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Books about Walt Whitman:

• Walt Whitman (Philadelphia: D. McKay, 1883), by Richard Maurice Bucke
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Walt Whitman; To Which is Added, English Critics on Walt Whitman (Glasgow: Wilson and McCormick, 1884), by Richard Maurice Bucke, ed. by Edward Dowden (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Days With Walt Whitman; With Some Notes on His Life and Work (London: G. Allen, 1906), by Edward Carpenter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1926), by Emory Holloway (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Walt Whitman Archive, by Walt Whitman, ed. by Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, and Kenneth M. Price (HTML at whitmanarchive.org)
• Standish O'Grady: Selected Essays and Passages (Dublin: Talbot Press; London: T. Fisher Unwin, ca. 1918), by Standish O'Grady, contrib. by Ernest Augustus Boyd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Four Americans: Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman (New Haven: Pub. for the Yale Review by Yale University Press, 1920), by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg text)

• Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Amanda A. Gailey (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)

• The Erotic Whitman (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), by Vivian R. Pollak (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Ecstatic Whitman: Literary Shamanism and the Crisis of the Union (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1986), by George Hutchinson (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• The Walt Whitman Archive, by Walt Whitman, ed. by Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, and Kenneth M. Price (HTML at whitmanarchive.org)

• Walt Whitman in Mickle Street (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1921), by Elizabeth Leavitt Keller, contrib. by Guido Bruno (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Conversations With Walt Whitman (New York: E. P. Coby and Co., 1895), by Sadakichi Hartmann, contrib. by Walt Whitman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection, by Walt Whitman (page images with commentary at LOC)
• The Walt Whitman Archive, by Walt Whitman, ed. by Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, and Kenneth M. Price (HTML at whitmanarchive.org)

• Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection, by Walt Whitman (page images with commentary at LOC)

• Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (partial serial archives)

• Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Karen Sánchez-Eppler (HTML at UC Press)

Books by Walt Whitman:

• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, contrib.: Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865 (in Italian; Rome: United States Information Service, 1959), trans. by Mario Picchi and Franco Simongini, also contrib. by Robert L. Kincaid, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Earl Schenck Miers, and Herman Melville (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892: Complete Prose Works: Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy (Gutenberg text)
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, contrib.: Conversations With Walt Whitman (New York: E. P. Coby and Co., 1895), by Sadakichi Hartmann (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892: Drum-Taps (Gutenberg text)
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892: Franklin Evans, or, The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times (New York: Random House, 1929), ed. by Emory Holloway (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892: Leaves of Grass (multiple editions)
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892: Leaves of Grass (multiple editions, with commentary) (HTML and page images with commentary at whitmanarchive.org)
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892: Leaves of Grass (1855 edition, with commentary) (HTML and page images with commentary at whitmanarchive.org)
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892: Leaves of Grass (1881-82 edition) (HTML and page images with commentary at whitmanarchive.org)
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892: Leaves of Grass (deathbed edition of 1891-92) (HTML and page images with commentary at whitmanarchive.org)
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892: Leaves of Grass (based on post-1855 editions)
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892: Leaves of Grass (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1897)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892: Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An Auto-Biography (originally published serially in 1852; reprinted with commentary in Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 2017), contrib. by Zachary Turpin
  • introduction by Turpin: PDF at uiowa.edu
  • novel: PDF at uiowa.edu
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, contrib.: The Oxford Book of American Essays (New York: Oxford University Press, 1914), ed. by Brander Matthews, also contrib. by Benjamin Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, Washington Irving, Richard Henry Dana, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, George William Curtis, Theodore Winthrop, Charles Dudley Warner, Charles William Eliot, William Dean Howells, John Burroughs, Clarence King, Henry James, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Henry Cabot Lodge, W. C. Brownell, Edward Sandford Martin, Samuel McChord Crothers, Theodore Roosevelt, Nicholas Murray Butler, and William P. Trent
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892: Poems by Walt Whitman (ca. 1886), ed. by William Michael Rossetti (Gutenberg text)
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892: Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection (page images with commentary at LOC)
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, contrib.: Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books, With Introductions and Notes (Harvard Classics v39; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, c1910), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, also contrib. by William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, John Dryden, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, and Hippolyte Taine
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892: Prose Works (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1892) (HTML at Bartleby)
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892: Specimen Days (and other prose works) (HTML at Bartleby)
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, contrib.: Three Tales: The Ghost, The Brazen Android, The Carpenter (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1892), by William Douglas O'Connor
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892: Two Rivulets: Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India (author's edition; Camden, NJ: The author, 1876) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892: The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, Much of Which Has Been But Recently Discovered, With Various Early Manuscripts Now First Published (2 volumes; Garden City, NY, and Toronto: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1921), ed. by Emory Holloway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892: The Walt Whitman Archive, ed. by Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, and Kenneth M. Price (HTML at whitmanarchive.org)

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