Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography
1986

This bibliography last revised July 2, 2004.
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Abieva, N. A. "Nachalo znakomstva s Uoltom Uitmenom v Rossii." ["Beginning of an acquaintanceship with Walt Whitman in Russia."] Russkaia Literatura [Leningrad] 4 (1986), 185-195. [Whitman's reception in U.S.S.R.]

Alazraki, Jaime. "Enumerations as Evocations: On the Use of a Device in Borges' Latest Poetry." In Carlos Cortínez, ed., Borges the Poet (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1986), 149-157. [On Borges' adaptation and personalization of Whitman's technique of "chaotic enumerations." Reprinted from Poesis, 1984.]

Allen, Gay Wilson. "Origin of the Walt Whitman Handbook: A Personal History." West Hills Review 6 (1986), 11-21.

Allen, Gay Wilson. The New Walt Whitman Handbook. New York and London: New York University Press, 1986. [Revised edition in paperback, but essentially the same as the highly praised 1975 cloth-bound edition.]

Asselineau, Roger. Review of Florence Bernstein Freedman, William Douglas O'Connor: Walt Whitman's Chosen Knight. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Spring 1986), 39.

Babington, Douglas. "Whitman's Life and Art: The Precarious Boundary," Canadian Review of American Studies 17 (Fall 1986), 337-345. [Review of Berthold and Price, eds., Dear Brother Walt; Hollis, Language and Style in Leaves of Grass; Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of a Poet.]

Backman, Melvin. Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet. West Hills Review 6 (1986), 99-102.

Bastos, María Luisa. "Whitman as Inscribed in Borges." In Carlos Cortínez, ed., Borges the Poet (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1986), 219-231. [Translated with Daniel Balderston. Borges rendered Whitman's tone "at a lower pitch" as he employed Whitman in subtle ways in his own poetry.]

Bauerlein, Mark. "The Written Orator of 'Song of Myself': A Recent Trend in Whitman Criticism." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Winter 1986), 1-14.

Bell, Ian F. A. "Lockean Sensationalism and American Literary Language." Journal of American Studies 20 (August 1986), 291-293. [Deals with "Slang in America."]

Bickman, Martin. Review of David Cavitch, My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. Library Journal 111 (February 1, 1986), 82.

Bly, Robert. "Whitman's Line as a Public Form." American Poetry Review 15 (March/April 1986), 5.

Bollobas, Eniko. Tradition and Innovation in American Free Verse: Whitman to Duncan. Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1986. [Part I: "Walt Whitman's Alternative: Organic Form," 59-118.]

Braudy, Leo. The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. ["Dickinson and Whitman: The Audience of Solitude," 462-475.]

Bromwich, David. "A Sane, Gigantic Offspring." TLS: The Times Literary Supplement (March 21, 1986), 291-292. [Review of Walt Whitman, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts; Walt Whitman, Complete Poetry and Collected Prose [Library of America]; and Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet.]

Bruder, Harry. "Transcendental Tongue of Clay: Deconstructing Whitman's Voice." Pompa (1986), 13-22.

Carlin, John. "Metaphors of Vision: The Mediation of Self and Nature Through Language in the Work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Cole, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Thomas Eakins." Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1986. [DAI 47 (March 1987), 3756A.]

Clark, Kevin J. "American Catharsis: The Evolution and Practice of the Contemporary Long Poem." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Davis, 1986. [DAI 47 (March 1987), 3756A.]

Clemente, Vince. "My Traveling Companion [Leaves of Grass]." Croton Review 9 (Summer 1986), 39-40.

Cumming, Mark. "Carlyle, Whitman, and the Disimprisonment of Epic." Victorian Studies 29 (Winter 1986), 207-226.

Dedmond, Francis B., ed. "'Here Among Soldiers in Hospital': An Unpublished Letter from Walt Whitman to Lucia Jane Russell Briggs." New England Quarterly 59 (December 1986), 544-548.

