Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography
1985

This bibliography last revised June 14, 2004.
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Ackerman, Diane. "Where America's Poet Was Born." Parade Magazine (December 22, 1985), 14. [On Whitman's birthplace.]

Adams, Stephen. "The Luminist Walt Whitman." American Poetry 2 (Winter 1985), 2-16.

Agte, Bruce. "An Introduction to the Open Air." The Mickle Street Review 7 (1985), 7-8.

Aithal, S. Krishnamoorthy. "The Origin of Whitman's 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking."' American Notes & Queries 23 (March-April 1985), 109-111.

Alazraki, Jaime. "Neruda y Borges: Dos rostros de Walt Whitman." Confluencia 1 (Fall 1985), 37-42.

Allen, Gay Wilson. The Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman. 1969; rpt. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1985. [A paperback reprint of the New York University Press reprint of 1969, with a few corrections of dates, and a "Preface, 1984," ix-xx. If not definitive, this is the best Whitman life yet written. Because the author had to shorten the original Macmillan edition, Allen could not develop the story of Whitman's later years as much as he had originally intended, but Whitman's poetic output was virtually over by then anyway.]

Alterman, Eric R. "Feasting on Literary Intrigue by the Seine." The Boston Globe (June 30, 1985), B25, B28. [On the Paris bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, run by George Whitman, who claims to be the illegitimate son of Walt Whitman, but he was born in 1913, and the poet died in 1892.]

Andrew, Helen, Helen Everitt, Aaron Kramer, and Betsy Vondrasek, editors. West Hills Review: A Walt Whitman Journal 5 (1985), 1-128. [Contains 75 poems, by George William Fisher, Charles Fishman, Maggie Jaffe, Helen Andrew, Mimi Krutzel, Hugh Abernethy, Edmund Pennant, Sue Kain, Susan Astor, Robert De Maria, Frane L. Helner, Virginia R. Terris, Gloria G. Murray, Norbert Krapf, Sydney Lea, Michael Hood, Martin Tucker, Boydie C. Patterson, Maxwell C. Wheat, Jr., Claire Nicolas White, Adam D. Fisher, Robert Friend, David Zeiger, Fritz Hamilton, E. M. Schorb, Winter Owen Calvert, Gwyneth Owen Hand, Edwin Honig, Norine Radaikin, Rose Graubart Ignatow, William Stafford, Rita Juul Steinle, Gary Pacernick, John Ciardi, Linda Pastan, B. Z. Niditch, Richard Bodtke, Janet Sullivan, Sam Abrams, William Heyen, David Ignatow, Raymond Patterson, Stephen Unsino, Donald Kummings, James Schevill, and Norman Rosten; music by Ned Rorem; and 6 prose pieces on Whitman.]

Aspiz, Harold. "Walt Whitman, Feminist." In Joann P. Krieg, ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985), viii, 9-88.

Aspiz, Harold. "Another Early Review of Democratic Vistas." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Spring 1985), 31-35.

Aspiz, Harold. "Whitman's Eagles." The Mickle Street Review 7 (1985), 84-90.

Asslineau, Roger. "Les Toujours Vertes Feuilles d'Herbe de Walt Whitman: Quelques Publications Récentes." Études Anglaises 38:2 (1985), 282-287. [Review of Walt Whitman, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts; Walt Whitman, Complete Poetry and Collected Prose Manuscripts; Walt Whitman, Complete Poetry and Collected Prose [Library of America]; James Woodress, ed., Critical Essays on Walt Whitman; Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman; and Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet.]

Asslineau, Roger. "Whitman (Walt) 1819-1892." In Encyclopaedia Universalis, 2nd ed. (Paris, 1985), 1091-1092. [In French.]

Avi-ram, Amitai Falcon. "Towards a Theory of the Pastoral: The Classics, Walt Whitman, and Hart Crane." Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1984. [DAI 46 (November 1985), 1270-A.]

Bandy, W. T. "An Unknown 'Washington Letter' by Walt Whitman." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Winter 1985), 23-27.

Bandy, W. T. "An Unknown Whitman Parody." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Spring 1985), 45-46.

Bandy, W. T. "Whitman Viewed by Two Southern Gentlemen." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Summer 1985), 16-22.

Bedient, Calvin. "Catching Up With Whitman." The Sewanee Review 93 (April-June 1985), 273-278. [Review of C. Carroll Hollis, Language and Style in Leaves of Grass, and Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet.]

