Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography
1992

This bibliography last revised May 7, 2004.
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Aebischer, Fritz. "Whitman on My Tongue." In Kenneth F. Gambone, ed., Remembering Walt Whitman (N.p.: Walnut Leaf, 1992), 11-14. [Recalls performing the baritone part of composer Howard Hanson's musical setting of "Drum-Taps" in 1938; lists Hanson's Whitman compositions.]

Allen, Gay Wilson. "Coming Round to Whitman." News & Observer [Raleigh, NC] (March 22, 1992), 5G. [Centennial tribute to Whitman.]

Allen, Gay Wilson. "Dual Images of Walt Whitman." Études Anglaises 45 (July-September 1992), 259-267. [How photographs, paintings, sculptures, and caricatures of Whitman from his time to the present have emphasized the dual aspects of Whitman as sensual and spiritual; with twelve illustrations.]

Ammons, A. R. Untitled. Massachusetts Review 33 (Spring 1992), 69. [Brief statement on Whitman: "I now read most of Whitman as meaning exactly the opposite of what it says. . . ."]

Anderson, Jon. "Whitman Still Opening Doors to the Soul." Chicago Tribune (March 24, 1992), Section 2: 1, 5. [About variety of Centennial events worldwide.]

Anderson, Quentin. "A Culture of One's Own." American Scholar 61 (Autumn 1992), 533-551. [Analyzes how Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman, reacting to the "desiccating sameness in the preoccupations of those about them," invented "inclusive claims for the resources of the self" and "proclaimed that the road to a community of equals lay solely in a transformation of individuals -a wholesale secular conversion."]

Asselineau, Roger. Reviews of Graham Clarke, Walt Whitman: The Poem as Private History, and Ezra Greenspan, Walt Whitman and the American Reader. Études Anglaises 45 (July-September 1992), 354 355. [In French.]

Asselineau, Roger. "Walt Whitman's Democracy Yesterday and Today." In Paul A. Isbell, ed., Homenaje a Walt Whitman en el Centenario de Su Muerte/Homage to Walt Whitman on the Centenary of His Death (Madrid: Casa de America, United States Information Service, 1992), 21-23. [Contrasts the idealized poetry of Democracy in Leaves of Grass with the more realistic "prose of Democracy" in Democratic Vistas.]

Asselineau, Roger. "Quelques interprétations et lectures de Leaves of Grass." Études Anglaises 45 (July-September 1992), 268-274. [Proposes a reading of Leaves based on Gaston Bachelard's "material imagination"; in French.]

Asselineau, Roger. "Walt Whitman." In Encyclopédie Philosophique Universelle (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1992), I (part 2), 2184. [Short piece introducing Whitman's philosophy; in French.]

Asselineau, Roger, ed. Études Anglaises 45 (July-September 1992), 257-340. Special Whitman Centennial issue, containing eight essays (listed separately in this bibliography), a preface ("Walt Whitman, 1892-1992") by Roger Asselineau (257-258; in French), and a "Post-Scriptum" by Jacques Darras (340; in French).

Avi-Ram, Amitai. "Free Verse in Whitman and Ginsberg: The Body and the Simulacrum." In Robert K. Martin, ed., The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992), 94-113. [Argues that "in Whitman we have not the rhythmic body but a simulacrum of the body . . . the replacement of the real thing by a conceptual image of it that can be bought and sold"; in Whitman's poetry, "the body is loudly proclaimed in the overt content, while it is actually suppressed from any direct experience through rhythm."]

Badenhausen, Richard. "In Search of 'Native Moments': T. S. Eliot (Re)Reads Walt Whitman." South Atlantic Review 57 (November 1992), 77-91. [Traces Eliot's shifting "feelings toward Whitman," quoting his 1944 lecture on Whitman ("a complete repudiation of his earlier [dismissive] view of Whitman") and suggesting that Whitman "allowed Eliot an avenue by which he could return to the native land from which he had been running for so long."]

Baepler, Paul. "Pastiche of My Subjectivity." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9 (Winter 1992), 155-156. [Poem parodying post-modernism and its jargon by way of "Song of Myself"; also published on cover of Exquisite Corpse #35 (1992). ]

Bardavío, José María. "'What Does It Mean Foeses, Feses or Foetuses?" In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 23-32. [Offers a psychological and sexual interpretation (responding to Michael Moon) of the irregular meter in "Song of the Broad-Axe"; in Spanish.]

Bart, Barbara, ed. Starting from Paumanok 7 (Fall 1992). [Newsletter of the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, containing news of WWBA activities.]

Baveystock, F. Review of Graham Clarke, Walt Whitman: The Poem as Private History. Notes and Queries 39 (June 1992), 244.

Beatty, Mary Lou, ed. Humanities 13 (March/April 1992). [Special issue on Whitman and the American Renaissance, with editor's note, "The Walt Whitman Centennial" (2), and two essays on Whitman, listed separately in this bibliography.]

Beauregard, Sue-Ellen. Brief review of Philip Callow, From Noon to Starry Night. Booklist 89 (September 1, 1992), 40.

Belgodere, Jeanine. "Le motif de la danse dans Leaves of Grass de Walt Whitman." Études Anglaises 45 (July-September 1992), 299-310. [Investigates how the dynamics and rhythms of Leaves of Grass suggest elements of dance, and how Whitman's work is a precursor of "la nouvelle esthétique de la danse"; in French.]

Bell, Marvin. "Whitman's Grass." Massachusetts Review 33 (Spring 1992), 70-71. [Poem.]

Bensko, John. "Narrating Position and Force in Whitman's Drum- Taps." In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 33-43. [How Whitman varies his "narrating stances" in Drum-Taps to give "a progression of limited perspectives" on the war rather than "one encompassing, coherent vision."]

Berger, James A. "Whitman's Rejection of 'Respondez!'" Essays in Literature 19 (Autumn 1992), 221-230. [Analyzes "Respondez!" and contrasts the ironic effects of its "extended list of grammatical imperatives" with the affirming effects of imperatives in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry."]

Bernardi, Giuseppe. "La grande avventura del Saggio di Camden." Il Giornale Nuovo (February 24, 1992). [Summarizes Whitman's poetic career; in Italian.]

Bertolucci, Attilio. "Viene da lui il mio verso libero." Corriere della Sera [Milan, Italy] (February 2, 1992), Cultura 1. [About Whitman's influence on Bertolucci's own work; in Italian.]

Bethel, Denise. "Clean and Bright Mirror: Whitman, New York, and the Daguerreotype." Seaport 26 (Spring 1992), 18-25. [Examines the known daguerreotypes of Whitman from the 1840s and 1850s; includes outstanding color reproductions of two Whitman daguerreotypes.]

Bethel, Denise. "Notes on an Early Daguerreotype of Walt Whitman." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9 (Winter 1992), 148-153. [Offers evidence that the well-known early daguerreotype of Whitman frequently cited as the poet's earliest known photograph "was not taken in New York, but in New Orleans, and thus can be dated precisely to that period of February to May, 1848."]

Bidney, Martin. "Thinking about Walt and Melville in a Sherwood Anderson Tale: An Independent Woman's Transcendental Quest." Studies in Short Fiction 29 (Autumn 1992), 517-530. [Reads the characters Walter Sayers and Melville Stoner in Anderson's "Out of Nowhere into Nothing" as figures suggesting "Anderson's attitude regarding two of his notable visionary predecessors, Walt Whitman and Herman Melville."]

Boorstin, Daniel J. The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination. New York: Random House, 1992. [Chapter 62, "Songs of the Self," contains a summary of Whitman's life and writings, 623 628.]

Brand, Dana. The Spectator and the City in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. [Chapter 8, "'Immense Phantom Concourse': Whitman and the Urban Crowd," 156-185, explores "the nature and contexts of Whitman's imaginative interaction with the city," his roles as a "flaneur" and a metaphorical photographer of the urban landscape, and his partially successful attempt "to offer a theory of how it might be possible to live in the midst of crowds of strangers" by viewing individuals as representatives of a collectivity--each face in the crowd becoming "the temporary focus of a love that is actually directed toward the entire collectivity."]

Broncano, Manuel. "Whitman through Borges, Borges through Whitman." In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 45-50. [Summarizes Borges's views of Whitman, suggesting that "in Whitman Borges finds a representation, or a metaphor, of himself."]

Brouwer, Norman. "'Cross from Shore to Shore': Whitman's Brooklyn Ferry." Seaport 26 (Spring 1992), 64-67. [Informative history of the Fulton Ferry during Whitman's lifetime.]

Brown, Kurt. "Finer Than Prayer." Massachusetts Review 33 (Spring 1992), 72-74. [Memoir of Brown's encounter with Whitman's work in the New York Public Library.]

Brown, Susan Margaret. "Pessoa and Whitman." In Robert K. Martin, ed., The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992), 167-181. [Explores "Whitman as the catalyzing force" resulting in Fernando Pessoa's development of "two interrelated personae, Caeiro and Campos," who manifest strikingly different responses to Whitman.]

Burnette, Margo Malden, ed. Conversations (Winter 1992). [Newsletter of the Walt Whitman Association, with news of WWA activities, and one article (listed separately in this bibliography).]

Butterfield, R.W. Review of James Perrin Warren, Walt Whitman's Language Experiment. Modern Language Review 87 (July 1992), 718 719.

Cagle, Charles Harmon. "Walt Whitman: Un Pie en la Grecia Antigua, el Otro en un Bar Gay." Quimera: Revista-de-Literatura 109 (1992), 28-33. [Attempts to "recover in biography and poetry" the evidence of Whitman's homosexuality; in Spanish.]

Callow, Philip. From Noon to Starry Night: A Life of Walt Whitman. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1992.

Camboni, Marina. "The Marks of Time in the Editions of Leaves of Grass: A Proposal for Interpretation." In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 51-60. [Views Leaves as a "textual organism" and focuses on "Prayer of Columbus" as a case study of how Whitman's work "evolv[es] from initial blending with its author's life-story to a progressive detachment and final autonomy."]

Campbell, Josie P., ed. ATQ n.s. 6 (September 1992). [Special issue on Whitman, with five essays, listed individually in this bibliography, and an introduction by Campbell, 145-149.]

Campos Muñoz, Antonio. "El Cuerpo en Walt Whitman." In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 61-64. [Discusses the nature of the body in Whitman's poetry, investigating whether or not Whitman's understanding of the body matches a contemporary understanding; in Spanish.]

Castanier, Chris. "'Roadworks': The Open Frontier in American Literature of Travel." Ph.D. Dissertation, Wayne State University, 1992. [Argues that the "American frontier is not closed" and is kept open by travel writers; suggests Whitman is vital to this tradition because he accepts "city and country as viable roadworks landscapes"; DAI 53 (June 1993), 4318A.]

Ceniza, Sherry. Review of Marion Alcaro, Walt Whitman's Mrs. G. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9 (Spring 1992), 217-220.

Ceniza, Sherry. "Women's Letters to Walt Whitman: Some Corrections." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9 (Winter 1992), 142-147. [Corrects a false gender attribution in Edwin Haviland Miller's "Calendar of Letters Written to Whitman," in which Miller describes Ada H. Spalding's letter as from a male correspondent, and points out that another letter, attributed to "Pedalia (?) Bates," is in fact from women's rights activist Redelia Bates; explores the implications of these errors.]

