Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography
1981

This bibliography last revised September 21, 2000.
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Aarnes, William. "'Cut This Out': Whitman Liberating the Reader in Specimen Days." Walt Whitman Review 27 (March 1981), 25-32.

Alegria, Fernando. "Cuál Whitman? Borges, Lorca y Neruda." Texto Crítico 7 (July-December 1981), 3-12.

Allen, Gay Wilson. "A Whitman Biography for This Generation." Walt Whitman Review 27 (March 1981), 40-42. [Review of Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life.]

Allen, Gay Wilson. Review of Harold Aspiz, Walt Whitman and the Body Beautiful. American Literature 53 (November 1981), 549-551.

Amiel, Barbara. "Of Self-Made Gods and Men: Two Kinds of Artists." Maclean's 94 (January 12, 1981), 43-44. [Review of Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life.]

Andrew, Helen. "The Orient Comes to Walt Whitman." West Hills Review 3 (1981-1982), 35-37.

Andrew, Helen, Helen Everitt, Aaron Kramer, and Betsy Vondrasek, eds. West Hills Review: A Walt Whitman Journal. Huntington Station, New York: Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, 1981-1982. Vol. 3. [Contains 62 poems, by Susan Astor, Charles Edward Eaton, David Zeiger, David B. Axelrod, Edwin Honig, Donald G. Sheehy, Stephen Berg, J. C. Hand, Roberta Metz, Vern Rutsala, Maxwell C. Wheat, Jr, L. L. Zeiger, Daisaku Ikeda, D. Parameswaran, Norbert Krapf, Justin Catz, Michael Chandler, Sri Chinmoy, Sue D'Angelo, Joseph M. Ditta, Charles Fishman, Joan Goger, Ruth Lake, Raymond R. Patterson, Allen Planz, Len Roberts, Dan Sieg, William Stafford, Rita Juul Steinle. B. R. Strahan, Virginia R. Terris, David Wagoner, Claire Nicolas White, Ruth F. Eisenberg, Robert Sargent, Ryah Tumarkin Goodman, Charles Semeones, William Slaughter, James Schevill, James Snydal, and William Heyden; and 11 prose pieces (listed below, by author).]

Askin, Denise T. "Retrievements Out of the Night: Prophetic and Private Voices in Whitman's 'Drum-Taps.'" ATQ: The American Transcendental Quarterly No. 51 (Summer 1981), 211-223.

Askin, Denise T. "Whitman and the Law: A Prophetic Parallel." Walt Whitman Review 27 (September 1981), 126-132.

Balitas, Vincent D. Review of Betsy Erkkila, Walt Whitman Among the French, and James E. Miller, Jr., The American Quest for a Supreme Fiction: Whitman's Legacy in the Personal Epic. College Literature 8:1 (1981), 95-98.

Becknell, Thomas. "Hamlin Garland's Response to Whitman." The Old Northwest: A Journal of Regional Life and Letters 7 (Fall 1981), 217-235.

Bedlent, Calvin. "Walt Whitman: Overruled." Salmagundi 58-59 (1982-1983), 326-346.

Benedikt, Michael. "Whitman's silence." In Vince Clemente and Graham Everett, eds. Paumanok Rising: an Anthology of Eastern Long Island Aesthetics (Port Jefferson: Street Press, 1981), 14.

Benevento, Joseph. "Whitman and the Eastern Mystic Fallacy." Calamus 20 (June 1981), 12-23.

Bennett, Gaymon Lamont. Melville's Battle-Pieces and Whitman's Drum-Taps: Two Northern Poets Interpret the Civil War. Ph.D. Dissertation, Washington State University, 1981. [Ann Arbor: UMI, 1982. 8215123.]

Blodgett, Harold W. "Whitman and India." West Hills Review 3 (1981-1982), 41-46.

Bloom, Harold. "To the Tally of My Soul: Whitman"s Image of Voice." Bennington Review 10 (April 1981), 10-17.

Bly, Robert. "What Whitman Did Not Give Us." In Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom, and Dan Campion, eds. Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song (Minneapolis: Holy Cow!, 1981), 321-334.

