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Walt Whitman
[1819-1892]
![portrait of early American poet Walt Whitman [1819-92] with flowing white beard](images/WaltWhitman-whitebeard.jpg) |
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"Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow
in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." — Walt Whitman
"It is Whitman, our great poet and pragmatic philosopher, who advises [America] not to be curious about God but to affix our curiosity to our own lives and the earth [that] we live on, and then perhaps as far as we can see into the universe with our telescopes." — E.L. Doctorow
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Walt Whitman entry at Wikipedia
listed #22 on The Atlantic Monthly's Top 100 Most Influential Figures in American History [Dec 2006]
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1578667/
1855 July 4th: First edition of Walt Whitman's self-published "Leaves of Grass"; many revisions & additions until his death in 1892. --www.bartleby.com/142/
Primary Works
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 | Walt Whitman: Selected Poems [2003] Edited by Harold Bloom 47 works by the "greatest of all American poets" LoA/American Poets Project 7¾x5 hardcover [1/2003] for $15.60 Walt Whitman: Poetry and Prose [1996] Edited by Justin Kaplan Library of America College Editions 7¾x5 pb [5/96] for $17.05 includes "Leaves of Grass", 17 other poems, and 'his complete prose' |
Other Works
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"The Portable Western Reader" [1997] Edited by William Kittredge
Penguin 7¾x5 pb [7/97] for $14.40 over 70 Western tales, from authors Sherman Alexie, W.H. Auden, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Gretel Ehrlich, Louise Erdrich, Allen Ginsberg, John Graves, Catherine McClellan, Larry McMurtry, Czeslaw Milosz, Mari Sandoz, John Steinbeck, Walt Whitman, and many more |
Plays, Motion Pictures & Other Media
character of 'Walt Whitman' listing at IMDb
"Walt Whitman" silent short [1922] /tt0433161/
"Song of Myself" [1976] portrayed by Rip Torn /tt0258190/
"Beautiful Dreamers" [1990] portrayed by Rip Torn /tt0101413/
"The Famous Authors: Walt Whitman" DVD [2007] /B000P6R6L0/
"American Experience: Walt Whitman" [2008 TV episode] portrayed by Chris Cooper /tt1167322/
Works About Walt Whitman
"Walt Whitman: A Life" [Simon and Schuster 1979] by Justin Kaplan ISBN 0671225421.
"WW's America" [] by David S. Reynolds
 | "Writing Revolution: Aesthetics and Politics In Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau" [2003] by Peter J. Bellis
Univ GA Press 9x6 pb [4/2010] for $24.95 Univ GA Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [2/2003] out of print/used see also Spirit of America Bookstore's Nathaniel Hawthorne [1804-64] Page
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Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism entry at Wikipedia
 | "Transcendentalism: A Reader" [2000] Edited by Joel Myerson Kindle Edition from Oxford Univ Press [12/2000] 750 pages for $40.00 Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [12/2000] for $50.00 Oxford Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [12/2000] for $99.00 |
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"The American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings" [2006] Edited & with Introduction by Lawrence Buell Modern Library 8x5¼ pb [1/2006] for $12.89 includes Introduction, 45 poems, Emerson's "Nature", and essays by Amos Bronson Alcott (3), Louisa May Alcott, Orestes Brownson (2), Thomas Carlyle, Wm. Ellery Channing, Wm. Henry Channing, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christopher Pearse Cranch, Caroline Wells Healey Dall, Charles Dickens, John Sullivan Dwight, Lidian Emerson, Mary Moody Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson (13), Charlotte Forten, Octavius Brooks Frothingham, Margaret Fuller (6), Nathaniel Hawthorne (2), Frederic Henry Hedge, Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2), Henry James, Charles Lane, Andrews Norton (2), Theodore Parker (4), Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (4), George Ripley (4), Henry David Thoreau (9), Henry Ware Jr. & Walt Whitman |
 | "The Transcendentalists" [2007] by Barbara L. Packer Univ GA Press 9¼x6¼ pb [4/2007] for $20.66 Univ GA Press 9½x6 library hardcover [4/2007] for $64.95 |
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"American Transcendentalism: A History" [2007] by Philip F. Gura Hill & Wang 8¼x5½ pb [9/2008] for $10.88 Hill & Wang 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2007] out of print/many used |
 | "The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism" [2010] Edited by Joel Myerson, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis & Laura Dassow Walls Kindle Edition from Oxford Univ Press [4/2010] 800 pages for $74.28 {sic} Oxford Univ Press 9¾x7x2½ (3.4 pounds) hardcover [4/2010] for $127.78 {sic} |
L i n k s
Walt Whitman entry at Wikipedia
Whitman Archive
Walt Whitman at Bartleby's
Poets.org's Walt Whitman pages
www.WaltWhitman.org
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