The following is a selection of articles about Walt Whitman, each with a brief description:
"Reminiscences of Walt Whitman" by John Townsend Trowbridge appeared in The Atlantic Monthly February 1902:
About Whitman Trowbridge writes: "The author of Leaves of Grass had loomed so large in my imagination as to seem almost superhuman; and I was filled with some such feeling of wonder and astonishment as if I had been invited to meet Socrates or King Solomon." Then Trowbridge met the "Good Gray Poet" and was surprised that Whitman seemed nothing like Socrates or King Solomon. This article gives a fascinating report about the poet along with Trowbridge's critical views of the poet's writing.
"Whitman, 'As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life'" by Steven Cramer appeared in The Atlantic Monthly October 8, 1998:
Cramer claims that Whitman had encouraged a myth that his first publication of Leaves of Grass was widely greeted with contempt, and he supports that claim with the fact that the book was reviewed twenty times and most of the reviews were favorable. But still in 1856 only one year after bring out Leave of Grass Whitman was depressed and discouraged, a different man from the affable one portrayed in his poems. In this article Cramer offers a theory to explain the poet's mood. This site also offers you the opportunity to hear three poets, Frank Bidart, Marie Howe, and Galway Kinnell reading Whitman's poem.
"Constructing Walt Whitman: Critics Contend with the Good G(r)ay Poet" by Jason Paul Mitchell Spring 1997:
University of Mississippi Ph.D. candidate Jason Paul Mitchell offers a useful paper on the various mythical characterizations that have been associate with Whitman.
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