Benevento, Joseph J. "What Borges Learned from Whitman: The Open Road and Its Forking Paths." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Spring 1985), 21-30.

Black, Stephen A. "Reading Whitman Psychoanalytically." In Joann P. Krieg, ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985), viii, 43-48.

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, ed.. Walt Whitman. New York: Chelsea; 1985. [Part of the "Critical Views" series, with "Introduction" (1-9) by Bloom, "Chronology" (159-160), "Bibliography" (163-165), and eight reprinted pieces: D. H. Lawrence, "Whitman" (11-23); Kenneth Burke, "Policy Made Personal" (25-54); Richard Chase, "The Theory of America" (55-63); Roy Harvey Pearce, "Whitman Justified: The Poet in 1860" (65-86); James A. Wright, "The Delicacy of Walt Whitman" (87-97); R. W. B. Lewis, "Always Going Out and Coming In" (99-125); Harold Bloom, "Whitman's Image of Voice: To the Tally of My Soul" (127-142); and Paul Zweig, "The Wound-Dresser" (143-157).]

Blythe, David-Everett. "Ruskin on Whitman: A New Letter." Notes & Queries 32 (September 1985), 360-361.

Bollier E.P. Review of Stephen Tapscott, American Beauty: William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Winter, 1985), 30-31.

Brand, Dana. "The Escape from Solipsism: William James' Reformulation of Emerson and Whitman." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 31 (1st Quart. 1985), 38-48. [Analyzes ways "James distorted Emerson and Whitman for his own intellectual purposes."]

Brown, Susan Margaret. "Whitmanian Fermentation and the 1914 Vintage Season; Nashville, 31 de Mar.-2 de Abril, 1983." Actas do 2o Congresso Internacional de Estudos Pessoanos Oporto, Centro de Estudos Pessoanos (1985), 101-109.

Burnes, Brian. "A Poet's Scribbles on Leaves of Grass." Kansas City Star (February 25, 1985); rpt. in Newsbank Electronic Index, Literature Index 92 (1984-1985), B6-7. [Review of Whitman, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, ed. Edward F. Grier. Includes comments by Grier.]

Burrison, William. "Whitman's Drum-Taps Reviewed: The Good Gray, Tender Mother-Man and the Fierce, Red, Convulsive Rhythm of War." In Joann P. Krieg, ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985), viii, 157-169.

Cady, Joseph. "Drum-Taps and Nineteenth-Century Male Homosexual Literature." In Joann P. Krieg, ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985), viii, 49-59.

Cavitch, David. "The Lament in 'Song of the Broad-Axe.'" In Joann P. Krieg, ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985), viii, 125-135.

Cavitch, David. My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. Boston: Beacon Press, 1985.

Christensen, Inger. "Coleridge, Emerson and Whitman: A Comparison." The Shadow of the Dome: Organicism and Romantic Poetry. Studia Anglistica Norvegica 3 (Bergen, Norway: University of Bergen, 1985), 87-92.

Christensen, Inger. "'I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes': Whitman and Organicism." The Shadow of the Dome: Organicism and Romantic Poetry. Studia Anglistica Norvegica 3 (Bergen, Norway: University of Bergen, 1985), 65-86.

Clausen, Christopher. Review of Stephen Tapscott, American Beauty: William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman. American Literature 57 (March 1985), 140-143.

Coppini, Roberto. "Su Dino Campana." Revue des Langues Romanes 89 (1985) 137-156. [Italian Language].

Coulson, Joseph Philip. Word Music: A Study of American Poetry. Ph.D. Dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1985. [Ann Arbor: UMI, 1985. 8510322.]

Couteau, Robert. "A Sort of Visitor in Life; Some Autonomic Thoughts on Walt Whitman." West Hills Review 5 (1985), 93-99.

Cowley, Malcolm. "Walt Whitman's Buried Masterpiece." In his The Flower and the Leaf: A Contemporary Record of American Writing Since 1941. Ed. Donald W. Faulkner (New York: The Viking Press, 1985), 140-168.

Culbertson, Steven Lee. "Edmund Clarence Stedman: A Critical Reassessment." Ph.D. Dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 1985. [DAI 47 (July 1986) 176-177-A.]

Dalke, Anne. "'Whitman's Literary Intemperance': Franklin Evans, or the Power of Love." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Winter 1985), 17-22.

Dayan, Joan. "Finding What Will Suffice: John Ashberry's A Wave." Modern Language Notes 100 (December 1985), 1045-1079.

