An Undetected Echo of Tennyson\u27s "Ulysses" in Walt Whitman\u27s "Leaves of Grass"

This discovery article explores the previously unrecognized semantic resonance between the concluding verses of Alfred Lord Tennyson\u27s poem "Ulysses" and Walt Whitman\u27s poem "The Untold Want." The English and American poets were not only contemporaries but also friends who admired each other\u27s work and corresponded over the course of two decades. In pursuing a daring Ulysses-like voyage "to seek and find," Whitman was paying tribute to his fellow poet\u27s questing spirit.&nbsp

Whitman\u27s Fourth Known Self-Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

Unknown to scholars of Whitman, a fourth self-review of Whitman\u27s first edition Leaves of Grass has been hiding in newsprint since 1855. This short piece, published in August 1855, not only provides another early glimpse of Whitman’s views of his own poetry and its need for public curation, but also hints at previously unknown journalistic writing or editorial work Whitman may have produced during this period. This self-review, titled “A Poet Showing the New York Muscle,” made its original appearance in the New York Sunday Dispatch, a literary weekly, for August 26, 1855, page 4. It is reprinted here for the first time since 1855, and finally under the poet’s own name

Walt Whitman. <i>Leaves of Grass / Grashalme: Zweisprachige Fassung der Erstausgabe von 1855 </i>

Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass / Grashalme: Zweisprachige Fassung der Erstausgabe von 1855. Translated by Walter Grünzweig and a team of translators at TU Dortmund University. Aachen: Rimbaud, 2022. 226 pp

Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 41, no. 3/4

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Front Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 41, no. 1/2

Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Winter/Spring 2024

Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Winter/Spring 202

"Whoever You Are, We Too Lie in Drifts at Your Feet": Walt Whitman\u27s Mystic Self in Jorie Graham\u27s Water Poetry

This essay traces Whitman’s transcendental legacy as a mystic interlocutor between the divine and the eternal Universal Being and its reception in contemporary ecopoetic water poetry. This close study of “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” and “As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life" charts Whitman’s move away from viewing nature as a resource for human domination and exploitation towards a sense of our interconnectedness within nature as part of this Universal Being. Comparing Whitman’s transcendentalist American poetry with Graham’s contemporary ecopoetry, this essay examines how the different historical contexts of frontier expansion (Whitman) and erasure caused by the late-stage climate disaster (Graham) exert their different influences on the mystic, transcendental speakers of these poems. Consulting Graham’s “The Wake Off the Ferry” and “Ebbtide” in answer to Whitman’s poems, it explores how the climate crisis negates the possibility of eternity or any assurance of our value or place within the divine or eternal, and instead offers only the certainty of the moment, before that too begins to crumble

Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Summer/Fall 2023

Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Summer/Fall 202

“Building the House that Serves Him Longer”: A History of Walt Whitman\u27s Tomb

In letters and conversations with friends and acquaintances, Whitman\u27s ideas about his "burial house" gradually took shape over the four years prior to his death in March 1892. The completion of Whitman\u27s tomb represented the culmination of a complicated series of decisions. While the location of Whitman\u27s tomb, its design, and its cost are topics that have received various critical and biographical interpretations, this essay includes recently uncovered materials that provide a clearer understanding of the process that unfolded in the years prior to Whitman\u27s death regarding his tomb.&nbsp

Front Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 41, no. 3/4

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