Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography
1978

This bibliography last revised January 16, 2001.
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Allen, Gay Wilson. "Emory Holloway: Tribute to a Scholar." Walt Whitman Review 24 (March 1978), 5-6.

Anderson, Quentin. "Property and Vision in 19^th-Century America." Virginia Quarterly Review 54 (Summer 1978), 385-410.

Arbur, Rosemarie. "'Lilacs' and 'Sorrow:' Whitman's Effect on the Early Poems of D. H. Lawrence." Walt Whitman Review 24 (March 1978), 17-21.

Aspiz, Harold. "'The Body Electric': Science, Sex, and Metaphor." Walt Whitman Review 24 (December 1978), 137-142.

Asselineau, Roger. "'Passage to India.'" Calamus 16 (August 1978), 11-14.

Asselineau, Roger. Review of Ivan Marki, The Trial of a Poet: An Interpretation of the First Edition of Leaves of Grass. English Language Notes 16 (September 1978), 63-65.

Asselineau, Roger. Review of Ivan Marki, The Trial of a Poet: An Interpretation of the First Edition of Leaves of Grass. Etudes Anglaises 31 (July-December 1978), 419-420. [In French.]

Berkove, Lawrence. "Biblical Influence on Whitman's Concept of Creatorhood." Calamus 16 (August 1978), 18-26. [Reprinted from The Emerson Society Quarterly, 47 (II Quarter 1967), 34-37.]

Blaser, Kent. "Walt Whitman and American Art." Walt Whitman Review 24 (September 1978), 108-118.

Bolier, E. P. "Against the American Grain: William Carlos Williams Between Whitman and Poe." TSE: Tulane Studies in English 23 (1978), 123-42.

Boor, Jan. "Walt Whitman and the Theatre." Calamus 16 (August 1978), 15-17.

[Broderick, John]. "Walt Whitman Manuscript Found." Library of Congress Informational Bulletin 37 (1978), 772.

Brown, John. "Larbaud et la jeune poésie américaine." In Valery Larbaud et la littérature tie son tamps: Acts du colloque de Vichy 17-19 juin 1977. [Assn. Internat. des Amis de Valery Larbaud] (Paris: Klincksieck, 1978), 30-48.

Cady, Joseph. "Not Happy in the Capitol: Homosexuality and the 'Calamus' Poems." American Studies 19 (Fall 1978), 5-22.

Candela, Gregory L. "Walt Whitman and Kate Chopin: A Further Connection." Walt Whitman Review 24 (December 1978), 163-165.

Carlisle, E. Fred. Review of Arterm Lozynsky, ed., Richard Maurice Bucke, Medical Mystic: Letters of Dr Bucke to Walt Whitman and His Friends. American Literature 50 (November 1978), 490-491.

Carpenter, Edward. Some Friends of Walt Whitman: A Study in Sex Psychology. Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, 1978. [Reprint of the 1924 edition printed for the British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology by J. E, Francis, London.]

Carter, Ann Rutherford. "Songs of the Body Electric: A Model for the Poetic Imagination in Emerson, Whitman, and Hart Crane." Ph.D. Dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 1978. [DAI, 39 (September 1978), 1562A.-1563A.]

Carter, Steve. "The Metaphor of Assimilation and 'Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps.'" Walt Whitman Review 24 (December 1978), 155-161.

Cavitch, David. "Whitman's Mystery." Studies in Romanticism 17 (Spring 1978), 105-128.

Couser, G. Thomas. "The Shaper of Death in American Autobiography." Hudson Review 31 (Spring 1978), 53-66.

De Marco, Sergio. "A Manuscript by Walt Whitman in the University of California Library." Studi dell'Istitio Linguistico 1 (1978), 121-134.

Deedy, John. "Walt Whitman: A Vision of America from 'Fish-Shape Paumanok.'" In his Literary Places: A Guided Pilgrimage [to] New York and New England (Kansas City: Sheed Andrews and McMeel, Inc., 1978), 59-70.

Downey, Charlotte Josephine. "An Application of Mathematical Reasoning to Selected Poems of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson." Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University, 1978. [DAI, 39 (March 1979), 5482A.]

Dressman, Michael R. " 'Names are Magic': Walt Whitman's Laws of Geographic Nomenclature." Names: Journal of the American Name Society 26 (March 1978), 68-79.