Borges, Jorge Luis. "Note on Walt Whitman." In Emir Rodrigues Monegal and Alastair Reid, eds., Borges: A Reader (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1981), 191-195.

Borges, Jorge Luis. "Walt Whitman, Poet of Democracy." Commonweal 108 (May 22, 1981), 303-305.

Boyd, Melba Joyce. "The Whitman Awakening in June Jordan's Poetry." Obsidian: Black Literature in Review 7:2-3 (1981), 226-228. [Review of June Jordan, Passion. ]

Brand, Dana Aron. The Spectator and the City: Fantasies of urban Legibility in Nineteenth-Century England and America. Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1981. [Ann Arbor: UMI, 1983. 8210726.]

Brown, Frederick. "Au Naturel." The American Scholar 50 (Spring 1981), 270 -273. [Review of Betsy Erkkila, Walt Whitman Among the French.]

Browning, John. "A Whitman Oral History." The Mickle Street Review 3 (1981), 80-82. [From Charley Humes's column, Camden Courier-Post (July 6, 1950).]

Bruchac, Joesph. "To Love the Earth: Some Thoughts on Walt Whitman." In Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom, and Dan Campion, eds. Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song (Minneapolis: Holy Cow!, 1981), 274-278.

Buckingham, Willis J. "Whitman and Dickinson." In James Woodress, ed., American Literary Scholarship: An Annual / 1979 (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1981), 61-79. [Walt Whitman, 61-71.]

Bunge, Charles. Brief review of Jeanetta Boswell, Walt Whitman and the Critics: A Checklist of Criticism, 1900-1978. Wilson Library Bulletin 55 (April 1981), 619.

Burdick, Dolores. "Whitman in France." Walt Whitman Review 27 (March 1981), 42-44. [Review of Betsy Erkkila, Walt Whitman Among the French].

Burnham, Christopher Charles. "An Analysis and Descripition of Walt Whitman's Composing Process." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Rhode Island, 1980. [DAI 41 (February, 1980), 3578A.]

Calabrise, Stephen Vincent. "Our Muse in a Golden Frame: A Study of Whitman, Money, and Language." Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1979. [DAI 42 (July 1981), 212A-213A.]

Cardona-Hine, Alvaro. "'I Teach Straying from Me–Yet Who Can Stray from Me?'" In Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom, and Dan Campion, eds. Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song (Minneapolis: Holy Cow!, 1981), 279-283.

Cederstrom, Lorelei. "'Knit of Identity': Defining the American Sense." The Canadian Review of American Studies 12:2 (1981), 235-244. [Review of James E. Miller, Jr., The American Quest for a Supreme Fiction: Whitman's Legacy in the Personal Epic.]

Clark, Michael. John Dos Passos, From Nature to Naturalism: The Influence of Walt Whitman and William James on the Early Fiction, 1913-1938. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1981. [Ann Arbor: UMI, 1981. 8115987.

Corseri, Gary Steven. "Whitman Recidivist." Calamus 20 (June 1981), 1-3. [Poem.]

Cory, James, M. Review of Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life. The Mickle Street Review 3 (1981), 101-107.

Cosgrave, M. S. Review of Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life. Horn Book 57 (February 1981), 89.

Davenport, Guy. "Whitman." In his The Geography of the Imagination ( San Francisco: North Point Press, 1981), 68-79.

DeRose, Peter L. "Whitman's 'Children of Adam': Themes, Ideas, and Images." Calamus 21 (December 1981), 2-12.

Doucette, Clarice. "Discovery and Celebration of Self in Montaigne and Whitman." Walt Whitman Review 27 (June 1981), 62-70.

Earley, Michael. "Of Life Immense in Passion, Pulse, and Power: Sam Shepard and the American Literary Tradition." In Bonnie Marranca, ed., American Dreams: The Imagination of Sam Shepard (New York: Performing Arts Journal Pubs., 1981), 126-132.

Eberwein, Jane Donahue. "Transcendentalist Whitman: A Review." Walt Whitman Review 27 (September 1981), 136-138. [Review of Roger Asselineau, The Transcendentalist Constant in American Literature.]

