Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography
1988

This bibliography last revised June 15, 2002.
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Aaron, Daniel. "Whitman and the Founding Fathers." The Mickle Street Review 10 (1988), 5-12. [On Whitman's "'Founding Father' worship" and his poetic use of American history.]

Ackerley, C. J. "Canto 82: Pound, Swinburne (Shelley), Aeschylus, Whitman." Paideuma 17 (Fall/Winter 1988), 209-210. [Notes allusion to "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" in Pound's Canto 82.]

Allen, Gay Wilson. "Kornei Chukofsky, Whitman's Russian Translator." Mickle Street Review 9 (Part 2, 1988), 35-41.

Andrews, Malcolm. "Walt Whitman and the American City." In Graham Clarke, ed., The American City: Literary and Cultural Perspectives (New York: St. Martin's, 1988), 179-197. [Whitman's celebration of an energetic urban experience contrasts with British evocations of the city; New York City is the basis of Whitman's "natural, exuberant iconoclasm" and the source for his cataloguing technique.]

Antler. "Walt Whitman, Camerado." The Mickle Street Review 10 (1988), 81-84. [Appreciation of Whitman's "love embracing all."]

Aspiz, Harold. Review of M. Wynn Thomas, The Lunar Light of Whitman's Poetry. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 5 (Winter 1988), 25-27.

Asselineau, Roger. Review of M. Wynn Thomas, The Lunar Light of Whitman's Poetry. Études Anglaises 41 (July-September 1988), 368-369.

Asselineau, Roger. "When Walt Whitman Was a Parisian." Mickle Street Review 9 (Part 2, 1988), 30-34.

Balakian, Peter. "Whitman as Jeremiah." The Mickle Street Review 10 (1988), 71-80. [Analysis of Democratic Vistas as a bleak American jeremiad.]

Bart, Barbara M., ed. Starting From Paumanok 3 (Fall 1988). [Contains various news items dealing with activities of Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, a memorial tribute to Evie Allison Allen (p. 4), and a review, listed separately below.]

Bauerlein, Mark Weightman. "The Signs of Feeling: A Study of Whitman's Poetics and Poetry." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1988. [DAI 49/09A, 2656.]

Baym, Nina. Review of Agnieszka Salska, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Modern Language Review 83 (July 1988), 694-696.

Beach, Christopher John. "ABC of Influence: Ezra Pound and the Remaking of the American Poetic Tradition." Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1988. [Pound tradition traced "from the 'open' American poetic idiom" of Whitman. DAI 49/08-A, 2217.]

Bickman, Martin. American Romantic Psychology: Emerson, Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville. Dallas: Spring Publications, 1988. [Chapter 6, "A Word Out of the Sea: Walt Whitman," pp. 95-116; the book is a reprinting of Bickman's The Unsounded Centre: Jungian Studies in American Romanticism (1980), with a new title, a new introduction, and a new appendix.]

Booth, Martin. "Whitman's Soldier Boy." West Hills Review 8 (1988), 11. [Poem.]

Broderick, Charles C. "Charles E. Feinberg Dies, Was Literary Benefactor." Library of Congress Information Bulletin 49 (May 9, 1988), 194-195.

Carr, Brian. "Walt Whitman, Autumn, 1987." The Mickle Street Review 10 (1988), 38. [Poem.]

Cartosio, Bruno. "Whitman e le masse." Contesti 1 (1988), 61-68. [Censorious account of Whitman's politics, countering Matthiessen's view of Whitman as socialist. In Italian.]

Cherkovski, Neeli. "Ginsberg, Whitman and America." Another Chicago Magazine 18 (1988), 211-221. [Excerpt from Cherkovski's Whitman's Wild Children (1988).]

Cherkowski, Neeli. Whitman's Wild Children. Venice, CA: Lapis Press, 1988. [Essays on poets "directly in line with Whitman": Charles Bukowski, John Wieners, James Broughton, Philip Lamantia, Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, William Everson, Gregory Corso, Harold Norse, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.]

Christman, Henry M., ed. Walt Whitman's New York: From Manhattan to Montauk. New York: New Amsterdam Books, 1989. [Reprint of 1963 Macmillan edition; contains Whitman's "Brooklyniana" articles from the Brooklyn Standard.]