Duffey, Bernard. Poetry in America: Expression and Its Value in the Times of Bryant, Whitman, and Pound. Durham, Duke University Press, 1978. [See Chapters 5 and 6, "Aspects of Structure" (76-107), and Chapter 7, "Cosmic Happening: 'Song of Myself'" (108-118).]

Eekman, Thomas. "Walt Whitman's Role in Slavic Poetry (Late 19^th-Early 20^th Century)." In Victor Terras, Ed., American Contributons to the Eighth International Congress of Slavists. Zagreb and Ljubljana, September 3-9, 1978, Vol. 2 (Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers, 1978), 166-190.

Erkkila, Betsy. "Walt Whitman and Jules Laforgue." Walt Whitman Review 24 (June 1978), 71-77.

Fayez, Ghulam Muhammed. "Mystic Ideas and Images in Jalal Al-Din Rumi and Walt Whitman." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Arizona, 1978. [DAI 39 (May 1979), 6749A.]

Feinberg, Susan G. "Whitman's 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking.'" The Explicator 37 (Fall 1978), 35-36.

Fender, Stephen. "Ezra Pound and the Words off the Page: Historical Allusions in Some American Long Poems." Yearbook of English Studies 8 (1978), 95-108. [Includes Walt Whitman.]

Fisher, Marvin, and Willis J. Buckingham. "Whitman and Dickinson." In James Woodress, ed., American Literary Scholarship: An Annual/ 1976. (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1978), 61-78.

Folsom, Lowell Edwin. "Approaches and Removals: W. S. Merwin's Encounter with Whitman's America." Shenandoah 29 (Spring 1978), 57-73.

Francis, Gloria A., and Artem Lozynsky. Whitman at Auction, 1899-1972. A Bruccoli Clark Book. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1978. [With an Introduction by Charles E. Feinberg (xxi-xxx). Contains reproductions in whole or in part of 43 auction catalogues for 73 years; lists 470 catalogues examined; illustrated with Whitman MSS, letters, books, pamphlets and contributions to periodicals.]

Freed, Richard. "An Approach for Teaching Whitman to College Freshmen." English Record 29 (Winter 1978), 9-12.

Freedman, Florence B. "Emory Holloway: A Student"s Memoir." Walt Whitman Review 24 (March 1978), 3-5.

French, Roberts W. "Symbolic Values in 'The Dalliance of the Eagles.'" Walt Whitman Review 24 (September 1978), 124-128.

French, Roberts W. "Whitman in Crisis: A Reading of 'Scented Herbage of My Breast.'" Walt Whitman Review 24 (March 1978), 29-32.

Glosser, Francis Pickett. "Walt Whitman's Poetry of Democratic Perspective." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Virginia, 1978. [DAI 40 (August 1979), 85lA.]

Golden, Arthur. "Whitman Day by Day, 1876-1891." Walt Whitman Review 24 (June 1978), 84-89. [Review of Walt Whitman, Daybooks and Notebooks.]

Greenberg, Wendy. "Hugo and Whitman: Poets of Totality." Walt Whitman Review 24 (March 1978), 32-36.

Haas, Al. "Keeping Poetry Alive in a Fading Shrine." The Philadelphia Inquirer (February 12, 1978), 1, 8 NE. [On the current state (and problems) of Whitman's Camden house, 330 Mickle Street: an illustrated interview with Eleanor Ray, the resident curator.]

Hallisey, Joan Frances. "Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, and Denise Levertov: Poet/Prophets in the Tradition of Ralph Waldo Emerson." Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University, 1978. [DAI 39 (April 1979), 6129A.]

Harding, Brian R. "Whitman: The Self and the Singer." Journal of American Studies 12 (August 1978), 235-240.

Hatch, Jane M., ed. "May 31: Walt Whitman's Birthday." In Jane M. Hatch, The American Book of Days. 3rd ed. (New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1978), 505-508.

He, Qifang. Appreciating Poetry. Beijing: People's Literature Press, 1978.

Herndon, Jerry A. "Hopkins and Whitman." Walt Whitman Review 24 (December 1978), 161-162.

Herndon, Jerry A. "Parallels in Melville and Whitman." Walt Whitman Review 24 (September 1978), 95-108.

Hollis, C. Carroll. "Mattie's Letters Collected." Walt Whitman Review 24 (September 1978), 128-130. [Review of Randall H. Waldron, ed., Mattie: The Letters of Martha Mitchell Whitman.]

