Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography
1984

This bibliography last revised September 21, 2000.
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Alazraki, Jaime. "Enumerations as Evocations in Borges' Latest Poetry." Poesis: A Journal of Criticism 5:4 (1984), 55-68. [Compared to Whitman.]

Alexander, Harriet Semmes. "Walt Whitman." American and British Poetry: A Guide to the Criticism, 1925-1978 (Athens, OH: Swallow, 1984), 429-35.

Allen, Gay Wilson. "Whitman's 3 for 1984: Zweig, Grier, Poet's Corner." The Long-Islander 147 (May 31, 1984), 19.

Anderson, Quentin. "When the Singer Found His Song." The New York Times Book Review (May 6, 1984), 1, 43-44. [Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet.]

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, Vol. 4, 1983-1984. [Contains seventy-three poems, by Jill Bart, Michael Chandler, David Feder, G. W. Fisher, Mildred Jeffrey, Marion Menna, Natale Safir, Maxwell C. Wheat, Jr., Claire Nicolas White, Robert De Maria, Peter Desy, John Ditsky, Arthur Dobrin, Charles Edward Eaton, Richard Eberhart, Janice Fine, Charles Ghigna, Norman Kelvin, Thomas Paladino, D. Parameswaran, Geeta Parikh, Kenneth Venick, Susan Astor, David Axelrod, Diana Ben-Merre, Richard Bodke, Roberta Daves, Edward Field, Neil Grill, J. C. Hand, Vivian Malloy, Raymond Roseliep, Norman Rosten, Fay Slavin, Don Summerhayes, Robyn Supraner, Virginia Terris, Jack Hand, Charles Fishman, Jennie Hair, William Heyen, X. J. Kennedy, Norbert Krapf, Raymond Patterson, Lewis Turco, Marc Wiedershien, Vince Clemente, and Mary Heurtley; fiction by Edward Falco; and nine prose pieces on Whitman (listed here, by author).]

Aspiz, Harold. "'Intestinal Agitation.'" The Long-Islander 147 (May 31, 1984), 19.

Aspiz, Harold. "Walt Whitman: The Spermatic Imagination." American Literature 56 (October 1984), 379-395.

Asselineau, Roger. Review of Donald D. Kummings, Walt Whitman, 1940-1975: A Reference Guide. Etudes Anglaises 37 (Juillet Septembre 1984), 352-353.

Asselineau,, Roger. Review of Jerome Loving, Emerson, Whitman, and the American Muse. Etudes Anglaises 37 (Juillet-Septembre 1984), 352.

Asselineau, Roger. Review of Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Vol. 6. Etudes Anglaises 37 (Juillet-Septembre 1984), 353.

Asselineau, Roger. "Vive le Leaves of Grass." The Long-Islander 147 (May 31, 1984), 20.

Avi-Ram, Amitai Falcon. Towards a Theory of the Pastoral: The Classics, Walt Whitman, and Hart Crane. Ph.D Dissertation, Yale University, 1984. [Ann Arbor: UMI, 1985. 8514854.]

Ball, Gordon. "Doors in Leaves of Grass.' Calamus 26 (December 1984), 21-24.

Bandy, W. T. "A Source of Whitman's 'The Poetry of the Future.'" Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1 (March 1984), 31.

Bawer, Bruce. "Louis Simpson and American Dreams." Arizona Quarterly 40 (Summer 1984), 147-162.

Bayley, John. "Songs of a Furtive Self: Whitman." In his Selected Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), 1-7.

Beer, Samuel H. "Walt Whitman on American Community: Liberty and Union." The New Republic 190 (January 23, 1984), 26-30. [With a drawing of Whitman by Jack Coughlin.]

Berthold, Dennis, and Kenneth M. Price, eds. Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1984.

Bickman, Martin. Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet. Library Journal 109 (March 15, 1984), 585.

Blair, John C. "Walt Whitman and the Demise of Organic Reading." SPELL [Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature] 2 (1984-1985), 155-170.

