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Books Reviewed in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, listed alphabetically by author or editor of the book. Volume number / issue number: pages.

Abrams, Sam, ed. The Neglected Walt Whitman, 11/2:84-86.

Akers, Philip. The Principle of Life, 10/3:162-164.

Alcaro, Marion. Walt Whitman’s Mrs. G: A Biography of Anne Gilchrist, 9/4:217-219.

Alexander, Meena. The Poetic Self: Towards a Phenomenology of Romanticism, 1/4:36-37.

Allen, Gay Wilson. The Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman and The New Walt Whitman Handbook, 4/4:32-33.

Allen, Gay Wilson, and Ed Folsom, eds. Walt Whitman and the World, 15/1:36-40.

Arensburg, Mary, ed. The American Sublime, 5/1:38-40.

Armstrong, Jennifer. The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan and Mary Mehan Awake [novels featuring Whitman as a character], 18/4:198-199.

Ash, A. S., ed. The Original 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass, 11/2:86-89.

Aspiz, Harold. So Long!: Walt Whitman’s Poetry of Death, 21/3-4 :173-175.

Asselineau, Roger. The Evolution of Walt Whitman: An Expanded Edition, 17/4:197-198.

Athenot, Éric. Walt Whitman: Poète-cosmos. 20/1:40.

Bain, Robert, ed. Whitman’s and Dickinson’s Contemporaries, 13/4:226-228.

Bauerlein, Mark. Whitman and the American Idiom, 9/4:220-223.

Beach, Christopher. The Politics of Distinction, 15/2,3:122-126.

Bergman, Herbert, Douglas A Noverr, and Edward J. Recchia, eds. The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman: The Journalism, Volume 1: 1834-1846, 16/3,4: 223-225

Bergman, Herbert, Douglas A Noverr, and Edward J. Recchia, eds. The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman: The Journalism, Volume 2, 22/1:36-38.

Berthold, Dennis and Price, Kenneth M., eds., Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman, 2/2:50-52.

Bloom, Harold, ed. Walt Whitman. 18/4:194-197.

Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon, 12/2:117-120.

Bronk, William. The Brother in Elysium: Ideas of Friendship and Society in the United States, 1/1:47-48.

Buono, Carmen Joseph Dello. Rare Early Essays on Walt Whitman, 1/2:40.

Burghart, Götz, trans. Tagebuch [Specimen days], 5/2:39-40.

Burroughs, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, 17/3:129-131.

Byers, Thomas B. What I Cannot Say, 9/1:36-44.

Cady, Edwin H. and Louis J. Budd, eds. On Whitman: The Best From American Literature, 6/1:33-35.

Callow, Phillip. From Noon to Starry Night: A Life of Walt Whitman, 10/4:213-221.

Cavitch, David. My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman, 4/1:44-46.

Ceniza, Sherry. Walt Whitman and 19^th-Century Women Reformers, 16/2:96-98.

Christman, Henry M., ed. Walt Whitman’s New York (reprinted edition), 8/2:113-114.

Clarke, Graham. Walt Whitman: The Poem as Private History, 9/1:30-32.

Coghill, Sheila, and Thom Tammaro, eds., Visiting Walt: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Walt Whitman, 21/3-4:175-177.

Comer, Keith. Strange Meetings: Walt Whtiman, Wilfred Owen, and the Poetry of War, 16/2:101-103.

Corona, Mario, trans. Foglie d’erba 1855, 14/4:184-186.

Dacey, Philip. Gerard Manley Hopkins Meets Walt Whitman in Heaven and Other Poems, 1/3:59.

Davis, Robert Leigh. Whitman and the Romance of Medicine, 15/2,3:126-130.

Demirovic, Hamdija, ed. and trans. Vlati trave / Respondez!, 7/1:36-37.

Dougherty, James. Walt Whitman and the Citizen’s Eye, 11/4:203-206.

Eitner, Walter H. Walt Whitman’s Western Jaunt, 1/1:48.

Epstein, Daniel Mark. Lincoln and Whitman, 23/1-2:64-65.

Erkkila, Betsy. Whitman the Political Poet, 7/1:28-31.

Erkkila, Betsy and Jay Grossman, eds. Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies, 13/4:162-166.

Fletcher, Angus. A New Theory for American Poetry, 21/:3-4:177-179.

Fred Hersch Ensemble. Leaves of Grass (CD), 23/3-4:151-154.

Folsom, Ed and Kenneth M. Price. Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work, 23/3-4: 147-148.

Folsom, Ed, ed.  Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays, 12/1: 57-58.

Folsom, Ed. Walt Whitman’s Native Representations, 12/1:52-56.

Folsom, Ed, ed. Whitman East and West, 21/2:90-95.

Folsom, Ed. Whitman Making Books / Books Making Whitman, 24/1:41-43.

Folsom, Ed and Kenneth M. Price, eds. Major Authors on CD-ROM: Walt Whitman, 16/1:38-40.

Fone, Byrne R.S. Masculine Landscapes: Walt Whitman and the Homoerotic Text, 10/2:84-85.