Jameson, Mary Ann, ed. Richard Maurice Bucke: A Catalogue Based upon the Collections of the University of Western Ontario Libraries. London, Ontario: The University of Western Ontario, 1978.

Kaplan, Justin. "Specimen Days." Book World: The Washington Post (April 23, 1978). [Review of Walt Whitman, Daybooks and Notebooks.]

Kaplan, Justin. "The 'Real Life.'" In Daniel Aaron, Ed., Studies in Biography. Harvard English Studies 8 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978), 1-8.

Kawada, Louise Myers. "The Original Echoes: Silence and the Allegorical Center of Whitman's Leaves of Grass." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1978.

Kubilius, Vytautas. "Pakeliui su Voltu Vitmenu" ["Whitman and Lithuanian Literature"]. Pergalé [Vilnius, USSR] 9 (1978), 116-128.

Kuebrich, David. "Whitman's New Theism." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 24 (IV Quarter 1978), 229-241.

Laguardia, Gari. "The Butterflies in Walt Whitman's Beard: Lorca's Naming of Whitman." Neophilologus 62 (October , 1978), 540-554.

Latham, David. "Literary Discipleship: Bucke's Letters to Whitman." Review of Artem Lozynsky, ed, Richard Maurice Bucke, Medical Mystic: Letters of Dr. Bucke to Whitman and His Friends. Essays on Canadian Writing 11 (1978), 242-247.

Latham, David. Review of Artem Lozynsky, ed., Richard Maurice Bucke, Medical Mystic: Letters of Dr Bucke to Walt Whitman and His Friends. Essays on Canadian Writing (July 1978).

Lehmberg, P. S. "'That Vast Something ': A Note on Whitman and the American West." Studies in the Humanities [Indiana, Penna.] 6:2 (1978), 50-53.

Leonard, David Charles. "Lamarckian Evolution in Whitman's 'Song of Myself.'" Walt Whitman Review 24 (March 1978), 21-28.

Loving, Jerome. Review of Randall H. Waldron, ed., Mattie: The Letters of Martha Mitchell Whitman. American Literature 50 (November 1978), 489-490.

Loving, Jerome. Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor. College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press, 1978.

Loving, Jerome. "Whitman Correspondence: Six." Walt Whitman Review 24 (March 1978), 36-37. [Review of Edwin Haviland Miller, ed., Walt Whitman: The Correspondence, Volume VI.]

Lozynsky, Artem. "Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke: A Religious Disciple of Whitman." In Joel Meyerson, ed. Studies in the American Renaissance: 1977. (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1978), 387-403.

Lozynsky, Artem. "Whitman's Champion." Walt Whitman Review 24 (June 1978), 89-90. [Review of Jerome Loving, Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor.]

Ludovici, Paola. "The Craftsmanship of Timelessness: A Linguistic Investigation of Leaves of Grass." Studi Americani 23/24 (1978), 87-110.

Lueck, Beth Lynne. "Whitman's 'Mystic Deliria.'" Walt Whitman Review (June 1978), 77-84.

Madden, Davis. "The American Writer as Public Icon." In Ray B. Browne and Marshall Fishwick, eds., Icons of America (Bowling Green: Popular, 1978), 87-99.

Marr, David Marshall. "The Infinitude of the Private Man': Essays on Emerson, Whitman, William James, Blackmur, and Heller." Ph.D. Dissertation, Washington State University, 1978. [DAI, 39 (November 1978), 2941A-2942A.]

Martin, Robert Kessler. "The 'Half-Hid Warp': Whitman, Crane, and the Tradition of 'Adhesiveness' in American Poetry." Ph. D. Dissertation, Brown University, 1978. [DAI 46 (March 1986), 2693-A-2694-A.]

McDowell, Michael McEachern. "American Attitudes Toward Death, 1825-1865." Ph.D. Dissertation, Brandeis University, 1978. [DAI 38 (June 1978), 7335A.]

McLeod, Colin. Review of Walt Whitman, Daybooks and Notebooks. Library Journal 103 (June 1, 1978), 1178.

Miller, Edwin Haviland. Review of Jerome Loving, Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor. American Literature 50 (November 1978), 487-489.

Moore, William Luther. Instuitional Vistas of Walt Whitman Paralleling Scientific Horizons of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Tokyo: Taibundo Publishing Company, 1978. [Privately printed.]

Moore, William L. Intuitional Vistas of Walt Whitman Paralleling Scientific Horizons of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Tokyo: Toho Gakuen University of Music, 1978.

