Volume 52, Number 14 · September 22, 2005
Love and Walt Whitman
By J.M. Coetzee
Memoranda During the War
by Walt Whitman, edited by Peter Coviello
Oxford University Press, 176 pp., $25.00
Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition
by Walt Whitman, edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
Penguin, 160 pp., $12.00 (paper)
Leaves of Grass: 150th Anniversary Edition
by Walt Whitman, edited and with an afterword by David S. Reynolds
Oxford University Press, 167 pp., $22.00
Walt Whitman
by David S. Reynolds
Oxford University Press, 159 pp., $17.95
To Walt Whitman, America
by Kenneth M. Price
University of North Carolina Press, 182 pp., $19.95 (paper)
Transatlantic Connections: Whitman US, Whitman UK
by M. Wynn Thomas
University of Iowa Press, 289 pp., $39.95
In August of 1863 Private Erastus Haskell of the 141st New York Volunteers died of typhoid fever in Armory Square Hospital, Washington, D.C. Shortly thereafter his parents received a long letter from a stranger. 'I was very anxious [Erastus] should be saved,' the stranger wrote,
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