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Walt Whitman
[1819-1892]
![portrait of early American poet Walt Whitman [1819-92] with flowing white beard](images/WaltWhitman-whitebeard.jpg "portrait of early American poet Walt Whitman [1819-92] with flowing white beard") | short profile |
"I am very happy in reading [Leaves of Grass], as great power makes us happy . . . I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be."
"It is Whitman, our great poet and pragmatic philosopher, who advises [America] not to be curious about God but to affix our curiosity to our own lives
and the earth [that] we live on, and then perhaps as far as we can see into the universe with our telescopes." — E.L. Doctorow
— Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-82]
"Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes."
in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."
![signature of American poet Walt Whitman [1819-1892]](images/sig_WaltWhitman.png "signature of American poet Walt Whitman [1819-1892]"){kind=small}
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1855 July 4th: First edition of Walt Whitman's self-published "Leaves of Grass"; many revisions & additions until his death in 1892. --www.bartleby.com/142/
Walt Whitman entry at Wikipedia
listed #22 on The Atlantic Monthly's Top 100 Most Influential Figures in American History [Dec 2006]
Walt Whitman credits at Internet Movie Database
Primary Works
browse Walt Whitman Store {returns almost 400 items} at Amazon
 | "The Portable Walt Whitman" [1945] Edited by Mark Van Doren contains selections from "Leaves of Grass", "Democratic Vistas, and "Specimen Days" Kindle Edition from Penguin Classics [2003 edition] for $14.99 Penguin Classics 7¾x5 pb [12/2003] for $18.11 Viking/Penguin 7¾x5¼ pb [6/77] out of print/50+ used Viking mass pb [3/1945] out of print/used Random House Value Publng 7½x4¼ hardcover [8/85] out of print/used |
 | "Walt Whitman: Selected Poems" [1991] 24 best poems from "Leaves of Grass" 130-page Kindle Edition from Dover Publns [5/2012] for $1.99 {sic} 128-page Dover Thrift Editions 8½x5¼ pb [5/91] for $3.50 {sic} |
 | "The Neglected Walt Whitman: Vital Texts" [1993] by Sam Abrams
these 65 texts include 49 poems, 11 passages from poems, four prose texts, and one image-text; most currently available readers editions of Whitman omit many of these texts and the 'authoritative' Library of America "Complete Poetry & Collected Prose" omits all of them Thunder's Mouth Press 8¼x5½ pb [4/93] for $28.09 Four Walls Eight Windows 8¾x5¾ hardcover [4/93] for $20.00 |
 | "Walt Whitman: Poetry and Prose" [1996] Edited by Justin Kaplan Library of America College Editions 7¾x5 pb [5/96] out of print/used Library of America 10x8 hardcover [9/97] for $49.99 includes "Leaves of Grass", 17 other poems, and 'his complete prose' "Walt Whitman: Selected Poems" [2003] Edited by literary critic Harold Bloom [1930-2019] 47 works by the "greatest of all American poets" LoA/American Poets Project 7¾x5 hardcover [1/2003] for $20.00 |
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 | "The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman" in nine volumes [G.P. Putnam's Sons 1902] Edited by literary executors Thomas Biggs Harned, Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke MD, Horace Traubel & William Douglas O’Connor, with Oscar Lovell Triggs PhD Volume 1: Palala Press 9¼x6 hardcover [9/2014] for $28.95 Volume 2: Palala Press 9¼x6 hardcover [5/2016] for $27.95 Volume 3: Palala Press 9¼x6 hardcover [5/2016] for $26.95 Volume 4: Palala Press 9¼x6 pb [2/2018] for $17.95 Volume 4: Palala Press 9¼x6 hardcover [5/2016] for $27.95 Volume 5: Palala Press 9¼x6 hardcover [5/2016] for $26.95 Volume 6: Palala Press 9¼x6 hardcover [5/2016] for $26.95 Volume 7: Palala Press 9¼x6 hardcover [5/2016] for $26.95 Volume 8: Palala Press 9¼x6 hardcover [5/2016] for $26.95 Volume 9: Palala Press 9¼x6 hardcover [5/2016] for $25.95 some photos show 9 volumes, some show ten; no Volume 10 found on Amazon or publisher (2019) |
 | "The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman: Leather Bound" [G.P. Putnam's Sons 1902]