Del Caro, Adrian. "Kingdom of This World: Whitman and Nietzsche Compared." In Joann P. Krieg, ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985), viii, 193-215.

Demirtürk, E. Lale. "Walt Whitman's 'There Was a Child Went Forth': The Image of 'Edges' in the Origins of Life." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Spring 1985), 41-45.

Deringer, Ludwig, and Roland Hagenbüchle. "Whitman." In Helmbrecht Breinig and Ulrich Halfman, eds., Die amerikanische Literatur bis zum Ende des 19. Jahrhundert (Tübingen: Franke Verlag, 1985), 200-205. [Capsule discussion of the major poems.]

Doudna, Martin K. "'The Essential Ultimate Me': Whitman's Achievement in 'Passage to India.'" Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Winter 1985), 1-9.

Earle, Peter. "Whitman and Neruda and Their Implicit Cultural Revolution." Proceedings of the Xth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association/Actes du Xe congres de l'Association internationale de litterature comparee, vol.3 (New York: 1982), 189-193.

Erkkila, Betsy. "The Federal Mother: Whitman as Revolutionary Son." Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies 10 (1985), 423-441.

Edmundson, Mark Wright. "Towards Reading Freud: Moments of Self-Representation in Milton, Wordsworth, Keats, Emerson, Whitman and Sigmund Freud." Ph. D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1985. [DAI 46 (May 1986), 3357-A.]

Ferlazzo, P. J. Review of Walt Whitman, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, ed. Edward F. Grier. Choice 22 (February 1985), 820.

Fishkin, Shelley Fisher. From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. [Chapter on Whitman, pp. 11-51.]

Folsom, Ed. "Arthur Lundkvist's Swedish Ode to Walt Whitman." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Fall 1989), 33-35.

Folsom, Ed. Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet: C. Carroll Hollis, Language and Style in Leaves of Grass; and Jerome Loving, Emerson, Whitman, and the American Muse. Philological Quarterly 64 (Spring 1985), 294-298.

Folsom, Ed. "The Manly and Healthy Game: Walt Whitman and the Development of American Baseball." Arete 2 (Fall 1985), 43-62.

Fredrickson, Robert S. "Public Onanism: Whitman's Song of Himself." Modern Language Quarterly 46 (June 1985), 143-160.

Freedman, Florence Bornstein. William Douglas O'Connor: Walt Whitman's Chosen Knight. Athens, Ohio, and London: Ohio University Press, 1985.

French, Roberts W. "Whitman and the Poetics of Lawrence." In Jeffrey Meyers, ed., D. H. Lawrence and Tradition (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1985), 91-114.

French, Roberts W. "Whitman on War: Four Poems from Drum-Taps." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Summer 1985), 22-24.

Gallup, Donald. "Mr. Eliot at the Churchill Club." Southern Review ns 21 (Autumn 1985), 969-973.

Gardner, Thomas. "'Where We Are': A Reading of Passages 1-12." Sagetrieb 4 (Fall and Winter 1985), 285-306.

Gates, Rosemary L. "The Identity of American Free Verse: The Prosodic Study of Whitman's 'Lilacs.'" Language and Style 18 (Summer 1985), 248-276.

Gatta, John. "The Making of Walt Whitman." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 31 (1985), 272-279.

Gatta, John, Jr. "Whitman's Re-Vision of Emersonian Ecstacy in 'Song of Myself.'" In Joann P. Krieg, ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985), 173-183.

Giantvalley, Scott. "Recent Whitman Studies and Homosexuality." Cabirion and Gay Books Bulletin 12 (Spring/Summer 1985), 14-16.

Giantvalley, Scott. "Walt Whitman." In Walton Beacham, ed., Research Guide to Biography and Criticism. Washington: Research Publishing, 1985.

Golden, Arthur."Uncollected Whitman Material in the Folger Shakespeare Library." The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 79 (Fourth Quarter 1985), 529-539. [Included among 8 items is the full text of Whitman's letter to Edward Dowden, January 14, 1876(?).]

Golden, Arthur. "'I'll Trace This Garden': A Note on a Non-Whitman Attribution." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Winter 1985), 27-28.

Golding, Alan. "The 'Community of Elemtns' in Wallace Stevens and Louis Zukofsky." In Albert Gelpi, ed., Wallace Stevens: The Poetics of Modernism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), 121-140.

Gougeon, Len. "Whitman, Emerson, and 'The Ballad of the Abolition Blunder-buss.'" Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Fall 1985), 21-27.