Freedman, Florence. William Douglas O’Connor: Walt Whitman’s Chosen Knight, 3/4:39-40.

Gardner, Thomas. Discovering Ourselves in Whitman, 9/1:36-44.

Garman, Bryan K. A Race of Singers: Walt Whitman’s Working-Class Hero from Guthrie to Springsteen, 18/3:153-155.

Gibson, Brent. An Annotated Walt Whitman Bibliography, 1976-1985, 19:3,4:189-191.

Grace, Judith. Good-bye My Fancy: With Walt Whitman in His Last Days, 22/2,3:140-141.

Greenland, Cyril and John Robert Colombo, eds. Walt Whitman’s Canada, 10/4:218-220.

Greenspan, Ezra, ed. Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman, 13/3:166-168.

Greenspan, Ezra. Walt Whitman and the American Reader, 9/2:101-103.

Greenspan, Ezra. Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition, 23/3-4:148-151.

Grier, Edward F., ed. Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts. The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman [Vols. 17-22], 3/1:25-27.

Groff, David and Richard Berman, eds. Whitman's Men: Walt Whitman's Calamus Poems Celebrated by Contemporary Photographers, 16/1:41-42.

Grossman, Jay. Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation, 22/1:36-38.

Grünzweig, Walter. Walt Whitman: die Deutschprachige Rezeption als Interkulterelles Phänomen, 11/2:82-84.

Haigney, Jessica. Walt Whitman and the French Impressionists: A Study of Analogies, 9/2:108-110.

Heyen, William. Eight Poems for Saint Walt, 13/4:40-42.

Hollis, C. Carroll. Language and Style in Leaves of Grass, 1/3:56-59.

Huang, Guiyou. Whitmanism, Imagism, and Modernism in China and America, 15/4:189-193.

Hutchinson, George B. The Ecstatic Whitman: Literary Shamanism and the Crisis of the Union, 5/3:27-33.

Kane, Paul, ed. Poetry of the American Renaissance, 13/4:226-228.

Kantrowitz, Arnie. Walt Whitman, 23/1-2:69-71.

Kaplan, Justin, ed. Walt Whitman: Complete Poetry and Prose, 1/2:37-39.

Kaplan, Justin, ed. Walt Whitman, Poetry and Prose, 14/1:37-40.

Katz, Jonathan Ned. Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality, 21/3-4:179-182.

Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. The Growth of Leaves of Grass, 11/1:37-40.

Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. Whitman’s Poetry of the Body, 7/4:194-197.

Klammer, Martin. Whitman, Slavery, and the Emergence of Leaves of Grass, 12/4:261-263.

Knapp, Bettina L. Walt Whitman, 11/3:144-145.

Kramer, Lawrence, ed., Walt Whitman and Modern Music: War, Desire, and the Trials of Nationhood, 19:3,4:191-192.

Krieg, Joann P., ed. Walt Whitman Here and Now, 3/4:31-38.

Krieg, Joann P. Whitman and the Irish, 18/4:190-193.

Krieg, Joann P. A Whitman Chronology, 17/1,2:78-79.

Kronick, Joseph G. American Poetics of History, 5/1:38-40.

Kuebrich, David. Minor Prophecy: Walt Whitman’s New American Religion, 8/2:103-109.

Kummings, Donald D., ed. Approaches to Teaching Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, 9/1:33-35.

Kummings, Donald D. Walt Whitman 1940-1975: A Reference Guide, 1/2:36-37.

Larson, Kerry C. Whitman’s Drama of Consensus, 6/4:198-199.

Lawrence, D. H. Studies in Classic American Literature [Cambridge Edition], 21/2:41-64.

Lawson, Andrew. Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle, 24/1:37-40.

Léger, Michael, ed. Walt Whitman: A Collection of Poems, 18/4:194-197.

LeMaster, J.R., and Donald D. Kummings, eds. Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, 17/1,2: 77.

Leon, Philip. Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler, 14/4:189-192.

Leverenz, David. Manhood and the American Renaissance, 7/3:143-145.

Li Yeguang. A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman, 10/2:86-90.

Loving, Jerome. Emerson, Whitman, and the American Muse, 1/4:34-36.

Loving, Jerome. Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself, 17/3:124-128.

Luorui, Zhao, trans. Cao Ye Ji [Leaves of Grass], 13/1,2:90-93.

Mack, Stephen John. The Pragmatic Whitman. 20/3,4:179-180.

Mancuso, Luke. The Strange Sad War Revolving: Walt Whitman, Reconstruction, and the Emergence of Black Citizenship, 1865-76, 15/1:40-44.

Marianni, Ariodante, trans. Foglie d’Erba, 7/1:37.

Martin, Robert K., ed. The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman: The Life After the Life, 10/3:154-159.

Maslan, Mark. Whitman Possessed, 20/3,4:177-179.

McElroy, James Harmon, ed. The Sacrificial Years: A Chronicle of Walt Whitman’s Experiences in the Civil War, 17/3:194-196.

Miller, Edwin Haviland, ed. Selected Letters of Walt Whitman, 8/1:51-52.