Clarke, Graham. "A 'Sublime and Atrocious' Spectacle: New York and the Iconography of Manhattan Island." In Graham Clarke, ed., The American City: Literary and Cultural Perspectives (New York: St. Martin's, 1988), 36-61. [Whitman's image of the city is of a place "alive with transcendent presence . . . a vertical growth," opposed to Melville's dark vision of a city of limitations; Dos Passos, Stephen Crane, Dreiser, Hart Crane, Stieglitz, and others are considered in relation to this dichotomy.]

Coleman, Alexander. "The Ghost of Whitman in Neruda and Borges." Mickle Street Review 9 (Part 2, 1988), 76-89.

Cory, Jim. "At Whitman's Tomb." The Mickle Street Review 10 (1988), 86-87. [Poem.]

Crawford, Peter. "John Burroughs." In John W. Rathburn and Monica M. Grecu, eds., American Literary Critics and Scholars, 1850-1880 (Detroit: Gale Research, 1988), 9-15. [Burroughs as a literary critic, with commentary on Burroughs's writings about Whitman.]

Cumberland, Sharon. "On Brooklyn Heights Promenade: Speaking to Whitman's Voice in 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.'" The Mickle Street Review 10 (1988), 32-35. [Poem.]

Dacey, Philip. "Thomas Eakins: The Secret Whitman Sitting." Hudson Review 41 (Autumn 1988), 489-492. [Poem imagining Whitman posing in the nude for Eakins.]

Engell, John. "Walt and Sir Walter or the Bard and the Bart.: Balladeers." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 5 (Spring 1988), 1-15.

Erkkila, Betsy. Review of Whitman, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts , ed. Edward F. Grier. The Mickle Street Review 10 (1988), 102-115.

Everett, Graham. "A Reading of Walt Whitman's 'Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun.'" West Hills Review 8 (1988), 105-111.

Fahey, W. A., ed. West Hills Review: A Walt Whitman Journal, 8 (1988). [Contains five line drawings of Whitman by Alfred Van Loen, fifty-four poems, and six essays; the poems and essays dealing with Whitman are listed separately in this bibliography.]

Fahey, W. A. "Whitman and Pop Culture." Starting from Paumanok 3 (Fall 1988), 1, 4. [Review of David Reynolds, Beneath the American Renaissance.]

Feinberg, Charles E. "Charles Feinberg on Whitman." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 6 (Summer 1988), 39-56. [Contains recollections of and tributes to Charles Feinberg by Gay Wilson Allen, Roger Asselineau, Ed Folsom, Arthur Golden, C. Carroll Hollis, Jerome Loving, Edwin Haviland Mimller, and William White; and excerpts of Feinberg's writings on Whitman.]

Ferg, Josh. "The Ebbs of Youth." The Mickle Street Review 10 (1988), 90. [Poem.]

Fisher, Philip. "Democratic Social Space: Whitman, Melville, and the Promise of American Transparency." Representations 24 (Autumn 1988), 60-101. [Investigation of how Americans have developed a "common identity" based on economic rather than historical, ideological, religious, or linguistic factors; Whitman develops an "aesthetics of identity" where "each person becomes transparent to every other within society."]

Flint, Christopher. "Flesh of the Poet: Representations of the Body in Romancero gitano and Poeta en Nueva York." Papers on Language & Literature 24 (Spring 1988), 177-211. [In his "Oda a Walt Whitman," Lorca offers the "body of Whitman" as a "deified symbol of physical, moral, political, and sexual transcendence."]

Folsom, Ed. "Another Harry Stafford Letter." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 5 (Spring 1988), 43-44.

Folsom, Ed, ed. "Charles E. Feinberg: A Tribute." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 6 (Summer 1988), 39-56. [Contains recollections of and tributes to Charles Feinberg by Gay Wilson Allen, Roger Asselineau, Ed Folsom, Arthur Golden, C. Carroll Hollis, Jerome Loving, Edwin Haviland Miller, and William White; and excerpts of Feinberg's writings on Whitman.]

