Volume 42, Number 16 · October 19, 1995
Whitman's Revolution
By Geoffrey O'Brien
OTHER BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography
by David S. Reynolds
Knopf, 671 pp., $35.00
Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
by Walt Whitman
Library of America, 1,380 pp., $35.00
Selected Letters of Walt Whitman
edited by Edwin Haviland Miller
University of lowa Press, 320 pp., $19.95 (paper)
Constructing the German Walt Whitman
by Walter Gründzweig
University of lowa Press, 286 pp., $22.95; $12.95 (paper)
The Neglected Walt Whitman: Vital Texts
edited by Sam Abrams
Four Walls Eight Windows, 188 pp., $12.95 (paper)
The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman
edited by Robert K. Martin
University of lowa Press, 282 pp., $28.95
Like Lincoln or Jesus (to both of whom he addressed poems), Walt Whitman has entered irrevocably the realm of myth. In his case the myth is to an astonishing degree of his own design, consciously crafted and deliberately planted. Consider this description of his work from 1867, anticipating in its titanic scale so much subsequent writing about Whitman:
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