Graham, David. [Brendan Galvin's affinity for Whitman in Winter Oysters.] The Mickle Street Review 7 (1985), 118-122.

Grossman, Allen. "The Poetics of Union in Whitman and Lincoln: An Inquiry toward the Relationship of Art and Policy." In Walter Benn Michaels and Donald E. Pease, ed., The American Renaissance Reconsidered (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985), 183-208.

Hakutani, Yoshinobu. "Yona Noguchi's Poetry: From Whitman to Zen." Comparative Literature Studies 22 (Spring 1985), 67-79.

Hansen, James Daniel. "Walt Whitman's Democratic Universe: A Consideration of 'Song of Myself.'" West Hills Review 5 (1985), 23-27.

Harris, Natalie. "Whitman's Kinetic Criticism." American Poetry 2 (Spring 1985), 19-33.

Haynes, Gregory M. "Running Aground in Barnegat Bay: Whitman's Symbols and Their Rhetorical Intentionalities." In Joann P. Krieg, ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985), viii, 115-124.

Heald, Diane, and Paula Schneider. "[Walt Whitman Birthplace] Association Members Meet." Starting from Paumanok 2 (Fall 1985), 2-3.

Helms, Alan. "'Hints . . . Faint Clews and Indirections': Whitman's Homosexual Disguises." In Joann P. Krieg, ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985), viii, 61-67.

Helms, Alan. "Demythologizing Whitman." Partisan Review 52 (No.4, 1985), 477-481. [Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet.]

Hindus, Milton. "The Critical Heritage: 'Hot Little Prophets'' and Johnnies-Come-Lately." In Joann P. Krieg, ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985), viii, 23-31.

Hinz, E. J. and J. J. Teunissen. "Milton, Whitman, Wolfe and Laurence: The Stone Angel as Elegy." Dalhousie Review 65 (Winter 1985), 474-491.

Jamil, Adil M. "'Word Over All, Beautiful As the Sky': A Hegelian Interpretation of Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps." Dissertation Abstracts International 45 (June 1985), 3639-A. [Ph. D. thesis, Middle Tennessee State University, 1984, 145 pp.]

Kaplan, Justin. "Whitman and the Biographers." In Joann P. Krieg, ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985), viii, 9-21.

Kenner, Hugh. "Disconnected Numerousness." Ironwood 13 (Fall 1985), 205-211.

Kieffer, Daniel Reynard. "Figurations of Poetic Voice in Whitman and Wordsworth." Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1985. [DAI 47 (July 1986), 169-170-A.]

Killingsworth, M. J. "Walt Whitman's Prose and the Ethics of Sexual Liberation." In Joann P. Krieg, ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985), viii, 69-78.

Kim, Young Ho. "Philosophies, Themes, and Symbols in the Poetry of Walt Whitman and Han Yong-Un." Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1985. [DAI 46 (January 1986), 1932-A.]

Kinkead-Weekes, Mark. "Whitman Passes the Full-Stop by...." In A. Robert Lee, ed., Nineteenth-Century American Poetry (London: Vision Press; Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble Books, 1985), 43-60.

Kramer, Aaron. "The Learn'd Astronomer." West Hills Review 5 (1985), 62-67.

Krieg, Joann P., ed. Walt Whitman: Here and Now. Westport: Greenwood, 1985.

Kummings, Donald. Review of Stephen Tapscott, American Beauty: William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman. The Mickle Street Review 7 (1985), 131-132.

Kunitz, Stanley. "At the Tomb of Walt Whitman." In his Next-to Last Things: New Poems and Essays. Boston and New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1985, 54-67 [Reprinted from The American Poetry Review 14 (September-October 1985), 24-27.]

Lamb, Robert Paul. "Prophet and Idolater: Walt Whitman in 1855 and 1860." The South Atlantic Quarterly 84 (Autumn 1985), 419-434.

Langhans, Rufus B. "The Peripatetic Whitman." Starting from Paumanok 1 (Winter 1985), 2.

Loving, Jerome. "Whitman's Democratic Vista in the First Leaves of Grass." In Joann P. Krieg, ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985), viii, 139-146.

Loving, Jerome. Review of Walt Whitman, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts. American Literature 57 (October 1985), 498-500.

Lynch, Michael. "'Here is Adhesiveness'; From Friendship to Homosexuality." Victorian Studies 29 (Autumn 1985), 67-96.

Magnússon, Sigurdur, trans. Walt Whitman, "Söngur um sjálfan mig" ["Song of Myself"], The Mickle Street Review 7 (1985), 102. [In Icelandic.]