Folsom, Ed. "Holograph Page of Whitman's 'Abraham Lincoln.'" Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 5 (Winter 1988), 47-48.

Folsom, Ed. Review of M. Wynn Thomas, The Lunar Light of Whitman's Poetry. Philological Quarterly 67 (1988), 393-396.

Folsom, Ed. "The Poets Continue to Respond: More Citations of Whitman as Poetic Subject." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 5 (Winter 1988), 35-40.

Folsom, Ed. "Whitman and the Visual Democracy of Photography." The Mickle Street Review 10 (1988), 51-65. [The democratic lessons photography taught Whitman, and the ways photography helped him structure his art.]

French, R. W. "Walt to Ezra." The Mickle Street Review 10 (1988), 70. [Poem.]

French, R. W. "Whitman's 'Overstaid Fraction': Section 38 of 'Song of Myself.'" Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 5 (Winter 1988), 17-22.

Gargan, Edward A. "Walt Whitman Sings Anew, But Now With a Chinese Lilt." New York Times (16 February 1988), 1, 5. [About Zhao Luorui's Chinese translation of Leaves of Grass, due to be completed this year. Reprinted in many other newspapers. See also Shirley Horner, "About Books," New York Times (20 March 1988), New Jersey section, p. 34, where Professor Zhao's debts to Gay Wilson Allen are discussed.]

Giantvalley, Scott. "Additional Whitman Allusions in Harper's Monthly." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 5 (Winter 1988), 40-41.

Golden, Arthur. "A Recovered Harry Stafford Letter to Walt Whitman." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 5 (Spring 1988), 40-43.

Golden, Arthur. "The Text of a Whitman Lincoln Lecture Reading: Anacreon's 'The Midnight Visitor.'" Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 6 (Fall 1988), 91-94.

Grabo, Norman S. Review of George Hutchinson, The Ecstatic Whitman. American Literature 60 (December 1988), 668-670.

Grünzweig, Walter. "'Inundated by This Mississippi of Poetry': Walt Whitman and German Expressionism." Mickle Street Review 9 (Part 2, 1988), 51-63.

Grünzweig, Walter. "'Mit dem Phallus philosophieren': Hermann Bahr's Vision of Walt Whitman's 'Erotokratie.'" Modern Austrian Literature 21 (1988), 1-12. [On Bahr's discovery of Whitman's "democracy of the heart" as a basis for his vision of a new global intercultural age.]

Grünzweig, Walter. "'Collaborators in the Great Cause of Liberty and Fellowship': Whitmania as an Intercultural Phenomenon." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 5 (Spring 1988), 16-26.

Harding, Brian. "Transcendentalism and Autobiography: Emerson, Whitman and Thoreau." In A. Robert Lee, ed., First Person Singular: Studies in American Autobiography (London: Vision Press, and New York: St. Martin's, 1988), 57-71. [Leaves of Grass as a "symbolic or 'universal' autobiography."]

Hausman, Margaret Jane. "Syntactic Disordering in Modern Poetry: Index, Icon, Symbol." Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University, 1988. [Examination of hyperbaton and other rhetorical figures in relation to poetry and poetics of Whitman, among others. DAI 49 08A, 2210.]

Higgins, Charles Michael. "Through a Camera, Darkly: Early Photography and the American Romantic Imagination from Poe to James." Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University, 1988. [Introductory chapter on "Emerson and Whitman's fascination with the new medium" of photography. DAI 50/01-A, 179.]

Hindus, Milton. Essays: Personal and Impersonal. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1988. [Reprints, on pp. 59-78, "Walt Whitman: Critical Reception from 1855 to the Present," from Hindus, ed., Walt Whitman: The Critical Heritage (1971).]

Hollis, C. Carroll. "Recollections of Charles Feinberg." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 6 (Summer 1988), 47-54.

Howell, Craig. "Chatham: The Original 'Whitman-Walker Clinic.'" Washington Blade 19 (January 1, 1988), 1, 11. [Summarizes Whitman's and Dr. Mary Walker's nursing services at the Chatham mansion hospital after the Battle of Fredericksburg.]

