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	Project Bartleby: Leaves of Grass This is the index page for the e-text of Leaves of Grass at Columbia. Poems are also indexed according to first lines. The preface to the volume is included. Elsewhere on the Bartleby pages are a biography and photos of the poet.
	Long Island Global Link: The Poetry of Walt Whitman Here is another excellent site, from the Long Island area where Whitman was born. It contains a lot of biographical and bibliographical material, links, a great deal of poetry (including "Song of Myself"), and more. This is a good place to learn about Whitman's early stomping grounds. A virtual tour entitled "Whitmanland" endeavors "to show Walt Whitman as a Long Islander." Nearby one may find links to various pages of biographical importance, including an annotated list of significant Long Island landmarks. Also available from here are the following pages:
	About Walt Whitman
	A Walt Whitman Bibliography
	A Walt Whitman Forum
	The Whitman Hypertext Library From the University of Virginia, here is a comprehensive archive containing poetry, and soon to contain prose written by the author. The collection Leaves of Grass is repeated here. Also available are graphics files of manuscript for the poem "Calamus Leaves," quite a few interesting reviews of Whitman's work, and "The Whitman Gallery," which contains many photographs, a couple of which are uncharacteristically eccentric, even for Whitman.
	Walt Whitman and the Development of Leaves of Grass From the University of South Carolina, here is a hypertext exhibition that traces the development of the book Leaves of Grass.
	Walt Whitman Campfire Chat Here is a chat server providing a forum for the discussion of Whitman and his works. It may be wise to exercise a little healthy skepticism while visiting this site, as the posts are made by students at all levels.
	Library of Congress: The Walt Whitman Collection This site contains news items about discoveries of new Whitman artifacts and the preservation of them, and some jpeg image files from four of Whitman's notebooks.
	Dirge for Two Veterans and Other Poems Listen to baritone Thomas Hampson sing this text in a setting by Kurt Weill, accompanied by pianist Craig Rutenberg: RealAudio 2.0 (14.4). This site contains quite a few poems, either read aloud or sung in sound files. Each page also contains text.
	The Atlantic Unbound Here is the search page for The Atlantic Unbound, where you will find several items relevant to Whitman and his works. The best of these are:
	Reminiscences of Walt Whitman by John Townsend Trowbridge
	An Unsigned Review of Leaves of Grass
	Walt Whitman - Camden's Poet Here is a list of links on a page from one of Whitman's hometowns, Camden, NJ. The page contains a photo of Whitman's house there.
	Mother Bloor Remembers Walt Whitman in Camden A touching excerpt from Ella Reeve's autobiography, in which she recalls visiting, as a young girl, the Camden street where Whitman lived as an old man.
	Constructing Walt Whitman: The Critics Contend with the Good G(r)ay Poet From Henry Street: A Graduate Review of Literary Studies, this essay presents a survey of the various ways in which Whitman has been received by his admirers throughout the century. Particular attention is paid to his homosexuality.
	"I Sing the Body Electric": Walt Whitman on the Web An excellent page, maintained by Charles Green, devoted to preventing the proliferation of corrupt information on the poet. Contains many fine links to the best of Whitman on the Web.
	Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler From the Medical Humanities/Literature Arts and Medicine pages at NYU, here is an interesting synopsis of a book by Philip W. Leon about Whitman and one of his physicians.
	The Feinberg-Whitman Collection at the Library of Congress This page includes graphic files of manuscript pages for an early draft of "O Captain! My Captain!," and a couple of photographs.
	Mark Twain & Walt Whitman Here is the text of a talk delivered in 1992 to the Mark Twain Association of New York, in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the poet's death. The talk compares the two, ultimately putting perhaps too fine a point on the comparison by painting Twain as the prosaic Whitman and Whitman as the poetical Twain.
	A Visit to Walt Whitman Mall Here is a humorous contemporary account of Huntington, Long Island, birthplace of the poet, and the shopping mall there named after him.
	Phrenological Analysis of the Character of Walt Whitman Phrenology, one of the few alternative medical practices that has not enjoyed a recent re-popularization, is the psychological theory that certain character traits are indicated by the configuration of the skull. Whitman apparently had his skull read in 1849.
	Early Nineteenth-Century: Walt Whitman From PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide, here is a page containing bibliographical information, a word on Whitman as innovator, a searchable Leaves of Grass, an outline (with commentary) of "Song of Myself," and more.
	In Memory of Thomas Paine Here is a speech, in memory of Paine, that Whitman delivered in 1877 at Lincoln Hall in Philadelphia.
	Philosopher's Corner presents Walt Whitman This is a biographical note and comment on Whitman's theme of individualism.
	Frank's Creative Quotations from Walt Whitman Here, from the author, are five quotations.
	Walt Whitman Quotations This is a more comprehensive collection of Whitman quotations. It contains dozens of passages, some longer excerpts from poems and prose by Whitman, and a few quotations from other writers about the poet.
	Academy of American Poets: Walt Whitman Here is the AAP page devoted to Whitman. It contains, disappointingly, only three poems, but also contains a reliable, though laconic, biography.
	Constructing Walt Whitman: The Critic Contend With the Good G(r)ay Poet To read a text is always to construct it, but to an unusual degree Whitman's readers have gone beyond this commonplace by constructing the author, creating an amazing variety of Walt Whitmans in the process.

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