Volume ?: Generic Publng 9¼x6½ leather bound hardcover [2019] out of print/scarce Volume 2: Generic Publng 9¼x6½ leather bound hardcover [2013] out of print/scarce Volume 5: Generic Publng 9¼x6½ leather bound hardcover [2013] out of print/scarce Volume 6: Generic Publng 9¼x6½ leather bound hardcover [2013] out of print/scarce Volume 7: Generic Publng 9¼x6½ leather bound hardcover [2013] out of print/scarce |
 | "The Complete Walt Whitman" for Kindle [2014] contains: "Drum-Taps", "Leaves of Grass", "Patriotic Poems", "Complete Prose Works", "The Wound Dresser", "Letters of Anne Gilchrist & Walt Whitman" Kindle Edition from Bybliotech [2/2014] for 99¢ Kindle Edition from AtoZ Classics [5/2018] for $1.99 |
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"Franklin Evans: or, The Inebriate" [New World, 1842]
"Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An Auto-Biography"
[serialized in 1852, rediscovered in 2016]
 | long-lost early novel by Walt Whitman, Introduction by Zachary Turpin; original subtitle: "A Story of New York At The Present Time In Which The Reader Will Find Some Familiar Characters" A short (36,000 words), rollicking story of orphanhood, avarice, and adventure with a villainous lawyer, virtuous Quakers, glad-handing politicians, and a sultry Spanish dancer • While searching the internet, University of Houston graduate student Turpin saw a small 1852 ad in the Sunday Dispatch newspaper (a three-penny weekly published in Manhattan) that promised a six-installment piece of fiction whose title matched notes by Whitman. After tracking down the only extant copies of the newspaper at the Library of Congress, his department head covered the $1,200 cost to get copies made • Feb 2017 article in the Houston Chronicle Kindle Edition from Univ Iowa Press [2/2017] for $7.99 Univ Iowa Press 8x5 pb [2/2017] for $11.68 Univ Iowa Press 8x5 hardcover [2/2017] for $21.38 |
"Leaves of Grass" [4 July 1855, the first of seven editions through 1891]
Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is a topic for study all by itself: there were six U.S. editions that he published in his lifetime, plus the annexes of the so-called 'Deathbed Edition'
from 1891 (the "Leaves of Grass" portion of which is a reprint of the 1881 release) •
"Leaves of Grass" entry at Wikipedia
"Leaves of Grass" [self-published, 1855] twelve poems
available as free online reprint of 1855 edition etext at Internet Archive
"Leaves of Grass" [Fowler & Wells, 1856]
"Leaves of Grass" [Thayer & Eldridge, 1860]
available as free online 1860 Thayer & Eldridge edition etext at Internet Archive
"Leaves of Grass" [William E. Chapin, 1867]
"Leaves of Grass" [J.S. Redfield, 1870]
available as free online 1871 Redfield edition etext at Internet Archive
"Leaves of Grass" [James R. Osgood, 1881]
available as free online 1881 Grosset & Dunlap edition etext at Internet Archive
available as free online 1882 Rees & Welsh, Philadelphia edition etext at Internet Archive
"Leaves of Grass" [David McKay, 1891] compilation of over 400 poems
available as free online 1900 David McKay edition etext at Internet Archive
Later Editions
"Leaves of Grass" Selected Kindle Editions
http://www.amazon.com/Leaves-Grass-Original-Thrift-Editions-ebook/dp/B008TVM6Y0/ 1855 60c
http://www.amazon.com/Leaves-Grass-First-1855-Death-ebook/dp/B00GZ43YO4/ 1855 + 1892 99c
http://www.amazon.com/Walt-Whitmans-Leaves-Grass-version-ebook/dp/B00CJIWZPY/ 1860 99c
http://www.amazon.com/Leaves-Grass-Death-Walt-Whitman-ebook/dp/B0030HKYOM/ 1892 Death Bed Edition 450 pgs 99c
http://www.amazon.com/Leaves-Grass-Electric-Poetry-Book-ebook/dp/B00B07BK4M/ Electric Edition 99c
http://www.amazon.com/Leaves-Grass-Illustrated-Walt-Whitman-ebook/dp/B01EBD7HZM/ 514 pgs 99c
http://www.amazon.com/Leaves-Grass-Walt-Whitman-ebook/dp/B07HMBCS7N/ 638 pgs 99c
http://www.amazon.com/Leaves-Grass-Illustrated-Walt-Whitman-ebook/dp/B071WSPL3F/ 692 pgs 99c
http://www.amazon.com/Leaves-Grass-Walt-Whitman-ebook/dp/B0761MR4XT/ 794 pages 99c
http://www.amazon.com/Leaves-Grass-Walt-Whitman-ebook/dp/B07VF4HRQ2/ 1342 pages 1.00
http://www.amazon.com/Leaves-Grass-WSBLD-Classics-Whitman-ebook/dp/B073X2FZ9S/ all 6 editions 99c
http://www.amazon.com/Walt-Whitman-Leaves-Greatest-Writers-ebook/dp/B0746BFNYF/ all 6 editions 99c
"Manly Health and Training" [1858, rediscovered in 2016]
Turpin also unearthed a book-length newspaper series on fitness and healthy living that Whitman published under a pseudonym in 1858.