Hughes, James M. "Whitman and Longfellow: The Breaking Up of Vessels." West Hills Review 8 (1988), 62-69.

Hulsker, Jan. "Whitman and Van Gogh: An Exchange." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 5 (Winter 1988), 22-24. [With a response from Jean Schwind.]

Hutchinson, Stuart. Review of M. Wynn Thomas, The Lunar Light of Whitman's Poetry. Notes and Queries 35 (September 1988), 419-420.

Ignatow, David. The One in the Many: A Poet's Memoirs. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1988. ["My Life with Whitman," 69-81; reprinted from West Hills Review, 1979.]

Jaffe, Dan. Round for One Voice. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1988. ["Whitman on a Scaffold," 59-61; poem.]

Katz, Eliot. "As I Stand Before Your Grave, Camerado--lines written at Whitman's Tomb, July 5th, 1986." The Mickle Street Review 10 (1988), 36-38. [Poem.]

Kerr, Anita. In the Soul. New York: GAIA Records, 1988. [Recording of selections of Whitman's poetry with original synthesizer music.]

Kim, Yong-ho. Whitman and Han Yong-Un. Seoul: Sasayon Press, 1988. [In Korean.]

Kowit, Steve. "A Whitman Portrait." The Mickle Street Review 10 (1988), 49-50. [Poem.]

Krieg, Joann Peck. "Gilchrist Portrait of Whitman at Whitman House." Starting from Paumanok 4 (Winter 1989), 1, 5. [On Herbert Gilchrist's portraits of Whitman, with reproduction of crayon drawing.]

Kuebrich, David. Review of Harold Bloom, ed., Walt Whitman: Modern Critical Views. Mickle Street Review 9 (Part 2, 1988), 98-102.

Kuebrich, David. Review of George B. Hutchinson, The Ecstatic Whitman. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 5 (Winter 1988), 27- 33.

Kummings, Donald D. Review of Edwin H. Cady and Louis J. Budd, eds., On Whitman: The Best from American Literature. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 6 (Summer 1988), 33-35.

Kummings, Donald D. Review of Joann P. Krieg, ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now. Mickle Street Review 9 (Part 2, 1988), 92-96.

Kummings, Donald D. Review of Walt Whitman, An American Primer [Holy Cow! Press reprint]. The Mickle Street Review 10 (1988), 99-102.

Larson, Kerry C. Whitman's Drama of Consensus. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Li, XiLao. "Whitman in China." Mickle Street Review 9 (Part 2, 1988), 67-73.

Link, Franz. "Zur Funktion der Syntax in der Prosodie Walt Whitmans." In Richard Matthews and Joachim Schmole-Rostosky, eds., Papers on Language and Medieval Studies Presented to Alfred Schopf (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1988), 113-124.

Loving, Jerome. "Walt Whitman." In Emory Elliott, ed., Columbia Literary History of the United States. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988, pp. 448-462.

Maini, Darshan Singh. The Spirit of American Literature. New York: Envoy Press, 1988. [Contains "Walt Whitman's Passage to Punjab."]

Malone, Edward A. "Whitman as Poetic Subject: Additional Citations." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 5 (Winter 1988), 34-35.

Mann, C. Review of Ed Folsom, ed., This Heart's Geography's Map: Photographs of Walt Whitman [special issue of Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 4 (Fall 1986/Winter 1987)]. History of Photography 12 (January-March 1988), 83.

Marr, David. American Worlds Since Emerson. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988. [Chapter 2, "'Come Forth, Sweet Democratic Despots of the West!': Whitman's Democratic Vistas," 73-91.]

Martin, Robert K. Review of Sacvan Bercovitch, ed., Reconstructing American Literature. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 5 (Spring 1988), 45-47.

Martin, Robert K. "Walt Whitman und Thomas Mann." Forum Homosexualität und Literature (1988), 5:59-68. [German version of essay originally in Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 1987.]

Marx, Leo. The Pilot and the Passenger: Essays on Literature, Technology, and Culture in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. ["The Vernacular Tradition in American Literature," focusing on Whitman and Twain, appears on pp. 3-17. Reprinted from Die Neueren Sprachen, 1958.]