Bloom, Harold. Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet. New York Review of Books 31 (April 26, 1984), 3.

Blyn, George. "Walt Whitman and Labor." The Mickle Street Review 6 (1984), 18-29.

Boas, Alfred. "Works, Lives and Poets." Miami Herald (June 17, 1984); rpt. in Newsbank Electronic Index, Literature Index 2 (1984-1985), D4-5. [Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet.]

Broderick, John C. "Traubel's Biographical Technique Revisited." In Joel Myerson, ed., Studies in the American Renaissance 1984 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984), 425-427.

Broyard, Anatole. "Whitman Bio Probes Man Behind Myth." Syracuse Herald American (April 15, 1984); rpt. in Newsbank Electronic Index, Literature Index 86 (1983-1984), G2. [Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman.]

Broyard, Anatole. "A Passion for Whitman." The New York Times (March 31, 1984). [Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet.]

Bush, Clive. "Origins and Originality in Whitman's Poetry." In Tibor Frank, ed., The Origins and Originality of American Culture (Budapest: Akadémaiai Kiadó, 1984), 347-359.

Cameron, Kenneth Walter, ed. American Authors in Pictures. Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1984.

Campbell, Sally. "One Hundred Years After." West Hills Review 4 (1983-1984), 4-6. [West Hills a century after Whitman's "charming account of his week-long visit to West Hills in August of 1881."]

Caramés Lage, Jose L. "Evocación de León Felipe en su centenario." Arbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura 118 (July-August 1984), 125-132.

Cederstrom, Lorelei. "Walt Whitman Among the Imagists." The Mickle Street Review 6 (1984), 32-50.

Chaffin, Tom. "Toward a Poetics of Technology: Hart Crane and the American Sublime." Southern Review 20 (January 1984), 68-81.

Cherno, Melvin. "No Student Response." The Long-Islander 147 (May 31, 1984), 19.

Ciardi, John. "John Ciardi on Walt Whitman." Program: Poets on Paumanok: Ciardi and Whitman (Huntington, New York: Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, June 3, 1984), [2].

Cliff, Joanne Elizabeth. "The Romantic Naturalist Strain in the Poetry of A. R. Ammons." Ph.D. Dissertation, Queen's University at Kingston [Canada], 1984.

Clinard, Turner N. "Birds in Whitman's Poetry." West Hills Review 4 (1983-1984), 27-30.

Clines, Francis X. "Allen Ginsberg: Intimations of Mortality." The New York Times Magazine (November 11, 1984), 68-98. [Comparisons throughout between Ginsberg and Whitman.]

Conrad, Peter. "The Epic City." The Art of the City: Views and Versions of New York (New York: Oxford UP), 3-21.

Cryer, Dan. "'Making of Poet' Delves into Whitman Genius." Albany Times-Union (April 22, 1984); rpt. in Newsbank Electronic Index, Literature Index, 86 (1983-1984), GI. [Review of Paul Zwieg, Walt Whitman.]

Daiches, David. "Mood Poetry: The Dilemma of Solipsism." In his God and the Poets: The Gifford Lectures, 1983 (London: Oxford University Press, 1984), 88-111.

Davis, C. E. Review of Stephen Tapscott, American Beauty: William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman. Choice 22 (October 1984), 271.

Donaldson, Norman and Betty. How Did They Die? New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980. ["Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)," 385-386. Portrait, 385.]

Eitner, Walter H. Review of Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Vol. 6, The Mickle Street Review 6 (1984), 125-128.

Erkkila, Betsy. "Walt Whitman: The Politics of Language." American Studies 24 (Fall 1984), 21-34.

Ferlazzo, P. J. Review of Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman, Choice 22 (October 1984), 273.

Folsom, Ed. Review of Hyatt H. Waggoner, American Visionary Poetry. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Summer 1984), 44-46.

Folsom, Ed. "'The Manly and Healthy Game': Walt Whitman and the Development of American Baseball." Arete 2 (Fall 1984), 43-62.