Durand, Regís. "Walt Whitman: The Poet as Modernist." In Roland Hagenbüchle and Laura Skandera, eds., Poetry and Epistemology: Turning Points in the History of Poetic Knowledge (Regensburg: Pustet, 1986), 125-134. [Whitman's poetry enacts "a shift from Romanticism to Modernism" and thus explores "a new territory, the indeterminate and unstable area between denial and desire," working out its own "law of contradictions."]

Engle, Paul. "Two Long Island Voices Heard in the Heartland." In Norbert Krapf, ed., Under Open Sky: Poets on William Cullen Bryant. New York: Fordham University Press, 1986, pp. 62-66. [Similarities and differences between Whitman and Bryant.]

Fahey, W. A. "The 1986 West Hills Review--A Coup of International and Historic Riches." Starting from Paumanok 3 (Fall 1986), 3.

Fahey, W. A. "Walt and Tom." West Hills Review 6 (1986), 1-2. [On Whitman and Thomas Eakins.]

Fahey, W. A., ed. West Hills Review: A Walt Whitman Journal 6 (1986), 1-120. Contains 66 poems by Dave Smith, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Susan Astor, Edmund Pennant, Grace Volick, Norbert Krapf, Lester Speiser, Samuel Menashe, Neil Grill, Stuart Friebert, D. F. Petneys, Robert A. Crooke, Dan Levin, Lucy Shawgo, Barbara Thomson, Margaret Seymour, Reva Sharon, Robert Spencer, William P. O'Brien, Fritz Hamilton, Claire Nicolas White, Daniel Daly, John Ditsky, Yuhn-Bok Kim, and David Ignatow; 6 Whitman portraits, 1 of the birthplace, 1 facsimile of a letter; 6 Whitman articles and 1 review, listed here by author.]

Ferlazzo, P. J. Review of David Cavitch, My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. Choice 23 (July/August 1986), 1672.

Fisher, Marvin. Continuities: Essays and Ideas in American Literature. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986. [Chapter 4: "The Centrality of Walt Whitman," pp. 72-88.]

FitzGerald, Susan. "Whitman's Life, Words Remembered, Praised." The Philadelphia Inquirer (May 30, 1986), B1, B3. [Birthday meeting, arranged by the Walt Whitman Society, Camden, on May 29 at Harleigh Cemetary and at the Whitman House, 330 Mickle Blvd.]

Fizer, John. "Cosmic Oneness in Whitman and Tychyna: Some Similarities and Differences." Canadian Slavonic Papers 28 (June 1986), 149-156.

Folsom, Ed. "An Unknown Photograph of Whitman and Harry Stafford." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Spring 1986), 51-52.

Folsom, Ed. Review of William Heyen, Eight Poems for Saint Walt. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Spring 1986), 40-42.

Folsom, Ed. Review of Ronald Wallace, God Be with the Clown: Humor in American Poetry. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Winter 1986), 36-38.

Folsom, Ed. Review of Walt Whitman, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, ed. Edward Grier. Philological Quarterly 65 (Spring 1986), 287-291.

Forsthoffer, J. P. "A Poet's Legacy." Horizon 29 (October 1986), 48-49. [On Whitman's relation to Camden, NJ, and on the establishment of Camden's Walt Whitman Center for the Arts and Humanities.]

French, R. W. "Reading 'Song of Myself.'" San Jose Studies 12 (Spring 1986), 75-83. [Notes on dealing with originality, fragmentation, and dislocation of poem.]

Fried, Debra. "Repetition, Refrain, and Epitaph." ELH 53 (Fall 1986), 615-632. [On these devices in Kipling, Poe, and Whitman, with analysis of "As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods."]

Garrison, Philip. "American Miracles." Northwest Review 24 (1986), 73-76. [Appreciation of Traubel's memoirs of Whitman.]

Geist, Anthony L. "Las mariposas en la barba: una lectura de Poeta en Nueva York." Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos nos. 435-436 (September/October 1986), 547-565. [Includes an analysis of Garca Lorca's "Oda a Walt Whitman," 558-564.]

Giantvalley, Scott. "Singing (?) the Poetry Electric." GSN: Gay Studies Newsletter 13 (November 1986), 27-29. [Review of Joann P. Krieg, ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now, and David Cavitch, My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman.]

