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Whitman, Walt

  1. In Anderson, Quentin. The Imperial Self. New York, Knopf, 1971. pp. 88-165, plus see index.
    Criticism -- Leaves of Grass -- "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" -- "I Sing the Body Electric" -- "Song for Myself" -- "Song for Occupations" --

  2. In Bennett, James O'Donnell. Much Loved Books. New York : Liveright, c1927. pp. 339-351.
    Criticism -- Works -- Leaves of Grass --

  3. In Berryman, John The freedom of the poet . New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1976]. 227-241.
    Criticism -- Leaves of Grass -- Song of Myself

  4. In Blasing, Mutlu Konuk. The Art of Life: Studies in American Autobiographical Literature. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977. pp. 27-53.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Leaves of Grass -- Song of Myself

  5. In Bloom, Harold, ed. American Renaissance. Broomall, Pa, Chelsea House, 2004. pp. 127-146, 259-272.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Leaves of Grass -- "Song of Myself" -- "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

  6. In Bloom, Harold, ed. The Epic. Philadelphia, Chelsea House, 2005. pp. 168-181.
    Criticism -- Song of Myself

  7. In Bloom, Harold. Poetry and Repression: Revisionism from Blake to Stevens. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. pp. 235-266.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Themes

  8. In Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon. New York : Harcourt Brace, c1994. pp. 264-290.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Leaves of Grass -- "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life" -- "The Sleepers" -- "Song of Myself" -- "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

  9. In Bode, Carl, editor. The Great Experiment in American Literature. New York, Praeger, 1961. pp. 29-52.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Leaves of Grass

  10. In Bode, Carl. The Young Rebel in American Literature. New York: Praeger, [1960, c1959]. pp. 25-50.
    Criticism -- Leaves of Grass -- "Song of Myself"

  11. In Borges, Jorge. Selected Non-Fictions. New York : Viking, 1999. pp. 445-448.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Leaves of Grass

  12. In Boyd, Ernest. Literary Blasphemies. New York, Greenwood Press, 1969. pp. 186-212.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Works --

  13. In Bowers, Fredson Thayer. Textual and Literary Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959. pp. 35-65.
    Criticism -- Poetry

  14. In Carpenter, Frederic American Literature and the Dream. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1968, c1955]. pp. 40-50.
    Criticism -- Leaves of Grass --
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  15. In Clutton-Brock, A. More Essays on Books. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1968. 1-13.
    Criticism -- Leaves of Grass

  16. In Cohen, Hennig, ed. Landmarks of American Writing . New York, Basic Books, 1969. pp. 353-367.
    Criticism -- Leaves of Grass -- "Song of Myself" --

  17. In Cowley, Malcolm. New England Writers and Writing. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1996. pp. 73-95.
    Criticism -- Biography -- Poetry

  18. In Daiches, David. Literary Essays. Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1956. pp. 62-87.
    Criticism -- Works

  19. In De Selincourt, Ernest. Wordsworthian and Other Studies. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1947. pp. 129-153.
    Criticism -- Poetry --

  20. In Donoghue, Denis. Connoisseurs of Chaos: Ideas of Order in Modern American Poetry. New York: Macmillan, 1965. pp. 23-51.
    Criticism -- Poetry

  21. In Downs, Robert B. Famous American Books . New York, McGraw-Hill, 1971. pp. 131-139.
    Criticism -- Leaves of Grass

  22. In Downs, Robert B. Molders of the Modern Mind . New York, Barnes & Noble, 1961. pp. 303-305.
    Criticism -- Democratic Vistas

  23. In Faverty, Frderic, E.Your Literary Heritage. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1959. pp. 141-143.
    Criticism -- Leaves of Grass

  24. In Feidelson, Charles. Symbolism and American Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953. pp. 16-28.
    Criticism -- Poetry

  25. In Fielder, Leslie. No! In Thunder, Essays on Myth and Literature. Boston, Beacon Press, 1960. pp. 61-75.
    Criticism -- Works

  26. In Frankenberg, Lloyd. Invitation to Poetry. Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, 1956. pp. 95-99.
    Criticism -- Leaves of Grass -- "Whoever you are holding me now in hand"

  27. In Ginsberg, Allen. Deliberate Prose. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2000. pp. 285-333.
    Criticism -- Poetry

  28. In Goodheart, Eugene The cult of the ego: the self in Modern literature. Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1968]. pp. 133-160.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Leaves of Grass

  29. In Green, Martin Burgess. Transatlantic Patterns: Cultural Comparisons. New York: Basic Books, 1977. pp. 198-214
    Criticism -- Poetry

  30. In Highet, Gilbert. The Powers of Poetry. New York, Oxford University Press, 1960. pp. 106-113.
    Criticism -- Leaves of Grass -- "A Boston Ballad"

