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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Whitman Connection
Provides a brief account of the relationship of Whitman to ardent feminist socialist Charlotte Perkins Gilman, exploring the question of why this arch feminist celebrated Whitman\u27s poetry with such enthusiasm and what connection there could have been between her philosophy and Whitman\u27s
Whitman and Modern Dance
Recounts the history of the creation and performance of choreographer Helen Tamiris\u27s Walt Whitman Suite, a dance created in 1936 for the Federal Dance Project and based on "Salut au Monde," "Song of the Open Road," and "I Sing the Body Electric"; proposes that Tamiris is "a translator of Whitman\u27s words into the new language of modern dance.
Percy Ives, Thomas Eakins, and Whitman
Details the relation between artist Percy Ives and Whitman, suggesting the possibility that Ives may have brought the poet into contact with Thomas Eakins earlier than they had previously been believed to have met
Democracy in Action: Naming the Bridge for Walt Whitman
Describes the amusing 1950s controversy surrounding the naming of the Walt Whitman Bridge connecting Pennsylvania and New Jersey
John Butler Yeats and Jack B. Yeats on Whitman
Documents William Butler Yeats\u27s father John Butler Yeats\u27s 1913 speech at a New York Whitmanite dinner and prints a sketch of Whitman by Jack B. Yeats (John Butler Yeats\u27s son, and William Butler Yeats\u27s brother)
Without Walt Whitman in Camden
Examines the lives of some of Whitman\u27s friends and followers in and around Camden, New Jersey, in the time shortly after the poet\u27s death; uses the correspondence of Horace Traubel, Richard M. Bucke, Thomas Harned, John Symonds and others to explore how Whitman\u27s sexuality, reputation, and writing were debated and interpreted by his followers in the wake of the poet\u27s death
Emory Holloway\u27s Final Word on Whitman\u27s Son
Uses Pulitzer Prize- winning Whitman scholar Emory Holloway\u27s correspondence with Verne Dyson to determine Holloway\u27s 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
Whitman and Sojourner Truth
Compares the "parallel but never intersected lives" of Whitman and Sojourner Truth
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