Chandran, K. Narayan. "Walt Whitman and William Cowper: A Borrowing." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9 (Spring 1992), 211-214. [Presents the case that Whitman borrowed a line from Cowper's "On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture Out of Norfolk" for his "Passage to India" and argues that the connection underscores larger points regarding the aesthetic weakness of "Passage" and Whitman's evolution toward a more "conventional logocentrism."]

Clark, William Bedford. "Whitman, Warren, and the Literature of Discovery." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 10 (Summer 1992), 10-15. [Examines Robert Penn Warren's responses to Whitman (especially Warren's poem "Empire") and argues that "it was Whitman against whom [Warren] always implicitly defined himself, for like Whitman he took the promise of the American experiment as his perennial (some might say excessive) theme."]

Clemente, Vince. "Night Poem: Following Whitman." In Kenneth F. Gambone, ed., Remembering Walt Whitman (N.p.: Walnut Leaf, 1992), 7-8. [Poem.]

Cmiel, Kenneth. "'A Broad Fluid Language of Democracy': Discovering the American Idiom." Journal of American History 79 (December 1992), 913-936. [Studies nineteenth-century American "language debates" and their ties to "issues of nationalism" and the "liberating implications of democracy," with special attention to Whitman's commitment to "an unbound American language," an idea that "in the years after the Civil War . . . would become commonplace, although by no means universally accepted."]

Colin, Gianluigi. "Una celbrazione in bianco e nero." Corriere della Sera [Milan, Italy] (February 2, 1992), Cultura 2. [About Italian artist Guido Villa's discovery of Whitman and series of artworks about Whitman; in Italian.]

Colinas, Antonio. La Llamada del bosque." ABC [Literario] (March 26, 1992), 15. [Introductory comments on Whitman, with emphasis on "Whispers of Heavenly Death"; in Spanish.]

Comer, Keith V. "Strange Meetings: Walt Whitman, Wilfred Owen and Poetry of War." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oregon, 1992. [Explores how Whitman and Owen "confront the immense difficulties of finding a means of adequate poetic response in an age of mechanized mass death." DAI 53 (February 1993), 2803-A.]

Conroy, Sarah Booth. "Chronicles: Walt Whitman's D.C. Days." Washington Post (March 29, 1992), F1. [Summarizes Whitman's life as a "Washingtonian" from 1862-1873.]

Crager, Jack. "Song of a Favorite Son: Brooklyn Joins in Celebration of Whitman." Bay Ridge Paper (Brooklyn, NY), B1. [About Whitman Centennial events in Brooklyn, with comments on Whitman by Jim LaVilla-Havelin, Allen Ginsberg, and Charles Shively.]

Crivelli, Renzo S. "Celebrando Walt Whitman cantore dell'America moderna." Corriere di Novara [Novara, Italy] (March 9, 1992), 15. [About Italian artist Guido Villa's illustrations of Whitman; in Italian.]

Cummings, Glenn N. "Whitman's Specimen Days and the Theatricality of 'Semirenewal.'" ATQ n.s. 6 (September 1992), 177-187. [Uses Paul de Man's notions of temporality and autobiography to question "if and how Whitman recovers" from "war and illness" in Specimen Days, concluding that he enacts a "semirenewal," observing Nature as theatre rather than uniting with it as he did in his earlier work.]

Darras, Jacques and Kenneth White. "Changement de Cap sur Fond d'Amerique." [A discussion between Darras and White, moderated by Gilles Farcet, concerning Whitman, American poetry, and American culture.]

Davenport, Guy. "Whitman a Century after His Death." Yale Review 80 (October 1992), 1-15. [Claims that "Whitman thrives best in allusion and obliquities," that he is "not the people's poet but a poet's poet," and illustrates this claim with Ronald Johnson's poetic cycle, "Letters to Whitman."]

Davey, Christina. "Woman's Journey in the Poetry of Walt Whitman." M.A. Thesis, Western Washington University, 1992. [Examines "Whitman's Quakerism and his knowledge of Quaker women as sources for the poet's portrayal of women," emphasizing the "way woman became both passive and active."]

Davis, Robert Leigh. "Whitman and the Romance of Medicine." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1992. [Focuses on Whitman's Civil War writings, viewing his "depictions of sick and injured bodies" as the surprising model for his "ideal democratic polity," where the "suffering body" in need of care is "an analogue for the desirable instability of democratic authority"; compares Whitman's writings to those of Richard Selzer. DAI 53 (April 1993), 3527A-3528A.]

Davis, Robert Leigh. "Whitman's Tympanum: A Reading of Drum- Taps." ATQ n.s. 6 (September 1992), 163-175. [Focuses on the "doubleness of Drum-Taps, suggesting that for Whitman the Civil War was "both wounding and healing"; Drum-Taps evokes "a romance world between fact and dream, a homosexual world between wandering and community, a convalescent world between recovery and death," working toward a "middle ground," offering, "against the binary deadlock of secession and civil war, a curious combination of intermingled states."]

Dean, James. Review of Kenneth Price, Whitman and Tradition. Literature and History 1 (Autumn 1992), 124.

DePalma, Anthony. "About New Jersey." New York Times (May 24, 1992), New Jersey Weekly Desk, NJ19. [About the current state of Whitman's Camden house.]

Duan Jingwen. "Poetic Style of Whitman and Xin Qiji: Similarities and Causes Thereof." Sichuan Waiyu Xueyuan Xuebao [Journal of Sichuan International Studies University] (1992), no. 2, 7-13, 27. [Comparative study of Whitman and Xin Qiji (1140-1207), a patriotic Chinese poet in the Song Dynasty, illustrating similarities of theme and style in their work and discussing their different historical and cultural contexts; in Chinese.]

Duan, Jingwen. "Poetic Style of Whitman and Xin Qiji: Similarities and Causes Thereof." Journal of Sichuan International Studies University (1992), no. 2, 7-13, 27. [Comparative study of Whitman and Xin Qiji (1140-1207), a patriotic Chinese poet in the Song Dynasty, illustrating similarities of theme and style in their work and discussing their different historical and cultural contexts; in Chinese.]

Duperray, Annick. "Emancipation et parole poétique dans l'oeuvre de Walt Whitman." In Voix et Langages aux Etats-Unis [Actes du Colloque de 20-22 mars 1992] (Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence, 1992), 43-52. [Reads Leaves of Grass from the perspective of Mikhail Bakhtin's aesthetics.]

Eberly, David. "A Serpent in the Grass: Reading Walt Whitman and Frank O'Hara." In Robert K. Martin, ed., The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992), 71-81. [Looks at similarities between Whitman and O'Hara, acknowledging O'Hara's greater explicitness and more intimate and familiar audience.]

Edwards, Ivana. "L.I. Sings the Songs of Walt Whitman." New York Times (April 5, 1992), Long Island Weekly Desk, LI15. [Summarizes Whitman's Long Island connections.]

Eilert, Heide. "'Komet der neuen Zeit': Zur Rezeption Walt Whitmans in der deutschen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts." Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der Deutschen Literatur 17, 2 (1992), 95-109. [Traces "the course of Walt Whitman's reception in Germany in the twentieth century," viewing this reception as indicative of a "national pathography"; in German.]

Elliot, Angela. "The Eidolon Self: Emerson, Whitman, and Pound." In Jacqueline Kaye, ed., Ezra Pound and America (New York: St. Martin's, 1992), 43-54.

Evans, James and Elizabeth. "Walt Whitman." Lawrenceville, GA: By the Way Books, 1992. [Catalog of 112 Whitman-related books and items, each annotated and each for sale. Copies of catalog available for $3.00 from By the Way Books, PO Box 1417, Lawrenceville, GA 30246.]

Fallen, Helene Berman. "The Osler-Bucke Relationship and the Whitman Clutter." Osler Library Newsletter (Montreal), no. 71 (October 1992), 1-3. [Discusses Dr. William Osler's medical care for Whitman, his notes on a projected lecture about the poet, and his changing relationship with his Canadian medical colleague, Dr. Bucke.]

Fillard, Claudette. "Le vannier de Camden: vieillesse, poésie, et les annexes de Leaves of Grass." Études Anglaises 45 (July September 1992), 311-323. [Analyzes the annexes to Leaves of Grass, suggesting how these late poems dramatize Whitman's determination to keep on writing despite his awareness that he is the victim of "une imgination moribonde"; in French.]

Folsom, Ed. "The Whitman Recording." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9 (Spring 1992), 214-216. [Describes the rediscovery of the "tape-recording of what may be an 1889 or 1890 wax-cylinder recording of Walt Whitman reading four lines of his late poem 'America.'"]

Folsom, Ed. "Whispering Whitman to the Ears of Others: Ronald Johnson's Recipe for Leaves of Grass." In Robert K. Martin, ed., The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992), 82-92. [Analyzes Johnson's "Letters to Whitman" as "new preparations of the ingredients in Whitman's poems."]

Folsom, Ed. "A Whitman Tintype?" Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 10 (Summer 1992), 56.

Folsom, Ed. "Culturing White Anxiety: Walt Whitman and American Indians." Études Anglaises 45 (July-September 1992), 286- 298. [Examines the "contradictions in Whitman's long and involved reactions to Native Americans" and analyzes the Acoma poet Simon Ortiz's response to Whitman in From Sand Creek.]

Folsom, Ed. Review of Ron Padgett, ed., Teachers & Writers Guide to Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9 (Winter 1992), 157-158.

Folsom, Ed. Review of John Vernon, Peter Doyle: A Novel. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9 (Winter 1992), 158-161.

Fone, Byrne R.S. Masculine Landscapes: Walt Whitman and the Homoerotic Text. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992.

Fons, James Spencer. "The Early Pantheism of Walt Whitman." M.A. thesis, University of Houston, 1991. [Focuses on Whitman's early "arrogant and bold" pantheism. MAI 30 (Spring 1992), 29.]

Fox, Edward. "Whitman's Commonplace Camden Houses: 322 Stevens, 431 Stevens, 330 Mickle Street." Conversations (Winter 1992), 1-2. [Discusses architecture of homes in nineteenth-century Camden, especially the three houses Whitman lived in.]

Fresco, Robert. "Inside Long Island: Walt Whitman, the Teacher: The Poet Who Polished and Invigorated the Mind." Newsday (November 8, 1992), 8. [About the recent rediscovery of the location of the Trimming School on Long Island, where Whitman taught in 1840.]

Fyfe, Dan. "Letter to Walt from Granada." In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 65-71. [Rambling address to Whitman: "I'm trying to make some sense of you Walt, some sense of your legacy."]

Gambone, Kenneth F, ed. Remembering Walt Whitman: On the 100th Anniversary of His Death, March 26, 1892. N.p.: Walnut Leaf, 1992. [Contains nine very brief articles and two poems (each listed separately in this bibliography), as well as an "Introduction" by the editor (ix), describing the book as a "simple collection of essays" by "ordinary people [who] talk about Whitman with love and caring"; also contains a reprint of the announcement of Whitman's death placed on the door of Whitman's home in Camden (53), an annotated list of "Selected LP Recordings of Whitman's Poetry" (55-56), "Whitman on Recordings from Library of Congress" (57-58), and "Early Editions of Leaves of Grass at Auction" (59), listing the sale prices of various copies of Leaves sold during the 1980s.]

Gambone, Joan P. "William Michael Rossetti Promotes Walt Whitman." In Kenneth F. Gambone, ed., Remembering Walt Whitman (N.p.: Walnut Leaf, 1992), 29-31. [Brief suggestions of Rossetti's interactions with Whitman and his works.]