Edel, Leon. Review of Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life. American Scholar 51 (Winter 1981), 138-141.

Eitner, Walter H. Walt Whitman's Western Jaunt. Lawrence: The Regent's Press of Kansas, 1981. [A full and well written account, with contemporary illustrations, of Whitman's trip by railroad from Camden to the Rockies in the fall of 1879, with Col. John W. Forney and three other companions, now identified.]

Erisman, Fred. "On Betsy Erkkila, Walt Whitman Among the French: An Essay Review." The French-American Review 5 (Fall 1981), 156-160.

Fast, Robin Riley. "Structure and Meaning in Whitman's 'Sea Drift.'" American Transcendental Quarterly 53 (1982), 49-66.

Folsom, Ed. "Talking Back to Walt Whitman: An Introduction." In Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom, and Dan Campion, eds. Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song (Minneapolis: Holy Cow!, 1981), xxi-lii.

Forrey, Robert. "Whitman's 'Real Grammar': A Structuralist Approach." Walt Whitman Review 27 (March 1981), 14-24.

Frank, Armin Paul. "The Long Withdrawing Roar: 80 Years of the Ocean's Message in American Poetry." In Winifried Fluck, Jürgen Peper, and Willi Paul Adams, eds. Forms and Functions of History in American Literature: Essays in Honor of Ursula Brumm (Berlin: E Schmidt, 1981), 71-90. [Reference to "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking."]

Freedman, Florence B. "W. D. O'Connor: Whitman's 'Chosen Knight.'" Walt Whitman Review 27 (September 1981), 95-101.

Freedman, Florence B. "Walt Whitman's First Funeral." Walt Whitman Review 27 (September 1981), 132-134.

French, Roberts W. "Music for a Mad Scene: A Reading of 'To a Locomotive in Winter.'" Walt Whitman Review 27 (March 1981), 32-39.

French, Roberts W. "'The Dalliance of the Eagles.'" Walt Whitman Review 27 (December 198l), 162-163.

French, Roberts W. "The Voice of the Prophet: Collapse and Regeneration in 'Song of Myself.'" The English Record 32 (Winter 1981), 2-5.

Gandelman, Claude. "Kokoschka, Whitman, Thomas Mann: Le Motif de l'ecoche vif." Neohelicon: Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum 8 (1981), 119-139.

Gatta, John, Jr. "Making Something of Whitman's 'Miracles.'" ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 27 (1981), 222-229.

Giantvalley, Scott. Walt Whitman, 1838-1939: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1981.

Ginsberg, Allen. "Allen Ginsberg on Walt Whitman: Composed on the Tongue." In Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom, and Dan Campion, eds. Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song (Minneapolis: Holy Cow!, 1981), 231-254.

Golden, Arthur. Review of Betsy Erkkila, Walt Whitman Among the French. American Literature 53 (May 1981), 326-327.

Golden, Arthur. Review of Donald D. Kummings, Walt Whitman, 1940-1975: A Reference Guide. Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography 6:4 (1982), 280-283.

Gomez-Reinoso, Manuel. "Marti and Whitman." West Hills Review 3 (1981-1982), 47-48. [Translated by Mary Elizabeth Perry.]

Hampl, Patricia. "The Mayflower Moment: Reading Whitman During the Vietnam War." In Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom, and Dan Campion, eds. Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song (Minneapolis: Holy Cow!, 1981), 300-313.

Haney, William S., II. "'Song of Myself': The Touch of Consciousness." The University of Mississippi Studies in English, n.s. 2 (1981), 64-70.

Hanson, R. Galen. "Whitman as Hymnwriter: Notes on 'A Prairie Sunset.'" Walt Whitman Review 27 (September 1981), 135-136.

Hart, Hillary. "Working in Biography: An Interview with Justin Kaplan." Wilson Library Bulletin 55 (1981), 589-592.

Haynes, Gregory M. "Reading Whitman's Meanings and 'The Dalliance of the Eagles.'" Walt Whitman Review 27 (December 1981), 159-161.

