BYU

Harold B. Lee Library

Selected Biography and Criticism

Portrait from 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass

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