"Drum-Taps" poems [William E. Chapin, 1865]
"Sequel To Drum Taps" poems [William E. Chapin, 1865]
"Passage To India" poems [J.S. Redfield, 1870]
"Democratic Vistas" [David McKay, 1871]
"Memoranda During The War" [1876]
"Walt Whitman's Diary" [1880]
 | "Walt Whitman's Diary In Canada: With Extracts From Other of His Diaries and Literary Note-books" [1880] Edited by William Sloane Kennedy [1850-1929]
82-page Forgotten Books 9x6 pb [7/2017] for $3.17 96-page Sagwan Press 9¼x6 hardcover [8/2015] for $3.86 https://archive.org/details/waltwhitmansdia00kenngoog/page/n13 "Walt Whitman's Diary: A Summer In Canada, 1880" [2018] Edited by Harriet Hungerford – with footnotes and photographs added Kindle Edition from In My Day Ltd. [8/2018] for $2.99 In My Day Ltd. 7¾x5 pb [11/2018] for $6.99 |
"Specimen Days" [1882]
"November Boughs" [David McKay, 1888]
"Good-Bye, My Fancy" poems [David McKay, 1891]
"Complete Prose Works" [David McKay, 1892]
Other Works
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"Poetry For Young People #6: Walt Whitman" [grades 3-6; 1997] Edited by Jonathan Levin, Illustrated by Jim Burke Sterling 10x8½ pb [4/2008] for $6.65 Sterling 10¼x8¾ hardcover [6/97] for $28.89 |
 | "The Portable Western Reader" [1997] Edited by William Kittredge
Penguin 7¾x5 pb [7/97] for $18.39 over 70 Western tales, from authors Sherman Alexie, W.H. Auden, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Gretel Ehrlich, Louise Erdrich, Allen Ginsberg, John Graves, Catherine McClellan, Larry McMurtry, Czeslaw Milosz, Mari Sandoz, John Steinbeck, Walt Whitman, and many more |
 | "Walt Whitman: Words For America" [grades 4-8; 2004] by Barbara Kerley, Illustrated by Brian Selznick book won the New York Times Award for Best Illustrated Children's Book, Sibert Honor Book Award, California Book Award, many others Scholastic Press 12x9 hardcover [10/2004] for $13.44 |
 | "Poetry For Kids: Walt Whitman" [2017] Edited by Karen Karbiener PhD, Illustrated by Kate Evans thirty-five of Walt Whitman's best works carefully curated for kids, lovingly illustrated, and explained by Whitman expert New York University professor Karen Karbenier MoonDance Press 9½x8½ hardcover [5/2017] for $10.99 |
Motion Pictures & Television
Walt Whitman credits at Internet Movie Database
search for keyword 'reference to Walt Whitman' at IMDb {none really relevant}
"Reaching 'The Audience Beyond': The Re-enactment of Whitman’s Poetry On Stage and Screen" [2015] by Kenn Pierson
read online article by Kenn Pierson of Rutgers University
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"Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout The Ages"
[Triangle silent classic Sept 1916]
 | Also entitled "Intolerance: A Sun Play of The Ages"; four tales of intolerance by Mankind: religious rivalry in ancient Babylon; the tale of Christ in Roman-occupied Judea; Catholic vs. Huguenot in 1572 France; and in modern America — the massacre of workers at the beginning of the movie was modeled after the 1914 Ludlow massacre in Colorado and a portion of the film was shaped by the poem "Out of The Cradle Endlessly Rocking" by Walt Whitman, with the title and some lines used as intertitles • Produced, co-written, directed & edited by D.W. Griffith; starring Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Howard Gaye, Lillian Langdon, Olga Grey, Margery Wilson, Eugene Pallette, Spottiswoode Aitken & Constance Talmadge; listed on National Film Registry (1989) NOTE: Griffith protogee Erich von Stroheim worked as an assistant director (on the many crowd scenes) and the reports that he also acted several roles are not true
Kino Video 197-min. b&w DVD [10/2002] for $26.99 Alpha Video 163-min. b&w DVD [10/2003] for $6.98 Kino Video 197-min. b&w VHS [6/2000] 2 tapes - out of prodn/used HBO Masterpiece 175-min. b&w VHS [10/91] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Walt Whitman" silent short [1922] /tt0433161/
"One Wicked Impulse" [1954] episode of the "Your Favorite Story" TV series /tt1157463/
"Walt Whitman: A Wizard's Words" [1970] episode of the "Actor's Choice" TV series /tt4319324/
"Walt Whitman: Feuilles d'Herbe" [1972] episode of the "Plain-chant" TV series /tt1909005/
"A Su Aire" TV series episode [dated 28 March 1974] poem /tt0504021/
"American Torso" poem [1975] /tt0072636/
"Song of Myself" TV drama [CBS-TV 1976] /tt0258190/ episode of "The American Parade"