Hesford, Walter. "The Efficacy of the Word, the Futility of Words: Whitman's 'Reconciliation' and Melville's 'Magnanimity Baffled.'" Walt Whitman Review 27 (December 1981), 150-155.

Heyen, William. "Essay Beginning and Ending With Poems for Whitman." In Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom, and Dan Campion, eds. Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song (Minneapolis: Holy Cow!, 1981), 265-273.

Heyen, William. "The Fish." West Hills Review 3 (1981-1982), 111.

Hilfer, Anthony Channell. "Whitman's Body: Kinesthetic Imagery and Sexual Pathos in 'Song of Myself.'" The Ethics of Intensity in American Fiction (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981), 24-47.

Hindus, Milton. "Whitman as Faith Healer: A Review." Walt Whitman Review 27 (June 1981), 87-90. [Review of Harold Aspiz, Walt Whitman and the Body Beautiful.]

Hiscoe, David W. "St. Paul and Whitman's 'Thorn'd Thumb.'" Walt Whitman Review 27 (June 1981), 82-86.

Hollis, C. Carroll. "Variorum Leaves Reviewed." Walt Whitman Review 27 (December 1981), 171-174. [Review of Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems. ]

Howard, Richard. "The Good Gray Poet and the Ancient Sage." The Yale Review 70 (1981), 616-621. [Review of Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life, and Robert Bernard Martin, Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart.]

Huang Wu. "hui te man yu line ken" ["Whitman and Lincoln"], Wai Guo Wen Xue Yan Jiu [Foreign Literature Studies] (1981), no. 1.

Hutson, Calvin D. Apocalyptic Motif in Selected Poems of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of South Carolina, 1981. [Ann Arbor: UMI, 1982. 8212245.]

Jarvis, D. R. "Whitman and Speech-Based Prosody." Walt Whitman Review 27 (June 1981), 51-62.

Johnston, Laurie. "Echoing Footsteps of Walt Whitman on a Tour of Soho." The New York Times (September 28, 1981), B1-B2. [Metropolitan Report].

Jordan, June. "For the Sake of a People's Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us." In Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom, and Dan Campion, eds. Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song (Minneapolis: Holy Cow!, 1981), 343-352.

Katz, Sandra L. "A Reconsideration of Walt Whitman: A Teaching Approach." Walt Whitman Review 27 (June 1981), 70-74.

Kawada, Louise M. "The Truth About 'A Riddle Song': Another Venture." Walt Whitman Review 27 (June 1981), 78-82.

Kincaid, Michael. "Some Intricate Purpose." In Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom, and Dan Campion, eds. Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song (Minneapolis: Holy Cow!, 1981), 288-296.

Knox, Heléne. "Two Poets." Calamus 20 (June 1981), 6-7. [Poem.]

Koriyama, Naoshi. "Did He See?," "Whitman's Broadway," and "Whitman Briskly Strode." Calamus 20 (June 1981), 3-6. [Poems.]

Kramer, Aaron. "1881: Whitman's Impact On American Jewish Poetry." In Vince Clemente and Graham Everett, eds. Paumanok Rising: an Anthology of Eastern Long Island Aesthetics (Port Jefferson: Street Press, 1981), 15-20.

Kramer, Aaron. "A Foreword." West Hills Review 3 (1981-1982), 1-4.

Kramer, Aaron. "Introduction." In Vince Clemente and Graham Everett, eds., Paumanok Rising: an Anthology of Eastern Long Island Aesthetics (Port Jefferson: Street Press, 1981), 9-10.

Kramer, Aaron. "The Smile on Whitman's Face." West Hills Review 3 (1981-1982), 110.

Krapf, Norbert. "Walt Whitman in the Black Forest." West Hills Review 3 (1981-1982), 49-58.

Krieg, Joann Peck. "Whitman, Emerson, and Spenser's Loom." Walt Whitman Review 27 (December 1981), 163-165.

Lease, Benjamin. "'Leaves of Grass': England and the Outsetting Bard." Anglo-Saxon Encounters: England and the Rise of American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 229-254.