Matos Moquete, Manuel. "Poética política en la poesía de Pedro Mir." Revista Iberoamericano 54 (January-March 1988), 199-211. [Considers Whitman's influence on Mir, particularly in "Contracanto a Walt Whitman."]

McDonald, Dana. Review of Walt Whitman [videocassette]. School Library Journal 35 (September 1988), 146.

Mills, A. R. "Dear friend . . . Love and Walt Whitman." West Hills Review 8 (1988), 25-32. [On Whitman and Anne Gilchrist.]

Moder, Donna. "Gender Bipolarity and the Metaphorical Dimensions of Creativity in Whitman's Poetry: A Psychological Study." Literature and Psychology 34 (1988), 34-52.

Murphy, Kevin. "Walt Whitman and Louis Sullivan: The Aesthetics of Egalitarianism." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 6 (Summer 1988), 1-15.

Murray, Dan. "Another Lesson." The Mickle Street Review 10 (1988), 14. [Poem.]

Nahal, Chaman. "Walt Whitman and the Evolution of the Spirit." West Hills Review 8 (1988), 1-9.

Natanson, Nicholas. "Whitman's 'Election Day, November, 1884.'" Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 5 (Winter 1988), 14-17.

Nelson, Howard. Review of George B. Hutchinson, The Ecstatic Whitman . The Mickle Street Review 10 (1988), 93-96.

Nolan, James F. "Chants Democratic: The Native American Poetics of Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1988. [DAI 50/05-A, 1300.]

Nuhn, Ferner. Central Figures in American Culture: Emerson, Lincoln, Whitman. Millwood, NY: Associated Faculty Press, 1988.

O'Reilly, Edmund Bernard. "Toward Rhetorical Immunity: Narratives of Alcoholism and Recovery." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1988. [Considers Franklin Evans as one of several narratives of alcoholism. DAI 49/09-A, 2771.]

Pacernick, Gary. "To Walt Whitman." The Mickle Street Review 10 (1988), 85. [Poem.]

Peters, Robert. Review of Charley Shively, ed., Calamus Lovers. American Book Review 9 (January/February 1988), 22.

Pollak, Vivian R. "Whitman and Dickinson." In David J. Nordloh, ed., American Literary Scholarship: An Annual/1986 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1988), 69-84. [Bibliographic essay reviewing Whitman scholarship for 1986.]

Porter, Peter, and Geoffrey Moore, eds. Walt Whitman. Crown, 1988. [Small-format selection of poetry, illustrated; part of "Great Poets" series.]

Price, Kenneth M. "Whitman's Influence on Hamlin Garland's Rose of Dutcher's Coolly." Mickle Street Review 9 (Part 2, 1988), 19-29.

Price, Kenneth M. Review of Charley Shively, ed., Calamus Lovers. The Mickle Street Review 10 (1988), 96-99.

Price, Kenneth M., and Robert C. Leitz, III. "The Uncollected Letters of Hamlin Garland to Walt Whitman." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 5 (Winter 1988), 1-13.

Rehder, Robert. "Whitman's Dream." SPELL (Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature) 4 (1988), 33-48. [Wide-ranging essay on how Whitman's "inner context" and the historical events of the outer world--the personal and the historical, the conscious and the unconscious--generated his distinctive and irregular forms as he relived the past "in the day dream of perception."]

Rehder, Robert. Review of M. Wynn Thomas, The Lunar Light of Whitman's Poetry. Review of English Studies 39 (November 1988), 570.

Resch, Kenneth E. "Wordsworth, Whitman, and Us: Finding Personal Relationships." English Journal 77 (April 1988), 19-22. [Teaching Whitman by "relating self to poetry, then poetry to student."]

Reynolds, David S. Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. [Chapter 3, "The Transcendentalists, Whitman, and Popular Reform," pp. 92-112; Chapter 11, "Whitman's Transfigured Sensationalism," pp. 309-333; Chapter 17, "Whitman's Poetic Humor," pp. 507-523.]

Reynolds, David S. Review of M. Wynn Thomas, The Lunar Light of Whitman's Poetry. Mickle Street Review 9, part 2 (1988), 97-98.