Exec produced by Joel Heller; co-produced & directed by Robert Markowitz; starring Rip Torn as Walt Whitman; 'based on the life of Walt Whitman but primarily concerned with his homosexuality, his stormy relationship with his father, and his loving relationship with Peter Doyle'
"Beautiful Dreamers" [1990] portrayed by Rip Torn /tt0101413/
"Walt Whitman: An American Original" [1990] 23-minute docufilm for schools
http://www.amazon.com/Walt-Whitman-American-Original/dp/B002P1PSLS/
"Walt Whitman: Sweet Bird of Freedom" [1991] from Philip E. Schmidt
a film portraying an elderly but passionate Whitman as he prepares for a Philadelphia poetry reading
"The Body Electric" [1997] /tt0565421/ episode of the "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" TV series
in which Whitman (Donald Moffat) travels to Colorado and is snubbed by townsfolk who learn of his homosexual tendencies
"On The Trail of Mark Twain" documentary TV series [1998]
- "Such a Wonderful Thing" episode (1998) /tt1751419/
- "A Riddle at Every Turn" episode (1998) /tt1751416/
- "Beautiful Death" episode (1998) /tt1751417/
"War Is Kind: Poetry of The Civil War" video [1999] /tt5369980/
"Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman" [3/2000]
http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Visions-Walt-Whitman-VHS/dp/1572527986/
"Messengers" [2004] poem 'A Noiseless Patient Spider' /tt0347534/
"The Famous Authors: Walt Whitman" DVD [2007]
http://www.amazon.com/Famous-Authors-Walt-Whitman/dp/B000P6R6L0/ dvd
"Walt Whitman" episode [2008] /tt1167322/ of the "American Experience" TV series - portrayed by Chris Cooper
http://www.amazon.com/American-Experience-Voice-Chris-Cooper/dp/B001690X56/
"Lo Que Cuento al Viento" [2008] dialogue /tt1337653/
"A Noiseless Patient Spider" short [2009] poem /tt1450687/
"O Brooklyn! My Brooklyn!" short [2010] /tt2893728/
"Manahatta" video short [2011] writer /tt1974317/
"The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell" short [2016] poems /tt7794744/
"This Is What You Shall Do" short [2017] /tt7384010/
"Drum-Taps" short [May 2019] /tt10408492/
Stageplays, Other Media
"Reaching 'The Audience Beyond': The Re-enactment of Whitman’s Poetry On Stage and Screen" [2015] by Kenn Pierson
read online article by Kenn Pierson of Rutgers University
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 | "When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd: A Requiem For Those We Love" [1946] Composed by Paul Hindemith [1895-1963] performed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, conducted by Robert Shaw Telarc Digital music CD [4/2002] 12 tracks for $18.98 MP3 soundtrack album download [4/2002] 12 tracks for $7.99 composition entry at Wikipedia |
 | "When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd" cantata [Anthology of Recorded Music 1971] by Roger Sessions [1896-1985] performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Seiji Ozawa) and by the Tanglewood Festival Chorus (conducted by John Oliver) New World Records vinyl music album [1977] out of prodn/used New World Records music CD [12/92] for $14.57 New World Records MP-3 music album download [undated] for $9.49 |
 | "Walt Whitman's Immortal Songs: Inscriptions To Leaves of Grass" [1970s?] Music by Norman Bloom, Sung by Malcolm Smith red vinyl LP record produced by Anthem Records of Paramus, New Jersey; no retail source found |
 | "On Leaves of Grass" album inspired by and dedicated to Whitman [2014] by composer John Zorn, performing with the Nova Express quartet Tzadik Records music CD [8/2014] for $15.69 Tzadik Records MP-3 album download [8/2014] 9 tracks for $9.49 album entry at Wikipedia |
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 | "Orson Welles Reads From America’s Greatest Poem, Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself" [1953] vinyl record {album or 45rpm?} is scarce, not found on Amazon listen to audio version [3:28] at YouTube more Orson Welles [1915-85] at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store |
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The 1929 stageplay "Street Scene" by Elmer L. Rice [1892-1967] is a landmark of the American stage, largely credited for bringing stage dramas out of mansions and parlors
to settings where real people live; the 1947 opera by Kurt Weill [1900-50] is credited for much the same breakthrough, as the first 'American opera'.