Mansfield, Howard. "Whitman on the LIRR." West Hills Review 5 (1985),100-102.

Matchie, Thomas. "Letters and Leaves: McGrath's Indian Culture vs. Whitman's Poetic Tradition." North Dakota Quarterly 53 (Winter 1985), 5-25. [Influence of Whitman on Tom McGrath, especially in his long poem, Letter to an Imaginary Friend.]

Mendelson, Maurice. "Walt Whitman in Russia." Soviet Literature 1 (1985), 161-165.

Millan Jimenez, Maria Clementa. "Interpretacion de 'Porta en Nueva York' de Federico Garcia Lorca, Contexto y Originalidad." Dissertation Abstracts International 45 (February 1985), 2542-A. [Ph. D. thesis, Harvard University, 1984. 350 pp. Text in Spanish. Among other things, the influence of Whitman on Lorca.]

Miller, Edwin Haviland, editor. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: Selections. Crofts Classics. Arlington Heights, IL: Harland Davidson, Inc. [1985]. xii, 174 pp. [Reissue, in paperback, of Appleton-Century-Crofts edition of 1970. Original price 75 cents, now $3.95. Contains: Introduction, Principal Dates, "There Was a Child Went Forth," "The Sleepers," "Song of Myself," "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "As I Ebb'd With the Ocean of Life," 6 poems from "Children of Adam," 10 poems from "Calamus," "Out of the Cradle," 5 poems from Drum Taps, "Lilacs," "Passage to India," "Goodbye My Fancy!" Preface to the 1855 Leaves, and Bibliography, not updated.]

Monteiro, George. "Fire and Smoke: Emerson's Letter to Whitman." Modern Language Studies 15 (Spring 1985), 3-8.

Mottram, Eric. "Law and the Open Road: Whitman's 'America.'" In A. Robert Lee, ed., Nineteenth-Century American Poetry (London: Vision, 1985), 13-42.

Nathanson, Tenney. "Whitman's Tropes of Light and Flood: Language and Representation in the Early Editions of Leaves of Grass." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 31 (No.2, 1985), 116-134.

Ou, Hong. "Parallelism: Guo Moruo's Goddess and W. Whitman's Leaves of Grass." Waiguoyu 3 (May 1985), 22-27. [Chinese language.]

Parnell, Peter. Romance Language: A Comedy. New York: S. French, 1985. [Play about Whitman and Huck Finn journeying down the river and encountering a variety of historical figures, including George Armstrong Custer, Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, and Thoreau.]

Parsons, Howard L. "Whitman's World View: A Contemporaneous Message." In Joann P. Krieg, ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985), viii, 89-97.

Pearson, Jean, ed. "Whitman and the Earth." The Mickle Street Review 7 (1985), 1-143. [Contains: 37 poems by Randall R. Freisinger, Elizabeth McKim, Arthur Clements, William Heyen, Fleda Jackson, Elayne Sidley, Roberto Valenza, Jessie T. Ellison, Will Inman, Etheridge Knight, Robert Spencer, Paul Anderson, Jack Hand, James Sallis, Robert Bly, Robert Gibb, Antler, Jean Pearson, Ralph Wanderer, Priscilla Long, Georgette Perry, Geraldine C. Little, Alison Townsend, Ann Williamson, Neil Shephard, Carl Lindner, Jeffrey Collins, Gordon Grigsby, Jim Peterson, and Jeffrey Bolt; 4 prose pieces by Roger Dunsmore, Richard F. Fleck, Auguste Rodin, and Michael W. Fox; 3 reviews by Robert Gibb, Susan Blalock, Michael Alexander; artwork by Paul Peich; 4 Whitman articles, 4 reviews of Whitman books, and a translation of Whitman, listed above and below, by author.]

Perlman, James. "An Unpublished Whitman Letter to John Burroughs." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Summer 1985), 48.

Picciotto, Madeleine. "Workers and Slaves: The Rhetoric of Freedom in the Poetry of Walt Whitman and Antonio de Castro Alves." Ph.D. Dissertation, Princeton University, 1985. [DAI 46 (December 1985), 1618-A.]

Poniewaz, Jeff. "Whitman and Thoreau and the Industrial Revolution." The Mickle Street Review, 7 (1985), 30-46.