Lee, A. R. Review of Harold Aspiz, Walt Whitman and the Body Beautiful. The Times Higher Education Supplement [London] 449 (June 12, 1981), 15.

Leonard, James S. "Whitman's 'Passage to India.'" The Explicator 39 (Summer 1981), 15-16.

LeSueur, Meridel. "Jelly Roll." In Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom, and Dan Campion, eds. Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song (Minneapolis: Holy Cow!, 1981), 353-356.

Li, Yang. "Ai Qing and Modern Euro-American Literature and Art." Red Rocks 2 (1981), 152-159.

Lindeman, Jack. "Walt Whitman, My Contemporary." The Mickle Street Review 2 (1981), 44-46.

Lipking, Lawrence. "Leaves of Grass." The Life of the Poet: Beginning and Ending Poetic Careers (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), 114-130.

Lowery, Robert G. "What Whitman Taught [Sean] O'Casey." The Mickle Street Review 3 (1981), 63-66.

Lynn, Kenneth S. "Speaking for Whitman." Commentary 71 (February 1981), 74-78. [Review of Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life. Reprinted in his The Airline to Seattle: Studies in Literary and Historical Writing About America, 33-39.]

Mainville, Stephen, and Ronald Schleifer. "Whitman's Printed Leaves: The Literal and the Metaphorical in Leaves of Grass." The Arizona Quarterly 37 (Spring 1981), 17-30.

Marriage, Anthony X. "Whitman's 'This Compost,' Baudelaire's 'A Carrion': Out of Decay Comes an Awful Beauty." Walt Whitman Review 27 (December 1981), 143-149.

Martin, Robert K. "Melting in Fondness: Love in Whitman's Poems of the 1870's." Calamus 21 (December 1981), 13-23.

Martin, Robert K. "Whitewashing Walt Whitman." The Body Politic 75 (July-August 1981), 28-29. [Review of Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life.]

McQuilkin, Frank. "An Interview with Daniel Hoffman." The Mickle Street Review 3 (1981), 8-15.

Miller, James E., Jr. Review of Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems. American Literature 53 (November 1981), 504-506.

Miller, Michael G. "Whitman's Influence on Dylan Thomas's 'Poem in October.'" Walt Whitman Review 27 (December 1981), 155-158.

Miller, Stephen. "Walter Whitman, Entrepreneur." The American Spectator (February 1981), 13-16. [Review of Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life.]

Mollison, Char, and Charles C. Walcult. "The Emersonian Key to Whitman's 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking.'" The Arizona Quarterly 37 (Spring 1981), 5-16.

Moore, William L. "I Tramp the Perpetual Journey" (concluded). Calamus 20 (June 1981), 23-34.

Moore, William L. "L. of G.'s Purport: Evolution-The Cumulative." Calamus 21 (December 1981), 24-45.

Moss, Howard. "Walt Whitman: A Candidate for the Future." Whatever Is Moving: Essays by Howard Moss (Boston and Toronto: Atlantic, Little, Brown and Company, 1981), 3-15. [Review of Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life; reprinted from The New Yorker 57 (September 14, 1981), 184-199.]

Moss, Howard. "A Candidate for the Future." The New Yorker 57 (September 14, 1981), 184-199. [Review of Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life.]

Mussey, David. "The Maturing of Walt Whitman's Vision Through Human Suffering." Southern Humanities Review 15:4 (1981), 327-333.

Nash, Charles C. Review of Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life. The Arizona Quarterly 37 (Spring 1981), 75-77.

Nelson, Rodney B., III. "Captains of an American Credo: Walt Whitman and W[illiam] O[sler]." New England Journal of Medicine 305 (July 9, 1981), 111-112.

Nicholl, James R. "Walt Whitman's 1879 Visit to Missouri, Kansas and Colorado." Heritage of the Great Plains 14:1 (1981), 33-42.

Parameswaran, D. "'An American Shakespeare with Universal Appeal.'" West Hills Review 3 (1981-1982), 38-39.

Pastras, Philip James. "A Clear Field: The Idea of Improvisation in Modern Poetry." Dissertation Abstracts International 42 (October 1981), 1626A.

