SUGGESTED READING

ALLEN, GAY WILSON. The New Walt Whitman Handbook. New York: New York University Press, 1975.

———. The Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman. New York: Macmillan, 1955.

ERKKILA, BETSY. Whitman the Political Poet. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

KAPLAN, JUSTIN. Walt Whitman: A Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980.

KNAPP, BETTINA L. Walt Whitman. New York: Continuum, 1993.

KUMMINGS, DONALD D. AND J. R. LEMASTER, EDS. Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998.

REYNOLDS, DAVID S. Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

———, Ed. A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

WOODRESS, JAMES, ED. Critical Essays on Walt Whitman. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1983.

ZWEIG, PAUL. Walt Whitman: The Making of a Poet. New York: Basic Books, 1994.