Folsom, Ed. "Whitman in 1984: An Ongoing Answer to Newspeak." The Long-Islander 147 (May 31, 1984), 18.

Freedman, Florence B. "David Goodale (1910-1983): A Tribute." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Summer 1984), 40-41.

Freedman, Florence B. "Is Whitman With Us?" The Long-Islander 147 (May 31, 1984), 18.

French, R. W. "Whitman: Ahead of Our Time." The Long-Islander 147 (May 31, 1984), 17.

Geffen, Arthur. "Silence and Denial: Walt Whitman and the Brooklyn Bridge." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1 (March 1984), 1-11.

Gelpi, Albert. Review of Jerome Loving, Emerson, Whitman, and the American Muse. The New England Quarterly 57 (March 1984), 137-140.

Gershenowitz, Harry. "Two Lamarckians: Walt Whitman and Edward Carpenter." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Summer 1984), 35-39.

Giantvalley, Scott. "'Walt, Sweet Bird' Flies on One Wing." Frontiers 2 (January 25-February 1, 1984), 25, 30. [Review of Willard Manus's play, "Walt, Sweet Bird of Freedom."]

Girgus, Samuel Bruce. "Song of Him-self: Norman Mailer [and Walt Whitman]." In his The New Covenant: Jewish Writers and the American Idea (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984), 135-159.

Goff, Charles Rice, III. "'The Great City,'" West Hills Review 4 (1983-1984), 31-38. [On "Whitman's 1856 conception that American democracy is the foundation for the Great City."]

Grant, John Arlington, Jr. "The Nature of Spirituality in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass." Ph.D. Dissertation, Saint Louis University, 1984. [DAI 46 (January 1986), 1941-A.]

Gregory, Dorothy M-T. "The Celebration of Nativity: 'Broad-Axe Poem.'" Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Summer 1984), 1-11.

Grier, Edward F., ed. "From Whitman's Notebooks." The Long Islander 147 (May 31, 1984), 20.

Grier, Edward F., ed. Walt Whitman, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts. The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman, [Vols. 17-22]. New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols. [Vol. 1: Family notes and Autobiography, Brooklyn and New York: Vol. 2, Washington; Vol. 2, Camden; Vol. 4, Notes; Vol. 5, Notes; Vol. 6, Notes and Index.]

Grojnowski, Daniel. "Poétique vers libre: Derniers vers de Jules Laforgue (1886)." Revue d'Histoire Litteraire de la France 84 (No. 3, 1984), 390-413. [Influence of Whitman on Laforgue.]

Guenther, Charles. "Fresh Vision of Whitman." St. Louis Post Dispatch (April 29, 1984); rpt. in Newsbank Electronic Index 86 (1983-1984), F14. [Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman.]

Guenther, Charles. "Literary Criticism, Writer's Letters Closely Analyzed." St. Louis Post-Dispatch (August 4, 1984), 4B. [Review of Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman.]

Halpern, Sue M. Review of Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman. The New York Times Book Review (June 17,1984).

Hauptman, Robert. Review of Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. Library Journal 109 (August 1984), 1432.

Helms, Alan. "Whitman Revised." Etudes Anglaises 37 (Juillet Septembre 1984), 257-271. [Says that knowledge of Whitman's homosexuality is necessary for any full understanding of his work: he was "a frightened man, doggedly at work during the last two decades of his life trying to hide the evidence of his homosexuality in his writings and in his life."]

Heyen, William. "Two Poets [Whitman and Archibald MacLeish]." West Hills Review 4 (1983-1984), 129.

Hindus, Milton. "Whitman Behind the News." The Long-Islander 147 (May 31, 1984), 20.

Hoeppner, Edward Haworth. Icon and Hyperbola: Strategies for Verse in the Poetry of W. S. Merwin and John Ashbery. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Iowa, 1984. [Ann Arbor: UMI, 1985. 8423568.]

Hollahan, Eugene. "Reflections on a Dead Bird: An Allegory for W. W." Calamus: Walt Whitman Quarterly: International 25 (October 1984), 1-4.