Patterson, John S. Review of Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life. American History Illustrated 15 (February 1981), 6.

Pearce, Roy Harvey. "Whitman Justified: The Poet in 1855." Critical Inquiry 8 (1981), 83-97.

Pease, Donald. "Blake, Crane, Whitman, and Modernism: A Poetics of Pure Possibility." PMLA 96 (January 1981), 64-85.

Peck, John. "George Oppen and the World in Common: A Descriptive Polemic." In Burton Hatlen, ed. George Oppen: Man and Poet (Orono: National Poetry Foundation, University of Main at Orono, 1981), 63-87. [References to Democratic Vistas.]

Perlman, Jim, Ed Folsom, and Dan Campion, eds. Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song. Minneapolis: Holy Cow! Press, 1981.

Piasecki, Bruce. "Walt Whitman and the American Estimate of Nature: A Study in the Rhetoric of Environmental Reform." Ph.D. Dissertation, Cornell University, 1981. [DAI 42 (October 1981), 1639A.]

Piasecki, Bruce. "Whitman's 'Estimate of Nature' in Democratic Vistas." Walt Whitman Review 27 (September 1981), 101-112.

Quartermain, Peter. "'To Make Glad the Heart of Man': Bunting, Pound, and Whitman." In Carroll F. Terrell, Basil Bunting: Man and Poet (Orono, Maine: National Poetry Foundation, 1981), 145-158.

Rawley, James M. "Dead Oak with Moss." National Review 33 (March 20, 1981), 300-301. [Review of Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life.]

Reisch, Marc S. "Poetry and Portraiture in Whitman's Leaves of Grass." Walt Whitman Review 27 (September 1981), 113-125.

Rhode, Robert Thomas. Hankering, Gross, Nude: The Persona in Leaves of Grass. Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University, 1981. [Ann Arbor: UMI, 1982. 8128038.]

Rudat, Wolfgang E. H. and Patricia Lee Yongue. "From Chaucer to Whitman and Eliot: Cosmic Union and the Classical/Christian Tradition." Deutsche Vierteljahrs Schrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 55 (March 1981), 19-43.

Rule, Henry B. "Walt Whitman's 'Sad and Noble Scene.'" Walt Whitman Review 27 (December 1981), 165-170, 176.

Sachithanadan, V. Review of N. K. Sharma, Walt Whitman: Vision and Art. Indian Journal of American Studies [Hyderabad] 11 (July 1981), 90-91.

Schevilt, James. "Whitman Stock-Taking Cataloguing." West Hills Review 3 (1981-1982), 105-106.

Scholnick, Robert J. "Toward a 'Wider Democratizing of Institutions': Whitman's Democratic Vistas." American Transcendental Quarterly 52 (1981), 287-302.

Schulz, Max F. "Barth, Letters, and the Great Tradition." Genre 14 (1981), 95-115.

Sharpe, William Chapman. "Long Unlovely Street": The Development of Modern City Poetry 1800-1922. Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1981. [Ann Arbor: UMI, 1984. 8327295.]

Sill, Geoffrey M., ed. The Mickle Street Review 3 (1981), 1-112. [Contains 45 poems by Gary Miranda, John Lane, Eric Nelson, M. F. Hershman, John J. Soldo, Bernie Earley, Jim Bogan, C. A. Smith, Edith Segal, Dan Gerber, Peter Hoheisel, Lawrence Hayes, Marc Widershien, Robert Sargent, Judith Offer, Joanne Seltzer, Ida Fasel, Kathryn H. Greenwood, David Citino, Sanford Pinsker, Lasse Söderberg, Walt Whitman (Letter to W. S. Kennedy, 26 September 1890), William Pitt Root, David R. Slavitt, David Walker, Calvin Andre Claudel and Alice Moser Claudel, Lois V. Walker, Nancy G. Westerfield, Ennis Rees, George Bishop, E. Louis Mull, Stephen Knauth, Franz Douskey, Paul Rice, Joseph Lisowski, Judith Minty, Gary C. Busha, Janet McCann, Gerald Parks, Maria Gillan, J. Lawrence Lembo, Martin Tucker, Roger Mitchell, Ron Atkinson, and Len Roberts; review of poems by Eric Nelson; and 4 articles and 1 review, listed above.]