Morris, Harrison S. Walt Whitman: A Brief Biography with Reminiscences. Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, 1978. [Reprint of the Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1929, edition.]

Nambiar, O. K. Maha Yogi Walt Whitman: New Light on Yoga. Bangalore, India: Jeevan Publications, 1978.

Nevius, Blake. "The Worshiper of Whitman." TLS: The Times Literary Supplement, No. 3988 (September 8, 1978), 987. [Review of Artem Lozynsky, ed., Richard Maurice Bucke, Medical Mystic: Letters of Dr Bucke to Walt Whitman and His Friends.]

Noda, Hiashi. "Whitman to Dickinson." Eigo Seinen [Tokyo] 124 (1978), 4-7.

Oliver, Egbert S. Whitman's Use of India as Fact and Symbol." In Manotama Barnabas et al, eds., Challenges of Societies in Transition (Delhi: Macmillan Company of India, 1978), 359-365.

Porter, Andrew. "'Sessions' Passionate and Profound Lilacs." High Fidelity and Musical America 28 (February 1978), 70-71. [On Roger Sessions's setting of Whitman's poem.]

Porter, David. Emerson and Literary Change. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1978. [More than 40 references to Whitman. The critic tells us here much "about what each writer struggled to achieve."]

Renner, Dennis K. "The Conscious Whitman: Allegorical Manifest Destiny in 'Song of Myself.'" Walt Whitman Review 24 (December 1978), 149-155.

Richardson, Robert D., Jr. Myth and Literature in the American Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978. [On Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman.]

Roberston, John Mackinson. Walt Whitman: Poet and Democrat. Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, 1978. [Reprint of the W. Brown, Edinburgh, 1884, edition, No. 4 in The Round Table Series.]

Rosenblatt, Louise M. "Whitman's Democratic Vistas and the New 'Ethnicity.'" The Yale Review 67 (Winter 1978), 187-204.

Ruan, Shen. "cao ye ji qian lun" ["A Study of Leaves of Grass"], Wai Guo Wen Xue Yan Jiu [Foreign Literature Studies] (1978), no. 1.

Sabo, William J. "The Ship and Its Related Imagery in 'Inscriptions' and 'Song of Myself.'" Walt Whitman Review 24 (September 1978), 118-123.

Sachithanandan, V. Whitman and Bharati: A Comparative Study. Bombay: Macmillan Company of India, 1978.

Sastry, C. N. "Glimpses of India in Leaves of Grass." Calamus 16 (August 1978), 2-10.

Saunier-Ollier, Jacqueline. "Whitman, Williams, Ginsberg: Histoire d'une Filiation." Revue Francaise d'Etudes Américaines 5 (April 1978), 93-108.

Sequeira, Isaac. "Walt Whitman, Music, and the Poetic Revolution." Literary Criterion 13 (No. 1, 1978), 17-25.

Sharp, Richard Dale. "The Poet's Witness: A Comparative Study of the Civil War Poetry of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1978. [DAI 43 (February 1983), 2670A.]

Silver, Rollo G. Review of Gloria A. Francis and Artem Lozynsky, Whitman at Auction, 1899-1972. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 72 (October-December 1978), 565-566.

Singh, B. M. "The Rose of Spiritual Quest: Whitman's 'The Passage to India.'" Rajasthan University Studies in English 11 (1978), 39-42.

Smith, Timothy d'Arch. " Light Industry." Antiquarian Book Monthly Review 5 (August 1978), 343. [Review of Gloria A. Francis and Artem Loyznsky, Whitman at Auction 1899-1972.]

St. Armand, Barton L. "Transcendence Through Technique: Whitman's 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry' and Impressionist Painting." Bucknell Review 24 (No. 2, 1978), 56-74.

Stark, Myra. "Walt Whitman and Anne Sexton: A Note on the Uses of Tradition." Notes on Contemporary Literature 8 (No. 4, 1978), 7-8.

Stauffer, Donald Barlow. "Walt Whitman and Old Age." Walt Whitman Review 24 (December 1978), 142-148.

Steinbrink, Jeffrey. "'To Span Vast Realms of Space and Time ': Whitman's Vision of History." Walt Whitman Review 24 (June 1978), 45-62.

Strom, Susan. "'Face to Face': Whitman's Biblical Reference in 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.'" Walt Whitman Review 24 (March 1978), 7-16.