  31. In James, Henry. Selected Literary Criticism . New York, Horizon Press, 1963. pp. 1-5.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Leaves of Grass -- "Drum-Taps" --

  32. In Kazin, Alfred. Alred Kazin's America. New York : HarperCollins, c2003. pp. 370-382.
    Criticism -- Leaves of Grass -- "Song of Myself"

  33. In Kazin, Alfred. An American Procession. New York: Knopf, 1984. pp. 104-127.
    Criticism -- Biography -- Poetry

  34. In Lawrence, D. H. Studies in classic American literature. [New York] : Penguin Books, [1977]. pp. 171-187.
    Criticism -- Works
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  35. In Logan, William. Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin. New York : Columbia University Press, c2005. pp. 17-34.
    Criticism -- Poetry

  36. In Matthiessen, F. O. American Renaissance; Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman. London, New York [etc.]: Oxford University Press, 1941. pp. 519-625.
    Criticism -- Biography -- Poetry

  37. In Morris, Wright Earthly Delights, Unearthly Adornments. New York : Harper & Row, c1978. pp. 25-32.
    Criticism -- Poetry

  38. In Moss, Howard. Whatever is Moving. Boston: Little, Brown, c1981. pp. 3-15.
    Biography -- Criticism

  39. In Murry, John Middleton Selected criticism, 1916-1957. London, New York, Oxford University Press, 1960. pp. 270-289.
    Poetry -- Leaves of Grass

  40. In Ostriker, Alicia Suskin. Dancing at the Devil's Party. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2000. pp. 21-56.
    Criticism -- Poetry

  41. In Paglia, Camille. Sexual Personae. London; New Haven : Yale University Press, c1990. pp. 602-609, plus see index.
    Criticism -- Leaves of Grass

  42. In Pearce, Roy Harvey. Historicism Once More. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1969. pp. 137-199
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Leaves of Grass

  43. In Pennell, Melissa McFarland. Masterpieces of American Romantic Literature. Westport, CT., Greenwood, 2006. pp. 149-163.
    Criticism -- "Song Of Myself"

  44. In Poirier, Richard. Trying It Out in America . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. pp. 20-35.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Leaves of Grass

  45. In Rahv, Philip. Literature in America .New York, Meridian Books, 1957. pp. 150-167.
    Criticism -- Leaves of Grass -- "Song of Myself" --

  46. In Rexroth, Kenneth. Classics Revisited . New York : New Directions, c1986. pp. 180-184.
    Criticism -- Leaves of Grass --

  47. In Smithline, Arnold. Natural Religion in American Literature. New Haven: College & University Press, 1966. pp. 127-165
    Criticism -- Themes

  48. In Spiller, Robert Ernest. Literary History of the United States. New York: Macmillan, 1963. pp. 472-498.
    Biography -- Poetry

  49. In Spitzer, Leo. Essays on English and American Literature. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1962. pp. 14-36.
    Criticism -- "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"

  50. In Sutton, Walter. American Free Verse. New York, New Directions Pub. Corp., 1973. pp. 10-24.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Leaves of Grass -- "An Army Corps on the March" -- "Cavalry Crossing a Ford" -- "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" -- "The Dismantle Ship" -- "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" -- "A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim"

  51. In Tanner, Tony . The Reign of Wonder: Naivety and Reality in American Literature. Cambridge [Eng.] University Press, 1965. pp. 64-86.
    Criticism -- Works -- Song of Myself

  52. In Trilling, Lionel. Prefaces to the Experience of Literature. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1979. pp. 254-260.
    Criticism -- Leaves of Grass -- "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"

  53. In Van Doren, Mark. The Happy Critic. New York : Hill and Wang, 1961. pp. 25-49.
    Criticism -- Leaves of Grass

  54. In Vendler, Helen, ed. Voices and Visions: The Poet in America. New York : Random House, c1987. pp. 3-50.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Poetry -- Leaves of Grass -- "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" -- "Song of Myself" -- "There Was a Child Went Forth" -- "When Lilacs Las in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

  55. In Waggoner, Hyatt H. American Visionary Poetry. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1982. pp. 25-65, plus see index.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- "The Base of All Metaphysics" -- "Cavalry Crossing a Ford" -- "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" -- "Faces" -- "I Sing the Body Electric" -- "I Sit and Look Out" -- "A Noiseless Patient Spider" -- "Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances" -- "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" -- "Passage to India" -- "A Sight in Camp Grey and Dim" -- "Song of Myself" -- "There Was a Child Went Forth" -- "To Think of Time" -- "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" -- "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

  56. In Williams, Oscar, ed. Master Poems of the English Language. New York : Trident Press, 1966. pp. 696-698, 707-710.
    Criticism -- "I Sing the Body Electric" -- "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

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