Gambone, Kenneth F. "Bathing at Crystal Spring." In Kenneth F. Gambone, ed., Remembering Walt Whitman (N.p.: Walnut Leaf, 1992), 37-39. [About the author's 1988 trip to the Stafford House in Crystal Springs, New Jersey, and to the springs where Whitman bathed after his stroke.]

Gardner, John Fentress. American Heralds of the Spirit: Emerson, Whitman, Melville. Hudson, NY: Lindisfarne Press, 1992. [Chapter 4, "Walt Whitman: The Poet of Death and Life," 112-147, argues that Whitman's faith was in "the creative force, divine in both origin and destination, that underlies all that exists and eternally evolves"; Chapter 5, "Walt Whitman: The New Columbus," 148-180, compares "the life-gestures, the styles of the two men, Whitman and Columbus"; Whitman, Melville, and Emerson are seen throughout this book as America's cultural and spiritual founders, as "spokesmen for the spirit," and as American prophets.]

Gardner, Alexander. "Walt Whitman and Party." In Brooks Johnson, ed., An Enduring Interest: The Photographs of Alexander Gardner (Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum, 1992), 115. [Gardner photograph, circa 1863, supposedly of Whitman and two other men sitting by a river bank in the woods; the Whitman identification is not Gardner's, but rather the surmise of a recent curator.]

Garone, Frank. "Walt Whitman: The New Man for All Seasons." In Kenneth F. Gambone, ed., Remembering Walt Whitman (N.p.: Walnut Leaf, 1992), 21-26. [Praises Whitman's "Universal Truth" and "Universal Vision."]

Gascoyne, David. "Founding Fathers into French." TLS (October 30, 1992), 12. [Review of French translations of Melville, Whitman, and Faulkner, including Whitman's Poémes, translated by Louis Fabulet, Jean Schlumberger, Francis Vielé-Griffin, André Gide, and Jules Laforgue.]

Geffen, Pearl Sheffy. "To Find Grandeur in the Human Spirit." Globe and Mail [Toronto], February 11, 1992, A9-10. [About playwright John Murrell and his recent play Democracy, about "Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and two young soldiers, one a deserter from the South and the other a blinded Union private, one of whom appears to be Whitman's lover"; the play has been produced in Alaska and four times in Canada.]

Gildner, Gary. "Six Fat Paragraphs." Massachusetts Review 33 (Spring 1992), 75-76. [Recalls how Whitman's work shifted Gildner's own work from prose to poetry.]

Ginsberg, Allen. "Whitman's Influence: A Mountain Too Vast to Be Seen." Sulfur 31 (Fall 1992), 229-230. [How Whitman's work affected modern writers and predicted gay liberation and "a pragmatic transcendentalism that's come true."]

Godfrey, Cheri. "Walt Whitman and William Heyen: Two Long Island Poets View the Civil War and the Holocaust." Long Island Historical Journal 5 (Fall 1992), 101-105. [Second- place winner of Secondary School Essay Contest, comparing Whitman and Heyen as "Long Island poets who served as beacons to a nation and a word embroiled in historic events that epitomized man's inhumanity to man."]

Goodman, Susan. "Edith Wharton's 'Sketch of an Essay on Walt Whitman.'" Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 10 (Summer 1992), 3-9. [Explores Whitman's influence on Edith Wharton, focusing especially on her "Sketch of an Essay on Walt Whitman."]

Gougeon, Len. "Whitman and the Commonwealth." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9 (Spring 1992), 208-211. [Presents a neglected article from the April 10, 1863, issue of the Commonwealth advocating Whitman's work; describes Whitman's relation to publishers Thayer and Eldridge and other abolitionists including John Townsend Trowbridge, William Douglas O'Connor and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn.]

Goytisolo, José Agustin. "O Capitán, mi Capitán!" ABC [Literario] (March 26, 1992), 21. [On Whitman as the poet of democracy; in Spanish.]

Graham, Rosemary. "Affection and the Problems of Freedom: Leaves of Grass in 1860." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Virginia, 1992. [Examines the third edition of Leaves, arguing that it "can best be understood as a literary utopia" in which Whitman attempted to create "a textual space where regional conflict is dissolved, all work is dignified, men and women are equal, and racial and ethnic conflict non- existent"; DAI 54 (November 1993), 1804A.]

Greenspan, Ezra. Review of Mark Bauerlein, Whitman and the American Idiom. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9 (Spring 1992), 220-223.

Gregor, Deborah. "Leaves of Asphalt." Massachusetts Review 33 (Spring 1992), 78-79. [Reprint of an artistic visual "construction" inspired by Whitman, with brief prose note.]

Griffin, Larry Don. "Walt Whitman's Voice." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9 (Winter 1992), 125-133. [Provides a history of how Whitman's voice was described by those who heard it, examining statements by W. D. O'Connor, Frank Harris, Thomas P. Harned, Richard M. Bucke, Horace Traubel, Hamlin Garland, John Johnston, and Harrsion S. Morris; describes the author's own response to the recently rediscovered recording of what may be Whitman reading "America."]

Grigg, Q. Review of Graham Clarke, Walt Whitman: The Poem as Private History. Choice 29 (January 1992), 740.

Grimes, William. "On Tape, Scholars Think They Hear Walt Whitman Reading." New York Times (March 16, 1992), B1-2. [About the discovery of a tape of what may be an 1890 wax cylinder recording of Whitman reading four lines from his poem "America." Article appeared under different titles in different editions of the Times and was reprinted in various versions in many newspapers nationwide.]

Grossman, Jay Alan. "Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1992. [Proposes that "the issue of representation lies at the heart of political and literary practice in the United States during the period between the Constitutional Convention and the Civil War," and explores the early and non-canonical writings of Emerson and Whitman, contrasting "the representational strategies and class dynamics encoded in Whitman's newspaper writings with those present in Emerson's contemporaneous lectures and journals" and concluding that these writers are linked in the way they use "enslaved bodies" as "the 'direct objects' against which the movements toward transcendence in their writings often occur"; DAI 53 (June 1993), 4320A.]

Grünzweig, Walter. Review of Kenneth Price, Whitman and Tradition. AAA: Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 17 (1992), 134-136. [In German.]

Gunn, Thom. "Forays against the Republic." In Robert K. Martin, ed., The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992), 206-212. [Suggests that Whitman's "ideally generous democracy" is founded in the intersection between "the public and political" and "the private and sexual"; his "explicit conflict" is "between the populist athletic democracy and the specific athletic lovers." Originally published in TLS (January 5-11, 1990).]

Hall, Donald. Untitled. Massachusetts Review 33 (Spring 1992), 80. [Brief recollection of Hall's encounters with Whitman's works.]

Hallengren, Anders. "Deciperhing Reality: Swedenborg, Emerson, Whitman and the Search for the Language of Nature." Nordic Roundtable Papers, series 3, vol. 11 (August 1992), 1-46. [Sections 9-13, pp. 28-41, explore "Whitman's affinity with Swedenborgian thought."]

Hamilton, David. "Our Secret Sharer." In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 73-82. [Reviews "the state of Whitman studies in the U.S. today" by looking at articles in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review over a two-year period.]

Hanratty, Gregory L. "Walt Whitman: The Journalist-Poet." M.A. Thesis, Point Park College, 1992. [Traces "similarities between the writer's poetry and journalism on historical, thematic and stylistic levels."]

Hartnett, Stephen John. "Cultural Fictions: The Critical Theory of Historiography, the Political Economy of Modernity, and the Paradoxes of Whitman's America." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, San Diego, 1992. [Focuses on Whitman's "epistemology, his use of synecdoche and metonymy, his manipulation of the daguerreotype as a 'truth'-bearing symbol, his versions of gendering and sexual desire, his portrayals of slaves and slavery, and his attitudes regarding manifest destiny and the United States as the embodiment of 'perfect equality.'" DAI 53 (April 1993), 3528A-3529A.]

Hatlen, Burton. "The Many and/or The One: Poetics Versus Ideology in Whitman's 'Our Old Feuillage' and 'Song of the Banner at Daybreak.'" ATQ n.s. 6 (September 1992), 189-211. [Investigates the "one/many opposition" in Whitman's work as "a struggle between poetics . . . and ideology," the tension between "unlimited semiosis within Whitman's language" and his equally strong "impulse to find a unitary 'meaning' within or behind the multiplicities of experience"; focuses on "Our Old Feuillage" and "Song of the Banner."]

Hauss, Jon. Review of Michael Moon, Disseminating Whitman. English Language Notes 29 (March 1992), 87-89.

Heffernan, Thomas F. Walt Whitman Here in Trimming Square. Garden City, NY: Adelphi University Office of Publications, 1992. [Brochure containing the program of the Whitman Centennial Symposium held at Adelphi University on October 30, 1992, and containing a historical sketch by Heffernan that locates the Trimming Square school where Whitman taught in 1840 and that describes the now-vanished Trimming Square community on Long Island; includes an early photo of the school building.]

Helms, Alan. "Whitman's 'Live Oak with Moss.'" In Robert K. Martin, ed., The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992), 185-205. [Reading of "Live Oak" as "a deeply troubled sequence, mostly about the confusion, pain, and fear that surround the fact of men loving men"; with speculation on why, after the 1860 Leaves, "Whitman never again wrote frankly about loving men."]

Helms, Alan. "Whitman Reading Whitman: 'Live Oak with Moss.'" American Poetry Review 21 (March/April 1992), 51-59. [Reprinted, with minor changes, from Robert K. Martin, ed., The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman (1992); includes text of Whitman's "Live Oak with Moss" sequence, 57-59.]

Herreshoff, David Sprague. Labor into Art: The Theme of Work in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1992? [Chapter on Whitman.]

Hodges, Graham. "Muscle & Pluck: Walt Whitman's Working-Class Ties." Seaport 26 (Spring 1992), 32-37. [Lively account of the variety of working-class people in New York of the 1840s and 1850s, with suggestions of their impact on Whitman.]

Holden, Philip. Review of Michael Moon, Disseminating Whitman. Canadian Literature no. 134 (Autumn 1992), 142.

Hongo, Garrett. "On Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass." Massachusetts Review 33 (Spring 1992), 81-84. [How Hongo learned to hear Whitman through the music of John Coltrane.]

Horrigan, Patrick. Review of Michael Moon, Disseminating Whitman. Criticism 34 (Summer 1992), 452-457.

Houtrides, James, producer. "Whose Voice Still Echoes." CBS Sunday Morning (April 19, 1992). [Ten-minute network television segment, narrated by Charles Kurault, on the Whitman Centennial, with a focus on Iowa City, New York, and Fresno events.]

Huang, Guiyou. Review of Li Yeguang, A Critical Biography of Whitman. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 10 (Fall 1992), 86- 90.

Hughes, Walter Coleman. "Models of American Charity." Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1991. [How various American writers, including Whitman, "proposed charity as the universal social bond in the New World communities they envisioned." DAI 52 (May 1992), 3929A.]

Hutchinson, George. "Langston Hughes and the 'Other' Whitman." In Robert K. Martin, ed., The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992), 16-27. [Tracks the "nature and history of Langston Hughes's relationship to Whitman."]

Ikeda, Daisaku. "Like the Sun Rising." World Tribune (April 6, 1992), 5. [Poem by the poet laureate of Japan, "offered to Walt Whitman, poet of the people, on the centenary of his passing, with my affection and respect," and ending "Walt Whitman, my sun! / Light my way, shine on forever!"]