Tapscott, Stephen J. "American Beauty: Whitman, Williams, and Poetic Form." Ph.D. Dissertation, Cornell University, 1976. [DAI 38 (January 1978) 4172A-4173A.]

Tapscott, Stephen J. "Leaves of Myself: Whitman's Egypt in 'Song of Myself.'" American Literature 50 (March 1978), 49-73.

Updike, John. "Walt Whitman: Ego and Art." The New York Review of Books 25 (February 9, 1978), 33-36.

White, Gertrude M. "Pearce to Waggoner to Duffey on Whitman." Walt Whitman Review 24 (September 1978), 130-132. [Review of Bernard Duffey, Poetry in America: Expression and Its Values in the Times of Bryant, Whitman, and Pound.]

White, William. "A New Postcard to Samuel Hollyer." Walt Whitman Review 24 (September 1978), 133, 134.

White, William. "An Unknown Photograph of Whitman." Walt Whitman Review 24 (December 1978), 168, 170.

White, William. "Available Whitman Texts: A Survey." Walt Whitman Review 24 (March 1978), 37-39. [Review of nine current printings of Whitman poetry and prose.]

White, William. "Daybook Notes Left Over." Walt Whitman Review 24 (June 1978), 91, 92.

White, William. "Editorial: Whitman in The Long-Islander." The Long-Islander 140 (June 1, 1978), 6.

White, William. "Jeannette Gilder's Whitman Silhouette." Walt Whitman Review 24 (December 1978), 169.

White, William. "Longfellow, Whitman, and 'A Fabulous "Episode."'" Odyssey 2 (April 1978), 22-23.

White, William. Review of Gloria A. Francis and Artem Lozynsky, Whitman at Auction: 1899-1972. Resources for American Literary Study 8 (Fall 1978), 225-227.

White, William. "Unpublished Whitman Notes to Himself." Walt Whitman Review 24 (March 1978), 41, 42.

White, William. "Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography." Walt Whitman Review 24 (March, June, September, December 1978), 531.

White, William, ed. Walt Whitman: Daybooks and Notebooks. Volume 1: Daybooks, 1876-November 1881; Volume II: Daybooks, December 1881-1891; Volume III: Diary in Canada: Notebooks, Index. The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman. New York: New York University Press, 1978. [Also includes, in Volume III Miscellaneaous Journals, Autobiographical Notes, Words, The Primer of Words, and Other Notebooks, &c. on Words.]

White, William, ed. "Walt Whitman Supplement, 1978: Whitman in The Long-Islander, 1839 to 1919." The Long-Islander 140 (June 8, 1978), 24-25.

Whitman, Walt. Calamus: A Series of Letters Written During the Years 1868-1880 by Walt Whitman to a Young Friend (Peter Doyle). Ed. Richard Maurice Bucke. Philadelphia: Richard West, 1978. [Reprint of the Putnam, London, and Small, Maynard and Company, Boston, 1898, edition.]

Whitman, Walt. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking. Torrance, California: Labyrinth Editions, 1978. [10 leaves. 81 copies, numbered and signed by the printer Richard Bigus, 15 in Unryu, 8 in Suzuki, 58 in Toshi].

Whitman, Walt. Walt Whitman at Home. Philadelphia: Richard West, 1978. [Reprint of The Critic, New York, 1888, edition, in the American Authors at Home Series, edited by J. L. and J. B. Gilder.]

Wolfson, Leandro. "The Other Whitman in Spanish America." Walt Whitman Review 24 (June 1978), 62-71.

Unsigned. Brief notices of Gloria A. Francis and Artem Lozynsky, Whitman at Auction 1899-1972, and Walt Whitman, Daybooks and Notebooks. American Literature 50 (November 1978), 531.

Unsigned. "Preserving the Scholarly and the Homespun: Literary Memorial Societies." Coda 5 (April/May 1978), 3-7.

Unsigned. Review of Artem Lozynsky, ed., Richard Maurice Bucke, Medical Mystic: Letters of Dr Bucke to Walt Whitman and His Friends. Choice 15 (May 1978), 395.

Unsigned. Review of Edwin Haviland Miller, ed., Walt Whitman: The Correspondence, Volume VI. Choice 15 (March 1978), 75.

Unsigned. "Walt Whitman's Birthday." In Jane M. Hatch, Comp. and Ed., The American Book of Days, 3^rd Ed. (New York: H. H. Wilson, 1978), 505-508.