Porter, Andrew. "Musical Events: O Glad, Exulting Song [Poems by Walt Whitman Adapted to Music by Lawrence Kramer]." The New Yorker 61 (June 10, 1985), 130-135. [Review of Lawrence Kramer, Music and Poetry: The Nineteenth-Century and After (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985), and three song cycles performed at Bard College: "I Hear America Singing," "Dirge for Two Veterans," and "That Music Always Round Me."]

Porter, Andrew. Review of Laurence Kramer, "That Music Always Round Me" [song cycle based on "I Hear America Singing," "Dirge for Two Veterans," and "That Music Always Round Me"] New Yorker 61 (June 10, 1985), 130, 133.

Price, Kenneth M. "Hamlin Garland's 'The Evolution of American Thought': A Missing Link in the History of Whitman Criticism." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Fall 1985), 1-20.

Price, Kenneth M. Review of Walt Whitman, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts. American Literary Realism 18 (1985), 271-277.

Price, Kenneth M. "Trivia and Poetry: The Range of Whitman's Private Writings." American Literary Realism 1870-1910 18 (Spring/Autumn 1985), 271-277. [Review of Walt Whitman, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, ed. Edward F. Grier.]

Price, Kenneth M. "Whitman's Solutions to 'The Problem of the Blacks.'" Resources for American Literary Study 15 (Autumn 1985), 205-208. [Reprints and analyzes a previously unpublished post-Civil War manuscript by Whitman suggesting future possibilities for the black race in America.]

Rao, R. Raj. "The Bard Who Sang America." The Literary Endeavour: A Quarterly Journal Devoted to English Studies 6 (1985), 91-101.

Renner, Dennis K. "Lear and the Leaves of Grass Poet." In Joann P. Krieg, ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985), viii, 185-192.

Rosenblatt, Jon. "Whitman's Body, Whitman's Lanauge." In Joann P. Krieg, ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985), 101-14.

Rotella, Guy. "Cummings' 'kind)' and Whitman's Astronomer." Concerning Poetry 18 (Nos. 1-2, 1985), 39-46.

Rule, Henry B. Review of James Woodress, editor, Critical Essays on Walt Whitman. The Mickle Street Review 7 (1985), 126-128.

Salska, Agnieszka. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson: Poetry of the Central Consciousness. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985.

Savage, George E. "'Fronting It': Radical Realism in Whitman and Thoreau." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1985. [DAI 47 (July 1986), 182-A.]

Schenck, Celeste M. "'Every Poem an Epitaph': Sea-Changes in Whitman's 'Out of the Cradle' and Crane's 'Voyages.'" Ariel: A Review of International English Literature 16 (January 1985), 3-25.

Schmidt, Bernard. "Walt Whitman, Father of American Personalistic Philosophy." Faculty Research Journal [St. Augustine's College] (1985), 55-63.

Scholnick, Robert J. "The American Context of Democratic Vistas." In Joann P. Krieg, ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985), viii, 147-156.

Schor, Esther Helen. Romantic Elegy: The Consolations of Transcendence in England and America. Ph.D. Dissertation Yale University, 1985. [Ann Arbor: UMI, 1986. 8613619.]

Schwab, Arnold T., editor. Americans and the Arts 1890-1920: Critiques by James Gibbons Huneker. New York: AMS Press, 1985. [Refers to a number of Whitman items not previously published, some not listed in Scott Giantvalley's bibliography.]

Schwind, Jean. "Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' and Whitman: A Study in Source." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Summer 1985), 1-15.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. "Coda: Toward the Twentieth Century: English Readers of Whitman." In her Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985), 119-130.

Shucard, Alan. Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet. The Mickle Street Review 7 (1985), 128-130.

Siegel, Eli, Ellen Reiss, Nancy Huntting, and Sarah Smith. "Contempt Causes Insanity: What Walt Whitman Did Not Do." The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known 641 (July 17, 1985), [l]-[2]. [Whitman, they say, was no homosexual.]

Sill, Geoffrey. Review of Dennis Berthold and Kenneth Price, eds., Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman. The Mickle Street Review 7 (1985), 133-135.

Sill, Geoffrey M. Review of Donald D. Kummings, Walt Whitman, 1940-1975: A Reference Guide. Reference Quarterly [American Library Association] 22 (Summer 1983), 430.

Slatoff, Walter J. "The Engulfing of Others and the Delicious Union with Death." In The Look of Distance: Reflections on Suffering and Sympathy in Modern Literature–Auden to Agee, Whitman to Woolf (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1985), 133-153.