Giantvalley, Scott. "Walt Whitman, 1838-1939: A Reference Guide: Additional Citations." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 4 (Summer 1986), 24-40.

Gilbert, Sandra. "The American Sexual Politics of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson." In Sacvan Bercovitch, ed., Reconstructing American Literary History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986), 123-154.

Golden, Arthur. "Nine Early Whitman Letters, 1840-1841." American Literature 58 (October 1986), 342-360.

Golden, Arthur. "The Ending of the 1855 Version of 'Song of Myself.'" Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Spring 1986), 27-30.

Goodblatt, Chanit, and Joseph Glicksohn. "Cognitive Psychology and Whitman's 'Song of Myself.'" Mosaic 19 (Summer 1986), 83-90.

Green, Judith Kent. "A Note of Walt Whitman's Probable Reading of Robert Chambers." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Winter 1986), 23-28.

Halls, Eunice Conger. "The Old House." West Hills Review 6 (1986), 64-67. [The oldest of five Whitman houses in West Hills.]

Hinz, E. J., and J. J. Teunissen. "Milton, Whitman, Wolfe and Laurence: The Stone Angel as Elegy." Dalhousie Review 65 (Winter 1985/86), 474-491.

Hendrick, George. Review of Florence Bernstein Freedman, William Douglas O'Connor: Walt Whitman's Chosen Knight. Choice 23 (February 1986), 867.

Hobson, Fred. Review of Shelley Fisher Fishkin, From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America. South Atlantic Quarterly 51 (September 1986), 104-108.

Hollis, C. Carroll. "Is There a Text in This Grass?" Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Winter 1986), 15-22.

Hollis, C. Carroll. Review of David Cavitch, My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. American Literature 58 (October 1986), 445-446.

Hollis, C. Carroll. Review of Joann P. Krieg, ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now; and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Spring 1986), 31-38.

Hovland, Michael. Musical Settings of American Poetry: A Bibliography. New York: Greenwood, 1986. ["Walt Whitman (1819-1892)," pp. 376-414, lists over 500 musical settings of more than 150 Whitman poems and prose pieces.]

Hutchinson, George B. The Ecstatic Whitman: Literary Shamanism and the Crisis of the Union. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1986. [Reviewed in Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 5 (Winter 1988), 27-33.]

Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. "Whitman's Sexual Themes During a Decade of Revision: 1866-1876." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 4 (Summer 1986), 7-15.

Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. "Williams's Paterson: The Vernacular Hero in the Twentieth Century." American Poetry 4 (1986), 2-21. [Williams's vernacular hero is "a twentieth-century counterpart of that new kind of culture hero whom Walt Whitman described in great detail in his theory of the function of poetry in a democratic society."]

Krieg, Joann P. "The Long Island Letters of Schoolmaster Whitman." West Hills Review 6 (1986), 41-49.

Leonard, Douglas. "The Art of Walt Whitman's French in 'Song of Myself.'" Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Spring 1986), 24-27.

Li, Xilao. "A Backward Glance over Traveled Roads." West Hills Review 6 (1986), 84-86.

Li, Xilao. "A Selected Bibliography of Walt Whitman in Chinese (1919-1984)." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Spring 1986), 43-47.

Li, Xilao. "Walt Whitman in China." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Spring 1986), 1-8.

Loving, Jerome. "Whitman in the (Latest) Soviet View." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Spring 1986), 9-15.

Loving, Jerome. "Whitman, Washington, and the War: 'Lilacs' Revisited." In David McAleavey, ed., Washington and Washington Writing (GW Washington Studies , no. 12 [July 1986], Center for Washington Area Studies, The George Washington University), 30-36. [Reading of "Lilacs" in context of Whitman's life in Washington.]

Majeed, Hussein. "Whitman Message [to Joann P. Krieg] Echoes Hauntingly from Middle East." Starting from Paumanok 3 (Fall 1986), 2.

Marinaccio, Paul. "Long-Lost Whitman Poem Discovered in LI Basement." Newsday (October 12, 1986); rpt. in Newsbank Electronic Index, Literature Index 95 (1983-1984), C12. [Review of Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman.]

