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*all are poetry unless otherwise indicated
Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times (novel). New York: New World, 1842.
Leaves of Grass (published anonymously). Brooklyn: Printed by Rome Brothers, 1855.
Leaves of Grass (2nd ed.). Brooklyn: Printed by Fowler & Wells, 1856.
Leaves of Grass (3rd ed.). Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860.
Drum-Taps. New York: Printed by Peter Eckler, 1865. Contains "Beat! Beat! Drums!," and "Cavalry Crossing a Ford." Second ed. (1866), with Sequel to Drum-Taps, contains "O Captain! My Captain!"
Leaves of Grass (4th ed.). New York: Printed by William E. Chapin, 1867. Contains "I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing" and "The Runner."
Leaves of Grass (5th ed.). Washington: J. S. Redfield, 1871.
Leaves of Grass: Centennial Edition (reprint of 1871 text). Camden, NJ: Author's Edition, 1876. Contains "The Poetry of the Future."
Two Rivulets, Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India. Camden, NJ: Author's Edition, 1876.
Leaves of Grass (6th ed.). Boston: James R. Osgood, 1881. Contains "A Noiseless Patient Spider" and "To a Locomotive in Winter."
Specimen Days and Collect (prose). Philadelphia: Rees Welsh, 1882.
November Boughs (prose and poetry). Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888.
Good-Bye My Fancy: 2d Annex to Leaves of Grass (prose and poetry). Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891.
Leaves of Grass (7th, "deathbed" ed.). Philadelphia: David McKay, 1892.
Complete Prose Works. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1892.
Complete Writings. 10 vol. New York: Putnam, 1902.
An American Primer (prose). Ed. Horace Traubel. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1904.
The Gathering of the Forces (prose). 2 vol. Ed. Cleveland Rogers and John Black. New York: Putnam, 1920.
The Uncollected Poetry and Prose. 2 vol. Ed. Emory Holloway. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1920.
The Half-Breed and Other Stories. Ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott. New York: Columbia University Press, 1927.
Walt Whitman's Workshop (prose). Ed. Clifton Joseph Furness. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1928.
I Sit and Look Out: Editorials from the Brooklyn Daily Times. Ed. Emory Holloway and Vernolian Schwarz. New York: Columbia University Press, 1932.
New York Dissected: A Sheaf of Recently Discovered Newspaper Articles by the Author of Leaves of Grass. Ed. Emory Holloway and Ralph Adimari. New York: Rufus Rockwell Wilson, 1936.
The Eighteenth Presidency! (prose). Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1956.
The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman. 22 vol., ongoing. New York University Press, 1961- .
Poetry and Prose. New York: Library of America, 1982.
The Neglected Walt Whitman: Vital Texts. Ed. Sam Abrams. New York and London: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993. Gathers poems and passages of poems omitted by Whitman from the final edition of Leaves of Grass, along with a handful of prose pieces, all excluded, for one reason or another, from the Library of America volume.
Richard Maurice Bucke. Walt Whitman. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1883.
John Burroughs. Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person. New York: American News Co., 1867. Partly written by Whitman himself.
Edward Carpenter. Days with Walt Whitman: With Some Notes on His Life and Works. London: George Allen; New York: Macmillan, 1906.
William Douglas O'Connor. The Good Gray Poet: A Vindication. New York: Bunce and Huntington, 1866.
Horace Traubel. With Walt Whitman in Camden. First Volume. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906.
----------. Second Volume. New York: Appleton, 1908.
----------. Third Volume. New York: Mitchell Kennerly, 1914.
----------. Fourth Volume. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1959.
Gay Wilson Allen. The Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman. New York: Macmillan, 1955. Revised ed., New York University Press, 1967.
Emory Holloway. Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative. New York: Knopf, 1926.
Justin Kaplan. Walt Whitman: A Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980.
David S. Reynolds. Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography. New York: Knopf, 1995.
Paul Zweig. Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet. New York: Basic Books,
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