Hollis, C. Carroll. "Emerson, Whitman, and Poetic Prose." The Long-Islander 147 (June 21, 1984), 15.

Hollis, C. Carroll. "Rhetoric, Elocution, and Voice in Leaves of Grass: A Study in Affiliation." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Fall 1984), 1-21.

Hollis, C. Carroll. "Whitman and '1984.'" The Long-Islander 147 (May 31, 1984), 19.

Horn, Pierre L. "Transformation." Dayton Daily News (April 29, 1984); rpt. in Newsbank Electronic Index, Literature Index, 86 (1983-1984), G3. [Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman.]

Howe, Irving. "Toward an Open Culture." The New Republic 19 (March 5, 1984), 25-29. [Refers, among other things, to Whitman's view of democratic culture.]

Hughson, Lois. "Whitman and the Ambivalence of Naturalism." Calamus 26 (December 1984), 1-20.

Hyde, Lewis. "An Artful Eraser." The Nation 238 (April 14, 1984), 457-460. [Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet.]

Ivina, Zhanna. "With the Grandeur of Homer and the Purity of Sappho . . ." In Tatyana Mamonova and Sarah Matilsky, eds., Women and Russia: Feminist Writings from the Soviet Union (Boston: Beacon, 1984), 155-163. [Treatment of sexuality in Whitman compared to Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva.]

Jalon, Allan. "Capturing Walt Whitman's Spirit." Detroit Free Press (July 29, 1984); rpt. in Newsbank Electronic Index, Literature Index 21 (1984-1985), E12. [Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman.]

Jamil, Adil M. "Word Over All, Beautiful as the Sky": A Hegelian Interpretation of Walt Whitman's "Drum-Taps." Ph.D. Dissertation, Middle Tennessee State University, 1984. [Ann Arbor: UMI, 1985. 8503297.]

Johnston, John H. "Whitman." The Poet and the City: A Study in Urban Perspectives (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984), 105-24.

Kaplan, Justin. "Starting from Paumanok . . . and from Hannibal: Whitman and Mark Twain." Confrontation 27-28 (1984), 338-347.

Kaye, Jackie. "Whitman's Anti-Grammar of the Universe." In R. W. Butterfield, ed., Modern American Poetry (London: Vision Press; Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble Books, 1984), 11-21.

Kazin, Alfred. "A More Perfect Union: Whitman to Lincoln." In his An American Procession (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984), 103-127.

Kern, Alexander C. Review of Jerome Loving, Emerson, Whitman, and the American Muse. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1 (March 1984), 34-36.

Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet. American Literature 56 (December 1984), 594-598.

Kramer, Aaron. "Time's Revenges." West Hills Review 4 (1983-1984), 1-3. [On Whitman's reputation today in contrast with the recurrent charges of obscenity in his lifetime: "And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges."]

Kramer, Lawrence. "Conclusion: On Time and Form ['Proud Music of the Storm']." In his Music and Poetry: The Nineteenth Century and After (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), 223-241.

Krieg, Joann P. "Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Whitman Connection." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1 (March 1984), 21-25.

Krieg, Joann. "Serendipitous Whitmania." West Hills Review 4 (1983-1984), 59-61.

Kronick, Joseph G. "Whitman and Time." American Poetics of History: From Emerson to the Moderns (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984), 90-123.

Kummings, Donald D. Review of Ed Folsom, ed., Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song. The Mickle Street Review 6 (1984), 128-130.

Kummings, Donald D. Review of James Woodress, ed., Critical Essays on Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1 (March 1984), 32-33.

Kummings, Donald D. "Walt Whitman Bibliographies: A Chronological Listing, 1897-1982." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1 (March 1984), 38-45.

Labor, Earle. Review of C. Carroll Hollis, Language and Style in Leaves of Grass. The Mickle Street Review 6 (1984), 131-133.