stageplay entry at Wikipedia •
opera entry at Wikipedia
 | Pulitzer Prize-winning "Street Scene: A Play in Three Acts" [1929-30] by Elmer Rice
'a tragedy of epic proportions' in which nine lines from 'When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom’d' are contemplated for their pastoral content by the central characters at the end of Act One 601 performances from Jan 1929 to June 1930 at the Playhouse Theatre on 48th Street in Manhattan, NYC; produced by William A. Brady, Ltd.; written & staged by Elmer Rice • stageplay credits at IBDb Samuel French 7½x4¾ pb [1956] for $16.69 Samuel French 7½x5¼ hardcover [1929] out of print/used |
 | "Street Scene" [United Artists Aug 1931]
Produced by Samuel Goldwyn; directed by King Vidor; adapted for the screen by Elmer Rice from his Pulitzer Prize play; music by Alfred Newman; starring Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi, David Landau, Matt McHugh, Russell Hopton, Greta Granstedt, Eleanor Wesselhoeft, Allen Fox, Nora Cecil, Walter James, Max Montor, Walter Miller, T.H. Manning, Conway Washburne, John Qualen, Ann Kostant, Adele Watson, Lambert Rogers, George Humbert, Helen Lovett, Richard Powell, Harry Wallace Image Ent. b&w DVD [9/2000] for $10.98 Image Ent. b&w DVD [9/2000] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch full movie [1/2014 upload; 1:18:32] online at YouTube |
 | "Street Scene: An American Opera in Two Acts" opera/musical on Broadway [1947] 148 performances from Jan to May 1947 at the Adelphi Theater on 54th Street in Manhattan, NYC; produced by The Playwrights' Company (Maxwell Anderson, S.N. Behrman, Elmer Rice, Robert E. Sherwood, Sidney Howard); music by Kurt Weill, book by Elmer Rice, libretto by Langston Hughes (featuring the same lines from Whitman); starring Anne Jeffreys, Polyna Stoska, Norman Cordon, Brian Sullivan, Hope Emerson, Sheila Bond, Danny Daniels • stageplay credits at IBDb • opera entry at Wikipedia CBS Records original Broadway cast soundtrack CD [6/2008] 20 tracks - out of prodn/used Columbia Records re-issue vinyl LP album [orig 1949] for $19.99 Chappell & Co 10x7 pb playscript [1948] out of print/scarce |
"Street Scene" hour-long live broadcast [aired Oct 1948]
Season 1, Episode 5 of "Repertory Theatre" NBC-TV series [1948-56]
24 hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interacts with each other during a summer heatwave
based on the stageplay by Elmer Rice; music by Morris Mamorsky; starring Bert Lytell, Betty Field, Erin O'Brien-Moore •
bare credits at IMDb
"Street Scene" radioplay [aired Dec 1949] on "U.S. Steel Hour Theatre Guild On The Air" radio program 
this entry based on vintage newspaper ad from the Toledo [Ohio] Blade newspaper on Sunday 11 December 1949 for WSPD-AM Radio;
starring Richard Conte, Diana Lynn & Shirley Booth
 | "Street Scene" TV drama [aired Nov 1959] episode of "BBC Sunday-Night Theatre" [1950-1959]
based on the Elmer Rice stageplay; starring Mary Barclay, Maureen Beck, Edmond Bennett, Court Benson, Gisela Birke, Brandon/Nick Brady, Roland Brand, Carl Conway, Larry Cross, Marianne Deeming, Ruth Goring, Rosamund Greenwood, Robert Henderson, Robert Jackson, Roderick Joyce, Harry Lockart, Natalie Lynn, Martin Miller, Dermot Palmer, George Patterson, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Mary Laura Wood • DVD/Blu-ray not available • credits at IMDb |
 | "New York City Opera: Street Scene" [P.B.S. Oct 1979] Season 4, Episode 5 of "Live From Lincoln Center" [1976-present] 3-hour color New York City Opera production • DVD/Blu-ray not available • credits at IMDb Produced by John Goberman; directed by Kirk Browning; written by Elmer Rice; music conducted by John Mauceri; hosted by Beverly Sills; starring Eileen Schauler, William Chapman, Catherine Malfitano, Alan Kays, Harlan Foss, Bronwyn Thomas, Reed Jones, Martha Thigpen, Ralph Bassett, Leo Postrel, Timothy Eaton, Norman Large, Robert Paul, William Ledbetter, Jonathan Green, Kathleen Hegierski, Vanessa Williams, Matthew McGrath, Bill Herndon, Edward Stoddard, Robert Brubaker, Harris Davis, John Henry Thomas, Suzy Block, Richard Nelson, Don Yule, Barry Carl, Louis Perry, Susan Egan, James Sergi, Don Henderson |
 | "English National Opera: Street Scene" [BBC-TV 1992] English National Opera 2½-hour production at the London Coliseum in 1992 Directed by Barrie Gavin; stage director David Pountney; conducted by James Holmes; choreographed by David Toguri; starring Lesley Garrett • DVD/Blu-ray not available • not listed at IMDb watch performance [8/2017 upload; 2:28:06] online at YouTube |
