition.]
Scheick, William J. "Whitman's Grotesque Half-Breed." Walt Whitman Review 23 (September 1977), 133-136.
Schmitz, Neil. "Exhuming Whitman: The Body in the Text." Rev. of Whitman's Journeys into Chaos: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Poetic Process, by Stephen A. Black and The Trial of the Poet: An Interpretation of the First Edition of Leaves of Grass, by Ivani Marki. Paunch 48-49 (1977), 133-139.
Scholnick, Robert. "The Selling of the Author's Edition': Whitman, O'Connor, and the West Jersey Press Affair." Walt Whitman Review 23 (March 1977), 3-23.
Serio, John N. "Dionysus and Apollo: Poetic Method in Whitman and Dickinson." Calamus 14 (July 1977), 25-34.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. An Essay on Walt Whitman. Philadelphia: Richard West, 1977. [Reprint of the Roycroft Shop, East Aurora, N.Y., 1900, edition, with "A Little Journey to the Home of Whitman," by Elbert Hubbard.]
Stone, Edward. "Kossuth's Hat: Foreign Militants and the American Muse." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 23 (First Quarter 1977), 36-40.
Suzuki, Yasuaki. Shirakabaha no Bungaku to Hoittoman (Whitman and the "Shirakaba" School in Japan). Tokyo: Scibunkan, 1977.
Tanner, Stephen L. "Nature as Spiritual Frontier: Melville, Thoreau, Whitman." Iowa English Bulletin: Yearbook 26 (Spring 1977), 14-17.
Tanner, Stephen L. "Religious Attitudes Toward Progress: Whitman and Berdyaev." Cithara: Essays in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition 17 (No. 1, 1977), 4-16.
Trail, George Y. "Whitman's Spear of Summer Grass: Epic Invocations in 'Song of Myself.'" Walt Whitman Review 23 (September 1977), 120-125.
Waggoner, Hyatt H. "Osservazioni sul Misticismo di Walt Whitman." Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa 13 (1977), 179-198.
Waldron, Randall H., ed., Mattie: The Letters of Martha Mitchell Whitman. With a Foreword by Gay Wilson Allen. New York: New York University Press, 1977. [Of the 26 letters, 6 are to Walt Whitman, 19 to his mother Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, and 1 to Louisa Orr Whitman. Fully annotated, with an introductory essay on Mattie's character and her warm relationship with the poet and his mother.]
Wallace, Henry. Walt Whitman: Seer: A Brief Study. Philadelphia: Richard West, 1977. [Reprint of the London, 1904, edition.]
Waring, Walter. Review of Ivan Marki, The Trial of the Poet: An Interpretation of the First Edition of Leaves of Grass. Library Journal 102 (February 15, 1977), 496-497.
White, Fred D. "Whitman's Cosmic Spider." Walt Whitman Review 23 (June 1977), 85-88.
White, Gertrude M. "'The Courage to Be Oneself': Whitman's Great Central Strength." Walt Whitman Review 23 (September 1977), 141-142. [Review of Haniel Long, Walt Whitman and the Springs of Courage.]
White, William. "Local Man Remembers Father's Court: Days When Judges 'Fought' Justice." Dearborn Press Guide (November 17, 1977), 5-A. [On Whitman and the wife-beater.]
White, William. "A New Whitman Letter to Deborah Brownig." Walt Whitman Review 23 (September 1977), 143-144.
White, William. "Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography." Walt Whitman Review 23 (March, June, September, December 1977), 54-55, 97-99, 143, 177-178.
White, William. "Walt Whitman on Business." Literary Sketches 17 (January 1977), 12-13.
White, William, ed. "Walt Whitman Special Supplement." The Long Islander 139 (June 2, 1977), 5-6. [Entitled "Walt Whitman: The Long Island Period," the 19th annual supplement consists entirely of material, except for headnotes, by Whitman himself: two short stories, "Little Jane" and "Dumb Kate: An Early Death;" three early poems, "Remember Me," "Young Grimes," and "The Inca's Daughter;" three pieces from the 1838 Long-Islander; two selections on Long Island from Specimen Days, and one from the "Sun-Down Papers." Whitman's earliest photograph (1840) is also reproduced.]
White, William. "Walt Whitman: The Long-Island Period" [Guest Editorial]. The Long-Islander 139 (26 May 1977), 20.
White, William. "Whitman and 'Gay' History." Walt Whitman Review 23 (September 1977), 142. [Review of Johnathan Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.: A Documentary.]
White, William. "Whitman and the Wife-Beater." The Detroit News (July 12, 1977), B7.
White, William. "Whitman's Camden House." Walt Whitman Review 23 (June 1977), 99-100.
White, William. "Whitman's Dr. Bucke: A Review." Walt Whitman Review 23 (December 1977). 175-177. [Review of Arterm Lozynsky, ed., The Letters of Richard Maurice Buck to Walt Whitman, and Richard Maurice Bucke, Medical Mystic: Letters of Dr Bucke to Walt Whitman and His Friends.]
Whitman, Walt. An American Primer, With a Facsimile of the Original Edited by Horace Traubel. Folcroft, Pa.: Folcroft Library Editions, 1977. [Reprint of the Small, Maynard and Company, Boston, 1904, edition.]
Whitman, Walt. Letters Written by Walt Whitman to His Mother 1866-1872. With an Introductory Note by Rollo G. Silver. Folcroft, Pa.: Folcroft Library Editions, 1977. [Reprint of the A. F. Goldsmith, New York, 1936, edition.]
Whitman, Walt. Pictures: An Unpublished Poem. With an Introduction and Notes by Emory Holloway. Folcroft, Pa.: Folcroft Library Editions, 1977. [Reprint of the June House, New York, and Faber & Gwyn, London, 1972, edition.]
Whitman, Walt. The Correspondence, Volume VI: A Supplement with a Composite Index. Edited by Edwin Haviland Miller. New York: New York University Press, 1977. [This volume in The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman contains, in addition to the text of 103 letters, a Preface, an Introduction ("Walt Whitman's Income, 1876 1892"), 7 illustrations, Appendix A ("A List of Manuscript Sources and Printed Appearances"), Appendix B ("A Check List of Whitman's Lost Letters"), Appendix C ("A Calendar of Letters Written by Whitman"), Appendix D ("Chronology of Walt Whitman's Life and Work"), Appendix E ("A List of Corrections and Additions to Volumes I-V"), and the Index to Volumes I-VI.]
Whitman, Walt. Autobiographia; or, The Story of a Life. Selected from His Prose Writings, Edited by Arthur Stealman. Philadelphia: Richard West, 1977. [Reprint of the C, L. Webster, New York, 1892, edition in the Fiction, Fact, and Fancy Series.]
Wyatt, David M. Review of Stephen A. Black, Whitman's Journeys into Chaos: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Poetic Process. Georgia Review 31 (Spring 1977), 243-248.
Unsigned. Walt Whitman: A Catalog Based Upon the Collections of the Library of Congress. Philadelphia: Richard West, 1977. [Reprint of the Library of Congress, Reference Department, Washington, 1955, edition.]
Unsigned. Walt Whitman: Man, Poet, and PhilosopherThree Essays [By Gay Wilson Allen, Mark Van Doren, and David Daiches]. Gertrude Clarke Whittal Poetry and Literature Fund. Philadelphia: Richard West, 1977. [Reprint of the Library of Congress, Washington, 1955, edition.)
Unsigned. Review of Artem Lozynsky, ed, Richard Maurice Bucke, Medical Mystic: Letters of Dr. Bucke to Walt Whitman and His Friends. Monograph Abstracts, 1 (March 1977).