Lahr, John. "Walt Whitman." In his Automatic Vaudeville: Essays on Star Turns (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984), 188-198. [Whitman "prompted a cult of identity which, stripped of its spiritual trappings a century later, had its apotheosis in... stardom."]

Layman, Lewis M. "Echoes in Walt Whitman's 'Bare-bosom'd Night' in Vincent Van Gogh's 'Starry Night.'" American Notes & Queries 22 (March-April 1984), 105-109.

Leighton, Lauren G., trans. and ed., The Art of Translation: Kornei Chukovsky's A High Art. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1984. [References to Whitman, xiv, xviii, xix, xx, xxi, xxii, 19-20, 23-25, 41-42, 270. Especially important in showing how Whitman's words were distorted by K.N. Balmont, of whom Chukovsky writes, "in the entire world there is no poet more remote from him [Whitman] than Balmont. After all, Whitman spent his entire life fighting what we call Balmontism, with its flowery rhetoric, its high flown 'music of words,' its external prettiness which is in fact worse than monstrously ugly . . . and we can easily imagine how Whitman's face was disfigured by Balmontization." Chukovsky was the author of two notable studies of Whitman in Russia.]

Lembo, J. Lawrence. "Open Road Literature: Whitman, Lawrence, Miller." Calamus 26 (December 1984), 25-29.

Little, Carl, and Joseph Donahue. "Two Democrats in Mud Time. . ." The Mickle Street Review 6 (1984), 82-86. ["Imaginary dialogue" Between Whitman and Robert Frost.]

Loving, Jerome. "Whitman: Down but Not Out in Paris and London." The Long-Islander 147 (May 31, 1984), 19.

Loving, Jerome. Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Summer 1984), 42-44.

Loving, Jerome. "Walt Whitman.' In Joel Myerson, ed., The Transcendentalists: A Review of Research and Criticism (New York: Modern Language Association, 1984), 375-383.

Majdoubeh, Ahmad Yacob. Puritanic Idealism: The Body Controversy in the American Renaissance. Ph.D. Dissertation, Cornell University, 1984. [Ann Arbor: UMI, 1985. 8427194.]

Martin, Peter A. Review of Jerome Loving, Emerson, Whitman, and the American Muse. The Mickle Street Review 6 (1984), 133-135.

Martin, Roger. "Whitman's Leavings - From Lecture Notes to Love Agonies [in Edward F. Grier's Walt Whitman: Unpublished Notebooks and Prose Manuscripts.]" Explore [University of Kansas] (Spring 1984), 2-4.

Martin, Robert K. Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet. The Advocate 404 (October 2, 1984), 53-54.

McNamara, Eugene. "'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry': The Shaping Imagination." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Summer 1984), 32-35.

Mellow, James R. "Glimpses Inside Whitman's Trunk of Genius." Chicago Tribune (May 6, 1984); rpt. in Newsbank Electronic Index, Literature Index, 95 (1983-1984), C12. [Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman.]

Millan Jimenez, Maria Clementa. Interpretacion de 'Poeta in Nueva York' de Federico Garcia Lorca, Contexto y Originalidad. Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1984. [Ann Arbor: UMI, 1985. 8419384.]

Monteiro, George. "Whitman, Warner, and the American Men of Letters Series." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1 (March 1984), 26-27.

Monteiro, Irineu. Walt Whitman: Profeta da AmJ rica. Sao Paulo: Martin Claret, 1984.

Moore, William L. "An Appreciation to Edward Grier." Calamus, Walt Whitman Quarterly, International 26 (December 1984), 30-35. [On Walt Whitman, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts.]

Moore, William L. "The Essential Ultimate Me . . .": Walt Whitman's "Passage to India" in the Light of Hypotheses of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Revised. Tokyo: Toho Gakuen University of Music, [1984].

Morsberger, Robert E. "The 'Me' Generation Would Appall Whitman." The Long-Islander 147 (May 31, 1984), 17,18.

Murphy, John J. "A Comprehensive View of Cather's O Pioneers!" In his Critical Essays on Willa Cather (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1984), 113-127.

