Works available at the SJRCC Libraries

PAL = Palatka Campus | OPC = Orange Park Campus | SAC = St. Augustine Campus

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Walt Whitman: The Complete Poems

Call number: PAL - PS3204 .M877 1986

The Portable Walt Whitman

Call number: SAC - PS 3203 .V3 1985

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman - Publisher's Marketing: "One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Here is the definitive collection of his work, from his solemn masterpeice "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" to the joyous freedom of "Song of Myself"."

Call number: SAC - PS 3201 W458 1965

Call number: SAC - PS 3201 .W458 1940

Call number: PAL - PS3204 .P6 1964

Call number: PAL - 811.3 W615 [1926]

Call number: OPC - PS3201 1961

Complete Poetry & Selected Prose and Letters edited by Emory Holloway

Call number: PAL - 811.3 W615C [1938]

Walt Whitman’s America; being selections from Leaves of grass, Democratic vistas, Specimen days, and Portraits of Lincoln by James Daugherty

Call number: PAL - PS3204 .D37 1964

The Selected Poems of Walt Whitman

Call number: PAL -811.3 W615S [1942]

Leaves of Grass One Hundred Years After: Essays by William Carlos Williams ... [et al.] ; edited and with an introduction by Milton Hindus.

Call number: PAL - PS3231 .H662 1966

With Walt Whitman in Camden by Horace Traubel

Call number: OPC - PS3232 .T71961

Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body - Publisher's Marketing: "In this striking study of the pre-Civil War literary imagination, Karen Sanchez-Eppler charts how bodily difference came to be recognized as a central problem for both political and literary expression. Her readings of sentimental anti-slavery fiction, slave narratives, and the lyric poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson demonstrate how these texts participated in producing a new model of personhood, one in which the racially distinct and physically constrained slave body converged with the sexually distinct and domestically circumscribed female body.
Moving from the public domain of abolitionist politics to the privacy of lyric poetry, Sanchez-Eppler argues that attention to the physical body blurs the boundaries between public and private. Drawing analogies between black and female bodies, feminist-abolitionists use the public sphere of anti-slavery politics to write about sexual desires and anxieties they cannot voice directly.
Sanchez-Eppler warns against exaggerating the positive links between literature and politics, however. She finds that the relationships between feminism and abolitionism reveal patterns of exploitation, appropriation, and displacement of the black body that acknowledge the difficulties in embracing "difference," in the nineteenth century as in the twentieth. Her insightful examination of issues that continue to be relevant today will make a distinctive mark on American literary and cultural studies."

Call number: SAC - PS 217 .S55 S26 1993

The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War - Publisher's Marketing: "For nearly three years, Walt Whitman immersed himself in the devastation of the Civil War, tending to thousands of wounded soldiers and recording his experiences with an immediacy and compassion unequaled in wartime literature anywhere in the world.
In The Better Angel, acclaimed biographer Roy Morris, Jr. gives us the fullest account of Whitman's profoundly transformative Civil War years and an historically invaluable examination of the Union's treatment of its sick and wounded. Whitman was mired in depression as the war began, subsisting
on journalistic hackwork, his "great career" as a poet apparently stalled. But when news came that his brother George had been wounded at Fredericksburg, Whitman rushed south to find him. Deeply affected by his first view of the war's casualties, he began visiting the camp's wounded and found his
calling for the duration of the war. Three years later, he emerged as the war's "most unlikely hero," a living symbol of American democratic ideals of sharing and brotherhood.
Brilliantly researched and beautifully written, The Better Angel explores a side of Whitman not fully examined before, one that greatly enriches our understanding of his later poetry. Moreover, it gives us a vivid and unforgettable portrait of the "other army"--the legions of sick and wounded
soldiers who are usually left in the shadowy background of Civil War history--seen here through the unflinching eyes of America's greatest poet."

Call number: PAL - CWC PS3232 .M67 2000

Readings on Walt Whitman - Publisher's Marketing: ""Poet, essayist, and journalist Walt Whitman was a remarkably diverse man whose unconventionality made him unpopular with segments of his contemporary reading audience."