Inners, Joe. "The Walt Whitman Bridge." In Kenneth F. Gambone, ed., Remembering Walt Whitman (N.p.: Walnut Leaf, 1992), 43-44. [How Whitman in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" serves as a bridge from our world to his.]

Iramaccantiran, Kantocami. Valt Whtmanum Tamik Kavinarkalum. Cennai: Narmata Patippakam, 1992. [Comparative study of works of Tamil poets and the poetry of Whitman; in Tamil.]

Isbell, Paul A., ed. Homenaje a Walt Whitman en el Centenario de Su Muerte/Homage to Walt Whitman on the Centenary of His Death. Madrid: Casa de America, United States Information Service, 1992. [Pamphlet containing program of Whitman Centennial program at Casa de America, December 1-2, 1992, and also containing prefatory remarks by Ion de la Riva ("El Aula Walt Whitman"/"The 'Aula Walt Whitman'" [2-5, in Spanish and English]), Jos‚ Morilla Critz ("Whitman en los Estudios Norteamericanos"/"Whitman's Place in American Studies" [6-9, in Spanish and English]), and Paul A. Isbell ("Whitman's Vision" [11-15]); also contains passages from Whitman's poetry (in Spanish and English) and two short essays by Gary Snyder and Roger Asselineau, listed separately in this bibliography.]

Isbell, Paul A. "En el sendero visionario." El Pais (March 26, 1992), "Cultura" supplement, 12. [Suggests that Leaves of Grass, after the failure of Marxism, offers a visionary path to a better future; in Spanish.]

Isbell, Paul A. "Sobre Walt Whitman y el Patriotismo." Claves de Razon Oractica no. 21 (April 1992), 62-66. [In Spanish.]

Jaffe, Steven H. "'. . . the history of the future': Whitman and the New Journalism." Seaport 26 (Spring 1992), 26-31. [Views Whitman's political and poetic development in the context of developments in American journalism in the 1830s and 1840s.]

James, Jamie. "Two Americans Converge on Whitman." New York Times (March 1, 1992), 32H. [About Ned Rorem's and John Adams's musical compositions based on Whitman's Civil War writings.]

Janssens-Knorsch, Uta. "Lilacs and the Hidden Bird: Strained Relations between Whitman and Eliot." In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 83-89. [Recapitulates the old debate about whether Eliot borrowed from Whitman; finds "resemblances of rhythm and style" and "particular images" that convince this writer "that any Whitmanesque echoes in Eliot's poetry are no coincidence."] Jay, Gregory. "Catching up with Whitman: A Review Essay." South Atlantic Review 57 (January 1992), 89-102. [Discusses "Whitman's two chief topics--politics and sexuality" in relation primarily to Betsy Erkkila's Whitman the Political Poet (1989), M. Jimmie Killingsworth's Whitman's Poetry of the Body (1989), David Reynolds's Beneath the American Renaissance (1988), Ezra Greenspan's Walt Whitman and the American Reader (1990), and Michael Moon's Disseminating Whitman (1991).]

Jenkins, Paul. Untitled. Massachusetts Review 33 (Spring 1992), 85-86. [Appreciation of how Whitman's poetry offers "so much outwardness circling out from so much inwardness," teaching how "hyperbole and inner truth need not mistrust each other."]

Jiménez Hefferman, Julián. "'Song of Myself': A Technology of the Self." In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 91-99. [Using Michel Foucault's ideas, proposes that "Song" may be "conceived of as a technology of the Self, as a space of self-presentation, or even self-creation," although Whitman's attempt is finally revealed as a "dubious technology that, paradoxically, works as a relentless and undoer [sic] of selfhood."]

Jiménez Serrano, Oscar. "La Elasticidad de la Traduccion de Poesia: Apuntes Sobre Traducciones al Castellano de 'Song of Myself' de Walt." In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 101-108. [Compares three translations of "Song of Myself" into Spanish (by Jorge Luis Borges, Enrique López Castellón, and Pablo Mañé Garzón) in order to demonstrate the flexibility of translation; discusses the problems in making evluative judgments about translations; in Spanish.]

Johnston, William Davison. "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." In Kenneth F. Gambone, ed., Remembering Walt Whitman (N.p.: Walnut Leaf, 1992), 47-50. [How Whitman, in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "speaks to our deepest understanding."]

Keller, James. "Brooklyniana." Seaport 26 (Spring 1992), 70- 71. [A review of books that help recapture the Brooklyn that Whitman knew.]

Kelly, Lionel. Review of Edwin H. Miller, Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Mosaic of Interpretations. Modern Language Review 87 (October 1992), 950-951.

Kenny, Maurice. "Whitman's Indifference to Indians." In Robert K. Martin, ed., The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992), 28-38. [Argues that "Whitman closed his ears and shut his eyes to the Indians' death cries," failing to find the Indian "a fit subject for verse." Reprinted from Greenfield Review (Summer/Fall 1987).]

Keppler, Joseph. Review of Galway Kinnell Reads Walt Whitman [audio tape]. Booklists 88 (June 15, 1992), 1865.

Kessler, Milton. "A Note on Whitman." Sulfur 31 (Fall 1992), 8-9. [Reads "Poem of the Propositions of Nakedness" as a "prophetic signal"--"the Genesis reversal, the Situs Inversus, the biology of contraction into inversion, the parody of creation"; reprints Whitman's poem (4-7).]

Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. "Tropes of Selfhood: Whitman's 'Expressive Individualism.'" In Robert K. Martin, ed., The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992), 39-52. [Investigates Whitman in relation to social scientists (like Robert Bellah) who cite the poet, and seeks to identify "the sources of selfhoood for expressive individualism in general and for Walt Whitman in particular."]

Klammer, Martin. "The Web of Influences on Walt Whitman's Development toward a New Representation of African-Americans in the 1855 Leaves of Grass." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Iowa, 1991. [Investigates "Whitman's puzzling and seemingly contradictory attitudes toward African- Americans through a detailed, historical analysis of Whitman's writing about African Americans and slavery from the beginning of his career through the first edition of Leaves of Grass." DAI 53 (July 1992), 151A.]

Komunyakaa, Yusef. "Kosmos." Massachusetts Review 33 (Spring 1992), 87-89. [Poem.]

Kouymjian, Dickran. "Whitman and Saroyan: Singing the Song of America." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 10 (Summer 1992), 16-24. [Argues for the importance of Whitman in the work of William Saroyan and compares these writers' lives, examining Saroyan's statements about Whitman, especially in the essay "What Makes American Writing American."]

Kramer, Michael P. Imagining Language in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. [Chapter 3, "'A Tongue According': Whitman and the Literature of Language Study," 90-115, analyzes "Whitman's early linguistic writings, An American Primer being only the best known among them, not as theories of language that help to illustrate his poetic practice, but as literary embodiments, in and of themselves, of his linguistic imagination."]

Krieg, Joann P. "Emory Holloway's Final Word on Whitman's Son." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 10 (Fall 1992), 74-80. [Uses Pulitzer Prize- winning Whitman scholar Emory Holloway's correspondence with Verne Dyson to determine Holloway's response to the refutation of his claim that Whitman had fathered a son, a claim Holloway made in his late and ill-fated study, Free and Lonesome Heart: The Secret of Walt Whitman.]

Kumin, Maxine. Untitled. Massachusetts Review 33 (Spring 1992), 90. [Recalls getting Leaves of Grass as a Christmas present when she was 17.]

Kummings, Donald D. Review of Joel Myerson, ed., Whitman in His Own Time. Choice 29 (May 1992), 1396.

Kuo, Chang-jui. "Some Vast Heart: A Study of Walt Whitman's Aspirations in the Three Periods of His Poetic Career." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Rochester, 1992. [Investigates Whitman's varying aspirations in "the prewar, war, and postwar" periods of his life. DAI 53 (January 1993), 2371-A.]

Kydoniatou, Zanet S. Opou pneuma Kyriou kai eleutheria [Where the Spirit of the Lord Is, There Is Liberty]. Athens: n.p., 1992. [Two lectures, one inspired by Whitman's poetry, one by lyrics of Greek folk songs, suggesting that both Whitman and Greek folk songs may serve to lead us to "loftier" heights of Poetry; suggests that Whitman speaks for and to the poor; includes several translations (by Rita Boumi Pappa, Nikos Proestopoulos, and Yannis Sfakinnakis) of Whitman poems into Greek (19-30). In Greek.]

Lachman, Lilach. Review of Michael Moon, Disseminating Whitman. Poetics Today 13 (Summer 1992), 395-396.

Larson, Kerry. Review of David Kuebrich, Minor Prophecy, and Kenneth Price, Whitman and Tradition. Modern Philology 89 (February 1992), 433-437.

Lawrence, Vera Brodsky Lawrence. "'Unloos'd Cantabile': Walt Whitman and the Italian Opera." Seaport 26 (Spring 1992), 38-45. [A brief history of opera in New York from the mid- 1830s until 1861, with a focus on what Whitman heard and saw.]

Leader, Zachary. "The Body and the Self." TLS (February 7, 1992), 8. [Review of Michael Moon, Disseminating Whitman.]

Lee, Kun Jong. "Reading Race in(to) the American Renaissance: A Study of Race in Emerson, Whitman, Melville, and Ellison. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1992. [Deals with how Ralph Ellison criticizes the "racial ideas" of Whitman and other American Renaissance authors, and how he "de-racializes" their "social visions," reinterpreting for example "Whitman's idea of America's Unionism as a matter of regional integration into an issue of racial rapport." DAI 53 (February 1993), 2815-A.]

Levy, Charles. "Sonnet to Walt Whitman." In Kenneth F. Gambone, ed., Remembering Walt Whitman (N.p.: Walnut Leaf, 1992), 41. [Poem, originally published in 1936.]

Lewis, Lesley D. "Walt Whitman: Sensual Poet." In Kenneth F. Gambone, ed., Remembering Walt Whitman (N.p.: Walnut Leaf, 1992), 17-19. [Rambling piece about the unconventionality of Whitman's writings.]

Lin, Jian-Zhong. "Walt Whitman and His Readers: A Problem in Communications." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Riverside, 1991. [Investigates "the American reception of Walt Whitman during the poet's lifetime as well as the Chinese reception of the poet in the twentieth century," with a focus on "his distrust of his readers." DAI 52 (June 1992), 4330A.]

Littauer, Andrew. "Whitman's Return." Sewanee Review 100 (Autumn 1992), 554. [Poem.]

Liu Shusen. "Comment on the Six Chinese Versions of The Leaves of Grass [sic]--In Commemoration of the Centenary of Walt Whitman's Death." Journal of Foreign Langugages [Shanghai International Studies University] no. 1, General Serial no. 77 (February 1992), 38-44. [In Chinese.]

Liu Lide. "Arishima Takeo under the Influence of Whitman." Japan Studies (1992), no. 1, 65-66, 82. [Examines Arishima Takeo's Japanese translation of some of Whitman's poems and the influence of Whitman on the poems and novels of Takeo (1878-1923); in Chinese.]

Liu Shusen. "Comment on the Six Chinese Versions of The Leaves (Continued)--In Memory of the Centenary of the Death of Whitman." Journal of Foreign Languages [Shanghai International Studies University] no. 2, General Serial no. 78 (April 1992), 30-35. [In Chinese.]

Liu Shusen. "On the Six Chinese Translations of Leaves of Grass: Centennial Commemoration of Whitman (Part 1)." Foreign Languages [Shanghai] 1 (1992), 38-44. [In Chinese.]