Reynolds, David S. "Whitman's America: A Revaluation of the Cultural Background of Leaves of Grass." Mickle Street Review 9 (Part 2, 1988), 5-17.

Reynolds, David S. "Whitman the Radical Democrat." The Mickle Street Review 10 (1988), 39-48. [Whitman's identity with the 1840s popular radical democrat writers, who were at once subversive and patriotic.]

Reynolds, Larry J. European Revolutions and the American Literary Renaissance. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. [Chapter 7, "Revolution, Martyrdom, and Leaves of Grass," pp. 125-152.]

Roche, John F. "Democratic Space: The Ecstatic Geography of Walt Whitman and Frank Lloyd Wright." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 6 (Summer 1988), 16-32.

Rueckert, William H. "Kenneth Burke's Encounters with Walt Whitman." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 6 (Fall 1988), 61-90.

Salska, Agnieszka. Review of M. Wynn Thomas, The Lunar Light of Whitman's Poetry. Nineteenth-Century Literature 44 (September 1988), 253-255.

Sarrailh, Michèle. Domaine de Saturne--I: Note sur Baudelaire / Whitman et les lettres hispaniques. Paris: Editions F. P. Lobies, 1988. [Material on Whitman is on pp. 49-65.]

Sharma, Ambika. "The Influence of the Bhagavadgita on Walt Whitman." In T. R. Sharma, ed., Influence of Bhagavadgita on Literature Written in English (Meerut, India: Shalabh, 1988), 75 94. [Attempts to demonstrate how the "entire Leaves of Grass is flooded with thoughts that find precise parallels in the Bhagavadgita."]

Shucard, Alan. American Poetry: The Puritans Through Walt Whitman. Boston: Twayne, 1988. [Chapter 7, "Walt Whitman," 150-179.]

Sill, Geoffrey M., ed. The Mickle Street Review 9 (Part 2, 1988). [Contains several poems, essays, and reviews; the Whitman-related essays and reviews are listed separately in this bibliography.]

Sill, Geoffrey, ed. The Mickle Street Review 10 (1988). [Special issue on "Walt Whitman and the Foundations of America." Contains six essays and four reviews, listed individually in this bibliography, a preface by Sill ("Whitman and the Foundations of America," 3-4), and sixteen poems (those dealing with Whitman are listed separately in this bibliography).]

Srivastava, Santosh Kumari. Symbolism in the Poetry of Poe and Whitman. New Delhi, India: National Book Organisation, 1988. [Chapter 3, "Walt Whitman," 61-108, analyzes how Whitman's "sole purpose in his poetry has been to recreate [his] transcendental experience with the help of symbolic images."]

Stevenson, John, ed. Starting from Paumanok 3 (Winter 1988). [Contains various articles on activities of Walt Whitman Birthplace Association.]

Stevenson, John C., ed. Starting from Paumanok 3 (Spring 1988). [Contains various news items concerning the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, including the announcement of June Jordan as the 1988 poet-in-residence at the Birthplace.]

Tanenbaum, Miles. "Walt Whitman and American Art." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Tennessee, 1988. [DAI 50/03-A, 687.]

Thomas, David Lee. "Loss, Mourning and the Vatic Dispersal of Self in the Long Poems of Whitman, Eliot, Pound, Berryman and Lowell." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Riverside, 1988. [DAI 49/10A, 3028.]

Thomas, M. Wynn. Review of Robert Shulman, Social Criticism and Nineteenth-Century American Fictions, and Donald Pease, Visionary Compacts. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 6 (Fall 1988), 97-101.

Trachtenberg, Alan. "Whitman's Visionary Politics." The Mickle Street Review 10 (1988), 15-31. [On the centrality of Whitman's "politics of democracy" to his poetry.]

Tritica, John. "The First and Last Reading." The Mickle Street Review 10 (1988), 66-69. [Poem.]

Tucker, Martin, ed. The World of Brooklyn: An Appreciation by Brooklyn Writers. Brookville, NY: Confrontation Magazine Press of Long Island University, 1988. [Contains drawing of Whitman by Elizabeth Karaly, p. 3; excerpts from Whitman's poetry, pp. 3, 98; and Whitman citations in "Brooklyn Bibliography," pp. 67-97. Contents reprinted from Confrontation, 1983.]