Call number: SAC - PS 3238 .R28 1999

The Neglected Walt Whitman: Vital Texts - Publisher's Marketing: "Here is Walt Whitman entire, in all his contrarieties, the unsafe Whitman, Whitman the subversive, America's greatest poet. These 66 texts include 49 poems, 11 passages from poems, four prose texts, and one image-text. Some of the poems, such as "Respondez," are quite simply Whitman at his best: poems that represent the height of his passion and artistry; others, including the "Calamus" cluster, are crucial for illuminating the great sexual mystery of Whitman - for throwing light on the relationship between the "real" Whitman and the immortal persona he created in Leaves of Grass - "Walt Whitman, a kosmos." Yet most other currently available readers editions of Whitman omit most of these texts, all other readers editions omit some of them, and the "authoritative" Library of America Complete Poetry and Collected Prose omits all of them. What is it the other editions are so afraid of? Together, these writings refute the standard assumptions about what kind of poet Whitman was, proposing a subtler and more complex portrait. The Whitman who emerges here is a more dangerous man than we knew before, not only a praisemaker but also an outlaw."

Call number: OPC - PS3204 1993

Walt Whitman: A Life by Justin D. Kaplan

Call number: PAL - PS3231 .K3 1980

Critics on Whitman by Richard H. Rupp (Editor)

Call number: PAL - PS3238 .R8 1972

O Wondrous Singer: An Introduction to Walt Whitman

Call number: PAL - PS3231 .M18 1970

Walt Whitman by Geoffrey Dutton

Call number: PAL - PS3231 .D8 1966

Whitman: Explorations in Form by Howard J. Waskow

Call number: PAL - PS3231 .W5 1966

Walt Whitman: A Critical Study by Basil De Selincourt

Call number: OPC - PS3231 .D4 1965

Whitman: A Collection of Critical Essays edited by Roy Harvey Pearce

Call number: SAC - PS 3238 .P4 1962

Call number: PAL - PS 3238 .P4 1962

Call number: OPC - PS 3238 .P4 1962

Start with the Sun: Studies in the Whitman Tradition by James E. Miller

Call number: PAL - 821.09 M6482

Walt Whitman by James E. Miller, Jr.

Call number: PAL - PS3231 M5 1962

Walt Whitman by Richard VolneyChase

Call number: PAL - 811.3,W615yC [1961]

Walt Whitman as Man, Poet, and Legend. With a check list of Whitman publications, 1945-1960, by Evie Allison Allen

Call number: PAL - PS3231 .A698 1961

The Americanness of Walt Whitman by Leo Marx

Call number: PAL - PS3231 .M2 1960

Walt Whitman Handbook by Gay Wilson Allen

Call number: PAL - PS3231 .A7 1957

The Solitary Singer: A Ccritical Biography of Walt Whitman by Gay Wilson Allen

Call number: PAL - 811.3 W615yA3 1955

Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman - Vendor's Marketing: "A portrait of the great American poet, Walt Whitman (1819-1892), the first major poet to create a truly American vision and style, he was a key inspiration to the Beat generation, the idealists of the sixties and innumerable poets."

Call number: SAC - PS3231 .W3 1999 VIDEO

Walt Whitman, an American Original [videorecording]

Call number: PAL - PS3231 .W34 1972 KIT

Walt Whitman by Frederik Schyberg translated from the Danish by Evie Allison Allen ; with an introd. by Gay Wilson Allen

Call number: PAL - PS3231 .S43 1951

From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America - Publisher's Marketing: "Walt Whitman spent twenty-five years as a journalist before he published his first book of poems. Mark Twain pursued a twenty-year career as a journalist before the publication of his first novel. The list of great imaginative writers whose careers began in journalism includes not only Whitman and Twain, but also Theodore Dreiser, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos, among others.

Fishkin's book--the first full-length study to examine this tradition in American letters--focuses on the lives and careers of Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Hemingway, and Dos Passos, in order to discover the roots of their greatest imaginative works and the factors that led each writer to turn to fiction. Fishkin determines that they all turned to fiction because they wished to engage their readers in ways not possible through conventional journalism, and yet not one of them found his artistic stride until he returned, in new and creative ways, to the subjects and strategies first explored as a journalist.

Fishkin weaves together threads of biography, literary criticism, literary theory, and social history to reveal the neglected role journalism has played in shaping American literary tradition since the 1830s. Her final chapter examines the attitudes toward journalism and fiction, and the division between the two in the works of such contemporary fiction writers as Norman Mailer, John Hersey, and E.L. Doctorow.

Fishkin's probing examination of the poetry and fiction that followed the newspaper and magazine work of Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Hemingway, and Dos Passos both reveals how each writer transformed fact into art and how journalism has helped to give a distinctively American cast to American literature."