Miller, Edwin Haviland. Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”: A Mosaic of Interpretations, 7/3:141.

Miller, Jr., James E. Walt Whitman (Updated Version), 8/1:53-55.

Mitchell, Stephen, ed. Song of Myself, 11/3:145-147.

Moon, Michael. Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in Leaves of Grass, 9/2:104-107.

Morris, Roy Jr. The Better Angel: Walt Whitman and the Civil War, 18/3:149-152.

Myerson, Joel, ed. The Walt Whitman Archive, 12/2:115-117.

Myerson, Joel, ed. Whitman in His Own Time, 10/2:81-83.

Nandyal, Ranganath. Henry Miller in the Light of Eastern Thought, 13/1,2:96-97.

Nathanson, Tenney. Whitman’s Presence, 11/1:35-37.

Nolan, James. Poet-Chief: The Native American Poetics of Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda, 16/3,4:226-228.

Padgett, Ron, ed. The Teacher and Writers Guide to Walt Whitman, 9/3:157-158.

Pannapacker, William. Revised Lives: Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Authorship, 22/1:39-40.

Parini, Jay, ed. The Columbia History of American Poetry, 11/4:209-212.

Pattison, Robert. The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism, 5/2:41-42.

Perlman, Jim, Ed Folsom, and Dan Campion, eds., Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song (Revised Second Edition), 16/2:99-100.

Pease, Donald E. Visionary Compacts, 6/2:97-101.

Pollak, Vivian R. The Erotic Whitman. 19/1:52-55.

Price, Kenneth M. To Walt Whitman, America, 22/1:40-45.

Price, Kenneth M., ed. Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews, 14/4:182-184.

Price, Kenneth M. Whitman and Tradition, 8/2:102-103.

Reynolds, David S., ed. A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman, 18/3:147-148.

Reynolds, David S. Beneath the American Renaissance, 7/1:32-35.

Reynolds, David. Walt Whitman’s America, 12/4:257-261.

Rorty, Richard. Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth Century America, 16/2:104-108.

Schmidgall, Gary, ed. Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman's Conversations with Horace Traubel, 1888-1892, 19:3,4:187-189.

Schmidgall, Gary. Walt Whitman: A Gay Life, 15/2,3:130-132.

Schwiebert, John. The Frailest Leaves, 12/4:263-267.

Selby, Nick, ed. The Poetry of Walt Whitman: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism, 22/2,3:138-140.

Shively, Charley, ed. Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman’s Working-Class Camerados, 5/2:35-37.

Shively, Charley, ed. Drum Beats: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Boy Lovers, 6/4:200-205.

Shulman, Robert. Social Criticism and Nineteenth Century American Fictions, 6/2:97-101.

Sill, Geoffrey, ed. Walt Whitman of Mickle Street, 12/3:186-191.

Sill, Geoffrey and Roberta Tarbell, eds. Walt Whitman and the Visual Arts, 13/3:169-170.

Steele, Jeffrey. The Representation of Self in the American Renaissance, 7/1:32-35.

Sweet, Timothy. Traces of War: Poetry, Photography, and the Crisis of the Union, 8/2:110-112.

Tapscott, Stephen. American Beauty: William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman, 2/3:30-31.

Thomas, M. Wynn. The Lunar Light of Whitman’s Poetry, 5/3:25-27.

Thomas, M. Wynn. Transatlantic Connections: Whitman U.S., Whitman U.K., 23/1-2:65-69.

Thomas, M. Wynn, trans. Dail Glaswellt [Leaves of Grass], 13/1,2:93-96.

Thurin, Erik Ingvar. Whitman Between Impressionism and Expressionism, 13/4:225-226.

Traubel, Horace, ed. An American Primer by Walt Whitman, 5/2:37-38.

Traubel, Horace. With Walt Whitman in Camden, Volume 7, 10/1:40-41.

Traubel, Horace. With Walt Whitman in Camden, Volumes 8 and 9, 14/2,3:128-133.

Vernon, John. Peter Doyle: A Novel, 9/3:158-161.

Waggoner, Hyatt H. American Visionary Poetry, 2/1:44-46.

Wallace, Ronald. God Be with the Clown: Humor in American Poetry, 3/3:36-38.

Warren, Joyce W. Fanny Fern, 11/2:89-95.

Wiener, Gary, ed. Readings on Walt Whitman, 18/4:194-197.

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass and Other Writings, ed. Michael Moon, 21/2:80-89.

Whitman, Walt. Memoranda During the War, ed. Peter Coviello, 23/1-2:61-63.

Whitman, Walt. Poetry and Prose, ed. Shira Wolosky, 21/2:80-89.

Whitman, Walt. Selected Poems, ed. Harold Bloom, 21/2:80-89.

Whitman, Walt. Sunday Evening Lectures, ed. Gary Wihl, 21/2:65-79.

Woodress, James, ed. Critical Essays on Walt Whitman, 1/4:32-33.

Wordcruncher Bookshelf Series: Walt Whitman, Poetry and Prose (computer software), 7/3:146-149.

Zweig, Paul. Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet, 2/1:42-44.