Simpson, Louis. "Honoring Whitman." In Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom, and Dan Campion, eds. Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song (Minneapolis: Holy Cow!, 1981), 257-261.

Simpson, Louis. "[The effect Whitman has upon his readers]." West Hills Review 3 (1981-1982), 91.

Sotis, Grazia. A Study of Two Complete Translations of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass into Italian. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Connecticut, 1981. [Ann Arbor: UMI, 1982.]

Spiller, Robert E. Review of Roger Asselineau, The Transcendentalist Constant in American Literature. Americana Literature 53 (November 1981), 545-546.

Tapscott, Stephen. "Whitman in Paterson." American Literature 53 (May 1981), 291-301.

Thomas, M. Wynn. "'A New World of Thought': Whitman's Early Reception in England." Walt Whitman Review 27 (June 1981), 74-78.

Thomas, M. Wynn. "A Study of Whitman's Late Poetry." Walt Whitman Review 27 (March 1981), 3-14.

Thomas, M. Wynn. "Whitman and the American Democratic Identity Before and During the Civil War." Journal of American Studies [Cambridge, England] 15 (April 1981), 73-93.

Thota, Anand Rao. "The Concept of the Child in Whitman's Poetic Progress." Osmania Journal of English Studies 17 (1981), 61-71.

Trail, George Y. "Lawrence's Whitman." The D. H. Lawrence Review 14 (Summer 1981), 172-190.

Truesdale, C. W. "Whitman Exilado." In Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom, and Dan Campion, eds. Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song (Minneapolis: Holy Cow!, 1981), 335-341.

Tseberganova, T. V. "Odnorodnye chleny predlozheniia kak odin iz parametrov stilia U. Uitmena" [Homogenous Parts of the Sentence as One of the Prarmeters of Whitman's Style]. In Lingvostilisticheskii analiz khudozhestvennogo teksta ( Smolensk: Smolemskii gosudarstvennyi pedagogicheskii institut, 1981), 44-54.

Tseberganova, T. V. "Poeticheskii sintaksis U. Uitmena: (sopostavinyi analiz stikhotvorn 'Come Up from the Fields Father'" [The Poetic Syntax of Whitman: A Contrastive Analysis of the poem "Come Up from the Fields Father"]. In Lingvostilisticheskii analiz khudozhestvennogo teksta (Smolensk: Smolemskii gosudarstvennyi pedagogicheskii institut, 1981), 36-44.

Tur-Pinka, L. I. ["The Traditions of W. Whitman in the Works of S. Lanier."] Amerikanskaya literature XIX-XX vekov [American Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries] (Krasnodar: Kubanskii Gosudarstvennyi Universitet, 1981), 51-62.

Versluys, K. "Walt Whitman's Daybooks and Notebooks." English Studies [Lisse, Holland] 62 (April 1981), 198. [Review of Walt Whitman, Daybooks and Notebooks.]

Versluys, K. "The Letters of Walt Whitman's Sister-in-law." English Studies [Lisse, Holland] 62 (April 1981), 198. [Review of Randall H. Waldron, ed., Mattie: The Letters of Martha Mitchell Whitman.]

Vondrasek, Betsy. "Music at the Whitman House" and Music Bibliography." West Hills Review 3 (1981-1982), 63-68.

Walcutt, Charles Child. Review of James E. Miller, Jr, The American Quest for a Supreme Fiction: Whitman's Legacy in the Personal Epic. The Arizona Quarterly 37 (Spring 1981), 77-81.

Waldron, Randall H. "Walt Whitman's British Connection: Letters of William Douglas O'Connor." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 75 (1981): 271-300.

Wetherbee, David Kenneth. "The Calamus." Calamus 20 (June 1981), 8-11.

White, Claire Nicolas. "Walt Whitman in Schools and Nursing Homes." West Hills Review 3 (1981-1982), 92-93.