Liu Lide. "Arishima Takeo under the Influence of Whitman." Riben Yanjiu [Japan Studies] (1992), no. 1, 61-65, 82. [Examines Arishima Takeo's Japanese translation of some of Whitman's poems and the influence of Whitman on the poems and novels of Takeo (1878-1923); in Chinese.]

Liu Jue. Review of Jessica Haigney, Walt Whitman and the French Impressionists. Literature and Art Studies (1992), no. 2, 155-158. [In Chinese.]

Liu Jue. Review of Jessica Haigney, Walt Whitman and the French Impressionists. Wenyi Yanjiu [Literature and Art Studies] (1992), no. 2, 155-158. [In Chinese.]

Loving, Jerome. Review of Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Volume 7. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 10 (Summer 1992), 40-41.

Loving, Jerome. "The One Book for Whitman Study." Études Anglaises 45 (July-September 1992), 333-339. [Recollects teaching Whitman in France in 1989-1990 where students were interested more in the poetry than in cultural and deconstructive theories about the poetry, and speculates about the reasons for the American fascination with such theories.]

Loving, Jerome, ed. "Symposium: Walt Whitman Facing West." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 10 (Summer 1992), 1-39. [Special issue containing four essays, listed separately in this bibliography, and an "Editor's Note," 1-2, describing the March 20-22, 1992, symposium "Walt Whitman Facing West," from which the essays comprising the issue were solicited..]

Loving, Jerome. Review of David Kuebrich, Minor Prophecy. Studies in Romanticism 31 (Fall 1992), 404-407.

Luongo, Robert. "The Traitor." In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 109-119. [Draws five "threads" of connection between Ezra Pound and Whitman, centering on money ("The lethal results of usury are to the 'Leaves of Grass' as a defoliating chemical").]

Lynch, Michael. "Walt Whitman in Ontario." In Robert K. Martin, ed., The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992), 141-151. [Overview of "Whitman's Ontario disciples," Dr. R. M. Bucke and Flora MacDonald Denison; suggests erotic nature of Bucke's friendship with Whitman, and tells of Denison's relationship with Horace Traubel. Originally published in Body Politic (October 1980) in a different form.]

Mangan, Doreen. "Artist in Wood." Seaport 26 (Spring 1992), 14. [About Mangan's wood engravings of "Sands at Seventy."

Martin, Robert K., ed. The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman: The Life after the Life. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992. [Collection of thirteen new essays and four reprinted ones (each listed separately in this bibliography), reprinted poems by Ronald Johnson ("Letters to Walt Whitman," 232-239, originally in Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses [1969]), and an introduction by the editor (xi-xxiii).]

Martin, Robert K. "Fetishizing America: David Hockney and Thom Gunn." In Robert K. Martin, ed., The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992), 114- 126. [How British poet Gunn and especially British painter Hockney found their true inspiration in Whitman's "promise to California," with its "political and erotic future"; reads Hockney's "works that celebrate Whitman and his poetry and that proclaim his sexuality as an important part of his nature as a poet."]

Martin, Douglas. "A Bibliophile's Passion for a Poet." New York Times (March 28, 1992), Section 1, 27. [About Leonard R. Levine's collection of Whitman materials.]

Martín Morillas, José M. "Moral Imagination and Poetic Reason in Whitman's Poetry." In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sanchez, eds. Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 121-128. [Attempts to define "Whitman's existential quest" in contradistinction to Proust's "aristocratic solipsistic project" and Nietzsche's "elitist drive."]

Martínez López, Miguel. "Walt Whitman and the American Utopian Tradition: Democratic Vistas." In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 129-138. [Views Whitman as a "champion of that great tradition of American utopian writers that begins with Joseph Morgan in 1715 and . . . reaches a culmination with H.D. Thoreau's Walden and Whitman's Democratic Vistas," a text that proposes that the "utopian function of literature is . . . above all social and political."]

Masur, Louis. "'The Experience Sweet & Sad': Whitman's Visits to New York Hospitals." Seaport 26 (Spring 1992), 46-49. [A brief examination of the nature of hospitals in the 1860s and Whitman's reactions to them.]

Matthews, William. "Stout as a Horse." Massachusetts Review 33 (Spring 1992), 92-93. [Appreciation of Whitman as a "terrifying mirror."]

Mattson, Francis O., ed. Walt Whitman: In Life or Death Forever. New York: New York Public Library, 1992. [Published in honor of the 100th anniversary of Whitman's death, this catalogue reproduces documents from the Berg Collection and the Oscar Lion Collection at the New York Public Library, including the 1854 "Christ likeness" daguerreotype of Whitman, an 1872 Frank Pearsall photograph of Whitman, title pages of Franklin Evans and the 1855 Leaves of Grass, an 1878 ink drawing of Whitman by Herbert Gilchrist, and various prose and poetry manuscripts; with introduction (7) and commentary by Mattson. Publication complements the Whitman Centennial exhibition at the NYPL (March 20 to September 12, 1992).]

McCarthy, Colman. "Walt Whitman: 173 and Well." International Herald Tribune (March 27, 1992), 7. [Brief overview of Whitman's life and influence.]

McCormick, John. "Whitman's Legacy." In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 139-144. [Debunks Whitman's claims of originality, compares him unfavorably to Keats, and concludes that the "best American poets are good in spite of Whitman's legacy, not because of it."]

McCue, Jim. "Speaking to the Future." TLS (July 17, 1992), 5. [Review of M. Wynn Thomas, ed., Wrenching Times: Poems from Drum Taps.]

McKinley, J. "Shooting the Moon: Over-Reading Homoeroticism in Whitman's 'Calamus.'" In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 146-150. [Reviews and takes issue with Michael Moon's Disseminating Whitman.]

McLaren, Neil. "Whitman Set to Music: A Comment on Two Versions of 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.'" In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 151-165. [Detailed comparison of Paul Hindemith's An American Requiem: Requiem for those we loved and Roger Sessions's Catata in memory of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on how the two composers adapted Whitman's poem.]

McPeak, Jim. Review of Charley Shively, ed., Drum Beats. GLTF Newsletter 4 (Summer 1992), 14-15.

Merrill, Christopher. "Whitman's New Worlds." Massachusetts Review 33 (Spring 1992), 94-95. [Appreciation of how Whitman gave American poets "permission to discover our own land- and city scapes, courage to chart the drifts and shoals and sea- lanes of our psyches. . . ."]

Millen, Frederic. "Recording May Shed Light on Whitman's Sexuality." Bay Area Reporter (San Francisco, CA), 1. [About the recently discovered recording of what may be Whitman's voice and how it may expose homophobic responses by Whitman biographers.]

Miller, James E. "Whitman's Camerados in Leaves of Grass." In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 7-22. [Explores Whitman's "incorporation of the reader and of the soul in Leaves of Grass as real presences" and suggests the effects of the poet's "device" of treating the reader and the soul "as his camerados."]

Miller, Jane. Working Time: Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992. [One essay, "Spanish Poppy" (67-78), focuses on how Andy Warhol and Whitman "understood the American audience-- practical, whimsical, competitive--and the American artist's relation to it as entertainer," and on how Whitman "gave us identity by urging us to identify with him" while Warhol "tried to find identity in us and in our objects and icons."]

Miller, Jr., James E. "Whitman's Omnisexual Sensibility." Études Anglaises 45 (July-September 1992), 275-285. [How Whitman's "imagination and vision were omnisexual" and how the sexual imagery of Leaves of Grass "is auto-erotic, hetero-erotic, homo erotic. . . [and] cosmo-erotic."]

Miller, L[ouis]. "The First and Only." Yiddishe Kultur 54 (May June 1992), 7-10. [Views Whitman as the patron saint of the "United Front" version of people's democracy; in Yiddish, and followed by Yiddish translations of selections from thirteen of Whitman's poems, 11-16. The essay and the translations originally appeared in Miller's Poems from "Leaves of Grass" (1940).]

Miller, Edwin Haviland. "An Unpublished Whitman Postcard to Karl Knortz." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9 (Winter 1992), 154. [Presents a previously unpublished postcard dated April 20th, 1883, and provides a brief description of its addressee.]

Miller, Jr., James E. Leaves of Grass: America's Lyric-Epic of Self and Democracy. New York: Twayne, 1992. [Twayne's Masterwork Studies.]

Mitchell, William J. The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992. [Chapter 9, "How To Do Things with Pictures," reprints the 1883 "butterfly" portrait of Whitman (198) and discusses the nature of Whitman's "posed fiction" (196, 220).]

Mitskov, Georgi. "Wolt Witman, bard na amerikanskiia narod." Literaturen Forum: Sedmichnik na Nesavisimite Balgarski Pisateli [Sofia, Bulgaria] 33 (August 1992), 1, 6. [In Bulgarian.]

Molesworth, Charles. "Whitman's Political Vision." Raritan 12 (Summer 1992), 98-112. [Traces the ways that John Dewey and Jürgen Habermas develop Whitman's ideas of "democratic progressive materialism," concluding that all three writers argue "that democracy is always a set of values that relies on the notion of love, the adhesiveness that . . . equates us with one another."]

Moon, Michael. "Rereading Whitman under Pressure of AIDS." In Robert K. Martin, ed., The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992), 53-66. [Discusses Whitman's "sex-radical practice" of "representing a wide range of sexual desires, prominently including homoerotic desire, and . . . disseminating an erotic physical presence through his writing."]

Morillas Sánchez, Rosa, and Mauricio D. Aguilera Linde. "Sinewy Words: Whitman's Proposal for a New American Language." In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 167-178. [Analyzes An American Primer as "a reformulation of the transcendentalist philosophy now applied to the study of language"; focuses on Whitman's "two basic postulates": "Language is music" and "Language is the spirit of a nation."]

Mullins, Maire. "'Act-Poems of Eyes, Hands, Hips and Bosoms': Women's Sexuality in Walt Whitman's Children of Adam." ATQ n.s. 6 (September 1992), 213-231. [Argues that Children of Adam "represents Whitman's recognition of the struggle to express woman as a sexually constituted subject" and "is Whitman's testimony to an inclusive sexuality."]

Munk, Linda. The Trivial Sublime. New York: St. Martin's, 1992. [Chapter 3, "Giving Umbrage: The Song of Songs which is Whitman's," 66-82, relates the Canticles to Leaves of Grass; also published in Journal of Literature and Theology 7 (March 1993).]

Murphy, Francis. "Whitman's Wanderings." Humanities 13 (March/April 1992), 12-13. [Brief overview of Whitman's life and career.]

Murray, David. Review of Graham Clarke, Walt Whitman: The Poem as Private History. Journal of American Studies 26 (December 1992), 449-450.

Myerson, Joel. "Whitman to Curtis on Tasistro: An Unpublished Letter." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 10 (Fall 1992), 99.

Nathanson, Tenney. Whitman's Presence: Body, Voice, and Writing in Leaves of Grass. New York: New York University Press, 1992.

Neal, David. "Ned Rorem's War Scenes: A Textual and Musical Analysis." D.M.A. Dissertation, Peabody Conservatory of Music, 1992. [Analyzes Rorem's musical settings of Drum-Taps.]

Nelson, Gerald Brian. Review of Kenneth M. Price, Whitman and Tradition. Long Island Journal of History 4 (Spring 1992), 257 258.