 | "Street Scene" opera/musical TV movie [Arte France 1994] Filmed in Germany; Region 2 DVD appears to be in German with French subtitles; opera/musical of 1947 based on the 1929 stageplay by Elmer Rice • Directed by José Montes-Baquer; music by Kurt Weill; lyrics by Langston Hughes; stage direction by Francesca Zambello; starring Marc Embree, Teri Hansen, Ashley Putnam, Kip Wilborn, Dean Anthony, Claudia Ashley, Rachel Beabout, Field Blauvelt, Nicholas Bocek, Yvette Bonner, Susan Borofsky, Cliff Butler, Michela Carattini, Craig Childers, Muriel Costa-Greenspon, Danny Costello, Andrew Culjack, Heidi Eisenberg, Janice Felty, Adrienne Flaherty, Bryan Flaherty, Maureen Flaherty, Thomas Flaherty, Cornelia Fisch, Robin Gooch, Alan Hays, Wendy Hill, Gabriel Kahane, Elke Kaiser, Lisa Kelly, John Kuether, Jacqueline Mack, Anthony Mee, Daniel Nardicio, Jerry Riet, Yashira Rodriguez, Elly Romar, Michael Scarborough, Armin Seitz, David Rae Smith, Amy Stadler, Margaret Stenborg, Rodney Stenborg, Ivan Thomas, Anita Vidovic Region 1 Blu-ray/DVD not available • full credits at IMDb Ter Classins original London cast CD [4/2003] 36 tracks on 2 disks for $51.95 Decca/Polygram Records import soundtrack CD [6/2008] 2 disks for $49.95 |
"Street Scene" opera/musical [Oct 2014] 
performed by the School of Theatre & Dance at West Virginia University [est. 1867] with the W.V.U. School of Music
book by Elmer Rice, music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Langston Hughes
bare info about the 2014-2015 season
 | "Street Scene" opera/musical [Bel Air Media 2018] Performed live in February 2018 at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain and broadcast in HD on multiple media Directed by John Fulljames & Jérémie Cuvillier; starring Geoffrey Dolton, Jeni Bern, Scott Wilde not listed at IMDb • DVD/Blu-ray not yet available watch official trailer [2/2019 upload; 1:19] online at Vimeo Amazon Instant Video [2018] promoted as FREE with Amazon Prime for-fee Broadway HD service (2019) |
 | "Street Scene" opera/musical [Sept-Oct 2018] at Virginia Opera [est. 1974] Directed by Dorothy Danner; choreographed by Greg Ganakas; resident stage manager Erin Lindsay Carr; with the Virginia Opera Orchestra conducted by Adam Turner, the Virginia Opera Chorus, and the Governor's Children's Chorus read the performance program book as 6.26MB .PDF file |
"Walt: A One-Act Portrait" [1924] by Christopher Morley
'a well-crafted play intent on delivering one message, that Whitman was a heterosexual with a secret past'
"Dance For Walt Whitman" [1958] choreographed by Helen Tamiris
a dance with narrated excerpts from Whitman’s poems, highlighting his “celebration of the individual”
 | "We, Comrades Three: A Drama in Two Parts" stage work [1962] written by Richard Baldridge 'from works by Walt Whitman'; directed by Ellis Rabb & Hal George; starring Will Geer as Walt Whitman, with Helen Hayes and others; premiered in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1962; produced on Broadway by the APA/Phoenix Repertory Theatre; 11 performances at the Lyceum Theatre on 45th Street in Manhattan, NYC in December 1966 • Broadway credits at IBDb playscript not found at Amazon (2019) |
"A Whitman Portrait" [1965] by Paul Shyre
a play that covers the entire life of Whitman: from just after the publication of "Leaves of Grass" at age 36 to a point where he reflects
back on his childhood, then stopping points at ages 42, 56, 64 & 76, and to his death
"Leaves of Grass" off-Broadway musical [Sept 1971] by Stan Harte
comprised of 24 songs based on over 40 Whitman poems; opened at off-Broadway’s Theater Four with a cast of four singer-actors
"Look For Me Under Your Bootsoles" [1982] by Randell Haynes -- a one-man drama about Whitman’s life
"Walt" [1986] by William W. Whitman -- a three-act play about Whitman’s life
» » » not to be confused with "Walt!" [1989] by Walt Veasy
-- a musical survey of Whitman’s life involving more than a hundred different voices
"The Mystic Trumpeter: Whitman At 70" [1988] by Dorothy Ives
-- a one-man play depicting Whitman on the day following his 70th birthday
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"Leaves of Grass" stageplay [July-Aug 1991] one-man stageplay that integrated passages from other first-edition Whitman poems; premiered at Serpent’s Tooth Theatre in Ann Arbor, Michigan; adapted by Kenneth J. 'Kenn' Pierson, starring Thomas Fiscella |
"Democracy . . . One Whole Day Beside A Pond" [1991] by respected Canadian playwright John Murrell
a masterfully-constructed drama seen at a number of regional theatres throughout Canada and the United States
"Reckoning Time: A Song of Walt Whitman" opera [1995] by Peter Child & Alan Brody
a concert opera based on Whitman’s life and writings that highlighted the poet’s final moments on earth