Narvesen, Kurt. "Walt Whitman." Introduction. Tilegnet den Usylige Verden: Et Utvalg. By Walt Whitman. Ed. Kurt Narvesen. (Oslo: J. W. Cappelens, 1984), 9-13.

Nelson, Raymond. "The Knot of Contrariety." The Virginia Quarterly Review 60 (Autumn 1984), 723-728. [Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet.]

Orlov, Paul A. "On Time and Form in Whitman's 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.'" Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Summer 1984), 12-21.

Peña, Horacio Guillermo. "Aproximaciones a Rubén Darío y Walt Whitman." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1984. [DAI 45 (January 1985), 2094A.]

Peters, Robert. "A Look at the Birth of Whitman's Poetic Voice." Los Angeles Times (August 13, 1984), 5:8. [Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of a Poet.]

Peters, Robert. "Walt Whitman's Lost Homoerotic Poems." Cabirion and Gay Books Bulletin 10 (Winter-Spring 1984), 10-11.

Piasecki, Bruce. "Higher Facts: Science and Sex in 'I Sing the Body Electric.'" West Hills Review 4 (1983-1984), 113-119.

Pincheira, Dolores. Walt Whitman. Santiago, Chile: Ediciones del Grupo Fuego de la Poesia, 1984.

Pincus, Robert L. "A Mediated Vision, a Measured Voice: Culture and Criticism in Whitman's Prose." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Summer 1984), 22-31.

Preston, Richard. "The Emerging of Walt Whitman." Philadelphia Inquirer (April 22, 1984); rpt. in Newsbank Electronic Index, Literature Index 86 (1983-1984), G2. [Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman.]

Price, Kenneth Marsden. "Whitman on Emerson: New Light on the 1856 Open Letter." American Literature 56 (March 1984), 83-87.

Rae, Catherine M. "The Spark." Edith Wharton's New York Quartet (Lanham: University Press of America, 1984), 45-57.

Renner, Dennis K. "Tradition for a Time of Crisis: Whitman's Prophetic Stance." In Jan Wojcik and Raymond-Jean Frontain, eds., Poetic Prophecy in Western Literature (Madison, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984), 119-130.

Romano, Tom. "Of Whitman and Friend." English Journal 73 (December 1984), 26-27. [On creating writing assignments about Whitman for high school students.]

Rosenthal, Peggy. "From 'God sylfa' to 'I celebrate myself.'" In her Words and Values: Some Leading Words and Where They Lead Us (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984), 8-18. Discusses the common noun "self" and its evolution, with references to Whitman on 16-17.]

Rubenfeld, Andrew. "Walt Whitman's New Jersey Birds." New Jersey Audubon 10 (Spring 1984), 10-15.

Salveson, Paul. Loving Comrades: Lancashire's Links to Walt Whitman. Bolton, Lancashire England: Paul Salveson and Bolton Branch, Worker's Educational Association, 1984. [16 pp. Contains 12 pieces, including "The Importance of Whitman," J. W. Wallace and Dr. John Johnston and "Eagles Street College," "Whitman Day," "Vistas to Whitman,: "Spreading the (Whitman) Gospel," and "Last of the Whitmanites."]

Schmitt, John P. Review of Donald D. Kummings, Walt Whitman, 1940-1975: A Reference Guide. Reference Books Annual 1984 (Littleton, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, Inc., 1984), 15:579.

Schmitz, Neil. "Our Whitman." Parnassus 12 (Fall/Winter 1984), 4-19. [Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet; Stephen Tapscott, American Beauty: William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman; Walt Whitman, American Bard; and Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song.]

Seeger, Pete. "Contradictions." West Hills Review 4 (1983-1984), 112.

Shafer, Chris. "What Whitman Means to Students in 1984." The Long-Islander 147 (June 21, 1984), 15.

Shaker, Paul. "'Song of Myself' as the Core of the English Curriculum." Journal of General Education 36 (1984), 116-25.

