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

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

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.

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

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

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)

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

Whitman and Sojourner Truth

Compares the "parallel but never intersected lives" of Whitman and Sojourner Truth