Walt Whitman & Leaves of Grass: Teaching Resources

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Slow to load, but this is an excellent gateway Whitman sites. Also features a Selected Bibliography on Leaves of Grass,
Common Questions on Walt Whitman, and Walt Whitman, America's Poet (see attached PowerPoint).

Walt Whitman and Slavery.
Part of the University of Nebraska’s Whitman and Dickinson project, this site includes a critical essay, a bibliography, quotations, and teaching materials

Leaves of Grass
From the University of Virginia. This site includes "Song of Myself" from the 1855, 1881-2, and 1891-2 editions of Leaves of Grass as well as reviews of Whitman's works and other materials.

The Classroom Electric
Sponsored in part by the Department of Education is a constellation of web sites on Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and nineteenth-century American culture. Here users can explore images of original manuscripts, rare photographs, notebooks, scrapbooks, letters, and maps in sites. You can searching the projects through by theme, by ,poet(s), or by keyword.

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. 1900 Edition.

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