Call number: PAL - PS374.J68 F5 1985

American Poetry: The 19th Century: Volume 1: Freneau to Whitman - Publisher's Marketing: "In nineteenth-century America, poetry was, part of everyday life, as familiar as a hymn, a love song, a patriotic exhortation. American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century reveals the vigor and diversity of a tradition embracing solitary visionaries and congenial storytellers, humorists and dissidents, songwriters and philosophers. These two volumes reassess America's poetic legacy with a comprehensive sweep that no previous anthology has attempted. This second volume follows the evolution of American poetry from the monumental mid-century achievements of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson to the modernist stirrings of Stephen Crane and Edwin Arlington Robinson. The cataclysm of the Civil War - reflected in fervent antislavery protests, in marching songs and poetic calls to arms, and in muted postbellum expressions of grief and reconciliation - ushered in a period of accelerating change and widening regional perspectives. Among the unfamiliar pleasures to be savored in this volume are the penetrating meditations of the reclusive Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, the eloquent lyricism of Emma Lazarus, the mournful, superbly crafted fin de siecle verse of Trumbull Stickney. Here too are the pioneering African-American poets (Frances Harper, Albery Allson Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar); popular humorists (James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field); writers embodying America's newfound cosmopolitanism (Edith Wharton, George Santayana); and extravagant self-mythologizing figures who could have existed nowhere else, like the actress Adah Isaacs Menken and the frontier poet Joaquin Miller. Parodies, dialect poems, song lyrics, and children's verse evoke the liveliness of an era when poetry was accessible toall. Here are poems that played a crucial role in American public life, whether to arouse the national conscience (Edwin Markham's "The Man with the Hoe") or to memorialize the golden age of the national pastime (Ernest Lawrence Thayer's "Casey at the Bat"). An entire section of this volume is devoted to American Indian poetry in nineteenth-century versions, making available - some for the first time since their initial publication - an astonishing range of translations and adaptations: Ojibwa healing rituals, the songs of the Ghost Dance religion, Zuni mythological narratives, chants from the Kwakiutl Winter Ceremonial. Also included is a generous selection from America's rich heritage of anonymous folk songs, ballads, and hymns. Unprecedented in its textual authority, the anthology includes newly researched biographical sketches of each poet, a year-by-year chronology of poets and poetry from 1800 to 1900, and extensive notes."

Call number: SAC - PS 607 .A56 1993 v.1

Three Centuries of American Poetry - Publisher's Marketing: "Three Centuries of American Poetry offers a comprehensive overview of America's vast poetic heritage from 1620 to 1923. Spanning history from the Colonial Era to the early twentieth century, it features the finest work of some 150 poets, including Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and Gertrude Stein. In addition to these major poets, this collection also celebrates the significant body of work by lesser-known American writers from all walks of life. The editors have selected poets from each era in our nation's history, including the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the Romantic Era, and the Gilded and Modern Ages, as well as a memorable array of rare ballads, songs, hymns, spirituals, and carols - well-known and less known - that echo through our nation's history."

Call number: SAC - PS584 .T48 1999

Call number: OPC - PS584 .T48 1999

American Poetry: The Puritans Through Walt Whitman

Call number: OPC - PS303 .S58 1988

The Essential Transcendentalists

Call number: SAC - B905 .E87 2005

American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman - Publisher's Marketing: "This text has taken its place as the definitive treatment of the most distinguished age of American literature. Centering the discussion around five literary giants of the mid-nineteenth century-Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman. Matthiessen elucidates their conceptions of the nature and function of literature, and the extent to which these were realized in their writings."

Call number: SAC - PS 201 .M3 1968

Thoreau and Whitman: A Study of Their Esthetics by Charles Reid Metzger

Call number: PAL - 810.9,M596

Ivory Apes and Peacocks: Conrad, Whitman, Dostoievsky, Tolstoy by James Huneker

Call number: PAL -PS2044.H4 I7 1915

The Open Form: Essays for Our Time

Call number: PAL - 824.08,K23

Twelve American Poets before 1900 by Rica Brenner

Call number: PAL - 811.09,B838

Critical Approaches to American Literature edited by Ray B. Browne & Martin Light.

Call number: PAL - PS121 .B77 1965

The Golden Age of American Literature by Perry Miller

Call number: PAL - PS535 .M5 1959