Modern Legacy

Maynard Dixon sketch for a proposed illustrated edition of Leaves of Grass
Whitman in 20th-century poetry, fiction and drama
George Fetherling. Walt Whitman’s secret. Toronto: Random House Canada, 2010.
- Call number: Whitman Collection PR 9199.3 .F475 W35 2010
Randolph G. Goodman. I, Walt Whitman. New York: The Library Associates of Brooklyn College, 1955. Presentation copy, inscribed on front fly leaf.
- Call number: Whitman Collection PS 3513 .O5288 I2 1955
Judith Grace. Good-bye, my fancy: with Walt Whitman in his last days. Oregon House, CA: Ulysses Books, 2003.
- Call number: Whitman Collection PS 3608 .R326 G66 2003
Didier Tisdel Jaén, translator. Homage to Walt Whitman: a collection of poems from the Spanish. University of Alabama Press, 1969.
- Call number: Whitman Collection PS 3135 .J3 1969
Grant Martin Overton. The answerer. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1921.
- Call number: Whitman Collection PS 3529 .V39 A67 1921
To you, Walt Whitman: speaking to Walt Whitman: a collection of poetry. Selected by Betty J. Keller, design and illustrations by Ronald Keller. New York: Red Angel Press, 1997.
- Call number: Whitman Collection PS 3238 .T63 1997
Whitman’s influence on art, literature, and music
Michael Robertson. Worshipping Walt: the Whitman disciples. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
- Call number: Whitman Collection PS 3231 .R58 2008
Bryan K. Garman. A race of singers: Whitman’s working-class hero from Guthrie to Springsteen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
- Call number: Whitman Collection ML 3477 .G36 2000
Neeli Cherkovski. Whitman’s wild children. Venice, CA: Lapis Press; Novato: Distributed by Publishers Services, 1988.
- Call number: Whitman Collection PS 310 .B43 C44 1988
Ruth L. Bohan. Looking into Walt Whitman: American art, 1850-1920. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006.
- Call number: Whitman Collection PS 3234 .A66 B64 2006
Maynard Dixon. Sketches for a proposed illustrated edition of Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass.” 18 art originals: 17 tempera on paper, 1 in ink. Seven have quotations from the text written out under the mat in the artist’s hand.
- Call number: Vault Collection Quarto 811 .38 L48 1933


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