Selected Biography and Criticism

Portrait from 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass
BIOGRAPHY
Robert Roper. Now the drum of war: Walt Whitman and his brothers in the Civil War. New York: Walker & Co., 2008.
- Call number: Whitman Collection PS 3232 .R66 2008
David S. Reynolds. Walt Whitman’s America: a cultural biography. New York: Knopf, 1995.
- Call number: Whitman Collection PS 3231 .R48 1995
Jerome Loving. Walt Whitman: the song of himself. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
- Call number: Whitman Collection PS 3231 .L68 1999
Joel Myerson, ed. Whitman in his own time: a biographical chronicle of his life, drawn from recollections, memoirs, and interviews by friends and associates. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000.
- Call number: Whitman Collection PS 3231 .W47 2000
CRITICISM & INTERPRETATION
Nick Selby, ed. The poetry of Walt Whitman. Readers’ guides to essential criticism series. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- Call number: Whitman Collection PS 3238 .P64 2004
Matthew Miller. Collage of Myself: Walt Whitman and the Making of Leaves of Grass. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
- Call number: Whitman Collection PS 3241 .M55 2010
David Haven Blake and Michael Robertson, eds. Walt Whitman, where future becomes present. Iowa Whitman series. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2008.
- Call number: Whitman Collection PS 3238 .W375 2008
David S. Reynolds, ed. A historical guide to Walt Whitman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Call number: Whitman Collection PS 3238 .H57 2000
Ezra Greenspan, ed. The Cambridge companion to Walt Whitman. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge UP, 1995.
- Call number: Whitman Collection PS 3238 .C16 1995


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