Walt Whitman Quarterly Review

Authors

Steven Olsen-Smith
Hershel Parker

Article Title

"Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus": Textual Inhibitions in Whitman Criticism

Abstract

Examines "inhibiting assumptions--textual and aesthetic, not sexual"--that the authors believe "have persisted, apparently not so much unacknowledged by ... critics, but unrecognized" in the "Calamus" cluster in Leaves of Grass; reviews previous readings of "Calamus" and explores textual issues related to Whitman's editing and rearrangement of the cluster

Rights

Copyright © 1997 by The University of Iowa.

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Season

Spring