Sharpe, William. "City/Body/Text: Walt Whitman's Urban Incarnation." Cycnos 1 (1984), 39-48.

Shimizu, Haruo. Rairakku no Uta: Whitman no Sekkyo. Tokyo: Shinozaki, 1984. [On "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd."]

Shimizu, Haruo. Whitman no Shinso Kenkyu. 3rd ed. Tokyo: Shinozaki, 1984.

Shirley, Don. "Actor Wins, Walt Whitman Loses." Los Angeles Times (January 6, 1984), 6:7. [Review of Willard Manus, "Walt, Sweet Bird of Freedom," which revealed how much the playwright had borrowed from Justin Kaplan's Whitman biography without acknowledging it, leading to the cancellation of the rest of the production by the producing theater.]

Shortt, S. E. D. "The Myth of a Canadian Boswell: Dr. R. M. Bucke and Walt Whitman." Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 1 (Winter 1984), 55-70.

Sill, Geoffrey M., ed. The Mickle Street Review 6 (1984), 1-150. [Contains 50 poems by Bruce Agte, Antler, Richard Barsotti, S. L. Berry, Jeffrey Bolt, Jon Bracker, Lesley Choyce, Tony Cosier, Kaviraj George Dowden, David J. Feela, Lorraine Ferra, David Gerry, Charles Ghigna, Cynthia Golderman, Fritz Hamilton, David Hilton, E. Jean Lanyon, Thomas Lisk, Rosemarl Mealy, Douglas Morea, Sheila Murphy, Tommy Olofsson, Jean Pearson, John C. Pine, Patti Renner-Tana, Suzanne Jaworski Rhodenbaugh, Nicholas Rinaldi, Kevin Sheehan, Kathleen Spivack, Ulrich Troubetzkoy, Paul Weinman, and David Zeiger; 5 book reviews by Larry Berkoben, Rick Chess, James M. Cory, Robert Miklitsch, and Eric Nelson; and 3 articles and 4 reviews of Whitman books, listed above.]

Southard, Sherry G. "Whitman and Language: An Annotated Bibliography." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Fall 1984), 31-49.

Tapscott, Stephen. American Beauty: William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.

Thompson, George A., Jr. "Katinka Unveiled: The Authorship of Abbie Nott and Other Knots." The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 78 (First Quarter 1984), 71-74.

[Vondrasek, Betsy, curator.] Starting from Paumanok, 1 (Fall 1984), 1-4. [First issue of this quarterly publication of the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, containing: "Ciardi Graces Birthday Fete," "Newletter Takes First Steps," "Clemente on Ciardi," "Ciardi: on Ciardi," "Ciardi: on Whitman," "Gifts from Our Friends," "Introducting Marilyn Oser," "New Members," "Coming up at the Homestead," and "Whitmania."]

Wakoski, Diane. "Neglected Poets 2: William Everson and 'Bad Taste.'" American Poetry 2 (Fall 1984), 36-43.

Waldron, Randall H. Review of Dennis Berthold and Kenneth M. Price, eds. Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Fall 1984), 50-52.

Walker, Jeffrey Steven. Sublime Authority: Whitman and the Bardic Poem in America. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1984. [Ann Arbor: UMI, 1985. 8513031.]

Wallace, Ronald. "Walt Whitman: Stucco'd with Quadrupeds and Birds All Over." In his God be With the Clown: Humor in American Poetry (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1984), 53-75.

Waring, Walter. Review of Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman. Library Journal 109 (April 15, 1984), 807.

Warren, James Perrin. "Whitman as Ghostwriter: The Case of Rambles Among Words." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Fall 1984), 22-30.

Warren, James Perrin. "The 'Real Grammar': Deverbal Style in 'Song of Myself.'" American Literature 56 (March 1984), 1-16.

Warren, James Perrin. "Whitman in the Year of Orwell." The Long Islander 147 (May 31, 1984), 20.

