Walt Whitman
Links
Links of Interest
Taken around 1862
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/
The Walt Whitman Archive: an excellent resource for students and others. Contains detailed sections on Whitman’s published works, his unpublished manuscripts, biography and correspondence, criticism, in addition to an extensive image gallery and a short recording which is thought to be Whitman himself, reading four lines from the poem “America”.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/whitman/
Poet at Work: Walt Whitman Notebooks 1850s -1860s, a link from the Library of Congress American Memory site. offers access in a photographic gallery to the four Walt Whitman Notebooksand a cardboard butterfly that disappeared from the Library of Congress in 1942. They were returned on February 24, 1995.
http://etext.virginia.edu/whitman/
University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center: an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/whitman/
PBS American Experience link: offers a PBS documentary on Whitman’s life and work, as well as printed sections onf Whitman’s New York, a chronology of his life, and a teacher’s guide, among others.
http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/amlit/whitman/whitman.html
Walt Whitman and the Development of Leaves of Grass: provides a detailed, book-by-book commentary on the growth of Whitman’s masterpiece, based on an exhibition at the Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, March-April 1992.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/whitman/
Walt Whitman: Online Resources at the Library of Congress: contains many valuable links to sites on various aspects on Whitman’s life and work, including a catalog of prints and photographs online.
Audio Recordings of Whitman’s Poetry
http://librivox.org/leaves-of-grass-by-walt-whitman/
Librivox recordings of Leaves of Grass
http://www.eaglesweb.com/Sub_Pages/whitman_poems.htm
Six Lyrical Poems from Leaves of Grass, recorded by Walter Rufus Eagles
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.100010968/default.html
A recording of Billy Collins reading “I Hear America Singing”