Slatoff, Walter J. The Look of Distance: Reflections on Suffering and Sympathy in Modern Literature--Auden to Agee, Whitman to Woolf. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1985. [Chapter 6, "The Engulfings of Others and Delicious Unions with Death," pp. 133-153, focusses on Whitman.]

Slaughter, William. "Walt Whitman, Inc." West Hills Review 5 (1985), 71-74.

Smith, Laurel. Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet. Concerning Poetry 18:1-2 (1985), 138-141.

Smrchek, M. N., and Margaret Winchell, translators. "Of Time and the River: Wolfe, Whitman, and America." Thomas Wolfe Review 9 (Spring 1985), 24-30.

Spiller, Robert E. Review of Jerome Loving, Emerson, Whitman, and the American Muse. The University of Mississippi Studies in English n.s. 4 (1985), 207-208.

Steele, Jeffrey. "Poetic Grief-Work in Whitman's 'Lilacs.'" Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Winter 1985), 10-16.

Stevenson, John. "A Trustee's Tribute to Betsy Vondrasek." Starting from Paumanok 1 (September 1985), 1.

Szathmary, Louis (Chef Louis). "The Culinary Walt Whitman." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Fall 1985), 28-33.

Tanner, James T. F. "Walt Whitman and the New Morality: Contemporary Reconsiderations." In Joann P. Krieg, ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985), viii, 35-42.

Thomas, M. Wynn. "A Comparative Study of Emerson's 'Friendship' and Whitman's Calamus." American Transcendental Quarterly 55 (January 1985), 49-61.

Vande Berg, Michael. "'Taking All Hints to Use Them': The Sources of 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking.'" Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Spring 1985), 1-20.

Vondrasek, Betsy, curator. Starting from Paumanok 1 (Winter 1985), 1-4. [Contains Walt Whitman Birthplace coming events, gifts, new members, "Whitmania," "Whitman Portraits," and "Introducing Betsy Vondrasek."]

Wang, Xisu. "Whitman's Anti-Slavery Stand." Foreign Literature Studies [China] 29 (September 1985), 136-139. [Chinese language].

Weisbuch, Robert. "Whitman and Dickinson." In Warren French, editor. American Literary Scholarship: An Annual/1983 (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1985), 79-96.

Werness, Hope B. "Whitman and Van Gogh: Starry Nights and Other Similarities." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Spring 1985), 35-41.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman [Literary Anecdotes]." The Long-Islander 147 (February 28, 1985], 11.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: A Visit from Oscar Wilde." The Long-Islander 148 (December 12, 1985), 47.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: Best Biography: Cont." The Long-Islander 148 (September 5, 1985), 4.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: Count Adam Gurowski." The Long-Islander 147 (May 2, 1985), 10.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: Did Whitman Found The Long Islander?" The Long-Islander 148 (5 December 5, 1985), 16.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: From Editor to Poet." The Long-Islander 148 (October 3, 1985), 26.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: Hempstead Tragedy." The Long Islander 148 (June 27, 1985), 11.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: Hot Little Prophets." The Long-Islander 148 (November 21, 1985), 15.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: On Cats -- and Other Animals." The Long-Islander 147 (April 18, 1985), 11.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: On Peace and War." The Long Islander 147 (April 4, 1985), II.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: Place-Names for a Poet." The Long-Islander 148 (October 10, 1985), 10.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: Poet on Trial." The Long Islander 147 (March 14, 1985), 17.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: Short Story Writer." The Long-Islander 148 (August 1, 1985), 2.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: The Best Whitman Edition." The Long-Islander 148 (August 8, 1985), 2.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: The Poet and Christmas." The Long-Islander 148 (December 19, 1985), 17.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: West Hills Visit, 1850." The Long-Islander 147 (January 3, 1985), 16.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: Whitman Magazines." The Long Islander 147 (February 21, 1985), 11.

White, William. "An Unknown Whitman Letter to an Unknown Editor About an Unknown Piece." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Winter 1985), 35.

White, William. "Eben J.-Not Elias J.-Loomis in Whitman's Correspondence and Notebooks." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Winter 1985), 28-29.

White, William. "The Whitman 'Industry': Introductory Remarks." In Joann P. Krieg, ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985), 3-6.

White, William. "New Whitman Letters at Sotheby's." Starting from Paumanok 2 (Fall 1985), 2.

White, William. Review of Gay Wilson Allen, The Solitary Singer (University of Chicago Press). The Reprint Bulletin-Book Reviews 30 (No. 2, 1985), 38-39.