Warren, James Perrin. "'The Free Growth of Metrical Laws': Syntactic Parallelism in 'Song of Myself.'" Style 18 (Winter 1984), 27-42.

Warren, James Perrin. "The 'Paths to the House': Cluster Arrangement in Leaves of Grass, 1860-1881." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 30 (First Quarter 1984), 51-70.

Watson, Elizabeth. "Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman." West Hills Review 4 (1983-1984), 62-74.

Weis, Monica R., SSJ. "'Translating the Untranslatable': A Note on 'The Mystic Trumpeter.'" Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1 (March 1984), 27-30.

White, Gertrude M. Review of Meena Alexander, The Poetic Self: Towards a Phenomenology of Romanticism. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1 (March 1984), 36-37.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman." The Long-Islander 147 (August 2, 1984), 13. [On Whitman as businessman.]

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: A Mystery Poem." The Long Islander 147 (August 30, 1984), 11.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: Best Whitman Biography." The Long-Islander 147 (December 13, 1984), 20.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman [Cross-Country Poet]." The Long-Islander 147 (November 22, 1984), 21.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: Fake Whitman MSS." The Long Islander 147 (October 4, 1984), 21.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman [Four 1838 Long-Islander Pieces]." The Long-Islander 147 (August 16, 1984), 13.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: Lists of Young Men." The Long-Islander 147 (November 8, 1984), 17.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman ['The Olden Time,' by W.]." The Long-Islander 147 (September 20, 1984), 11.

White, William. "An Unpublished Whitman Card to J. H. Johnson." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1 (March 1984), 49.

White, William. "Another Whitman Letter to Jeannette Gilder." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Summer 1984), 51.

White, William. "Editorial: Walt Whitman and Today's World." The Long-Islander 147 (May 31, 1984), 12.

White, William. "New: A Letter from Walt to Louisa Whitman." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Fall 1984), 57.

White, William. Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet. Choice 22 (September 1984), 104.

White, William, ed. "Walt Whitman Supplement: 165th Anniversary of Birth." The Long-Islander 147 (May 31, 1984), 17-20. [Contains 13 essays, listed here by author.]

White, William. "What Would Whitman Think of the Indy 500." The Long-Islander 147 (June 21, 1984), 15.

White, William. "Whitman: A Current Bibliography." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1 (June, September, December 1983, March 1984), 49-52, 41-46, 60-63, 46-48.

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White, William. "Whitman: A Current Bibliography." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Winter 1984), 32-35.

White, William. "Whitman's Years With The Daily Eagle, Before and After." Calamus: Walt Whitman Quarterly: International 25 (October 1984), 5-33.

Whitman, Walt. "From Notebooks and Unpublished Manuscripts." Antaeus 52 (Spring 1984), 184-213. [Excerpts from Edward F. Grier's edition of Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts: "Pictures," "[Dante] Spring of '59," "A Visit to the Opera," "To the American Young Men, Mechanics. . ."]

Wiksell, Dr. Percival. "Pete Doyle," With a Note by William White. Calamus: Walt Whitman Quarterly: International 25 (October 1984), 34-37. [From The Conservator, September 1907.]

Yongue, Patricia Lee. "Violence in Whitman's 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.'" Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1 (March 1984), 12-20.

Ziff, Larzer. "Whitman and the Crowd." Critical Inquiry 10 (June 1984), 579-591.

Zhao, Luorui, trans. cao ye ji [Leaves of Grass], 1984. [Chinese.]

Zweig, Paul. Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet. New York: Basic Books, 1984.

Unsigned. Review of Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman. American Literature 56 (October 1984), 629.

Unsigned. "The Library of America." TLS: The Times Literary Supplement (May 25, 1984), 592. [Brief review of Walt Whitman, Complete Poetry and Collected Prose (Library of America), published in Britain by Cambridge University Press.]

Unsigned. "Walt Whitman: Third Poet in a Crowded Room." Pitt [University of Pittsburgh] 38 (February 1984), 20-21. [On Galway Kinnell and Meridel Le Sueur lectures about Whitman.]