Walt Whitman: Home

This research guide will connect you to reference works, print books and ebooks, databases for articles, and other information sources on Walt Whitman (1819-1892), the most important American poet of all times.

Portrait of Whitman by Matthew Brady, taken between 1865 and 1867

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"Walt Whitman," from American Writers, Retrospective Supplement 1

"Walt Whitman," from The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature

"Walt(er) Whitman," from American Antebellum Writers in New York: 2nd Series, (Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 250)

"Walt(er) Whitman," from Antebellum Writers in New York and the South, (Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 3)

"Walt Whitman: Overview," from Gay & Lesbian Biography

"Walt Whitman," from the Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of American Literature

"Walt Whitman," from the Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America

"Walt Whitman," from Americans at War

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