Marinaccio, Paul. "When Whitman Was Averse to LI." Newsday (March 18, 1986), 3. [On the Woodbury letters (sold at Sotheby's in 1985 for $28,500), to be published by Arthur Golden in American Literature in October, and to be discussed by Joann P. Krieg in the West Hills Review in May.]

Martin, Reginald. "The Self-Contradiction Literatus: Walt Whitman and His Two Views of Blacks in America." Calamus no. 27 (March 1986), 13-22.

Martin, Robert K. "Walt Whitman and Thomas Mann." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 4 (Summer 1986), 1-6.

McMahon, William E. "Grass and Its Mate in 'Song of Myself.'" South Atlantic Review 51 (January 1986), 41-55.

Miller, Jr., James E. "Whitman's Leaves and the American Lyric Epic." In Neil Fraistat, ed., Poems in Their Place (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986), 289-307.

Monteiro, George. "Fire and Smoke: Emerson's Letter to Whitman." Modern Language Studies 15 (Spring 1986), 3-8.

Moore, William L. "The Gestation of the First Edition of Leaves of Grass, 1855: Walt Whitman's Early Note-Taking Years, 1847-54." Calamus 28 (December 1986), 21-39.

Oakes, Karen Kilcup. "Reading the Feminine: Gender Gestures in Poetic Voice." Ph.D. Dissertation, Brandeis University, 1986. [DAI 47 (August 1986), 531-A.]

Oser, Marilyn. "An Invitation to the Walt Whitman House." West Hills Review 6 (1986), 119.

Oser, Marilyn. "News Notes." Starting from Paumanok 2 (Winter 1986), 1-2.

Ou Hong. "The Parallel Structure of Themes in The Goddess and Leaves of Grass." Foreign Literature Studies 31 (March 1986), 100-104. [In Chinese.]

Peattie, Roger W. "Whitman, Charles Aldrich and W. M. Rosetti in 1885: Background to the Whitman Subscription." American Literature 58 (October 1986), 413-421.

Perry, Dennis R. "Whitman's Influence on Stoker's Dracula." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Winter 1986), 29-35.

Pollak, Vivian R. Review of David Cavitch, My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 4 (Summer 1986), 44-46.

Price, Kenneth M. Review of Florence Bernstein Freedman, William Douglas O'Connor: Walt Whitman's Chosen Knight. American Literature 58 (October 1986), 444-445.

Quinlan, Kieran. "Sea and Sea-Shore in 'Song of Myself': Whitman's Liquid Theme." In Patricia Ann Carlson, ed. Literature and the Lore of the Sea (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1986), 185-192.

Renner-Henke, Ursula. "'Das schöne Gedicht auf den Vogel . . .'" Anmerkungen zu Hofmannsthals Rezeption Walt Whitman." Hofmannsthal Blätter 33 (Spring 1986), 3-25. [The influence of Whitman's poetry--especially "Out of the Cradle"--on Hugo von Hofmannsthal.]

Reynolds, David S. Review of David Cavitch, My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. The New York Times Book Review (February 2, 1986), 14.

Scholnick, Robert J. "'The Password Primeval': Whitman's Use of Science in 'Song of Myself.'" Studies in the Renaissance (1986), 385-425. [Examines "the broad range of scientific ideas available to Whitman," especially through his relationship with Edward Livingston Youmans (1821-1887), a well-known "expositor of science" who was "an important source for Whitman's understanding of his most important scientific idea, evolution," an idea the poet made use of in "Song of Myself."]

Scholnick, Robert J. Review of Florence Freedman, William Douglas O'Connor; Dennis Berthold and Kenneth Price, eds., Dear Brother Walt; Agnieszka Salska, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Journal of American Studies 20 (1986), 476-478.

Smith, Reginald. "The Quarternary Structure of Symbolism in Whitman's 'Lilacs': A Synchronic Analysis." Calamus 28 (December 1986), 1-20.