Nicholson, Colin. Review of Ezra Greenspan, Walt Whitman and the American Reader, and Donald Kummings, ed., Approaches to Teaching Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Journal of American Studies 26 (April 1992), 125-126.

Noll, Bruce, ed. Afoot and Lighthearted 1 (January 1992); 1 (September, 1992). [Newsletter about dramatic performances of Whitman and his work, particularly Noll's Pure Grass.]

Novek, Minda. "'. . . million-footed Manhattan': A Walk around Whitman's New York." Seaport 26 (Spring 1992), 50-55. [Walking tour of Whitman's New York from his newspaper days.]

Ochoa de Eribe Urdinguio, Marián. "Walt Whitman: Del Futurismo Hacia Nuevas Concreciones Poéticas: Entre el Humanismo Colectivo y el Humanismo Individualista." In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 179-185. [Using Hans Robert Jauss's reception theory, investigates Whitman's "exaltation of modernity," looking at the Spanish reception (where Whitman becomes the messianic poet of collective humanism) and the Portuguese reception (where, via Fernando Pessoa, he becomes the ontological poet of an individualistic humanism); in Spanish.]

Oerlemans, Onno Dag. "The Dynamics of Lyric and Narrative in the Poetry of Wordsworth and Whitman." Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1991. [Argues that the lyric works "in resistance to narratives that aim to achieve totalizing understandings of the relation of the community and its constituent selves" and that the lyric quality of Whitman's early poetry "has the effect of deflecting any claims to representing a social totality back onto the self of the author." DAI 52 (January 1992), 2555A.]

Oliver, Mary. "My Friend Walt Whitman." Massachusetts Review 33 (Spring 1992), 96-97. [Whitman as "the brother I did not have," who taught "that the poem is a temple--or a green field--a place to enter, and feel."]

Onorato, R.J. Review of Geoffrey Sill and Roberta Tarbell, eds., Walt Whitman and the Visual Arts. Choice 29 (May 1992), 1385.

Ostriker, Alicia. "Loving Walt Whitman and the Problem of America." In Robert K. Martin, ed., The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992), 217-231. [Recalls first encounters with Whitman's poetry: "He permitted love"; "Both for my own poetry and for the poetry of many other American women, Whitman has been the exemplary precursor, killer of the censor and clearer of ground," as well as enacting "the crossing of gender categories in his own person . . . his capacity to be shamelessly receptive as well as active, . . . to invent a rhetoric of power without authority, without hierarchy, and without violence."]

Paro, Maria Clara Bonetti. "Ronald de Carvalho e Walt Whitman." Revista de Letras (1992), 142-151. [Investigates Whitman's influence on the free verse of Brazilian poet Ronald de Carvalho, especially in his Toda a América (1926).]

Paulin, Tom. "The Phallic Thumb of Love: Whitman and Hopkins." Yale Review 80 (October 1992), 16-28. [Looks at the "imaginative affinity" between Whitman and Hopkins, "so deep that we need to recognize it as a conceptual relationship which is just as important as the simply one-way relationship of influence which Whitman had on Hopkins."]

Pérez Gállego, Cándido. "Poeta del cuerpo y poeta del alma." ABC [Literario] (March 26, 1992), 18. [About Whitman's singing of the body as well as the soul; in Spanish.]

Perosa, Sergio. "America, non avrai altro Io all'infuori di me." Corriere della Sera [Milan, Italy] (February 2, 1992), Cultura 1 2. [Appreciation of Whitman's career and achievement, with emphasis on how Whitman substitutes nature and self for history and past; in Italian.]

Pettit, Michael, ed. "A Celebration of Whitman." Massachusetts Review 33 (Spring 1992), 65-106. [A Centennial gathering of six poems about or inspired by Whitman and twelve brief prose statements about Whitman, along with one visual construction inspired by Whitman, all by poets; the prose statements and original poems are listed separately in this bibliography. The reprinted poems are Allen Ginsberg's "I Love Old Whitman So" (from White Shroud), p. 77; Thomas Lux's "Walt Whitman's Brain Dropped on Laboratory Floor" (from Drowned River), p. 91; and Paul Zimmer, "Leaves of Zimmer" (from Zimmer Poems), p. 106. Also contains an introduction by the editor, 66-68, in which he notes "To celebrate another poet's death might seem odd, but for Whitman, . . . life and death were particularly inseparable."]

Phillips, Michael. "A Jungian Interpretation of 'Song of Myself.'" M.A. Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1992. [Argues that "Jung's theories provide a convincing explanation of the poet's cryptic conception of the self."]

Phillips, Walter Dana. "Walt Whitman's Monologic Imagination." Ph.D. Dissertation, Duke University, 1991. [Explores "the ideological character of Whitman's verse using concepts of literary genre developed by Fredric Jameson and Kenneth Burke" and others; sees Whitman basing his poetry on "the contemporary definition of nationality as primarily a matter of racial identity." DAI 53 (December 1992), 1916-A.]

Piercy, Marge. "How I Came to Walt Whitman and Found Myself." Massachusetts Review 33 (Spring 1992), 98-100. [Memoir of encounters with Whitman's poetry beginning in high school, how he gave "permission to be where I was and who I was."]

Pivano, Fernanda, and Allen Ginsberg. "Pap… Walt, che sei nei nostri cuori." Corriere dell Sera [Milan, Italy] (February 2, 1992), Cultura 1-2. [Interview with Ginsberg about Whitman; in Italian.]

Plumly, Stanley. "Vigil Strange." Massachusetts Review 33 (Spring 1992), 101-104. [Admires "the presiding elegiac feeling carried in [Whitman's] Civil War poems," and finds that tone anticipated in "Sleepers."]

Plunkett, William. "Walt Whitman: Anchor Person." In Kenneth F. Gambone, ed., Remembering Walt Whitman (N.p.: Walnut Leaf, 1992), 3-4. [Imagines what Whitman would be like as a television news anchor person.]

Pollin, Alice. "Walt Whitman y Garcia Lorca: Corrientes Literarias y Traducciones." Boletin-de-la-Fundacion- Federico-Garcia-Lorca 4 (February 1992), 181-190. [Suggests that the shared "current" between Whitman and Lorca is in their poetic voices, which forged a link between themselves and "the people," paying homage to the voice of humankind; in Spanish.]

Quayum, M. A. "An 'Arbiter of the Diverse': Bellow's Philosophical Affinity with Emerson and Whitman in Henderson the Rain King." Saul Bellow Journal 10 (Winter 1992), 42-64. [Discusses moral growth, transcendence, and the idea of the journey in Bellow's novel, comparing these aspects to Whitman and Emerson.]

Ramirez, Jan Seidler. "Whitman and the Bohemians." Humanities 13 (March/April 1992), 14-16. [Reviews Whitman's bohemian Pfaff rathskeller days and the poet's influence on "the cultural revolution that erupted in Greenwich Village on the eve of the First World War."]

Ramón Sales, Elisa, Mother Teresa Romero Martín, and Francisco Rocamora Abellán. "Walt Whitman y la Elegia: 'Memories of President Lincoln.'" In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 187-195. [Argues that Whitman, the innovative poet, nonetheless demonstrates in his Lincoln poems a "respect for the conventional stylistic determinants proper to the Western elegiac tradition"; in Spanish.]

Ratner, Michelle. Review of Galway Kinnell Reads Walt Whitman [audio tape]. Library Journal 117 (March 15, 1992), 148.

Rechel-White, Julie A. "Longfellow's Influence on Whitman's 'Rise' from Manhattan Island." ATQ n.s. 6 (June 1992), 121- 129. [Examines Whitman's revisions of his poem "Excelsior" (perhaps named after Longfellow's "Excelsior") and "theorize[s] that Longfellow may have played a significant role in Whitman's maturation as the poet of Leaves of Grass."]

Redondo, Ana, and Javier Azpeitia. "Versiones de Whitman." Quimera: Revista-de-Literatura 109 (1992), 34-39. [Compares translations ("distinct versions or, if you will, mutual refutations") of "Song of Myself" by Francisco Alexánder, Jorge Luis Borges, José María Valverde, Concha Zardoya, Léon Felipe, and Mauro Armiño (as well as a version by the authors of the essay); in Spanish.]

Reeves-Golding, Mari, and Michael Golding. Walt Whitman: Poetry in Song. Brownsville, CA: Carl Mautz Publishing, 1992. [Cassette recording of Whitman poems set to music by the Goldings, who also sing the songs, accompanied by a single guitar.]

Reynolds, David S. "Of Me I Sing: Whitman in His Time." New York Times Book Review (October 4, 1992), 1, 27-29. [How the America of Whitman's time was as politically corrupt, as polluted, and as sex-obsessed as America today, and how Whitman in his poetry used an "improving strategy" to emphasize the positive aspects of his culture; also discusses Whitman's sexuality, arguing that we can "go too far in imposing our sexual standards on his."]

Rocamora Abellán, Francisco, and Elisa Ramón Sales. "Whitman en las Traducciones de Borges y Leon Felipe." In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 197-202. [Contrasts the Whitman translations of Borges and Felipe, finding Borges too rigid in his attempt to translate faithfully from the original, and praising Felipe for his playful departures from the original; in Spanish.]

Rogers, Madeline, ed. Seaport: New York's History Magazine 26 (Spring 1992). [Special issue commemorating the centennial of the death of Whitman: contains seven feature articles, several shorter notes, and a book review, all listed separately in this bibliography; also contains an "Editor's Note" (17), an introduction ("Celebrating Democracy's Poet") by Peter Neill (6 7), news of three Whitman symposia at the South Street Seaport Museum ("Spring Events," 10), and a concluding "New York Album" quotation from Whitman (72); lavishly illustrated, with stunning reproductions of two Whitman daguerreotypes (19, 25).]

Rorem, Ned. "A Postscript on Whitman." In Robert K. Martin, ed., The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992), 213-216. [Comments on Rorem's "musical use of Whitman." Originally published in Rorem's Settling the Score (1988).]

Rothman, David Jacob. "The Whitmanian Poets and the Origin of Open Form." Ph.D. Dissertation, New York University, 1992. [Investigates "Whitman's crucial role" in developing a free verse that "retains discrete, countable lines, but employs non-metrical language, creating a gap, or frustrated expectation, in the apprehension of verse," and goes on to "examine the Whitmanian poets, writers who followed closely in his steps"; DAI 53 (May 1993), 3904-A.]

Rowe, John Carlos. "Whitman and Dickinson." In Louis Owens, ed., American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1990 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1992), 73-92. [Review of Whitman scholarship published in 1990, 73-85.]

Rubin, Carol, ed. Poems After Walt Whitman. Glen Head, NY: Glen Head Publishing, 1992. [Poems and illustrations, responding to "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," by third-graders in Carol Rubin's class in Glen Head Elementary School.]

Rungren, Lawrence. Brief review of Philip Callow, From Noon to Starry Night. Library Jounral 117 (July 1992), 85.

Sanchez Espinosa, Adelina. "Whitman, Wilde and the Self: The Case for Divergence." In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 203-209. [Argues that, while Whitman and Oscar Wilde "both cultivated the self, . . . they used the 'self' for different purposes"; illustrates these differences by focusing on "death and suffering," "immortality through art," "life as a journey," and "diffusion of the self."]

Santos, Maria Irena Ramalho de Sousa. "Atlantic Poets: 'Discovery' as Metaphor and Ideology." In Robert K. Martin, ed., The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992), 152-166. [Investigates "the influence on [Hart] Crane and [Fernando] Pessoa of Whitman's use of 'discovery' as metaphor," especially the ways "the Atlantic Ocean functions rhetorically as a symbol of the West."]