 | "Paul Taylor Dance Company In Paris" [aired May 2013] episode of "Great Performances" TV series [since 1971] the hour-long dance "Beloved Renegade", set to Poulenc's "Gloria", is inspired by the life and work of 19th-century American writer Walt Whitman, who revered body and soul as one and who famously loved all with equal ardour; depicts the experiences of an artist described in a line from Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass': "I am the poet of the body and I am the poet of the soul"; recorded in 2012 at the Theatre National de Chaillot in Paris • Directed by Andy Sommer; featuring Paul Taylor, Michael Apuzzo, Eran Bugge, Michelle Fleet, Francisco Graciano, Laura Halzack, Parisa Khobdeh, Robert Kleinendorst, Sean Mahoney, Heather McGinley, Michael Novak, Aileen Roehl, James Samson, Jeffrey Smith, Michael Trusnovec, Jamie Rae Walker, Amy Young; both DVD & YouTube include second ballet "Brandenburgs", set to Bach's Brandenburg Concertos • full credits at IMDb Bel Air Classiques all-regions color DVD [5/2013] for $16.21 watch 4/2013 official trailer [2:20] online at YouTube |
Works About Walt Whitman
detailed Walt Whitman Camden Chronology on the W.W. Assn. website
 | "The Good Gray Poet: A Vindication" 46-page pamphlet [1866] by William Douglas O'Connor CreateSpace 9x6 pb [2/2016] for $6.99 available as free online 46-page etext at Internet Archive |
"Walt Whitman" biography [1883] by Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke [1837-1902]
includes reprint/update of "Good Gray Poet" pamphlet
"Whitman" [1926] by Emory Holloway won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
"The Legend of The Mountain" radio drama [1951] by Morton Wishengrad
 | "Walt Whitman Reconsidered: An Appraisal" [1955] by Richard Chase "An understanding appraisal of a great American poet – one hundred years after the first publication of Leaves of Grass" William Sloane Assocs 7¾x5 pb [1955] out of print/used William Sloane Assocs hardcover [1955] out of print/used William Sloane Assocs hardcover [1955] out of print/used Victor Gollancz Ltd. 9x6½ hardcover [1955] out of print/used |
"Walt Whitman: Man, Poet, Philosopher" [1969] by Gay Wilson Allen, Mark Van Doren, David Daiches
http://www.amazon.com/Walt-Whitman-Man-Poet-Philosopher/dp/B000KFSCIM/
"Walt Whitman: A Life" [Simon and Schuster 1979] by Justin Kaplan ISBN 0671225421
"Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song" [1981]
"Whitman and The American Idiom" [1991] by Mark Bauerlein - analyzes Whitman’s poetics
"Walt Whitman's America" [1995] by David S. Reynolds
http://www.amazon.com/Walt-Whitmans-America-Cultural-Biography/dp/0679767096/
 | "The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman" [1998] Edited by J.R. LeMaster & Donald D. Kummings Routledge 9¾x6¾ pb [3/2011] for $65.00 Routledge 10¼x7½ hardcover [8/98] for $210.00 {sic} |
 | "Walt Whitman (Bloom's Major Poets)" [grades 7-12; 1999] Edited & with an Introduction by Harold Bloom Chelsea House Publrs 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/99] for $27.96 |
 | "Writing Revolution: Aesthetics and Politics In Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau" [2003] by Peter J. Bellis
Univ GA Press 9x6 pb [4/2010] for $24.95 Univ GA Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [2/2003] out of print/used see also Spirit of America Bookstore's Nathaniel Hawthorne [1804-64] Page
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 | "Walt Whitman (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)" [2003] Edited & with an Introduction by Harold Bloom Chelsea House Publns 9¼x6¼ pb [9/2003] for $8.66 Chelsea House Publns 9½x6½ library hardcover [3/2006] for $53.61 Chelsea House Publns 9½x6½ library hardcover [3/2006] out of print/used |
 | "Walt Whitman, Philosopher Poet: Leaves of Grass By Indirection" [2007] by John W. McDonald author contends that Whitman wrote as a determinist and cleverly hid that element in his poetry so that nobody else realized this for over a hundred years {webmaster note: seems to me to be a rather silly construct} McFarland & Co. 8¾x5¾ pb [2/2007] for $36.14 |
 | "Walt Whitman (Bloom's Classic Critical Views)" [2007] Edited by Harold Bloom & Temple Cone, with an Introduction by Harold Bloom Bloom's Literary Criticism 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2007] for $50.54 {sic} |
 | "Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples" [2012] by Rodger Streitmatter chapters/subjects include: Walt Whitman & Peter Doyle, 1865-92; Martha Carey Thomas & Mamie Gwinn, 1878-1904; Ned Warren & John Marshall, 1884-1927; Mary Rozet Smith & Jane Addams, 1891-1934; Bessie Marbury & Elsie de Wolfe, 1892-1933; J.C. Leyendecker & Charles Beach, 1901-51; Alice B. Toklas & Gertrude Stein, 1907-46; Janet Flanner & Solita Solano, 1919-75; Greta Garbo & Mercedes de Acosta, 1931-60; Aaron Copland & Victor Kraft, 1932-76; Frank Merlo & Tennessee Williams, 1948‑63; James Baldwin & Lucien Happersberger, 1949-87; Robert Rauschenberg & Jasper Johns, 1954-62; Ismail Merchant & James Ivory, 1961-2005; and Frances Clayton & Audre Lorde, 1968-88 Kindle Edition from Beacon Press [5/2012] for $15.99 Beacon Press pb [2/2013] for $14.36 Beacon Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [5/2012] for $26.95 |