Tuten, Nancy Lewis. "In the Romantic Tradition: The Poetry of Galway Kinnell." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of South Carolina, 1988. [Second part deals with the influence of Whitman on Kinnell. DAI 49/10-A, 3028.]

Vendler, Helen. The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. [Chapter 9, "Reading Walt Whitman," 132-146.]

Wakoski, Diane. "The Birth of the San Francisco Renaissance: Something Now Called the Whitman Tradition." Literary Review 32 (Autumn 1988), 36-41. [Tracks the Whitman tradition of "individual voice" in opposition to English Romanticism and to New Critical preferences.]

Warren, Joyce. "Subversion versus Celebration: The Aborted Friendship of Fanny Fern and Walt Whitman." In Shirley Marchalonis, ed., Patrons and Protégées: Gender, Friendship, and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988), 59-93. [Details the relationship of Fanny Fern (Sara Payson Willis) and Whitman, claiming that she was the social radical, he the social conservative.]

Wartofsky, Steven Andrew. "The Crisis of the Whole: National and Personal Identity in Walt Whitman's Poetry." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1988. [DAI 49/11A, 3364.]

Whalen, Kathleen. Review of Lee Bennet Hopkins, ed., Voyages [selection of Whitman poems]. School Library Journal 35 (December 1988), 130.

White, Claire Nicolas. "The Road to Whitman." West Hills Review 8 (1988), 47-50. [Personal testimonial of Whitman's influence.]

White, William. "Whitman in the Popular Media." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 6 (Fall 1988), 95-96.

Whitman, Walt. Foglie d'Erba, ed. Biancamaira Tedeschini Lalli; trans. Ariodante Marianni; introd. Giorgio Manganelli. Milan: Rizzoli Libri, 1988. [Translation of large selection of Leaves of Grass. Reviewed in Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 7 (Summer 1989), 37.]

Whitman, Walt. Voyages: Poems by Walt Whitman, selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, with illustrations by Charles Mikolaycak. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. [Gift book containing 53 poetry selections and six full-page black and white drawings, with an Introduction by Hopkins (pp. xiii-xvi).]

Wilson, Rob. Walking in Seoul. Seoul: Mineumsa Publishing, 1988. ["Walt Whitman East," 132; prose poem.]

Winans, A. D. "Poem for Whitman." The Mickle Street Review 10 (1988), 70. [Poem.]

Wong, Hertha D. "'This Old Theory Broach'd Anew': Darwinism and Whitman's Poetic Program." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 5 (Spring 1988), 27-39.

Woodard, Josef. "Whitman and Ives: 'I Sing America.'" Santa Barbara Independent (September 15, 1988), Arts Section, 1-2. [About Burl Ives's portrayal of Whitman in a one-man show written by Dorothy Ives, called The Mystic Trumpeter: Whitman at 70.]

Wu, Ruoyi. "Checking for Meaning Under My Boot-Soles: A Study of Whitman and Reader-Response Criticism." Master's Thesis, Northeast Missouri State University, 1988. [MAI 27/02, 189.]

Yamauchi, Hisako. "Walt Whitman." In John W. Rathburn and Monica M. Grecu, eds., American Literary Critics and Scholars, 1850-1880 (Detroit: Gale Research, 1988), 274-287. [Whitman as a literary critic.]

Zassoursky, Yassen. "Whitman's Reception and Influence in the Soviet Union." Mickle Street Review 9 (Part 2, 1988), 42- 49.

Zhang, Yajiu. "Reading Whitman's Prose." Foreign Literature Studies [China] 39 (March 1988), 39-44. [In Chinese.]

Unsigned. "Charles Feinberg, 88, A Whitman Collector." New York Times (4 March 1988), B9. [Obituary.]

Unsigned. Review of Agnieszka Salska, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Dickinson Studies 66 (1988), 3-4.

Unsigned. Review of Lee Bennett Hopkins, ed., Voyages [selection of Whitman poems]. Publishers Weekly 234 (November 11, 1988), 56.