White, William. "An Unpublished Whitman Letter to The Critic." Walt Whitman Review 27 (June 1981), 92.

White, William. "Editorial: Leaves of Grass (Osgood, 1881), 100 Years Later." The Long-Islander 143 (May 28, 1981).

White, William. "Houghton, Harned, and the LC Whitman Treasures." Walt Whitman Review 27 (March 1981), 39.

White, William. "New Books on Whitman," "Whitman Books to Come." The Long-Islander 143 (May 28, 1981), 14.

White, William. "Previous Engagement [of Dr R. M. Bucke and Peter Doyle]." Body Politic [Toronto] 73 (May 1981), 5.

White, William. "'The Body at Its Best': A Whitman Fragment." Walt Whitman Review 27 (March 1981), 48.

White, William. "Walt Whitman: An Unknown Piece by 'Paumanok.'" In Vince Clemente and Graham Everett, eds. Paumanok Rising: An Anthology of Eastern Long Island Aesthetics (Port Jefferson: Street P, 1981), 31-35.

White, William, ed. "Walt Whitman Supplement (May 31, 1819-March 26, 1892): 162nd Anniversary." The Long-Islander, 143 (May 28, 1981), 13-16 [Reprints five reviews of the 1881 Osgood Edition of Leaves of Grass and Walt Whitman's "A Week at West Hills," New York Tribune, August 4, 1881.]

White, William. "Whitman Scholar Provides Additional Proof." The Long-Islander 143 (January 29, 1981), 14. [James J. Brimton, ed., Voices from the Press (New York: Charles B. Norton, 1850), referred to Whitman as "establishing the Long-Islander."]

White, William. "Whitman to P.J. O'Shea: Unpublished." Walt Whitman Review 27 (September 1981), 139, 140.

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass and Selected Prose. Modern Library College Editions. Ed. Lawrence Buell. New York: The Modern Library, 1981. [Contains the "deathbed edition" (1891-92) of Leaves, "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads," the 1855 Preface, "Democratic Vistas," Preface to "As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free," Preface to Centennial Edition, "Poetry To-day in America Shakespeare--The Future," 200 pages of selections from Specimen Days; Mr Buell's Introduction, xix-xliv, a note on the text, a list of (12) selected readings, a group of "Documents" (Emerson's 1855 letter and Whitman's response, early reviews, comments by Moncure Conway, Bronson Alcott, Henry James, John Burroughs, William Dean Howells, and Randall Jarrell), and an index of poem titles.]

Yamakawa, Tamaaki. Whitman to Dickinson: Bunka Shocho o Megutte. Tokyo: Yumi, 1981. [Cultural symbols in Whitman compared with Dickinson.]

Yoshizaki, Kuniko. "The Theme of Death in Leaves of Grass." Kyushu American Literature [Fukuoka, Japan] 22 (May 1981), 40-54.

Ziff, Larzer. "Poet of Death: Whitman and Democracy." Literary Democracy: The Declaration of Cultural Independence in America (New York: The Viking Press, 1981), 244-259.

Ziff, Larzer. "Public Son, Private Native: Theory, Style, and Content in Whitman's Poetry." Literary Democracy: The Declaration of Cultural Independence in America (New York: The Viking Press, 1981), 230-243.

Unsigned. Brief Review of Harold Aspiz, Walt Whitman and the Body Beautiful. Virginia Quarterly Review 57 (Summer 1981), 83.

Unsigned. Brief Review of Walter H. Eitner, Walt Whitman's Western Jaunt. American Literature 53 (November 1981), 566.

Unsigned. "Our Whitman." Ten Percent (April 1981), 11. [Review of Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life. This newspaper is published at UCLA.]

Unsigned. Review of Harold Aspiz, Walt Whitman and the Body Beautiful. Choice 18 (April 1981), 1093.

Unsigned. Review of Jeanetta Boswell, Walt Whitman and the Critics: A Checklist of Criticism, 1900-1978. Choice 18 (May 1981), 1230.

Unsigned. Review of Walter H. Eitner, Walt Whitman's Western Jaunt. Choice 19 (October 1981), 238.