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Selected Criticism
This section of the Archive offers a sampling of copyrighted criticism, reprinted here with permission, and some out-of-copyright commentary (we are starting with George Santayana's "Walt Whitman: A Dialogue" and will add other texts as time allows). In addition to entries from The Walt Whitman Encyclopedia and two biographical essays by Martin G. Murray, we have made an effort to present a key current controversy over Whitman's "Live Oak with Moss." We are also in the process of exploring the possibility of making the full text of the backlist of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review available here. (Please check back for updates.) Further, we have recently added full-length books by several scholars. Kenneth M. Price and Ed Folsom have been successful in retaining electronic rights to their volumes recently published by the University of North Carolina Press and Blackwell Publishing. They have also secured permission from the University of Iowa Press to put online most volumes from the Whitman series directed by Folsom. In all cases, full bibliographic information about the original publication is available at the end of each document.
We encourage scholars in the future to negotiate with their publishers about retaining electronic rights to their work (or at least electronic rights jointly held by the writer and by the journal or press). It is our hope that this section of the Archive will grow significantly as we secure copyright releases to more works of criticism. We strongly urge scholars to retain electronic rights by filling out a SPARC addendum to contracts, allowing for the retention of electronic rights. The well-worded addendum that can be attached to contracts is at http://www.arl.org/sparc/author.
Books
- Folsom, Ed. Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman.
- Folsom, Ed, and Kenneth M. Price. Re-Scripting Walt Whitman.
- Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. Walt Whitman and the Earth: A Study in Ecopoetics.
- Krieg, Joann P. Walt Whitman & the Irish.
- Mack, Stephen John. The Pragmatic Whitman.
- Price, Kenneth M. To Walt Whitman, America.
Articles
- 80 entries from The Walt Whitman Encyclopedia
- Helms, Alan. "Whitman's 'Live Oak with Moss.'"
- Helms, Alan, and Hershel Parker. "Commentary."
- Jewell, Andrew, and Kenneth M. Price. "Twentieth-century Mass Media Appearances."
- Murray, Martin G. "'Pete the Great': A Biography of Peter Doyle."
- Murray, Martin G. "Traveling with the Wounded: Walt Whitman and Washington's Civil War Hospitals."
- Nelson, Robert K., and Kenneth M. Price. "Debating Manliness: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Sloane Kennedy, and the Question of Whitman."
- Parker, Hershel. "The Real 'Live Oak, with Moss': Straight Talk about Whitman's 'Gay Manifesto.'"
- Santayana, George. "Walt Whitman: A Dialogue."