
The Walt Whitman Archive
Commentary
Contemporary Reviews
Leaves of Grass (1855)
- [Dana, Charles A.]. "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]." New York Daily Tribune 23 July 1855: 3.
- [Anonymous]. "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]." Life Illustrated (28 July 1855): [unknown].
- [Whitman, Walt]. "Walt Whitman and His Poems." United States Review 5 (September 1855): 205-12.
- [Norton, Charles Eliot]. "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]." Putnam's Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, and Art 6 (September 1855): 321-3.
- [Anonymous]. "A Pleasant Quiz." The Albion, A Journal of News, Politics and Literature 14 (8 September 1855): 429.
- [Anonymous]. "'Leaves of Grass'—An Extraordinary Book." Brooklyn Daily Eagle 15 September 1855: 2.
- [Whitman, Walt]. "Walt Whitman, a Brooklyn Boy." Brooklyn Daily Times 29 September 1855: 2.
- [Whitman, Walt]. "An English and an American Poet." American Phrenological Journal 22.4 (October 1855): 90-1.
- [Anonymous]. "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]." Christian Spiritualist (1856): [unknown].
- [Griswold, Rufus W.]. "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]." The Criterion 1 (10 November 1855): 24.
- [Anonymous]. "Studies among the Leaves." The Crayon 3 (January 1856): 30-2.
- Hale, Edward Everett. "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]." The North American Review 83 (January 1856): 275-7.
- [Anonymous]. "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]." Washington Daily National Intelligencer 18 February 1856: 4.
- [Anonymous]. "Leaves of Grass. Entered according to Act of Congress, by Walter Whitman, &c., &c., Brooklyn." New York Daily News 27 February 1856: 1.
- [Howitt, William (?), or Fox, William J. (?)]. London Weekly Dispatch 9 March 1856: 6.
- [Anonymous]. "Leaves of Grass" The Saturday Review 1 (15 March 1856): 393-4.
- [Anonymous]. "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]." The Literary Examiner 2512 (22 March 1856): 180-1.
- [Anonymous]. "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]." The Critic 15 (1 April 1856): 170-1.
- [Eliot, George]. "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]." The Westminster Review n.s. 9 (1 April 1856): 343-56.
- [Anonymous]. "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]." The Merchant's Magazine and Commercial Review 34 (May 1856): 654.
- Fern, Fanny. "Leaves of Grass." The New York Ledger 10 May 1856: 4.
- [Lewes, George Henry or Eliot, George]. "Transatlantic Latter-Day Poetry." The Leader 7 (7 June 1856): 547-8.
- [Anonymous]. "A Strange Blade." Punch Magazine (26 April 1856): 169.
- Bagshawe, Henry Ridgard]. "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]." The Dublin Review 41 (September 1856): 267-8.
- W., D. "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]." Canadian Journal n.s.1 (November 1856): 541-51.
- [Anonymous]. "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]." Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper 20 December 1856: 42.