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Walt Whitman Resources

Books

     

  • There is one book on Walt Whitman and his work on reserve at the circulation desk.
  • There are several books in the circulating collection on Walt Whitman. Use the book catalog to find a list of titles.
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography - Volume 224 is devoted to Walt Whitman. It is available in the reference stacks at PN466 .D52.

Databases
  • EBSCO - This is the place to start for general research. This group of databases includes: Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete, Computers & Applied Sciences Complete, CINAHL, PsycARTCLES, ERIC, and more. Articles may be full-text, abstracts, or citations.
  • Literature Resources from Gale - From the home page, click on databases. Click on Gale. From the Gale database menu, scroll down and then click on Literature Resources from Gale. Do both an author and a title search.

Periodicals

  • Walt Whitman Review 1969-1973, 1975.

  • Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1988-2005. Founded in 1983 as a successor to the Walt Whitman Review, which succeeded the Walt Whitman Newsletter. There are essays about Whitman, his influence, his cultural contexts, his life, and his work. Search the index to find specific articles on "Song of Myself." If we do not have the issue for the article you need, we can obtain a copy of the article through interlibrary loan.

Websites

  • American Transcendentalism Web - This is a web study text of "Song of Myself" prepared by Virginia Commonwealth University. Click on highlighted words and phrases within the text to see an interpretation of the poem.

  • Perspectives in American Literature - Click on "Song of Myself" to find the section that analyzes the poem. The author is a professor at California State University.

  • Whitman's Manuscript Drafts - Ed Folsom of the University of Iowa brings together all surviving manuscript drafts of the poem, "Song of Myself." You will see images of original documents that show the writer's work in progress.

  • Walt Whitman Archive - Includes biography, criticism, images, audio and a bibliography of resources. Brown Library does not have most of the items listed in the bibliography, but we can obtain them for you on interlibrary loan.

  • Walt Whitman & Slavery in "Song of Myself" - This site invites users to consider Whitman's treatment of race and slavery in "Song of Myself" and focuses in particular on two fugitive slave passages. There are several texts so that you can compare Whitman's imaginative account of a runaway slave to contemporary accounts by other authors, including several African American fugitives themselves. Critical positions samples the broad ranging and intense debate over Whitman's depiction of African Americans.

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