Sastry, C. N. Walt Whitman and Rabindranath Tagore: A Study in Comparison. New Delhi: B.R. Publishing Corporation, 1992. [Investigates how Whitman and Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) "may be regarded as rpresentative [sic] voices of the two great democracies of the modern world, America and India," and how "As visionaries Whitman and Tagore envisage a bright future for mankind under the divine Leadership, marching towards the distant goal of universal fraternity, holding aloft the banner of love, goodwill, peace and liberty."]

Savoy, Eric. "Reading Gay America: Walt Whitman, Henry James, and the Politics of Reception." In Robert K. Martin, ed., The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992), 3-15. [Analyzes "the discursive symptoms of the conflict between affiliation and detachment that trouble [James's] reception of Whitman," seen against the backdrop of "the evolution of Whitman's reception by gay men in the years between 1865 and 1898."]

Schauble, R. Bruce. Brief Review of Ron Padgett, ed., Teachers & Writers Guide to Walt Whitman. Kliatt Young Adult Paperback Book Guide 26 (January 1992), 35.

Schenkel, Elmar. "Walt Whitman and Fourth of July Rhetoric." In Paul Goetsch and Gerd Hurm, eds., The Fourth of July: Political Oratory and Literary Reactions, 1776-1876 (Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1992), 205-217. [Focuses on "the significance political speeches had for Whitman, his concept of language and its indebtedness to the Declaration of Independence and his methods of coping with a political crisis by resorting to Fourth of July rhetoric."]

Schwiebert, John E. The Frailest Leaves: Whitman's Poetic Technique and Style in the Short Poem. New York: Peter Lang, 1992.

Seaman, Donna. Brief review of Philip Callow, From Noon to Starry Night. Booklist 89 (September 1, 1992), 25.

Shaw, Robert B. "Last Days in Camden." Poetry 159 (March 1992), 325-330. [Poem.]

Sherman, Nancy. "'Eligible to Burst Forth': Whitman and the Art of Reticence." Massachusetts Review 33 (Spring 1992), 7-15. [Focusing on "Calamus" poems, Sherman argues that Whitman's poetry has "more subtlety, more cadence and variation, more quietly minor notes" than it is given credit for, and "it is in those undercurrents that much of his persistent claim to greatness lies"; also compares Whitman to Emily Dickinson, concluding that "Beneath Dickinson's fine-tuned precision we can hear Whitman's hum."]

Shively, Charley. Review of Byrne Fone, Masculine Landscapes. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 10 (Fall 1992), 84-86.

Shurr, William H. "Irving and Whitman: Re-Historicizing the Figure of Columbus in Nineteenth-Century America." American Transcendental Quarterly 6 (December 1992), 237-250. [Explores the ways Columbus served as "a surrogate martyr figure" for both Irving and Whitman, as well as a figure through whom these authors could express "the woes of a damaged America."]

Siles, Jaime. "Una forma particular del canto." ABC [Literario] (March 26, 1992), 19. [On the kinship of Poe, Baudelaire, and Whitman; in Spanish.]

Simpson, Jeffrey Edward. "The Walking Muse in America." Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University, 1991. [Investigates walking "as activity and metaphor" in the work of Thoreau, Hawthorne, Whitman, Frost, and Ammons. DAI 52 (June 1992), 4333A.]

Smale, Mervyn. "An Englishman Looks at Walt Whitman." In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 211-215. [Whimsical recreation of Whitman's life by someone unfamiliar with it.]

Smith, Gayle L. "Reading 'Song of Myself': Assuming What Whitman Assumes." ATQ n.s. 6 (September 1992), 151-161. [Argues that Whitman's style in "Song," "characterized by elipsis [sic], anaphoric references, and suspended sentence structures," creates difficulties and challenges for the reader, but that the last ten sections of the poem are more direct as the poet "relinquishes some of his control" and invites the reader "to assume the role of the poet."]

Smith, Candace. Review of Walt Whitman: Sweet Bird of Freedom [video recording]. Booklist 88 (February 15, 1992), 1116.

Smoler, Fredric Paul. Review of Philip Callow, From Noon to Starry Night. Observer [London] (November 28, 1992), 60.

Snyder, Gary. "Walt Whitman's New World, Old World." In Paul A. Isbell, ed., Homenaje a Walt Whitman en el Centenario de Su Muerte/Homage to Walt Whitman on the Centenary of His Death (Madrid: Casa de America, United States Information Service, 1992), 16-19. [Argues that the "actual ideology of Whitman's projected future did not truly respect variety (diversity) nor did it grasp that different cultures remain, if they will, different"; proposes that we must go beyond Whitman's conception in order "to see Democracy as a trans-species exercise, not merely an in-house human species political practice"; and imagines that if Whitman were alive today he "might well give his heart to the new native and bioregionalist movement with as much hope (and hopelessness) as he gave to his own uniquely enlightened version of the nineteenth-century dream of progress."]

Sola Buil, Ricardo J. "La Vision Medieval en la Poesia de Whitman." In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 217-224. [Compares passages in "Song of Myself" to Piers Plowman and The Canterbury Tales, finding similarities between Whitman and Chaucer in "their union of the ancient and the modern, their 'romantic' projection of life, and their sincere perception of reality"; in Spanish.]

St. John, David. "Sleepers Naked under Moonlight." Massachusetts Review 33 (Spring 1992), 105. [Poem.]

Stavans, Ilan. "Whitman y Dario: Un Colón, dos . . . y ninguno." Letras Peninsulares 5 (Spring 1992), 107-113. [Contrasts Whitman's "Prayer of Columbus" to Rubén Darío's "A Colón"; in Spanish.]

Sten, Christopher. Review of Kenneth Price, Whitman and Tradition, and Geoffrey Sill and Roberta Tarbell, eds., Walt Whitman and the Visual Arts. American Studies International 30 (October 1992), 110-112.

Sticha, Denise. Review of Philip Callow, From Noon to Starry Night. Library Journal 117 (July 1992), 85.

Stillman, Jacob. "Walt Whitman on the 100th Anniversary of His Death." Yiddishe Kultur 54 (May-June 1992), 6. [Contends that L. Miller's Yiddish translations of Whitman's poetry sometimes equal the original; in Yiddish.]

Strassburg, Robert. The Walt Whitman Circle (Spring 1992). [Quarterly newsletter of the Leisure Walt Whitman Circle, with news of Whitman Centennial activities and addresses for Whitman resources.]

Strassburg, Robert, ed. The Walt Whitman Circle (Summer 1992). [Quarterly newsletter of the Leisure World Walt Whitman Circle, with news of Whitman events, materials, and resources; this issue features Whitman in Japan.]

Strassburg, Robert, ed. The Walt Whitman Circle (Fall 1992). [Newsletter of the Leisure Walt Whitman Circle, containing news of Whitman performances and events worldwide; this issue contains a description by Strassburg of a five-hour Whitman Centennial festival in Japan.]

Strassurg, Robert. Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass": An Introduction to the Poetry and Music of America's Poet of Hope. Los Angeles: University Square Press, 1992. [Teaching guide for Whitman's poetry, focusing on Whitman and music, and including creative exercises in responding to Whitman's poems by writing new ones.]

Strassurg, Robert, ed. The Walt Whitman Circle (Winter 1992). [Newsletter of the Leisure World Walt Whitman Circle, with news of Whitman-related activities worldwide.]

Stuttaford, Genevieve. Review of Philip Callow, From Noon to Starry Night. Publishers Weekly 239 (June 22, 1992), 50.

Szczesiul, Anthony, compiler. Walt Whitman: A Centenary Exhibition. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, 1992. [Catalogue of exhibit of early Whitman editions and related works from Thomas Cooper Library and collection of Joel Myerson.]

Tanner, S.L. Review of Mark Bauerlein, Whitman and the American Idiom. Choice 29 (June 1992), 1538.

Tedeschini Lalli, Biancamaria. "Whitman and Rhetoric." In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 225-236. [Investigates "the notion of Whitman as a rhetor" and examines his "full exploitation of rhetorical devices."]

Tejera, V. "Santayana's Whitman Revisited." Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the Santayana Society no. 10 (Fall 1992), 1-8. [Discusses similarities and differences between Whitman and Santayana, focusing on Santayana's misreadings of Whitman in terms of Whitman's anticonventionalism.]

Thaddeus, Janice. Review of James Perrin Warren, Walt Whitman's Language Experiment. American Literature 64 (March 1992), 163-164.

Thomas, M. Wynn. Review of Joel Myerson, ed., Whitman in His Own Time. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 10 (Fall 1992), 81-84.

Thomas, M. Wynn. "From Walt to Waldo: Whitman's Welsh Admirers." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 10 (Fall 1992), 61-73. [Considers "the way in which Whitman's influence became operative within Welsh-language culture" by examining his influence on Welsh authors including Niclas y Glais, Waldo Williams and Emyr Humphreys.]

Traubel, Horace. With Walt Whitman in Camden. Volume 7: July 7, 1890-February 10, 1891. Ed. Jeanne Chapman and Robert MacIsaac. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992. [To be reviewed.]

Troiano, Antonio. "Per riscoprirlo è bastato un attimo. Fuggente." Corriere della Sera [Milan, Italy] (February 9, 1992), Cultura 2. [How recent films by Peter Weir and Wim Wenders have precipitated a new interest in Whitman in Italy; in Italian.]

Tuten, Nancy Lewis. "The Language of Sexuality: Walt Whitman and Galway Kinnell." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9 (Winter 1992), 134-141. [Explores Kinnell's "indebtedness to Whitman" by examining Kinnell's prose statements and his poems, especially "The Waking" and "Flying Home"; argues that "Kinnell's verse echoes Whitman's not only in its claim that the soul is not to be revered above the body but in its understanding of humanity's need to realign itself with the rest of creation."]

Van Santvoord, Rick. "Reflections of Whitman." In Kenneth F. Gambone, ed., Remembering Walt Whitman (N.p.: Walnut Leaf, 1992), 33-35. [Scattered thoughts about a few Whitman poems.]

Vaughan Willliams, Ralph, and Peter Warlock. English Songs. Etcetera, 1992. [Compact disc with Vaughan Williams's settings of three poems by Whitman, performed by Ian Partidge and Jennifer Partridge.]

Villar Raso, Manuel, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sanchez, eds. Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium. Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992. [Contains the papers delivered at "Walt Whitman Centennial 1892-1992: An International Symposium," April 8-10, 1992, at the University of Granada; with a "Prologue" by Villar Raso (5-6) and twenty-six papers, each listed individually in this bibliography.]

Wallhead, Celia. "Whitman, Wilde and the Self: The Case for Agreement." In Manuel Villar Raso, Miguel Martínez López, and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, eds., Walt Whitman Centennial International Symposium (Granada: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Granada, 1992), 237-242. [Summarizes the Whitman/Wilde relationship and suggests "the aspects of Whitman Wilde did find inspiring."]

Warren, Joyce W. Fanny Fern: An Independent Woman. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992. [Chapter 10, "Walt Whitman," 160 178, offers a detailed revisionist reading of the "Fern-Whitman friendship" and its demise, concluding that Fern was a more radical writer than Whitman; also reprints an 1856 drawing of Whitman by Thomas Butler Gunn (following p. 150).]

