Author:Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman
(1819–1892)

Walt Whitman

Works

• Leaves of Grass (1855–1891)
  • Leaves of Grass (1855)
  • Leaves of Grass (1860)
  • Leaves of Grass (1882)
• "Manly health and training, with off-hand hints toward their conditions", under pen name Mose Velsor, New York Atlas, Vol 21, no 17, September 1858 (reprinted in Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Vol 33, nos 3/4, Spring 2016).[1]
• Drum-Taps (1865) (external scan)
• The Prairie States (1880) (external scan)
• Specimen Days in America (1887) (external scan)
• Democratic Vistas, and Other Papers (1888) (external scan)
• Complete Prose Works (1897) (external scan)
• Autobiographia; or, The story of a life (1892) (external scan)
• Memories of President Lincoln, and other lyrics of the war (1904) (external scan)
• Songs of Democracy (1919) (external scan)
• The Poetry of the Future (1881) (external scan)

Individual poems

• "Song of Myself"
• "O Captain! My Captain!"
• "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
• "A Noiseless Patient Spider"
• "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"
• "I Hear America Singing"
• "Earth! my Likeness!"
• "This Is What You Shall Do"
• "With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!"
• "Poem of Joys"
• "In Cabin’d Ships at Sea"
• "The Mystic Trumpeter"
• "I hear it was Charged against Me"
• "O Hymen! O Hymenee!"
• "On the Beach at Night"
• "America"

Works about Whitman

Encyclopedia articles

• "Whitman, Walt," by Rossiter Johnson in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Whitman, Walt," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1889)
• "Whitman, Walt," by William Peterfield Trent in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Whitman, Walter or Walt," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Whitman, Walt," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Whitman, Walt," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Whitman, Walt," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

Poems about Whitman

• "W. W." (1892) by Edmund Clarence Stedman
• "Walt Whitman" by Jaroslav Vrchlický (1919)

Parodies of Whitman

• Sincere Flattery of W. W. (Americanus) by J.K.S.