Sotheby's: Fine Books and Manuscripts Including Americana. [Catalogue.] Sale 5530 (December 15, 1986), New York. [Items 95-153, headed "Property of Charles E. Feinberg of Detroit, Michigan: Printed and Manuscript Material Relating to Walt Whitman and Horace Traubel," [48-69]. Includes Whitman illustrations on front and back covers, in 10 items, and lengthy quotations and descriptions, several of unpublished MSS.]

Sommer, Doris. "Supplying Demand: Walt Whitman as the Liberal Self." In Bell Gale Chevigny and Gari Laguardia, eds., Reinventing the Americas (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 68-91. [Looks at "Whitman's remarkably broad dissemination in literary history" (particularly among Spanish American writers) by analyzing "his genius in neutralizing ideological differences and thus establishing a discursive space in which all positions seem legitimate," resulting in an "ideological diversity" of response to his poetry; the argument is grounded in theories of Louis Althusser and especially Jacques Lacan.]

Tanner, James T.F. "Four Comic Themes in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass." Studies in American Humor 5 [n.s.] (Spring 1986), 62-71. [A "'jagged and broken' survey of Whitman's use of humor" as evidenced in his "equality themes."]

Thomas, M. Wynn. "Walt Whitman's Welsh Connection: Ernest Rhys." Anglo-Welsh Review 82 (1986), 77-85.

Trachtenberg, Alan. "Edward Weston's America: The Leaves of Grass Project." In Peter C. Bunnell and David Featherstone, eds., EW:100: Centennial Essays in Honor of Edward Weston (Carmel, CA: Friends of Photography, 1986; Untitled series #41), 103-115. [Explores Weston's photographs in the 1942 Limited Editions Club Leaves of Grass, speculating on "the strange encounter between an already mature non-illustrative, non-documentist photographer, a 'purist,' with one of the formative texts of self-conscious modern American culture."]

Tuerk, Richard. "Michael Gold on Walt Whitman." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Spring 1986), 16-23.

Turco, Lewis Putnam. Visions and Revisions of American Poetry. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1986. ["The Good Gray Poet," 36-42; "Masculine and Feminine in American Poetry," 43-56.]

Vendler, Helen. "Body Language: Leaves of Grass and the Articulation of Sexual Awareness." Harper's Magazine 273 (October 1986), 62-66. [Celebration of the "unbridled joy and passionate candor" of the 1855 Leaves of Grass.]

Vendler, Helen. "Whitman's 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.'" In Mary Ann Caws, ed., Textual Analysis: Some Readers Reading (New York: Modern Language Association, 1986), 132-143.

Wells, Daniel A. "Whitman Allusions in Harper's Monthly to 1900." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 4 (Summer 1986), 16-23.

Weingarden, Lauren S. "Naturalized Technology: Louis H. Sullivan's Whitmanesque Skyscrapers." Centennial Review 30 (Fall 1986), 480-495.

Weisbuch, Robert. Atlantic Double-Cross: American Literature and British Influence in the Age of Emerson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. [Chapter 4, "Whitman's Personalism, Arnold's Culture," 83-106; Chapter 8, "History, Time, and Spirit: Whitman Against Wordsworth, Carlyle and Emerson Against Themselves," 177-192; Chapter 10, "The Actualist Hero: Whitman and Wordsworth, Emerson and Carlyle Once More," 221-245.]

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: A Forged Letter to Peter Doyle." The Long-Islander 148 (May 8, 1986), 18.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: Apollinaire's April Fool's Hoax." The Long-Islander 148 (May 1, 1986), 14.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: Found: A Whitman Long-Islander." The Long-Islander 149 (July 31, 1986), 13.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: John Ciardi and Walt Whitman." The Long-Islander 148 (April 17, 1986), 18.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: Letters from Woodbury." The Long-Islander 148 (April 3, 1986), 20-21.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, the Poet's Mother." The Long-Islander 148 (January 9, 1986), 3.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: On Walter Whitman, Sr." The Long-Islander 148 (January 23, 1986), 3.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: One Hundred Years Ago." The Long-Islander 148 (January 2, 1986), 8.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: Opinions of Famous Authors on Whitman." The Long-Islander 148 (March 13, 1986), 12.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: Parodies of Leaves of Grass." The Long-Islander 148 (February 27, 1986), 20.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: 'Saint Walt.'" The Long-Islander 149 (November 20, 1986), 3, 15.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: Teaching School on Long Island, 1836." The Long-Islander 149 (September 25, 1986), 11.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: 'The Midnight Visitor' Not by Walt Whitman." The Long-Islander 149 (October 30, 1986), 6.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: Whitman's California." The Long-Islander 148 (January 30, 1986), 14.