Wartofsky, Steven A. "Whitman's Impossible Mother." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9 (Spring 1992), 196-207. [Explores the question of "who is Whitman's biographical mother" by examining the poetry (especially "Song of Myself" and "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life") in the context of theoretical statements by Lacan, Kristeva, Roustang, and Jacqueline Rose; argues that Whitman's "mother-voice" is presented in the form of the "primitive semiotic" and that "she is the Self who by her own revelations legitimates Whitman's homosexual identity."]

Whelan, Carol Zapata. "'Do I Contradict Myself?': Progression through Contraries in Walt Whitman's 'The Sleepers.'" Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 10 (Summer 1992), 25-39. [Employs Julia Kristeva's theories to read Whitman's "The Sleepers" as a progression through dichotomies which justifies the "life affirming" final two sections that other critics have regarded as "contrived."]

Whitman, Walt. Piesn o sobie/Song of Myself. Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1992. [Selections from Leaves of Grass, bilingual edition, selected and translated into Polish by Andrzej Szuba.]

Whitman, Walt. Selections from Sands at Seventy. New York: South Street Seaport Museum, 1992. [Limited edition of 125, with wood engravings by June Paris; signed by the illustrator.]

Whitman, Walt. One Hundred Lyrical Poems of Whitman. Translated by Zhao Luorui. Jinan, Shangdong [China]: Shangdong Literature and Arts Press, 1992. [Selection of translations from Zhao Luorui's complete translation of Leaves; in Chinese.]

Whitman, Walt. "Yr oedd plentyn a âi allan" ["There Was a Child Went Forth"]. Barddas 186 (October 1992), 14. [Translation into Welsh by M. Wynn Thomas.]

Whitman, Walt. On the Beach at Night. Bangor, Maine: Theodore Press/Sarah Books, 1992. [Handset and printed on handmade papers, sewn into non-adhesive covers; edition limited to 110 copies.]

Whitman, Walt. Walt Whitman: Selected Poems. Avenal, NJ: Gramercy, 1992. [With "Introduction," by Christopher Moore, 7-9.]

Whitman, Walt. Poèmes. Paris: Gallimard, 1992. [Reprint of French translations of selected poems from Leaves of Grass, originally published in Oeuvres choisies [1918]; translators include Louis Fabulet, Jean Schlumberger, Francis Vielé-Griffin, Jules Laforgue, and André Gide; also reprints Valery Larbaud's 1914 study of Whitman.]

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. New York: Collectors Reprints, 1992. [A new printing of the 1855 Leaves, limited to 2,500 copies and containing (according to the publisher) "all the detail of the original green cloth binding, including gilded edges, goldstamping and marbled endpapers"; part of "The Library of American Poets" series, available as part of the series for $75, or individually for $95.]

Whitman, Walt.. "Nuove Versioni." Testo a fronte 6 (1992), 121 123. [Sections of "Song of Myself" and "Starting from Paumanok" translated into Italian by Roberto Mussapi.]

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. New York: Vintage Books/Library of America, 1992. [1855 and 1891-92 editions of Leaves, reprinted from Library of America Whitman volume, with new introduction by John Hollander, xi-xxvi.]

Whitman, Walt. "Cân fy hunan" [Selections from "Song of Myself"]. Taliesin 78/79 (Winter 1992), 81-86. [Translations into Welsh by M. Wynn Thomas.]

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass: Original 1855 Edition. Santa Barbara: Bandanna Books, 1992. [New printing of 1855 Leaves.]

Whitman, Walt. Selected Poems. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1992; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. [Selection of poems and excerpts of poems, chosen by Ian Hamilton; Bloomsbury Poetry Classics series.]

Whitman, Walt. Notebook Used Along the New Jersey Coast. Montclair NJ: Caliban Press, 1992. [Handset and printed on handmade and mouldmade papers; illustrated; limited to 125 copies; "consists of a small diary-workbook Whitman kept during an 1883 visit to Ocean Grove, NJ with . . . John Burroughs."]

Winn, Marie. "Bard's Birds Soar in Leaves of Grass." Wall Street Journal (April 21, 1992), A14. [Whitman as "an ardent bird watcher."]

Winter, Kate H. "Whitman and Women: the Poet as Feminist." Long Island Historical Journal 4 (Spring 1992), 200-212. [Overview of Whitman's female friends and his "two hundred and thirty references to women in Leaves of Grass"; argues that, "Even with its Christian aura and heterosexual focus, Whitman's vision of the new land peopled by divinely beautiful women, men, and children could pass for a feminist's dream."]

Wolfson, Leandro. "Walt Whitman: Cien años de vida." Uno Mismo no. 105 (March 1992), 4-9. [Passages from Whitman's prose and poetry, and various passages about Whitman, translated into Spanish and arranged by Wolfson.]

Wolfson, Leandro. "Tres Veces Walt Whitman." Indiomania (Buenos Aires) 1 (August 1992), 18-23. [Compares four translations (by Armandu Vasseur, Léon Felipe, Jorge Luis Borges, and Leandro Wolfson) of Section 52 of "Song of Myself"; in Spanish.]

Woodress, James. "Whitman and Cather." Études Anglaises 45 (July September 1992), 324-332. [Surveys Cather's reactions to Whitman's work and his influence on her, especially in O Pioneers!]

Woods, Gregory. "'Still on My Lips': "Walt Whitman in Britain." In Robert K. Martin, ed., The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992), 129-140. [How Whitman's influence on British writers--including Wilde, Symonds, Hopkins, Carpenter, Lawrence, Forster, Auden, and Gunn--has been "most evident in the poetry of men who seek ways of expressing homoerotic themes."]

Wortham, Thomas. Brief review of Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Volume 7. Nineteenth-Century Literature 47 (September 1992), 269.

Wortham, Thomas. "Recent Books: American Literature." Nineteenth- Century Literature 46 (March 1992), 573-578. [Includes a review of Ezra Greenspan, Walt Whitman and the American Reader, 576-578.]

Wortham, Thomas. Review of Geoffrey Sill and Roberta Tarbell, eds., Walt Whitman and the Visual Arts. Nineteenth-Century Literature 47 (September 1992), 260-261.

Wortham, Thomas. Brief notice of Marion Walker Alcaro, Walt Whitman's Mrs. G, and Graham Clarke, Walt Whitman: The Poem as Personal History. Nineteenth-Century Literature 46 (March 1992), 578, 580.

Wortham, Thomas. Brief notice of Joel Myerson, ed., Whitman in His Own Time. Nineteenth-Century Literature 47 (June 1992), 137.

Yague-Bosch, Javier. "Huir de Nueva York: Whitman y Lorca en un dibujo." Boletin de la Fundacion Federico Garcia Lorca [Spain] 4 (February 1992), 213-233. [In Spanish.]

Yatchisin, George. "A Listening to Walt Whitman and James Wright." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9 (Spring 1992), 175- 195. [Analyzes Wright's essay, "The Delicacy of Walt Whitman," to "test [Wright's] claims and to find out what he says we can find in Whitman" and then " look[s] further into Wright's poems and prose," focussing especially on "To a Blossoming Pear Tree," "Hook," "Miners," and "Saint Judas" and comparing them to Whitman's "Blood Money," "Song of Myself," and "I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ."]

Yoshizaki, Kuniko. Whitman Jidai o Ikiru. [Whitman—Lives in Timeless Eras]. Tokyo:Kaibunsha, 1992. [Chapters include “Whitman’s Early Poems Prior to Leaves of Grass,” “The Theme of Love in Whitman’s Early Fiction,” “The Journalistic Aspects of Whitman’s Fiction,” “Whitman’s Notebooks Prior to Leaves of Grass,” “Oriental Sources of Whitman’s Work,” “Whitman’s Soul in the Light of Zen,” “The Theme of Death in Leaves of Grass,” “Whitman’s ‘Passage to India’: Completion of the Circumnavigation,” “Whitman’s Americanism,” “Whitman and the Frontier,” “The Image of Women in Whitman’s Work”; in Japanese.]

Zardoya, Concha. "Afirmación de libertad y de fuerza." ABC [Literario] (March 26, 1992), 20. [Views Whitman as the dynamic poet of liberty; in Spanish.]

Zhang Huixin. "Walt Whitman and Brahmanism." Waiguo Wenxue Pinglun [Foreign Literature Review (Quarterly)] (1992), no. 1, 70-74. [Explores the influence of Hinduism and Indian philosophy on Whitman; in Chinese.]

Unsigned. Brief review of Joel Myerson, ed., Whitman in His Own Time. Reference & Research Book News 7 (April 1992), 37.

Unsigned. Brief review of Geoffrey Sill and Roberta Tarbell, eds., Walt Whitman and the Visual Arts. American Literature 64 (September 1992), 643.

Unsigned. Brief review of Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, vol. 7. A.B. Bookman's Weekly 89 (May 18, 1992), 2053.

Unsigned. Brief review of Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (Collectors Reprint facsimile of 1855 edition). A.B. Bookman's Weekly 90 (November 30, 1992), 2064.

Unsigned. Brief review of Philip Callow, From Noon to Starry Night. Publishers Weekly 239 (June 22, 1992), 50.

Unsigned. Brief notice of Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, vol. 7. University Press Book News 4 (June 1992), 40.

Unsigned. Brief review of Philip Callow, From Noon to Starry Night. Kirkus Reviews 60 (July 1, 1992), 822-823.

Unsigned. Brief reviews of Robert Martin, ed., The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman, Byrne Fone, Masculine Landscapes, Philip Callow, From Noon to Starry Night, and Lee Bennett Hopkins, ed., Voyages. Lamda Book Report 3 (November 1992), 45-46.

Unsigned. Brief review of Byrne Fone, Masculine Landscapes. University Press Book News 4 (September 1992), 34.

Unsigned. Brief review of Lee Bennett Hopkins, ed., Voyages: Poems by Walt Whitman. Publishers Weekly 239 (June 29, 1992), 65.

Unsigned. "Where to Celebrate Walt Whitman for the Next Two Months." New York Times (March 27, 1992), C31. [Annotated list of New York City area events (March 26-May 31, 1992) commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Whitman.]

Unsigned. Brief notice of M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Whitman's Poetry of the Body; Donald D. Kummings, ed., Approaches to Teaching Whitman's Leaves of Grass; Michael Moon, Disseminating Whitman. College Literature 19 (February 1992), 177, 180.

Unsigned. Brief notice of Mark Bauerlein, Whitman and the American Idiom. University Press Book Review 4 (March 1992), 40.

Unsigned. "Walt." The New Yorker (April 13, 1992), 28-30. [Description of Whitman Centennial poetry reading (by Lucille Clifton, Sharon Olds, Galway Kinnell, C.K. Williams, Michael Harper, Gerald Stern, and Allen Ginsberg) at Cathedral of St. John the Divine.]

Unsigned. "Whitman 'poeta' nazionale I maggiori studiosi in citta." La Gazzetta di Macerata [Italy] (October 24, 1992), 1. [About Whitman conference in Macerata, Italy; in Italian.]

Unsigned. "Whitman Died 100 Years Ago: The Man Who Sang America." Economist 323 (April 11, 1992), 91-92. [Centennial encomium to Whitman.]

Unsigned. Brief notice of Michael Moon, Disseminating Whitman. Village Voice Literary Supplement (June 1992), 22.

Unsigned. "Walt Whitman in Washington D.C." Smithsonian Associate 20 (June 1992), 26. [Announces and describes "walking tour of Whitman's Washington."]