Whitman, Walt. Poetry and Prose (Library of America) Ed. Justin Kaplan [review]

Walt Whitman: Nineteenth-century Popular Culture

Walt Whitman and Louis Sullivan: The Aesthetics of Egalitarianism

Some timing studies of prose, poetry and music

Prosodie relations in prose, poetry and music are discussed with an emphasis on durational properties. In order to gain a deeper understanding of speech prosody, we are presently engaged in a comparison of the timing relations in such activities as the reading of poetry and music performance, where there usually is a strong and obvious rhythmic patteming of the produced sound sequences. Also th...

Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler: a poet and his physician

follows with a wonderful piece on the cataloguing of the monstrous from the cabinet to the collections and representations of embryological monsters. Roy Porter, too, fills in the details for the eighteenth century. His brilliant essay on "monsters and the mad" fills in the conceptual gap which Zapperi leaves between these two categories. He shows how both categories reinforce each other on the...

"Two More Throws against Oblivion": Walt Whitman and the New York Herald in 1888