Walt Whitman

The realization of the American Dream as an apocalypse, an eschatological event which would give the life of man its ultimate significance, was an invention of Whitman’s. --Kenneth Rexroth, Leaves of Grass, Classics Revisited (1968)


Recommended reading:
by Walt Whitman at Reading Rat


Criticism (articles, essays, reviews):

Walt Whitman, Taking Poetic License With His Image by Peter Carlson, review of special Whitman issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post, April 12, 2005

Poet's Choice column, by Robert Pinsky, Washington Post, January 23, 2005

Whitman and Dickinson, by M. Jimmie Killingsworth and Daneen Wardrop, American Literary Scholarship, 1998

In Praise of Mess, by Richard Poirier, review of With Walt Whitman in Camden: Vol. VIII: 11 February 1891-30 September 1891, by Horace Traubel, edited by Jeanne Chapman and Robert MacIsaac, and With Walt Whitman in Camden: Vol. IX: 11 February 1891-30 September 1891, by Horace Traubel, edited by Jeanne Chapman and Robert MacIsaac, London Review of Books, June 4, 1998