 | "Great American Authors: Walt Whitman" [grades 4-6; 2013] by Sheila Griffin Llanas Abdo Core Library 8¾x6¾ pb [2013] for $15.64 Abdo & Daughters 9x7¼ library hardcover [2013] for $7.77 |
 | "Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians" [2014] by Justin Martin Kindle Edition from Da Capo Press [9/2014] for $15.39 Merloyd Lawrence/Da Capo Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2014] for $20.96 |
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'The Black & White' Magazine of Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland
June 2019 Volume 57 Issue #6 cover article "Walt Whitman Hits 200" on pages 14 & 15 read the full magazine online at Issuu website • read the article online at magazine website {broken?} magazine website {broken?} • school entry at Wikipedia |
Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism entry at Wikipedia
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William Douglas O’Connor [1832-89]
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"Harrington: A Story of True Love" [1860 novel]
http://www.amazon.com/Harrington-Story-William-Douglas-OConnor/dp/1341140733/
"Mr. Donnelly's Reviewers [] by William Douglas O'Connor
"The Good Gray Poet: A Vindication" 46-page pamphlet [1866] by William Douglas O'Connor
"The Ghost" [1867] by William Douglas O'Connor, with two illustrations by Thomas Nast
http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-William-Douglas-OConnor-ebook/dp/B0082Q0XJW/
http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-William-Douglas-OConnor/dp/134713011X/
"The Carpenter: A Christmas Story" short story [1868] by William Douglas O'Connor
"Netty Renton... [1869] by William Douglas O'Connor
http://www.amazon.com/Netty-Renton-William-Douglas-OConnor/dp/1271606534/
"Hamlet's Note-Book" [1886] by William Douglas O'Connor
http://www.amazon.com/Hamlets-Note-Book-William-Douglas-OConnor/dp/052695180X/
"Mr. Donnelly's Reviewers" [1889] by William Douglas O'Connor
ISBN: 1356099416 (ISBN13: 9781356099412) 2016 by Palala Press Hardcover, 112 pages
"Three Tales: The Ghost, The Brazen Android, The Carpenter" [Houghton Mifflin, 1892]
http://www.amazon.com/Three-tales-brazen-android-carpenter/dp/B002YT89YE/
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Tales-Brazen-Android-Carpenter/dp/1298980542/
"Heroes of The Storm [1904] by William Douglas O'Connor
http://www.amazon.com/Heroes-Storm-William-Douglas-OConnor/dp/1279150793/
http://www.amazon.com/Heroes-Storm-William-Douglas-OConnor/dp/1297859898/
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"Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor" [6/1978] by Jerome Loving
http://www.amazon.com/Walt-Whitmans-Champion-William-Douglas/dp/158544085X/
http://www.amazon.com/Walt-Whitmans-Champion-William-Douglas/dp/0890960399/
"William Douglas O'Connor: Walt Whitman's Chosen Knight" [7/1985] by Florence Bernstein Freedman
http://www.amazon.com/William-Douglas-OConnor-Whitmans-Chosen/dp/0821407678/
Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke [1837-1902]
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"Walt Whitman" biography [1883] by Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke
includes reprint/update of "Good Gray Poet" pamphlet
 | "Cosmic Consciousness: A Study In The Evolution of The Human Mind" [1901] Edited by Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke MD, Introduction by George Moreby Acklom Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [9/2019] for 99¢ Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [6/2018] for 99¢ Martino Publng 9¾x7½ pb [8/2010] for $8.95 Dutton 10x7¾ hardcover [1951] out of print/used author entry at Wikipedia • book entry at Wikipedia "The Cosmic Consciousness of Walt Whitman" [1901] relationship to the prior book is unclear: could be either an excerpt or original material 26-page Kessinger Publng 9¼x7½ pb [9/2010] for $12.76 26-page Kessinger Publng 10x7 hardcover [9/2010] for $24.76 {sic} |
 | "Richard Maurice Bucke, Medical Mystic: Letters of Dr. Bucke To Walt Whitman and His Friends" [1977] Edited by Artem Lozynsky Wayne State Univ Press 9x6¼ hardcover [4/77] out of print/used |
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http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/gallery/exhibit/walt-whitman-a-bicentennial-celebration/
http://www.visitsouthjersey.com/events/2019-laurel-springs-waltfest-celebrating-walt-whitmans200th/ [June 2019]
Walt Whitman Assn.
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