White, William. Review of Dennis Berthold and Kenneth Price, eds., Dear Brother Walt. Resources for American Literary Study 15 (Autumn 1985), 225-226.

White, William. Review of Edward F. Grier, editor. Walt Whitman, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Summer 1985), 25-27.

White, William. "Unpublished Prose MS: Idea for a Whitman Poemet." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Spring 1985), 50.

White, William. "Walt Whitman: A Bibliographical Checklist." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Summer 1985), 28-43.

White, William, ed. "Walt Whitman Supplement: 166th Anniversary of His Birth: Walt Whitman and W. D. O'Connor." The Long-Islander 147 (23 May 1985), l-4A. [Contains: Walt Whitman, "Preface to O'Connor's Three Tales"; Florence B. Freedman, "Who Was William Douglas O'Connor?" and "My Search for O'Connor"; Jerome Loving, "Whitman, O'Connor, and the Question of Slavery"; Scott Giantvalley, "The Good Gray Poet: A Vindication Reviewed"; "The Poet's Sister on O'Connor," "H. L. Mencken on Harlan and O'Connor," "O'Connor's 'The Carpenter' Whitman in Fiction and Film," "Whitman's Mother on O'Connor," "Whitman on O'Connor in Traubel," "Nelly O'Connor's Love Letter to Whitman," "O'Connor on Harlan's Discovery of Leaves in Whitman's Desk," "Birth of The Good Gray Poet," and William White, "Whitman / O'Connor: 1985."]

White, William. "Walt Whitman: What Made Him a Poet." The Long Islander 147 (January 24, 1985), 12.

White, William. "Whitman: A Current Bibliography." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Spring 1985), 47-49.

White, William. "Whitman: A Current Bibliography." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Summer 1985), 44-47.

White, William. "Whitman: A Current Bibliography." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Fall 1985), 38-42.

White, William. "Whitman in the Eighties: A Bibliographical Essay." Walt Whitman: Here and Now, 217-224.

Wilmerding, John. "Walt Whitman and American Painting." The Magazine Antiques 128 (November 1985), 996-1003.

Wilson, Norma. "Heartbeat: Within the Vision Tradition." The Mickle Street Review 7 (1985), 14-23.

Witemeyer, Hugh. "Clothing the American Adam: Pound's Tailoring of Walt Whitman." In George Bornstein, ed., Ezra Pound Among the Poets (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985), 81-105.

Yoshizaki, Kuniko. "The Journalistic Aspect of Walt Whitman's Fiction." Kyushu American Literature 26 (October 1985), 1-10.

Zeiger, Lila. "From Walt to Willis." West Hills Review 5 (1985), 46-50. [Followed by poems by Keisha Boykins, Fernando Grella, Willis, and Lucrezia Aiello.]

Unsigned. "Announcements: Whitman Publications Available from WWQR, The Feinberg Award, Special Whitman Photography Issue, Whitman Association Opens Library Next Door to Whitman's Home" (Geoffrey Sill). Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Fall 1985), 36-37.

Unsigned. Brief Review of Gay Wilson Allen, The Solitary Singer, paperback edition, 1985. American Literature 57 (December 1985), 708.

Unsigned. "Holiday Specials," "Whitmania." Starting from Paumanok 2 (Fall 1985), 3, 4.

Unsigned. "Mickle Street Review #7: 'Whitman and the Earth.'" The Mickle Street Review 7 (1985), 3-4.

Unsigned. "Walt. Whitman Tonight!" Starting from Paumanok 1 (Summer 1985), 1. [On Will Stutts in "Walt Whitman: Liberal and Lusty as Nature," a one-man play.]

Unsigned. "Whitman in Amityville." Starting from Paumanok 1 (Summer 1985), 2. [Other unsigned pieces: "[W. A.] Fahey to Edit Review," p.3; meetings of the Birthplace Association, new members, "Whitmania," membership information.]

Unsigned. "Whitman, Walt [Nine Autograph Letters, 1840-1841]." Sotheby's Fine Books and Manuscripts. New York, May 22, 1985, Item 385. [Facsimile of 1841 unpublished letter from Whitman to Abraham Leech, with three pages detailing the Leech-Whitman relationship; facsimile of the envelopes. These letters, Leech drafts of letters and MS notebook sold for $28,000. Item 386 is an 8-page MS of "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," with the printed poem and autograph revisions and corrections by the poet, with one page in facsimile. The letter to Leech (1841) is reproduced in Saturday Review 11 (September-October 1985), 20.]