White, William. "About Walt Whitman: Who Is Walt Whitman? What Did He Do?" The Long-Islander 148 (March 20, 1986), 14. [Student's responses.]

White, William. Brief review of Joann P. Krieg, ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now. American Literature 58 (May 1986), 313-314.

White, William. "For the Whitman Collector: 'My 71st Year'--Changes by the Poet." Starting from Paumanok 3 (Winter-Spring 1987), 3.

White, William. "For the Whitman Collector: Philip Hale's Copy of Two Rivulets." Starting from Paumanok 2 (Summer 1986), 3.

White, William. "For the Whitman Collector: The Statue on Bear Mountain." Starting from Paumanok 2 (Winter 1986), 2.

White, William. "For the Whitman Collector: Who is Lilla Gosling?" Starting from Paumanok 2 (Spring 1986), 3.

White, William. "'Morbid Adhesiveness--To Be Kept Down': Unpublished MS." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 4 (Summer 1986), 49.

White, William. "Walt Whitman: Born May 31, 1819--Died March 26, 1892." The Long-Islander 148 (June 5, 1986), 7.

White, William. "Walt Whitman in Virginia." Charlottesville/Albemarle Observer 10 (January 29-February 4, 1987), 5.

White, William. "Whitman: A Current Bibliography." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (Winter 1986), 39-43.

White, William. "Whitman: A Current Bibliography." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 4 (Spring 1986), 48-50.

White, William. "Whitman: A Current Bibliography." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 4 (Summer 1986), 41-43.

Whitman, Walt. ["Darest Thou Now O Soul."] New York: The Petrarch Press, 1986. [Limited edition of 300 printed on handmade paper; J. Finegold, calligrapher.]

Whitman, Walt. "Tagebuch, 1876-1882," "Ein Gesang von der Rollenden Erde." Falk 29 (June 1986), n.p. [Entire issue devoted to reprinted selections from Hans Reisinger's German translation of Specimen Days and "A Song of the Rolling Earth," with a German translation of Bronson Alcott's impressions of Whitman (on the inside back cover); in German.]

Whitman, William W. Walt. A play in three acts, 1986. [Performed on May 8, 1986 in Iowa City, and scheduled for a two-week run in October and November, 1988, in Iowa City as the University of Iowa's entry in the National College Theater Festival.]

Wormser, Baron. "Homage to Thomas Eakins." Manhattan Review 4 (Fall 1986), 10. [Poem.]

Unsigned. "'Mac' [C. H. 'Mac' MacLachlan]," "New Logo Adopted," "Gifts and Grants," "New Essay Collection [Walt Whitman Quarterly Review]," "Coming Up," "New Members." Starting from Paumanok 2 (Winter 1986), 1, 3, 4.

Unsigned. "Walt Inspires Poet, Artist" [Yuhn-Bok Kim, Alexander Stirling Calder]. Starting from Paumanok 2 (Summer 1986), 1.

Unsigned. "Whitman Birthplace Gets Talented New Director." Starting from Paumanok 3 (Winter/Spring 1987), 1-2.

Unsigned. "Whitman Message Echoes Hauntingly from Middle East." Starting from Paumanok 3 (Fall 1986), 2. [Also, "WW Honor Roll," pp. 1-2; "Whitman House's Loss Is Sleepy Hollow's Gain," p. 2; "The 1986 West Hills Review," p. 3; "Whitmania," "New Members," p. 4.]

Unsigned. "Words & Pictures Together in Display: Whitman Portraits Exhibited, Whitman and Portraiture." Starting from Paumanok 2 (Summer 1986), 2. [Also, "Whitmania," "Brother, Can You Spare a Program," "Fall Poetry Workshops," p. 3; "New Members," p. 4.]