Dickinson+and+Whitman+Links

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**WHITMAN SITES:** **The Walt Whitman Archive:** This is the introductory page to the Walt Whitman Archive If you click on the [|"Bibliography" button], you can find a search engine that will take you to all the criticism on Whitman, year by year, from 1976 to the present. Also available is a good [|biography] of Whitman along with a good chronology of the events of his life. There are a lot of valuable materials on this site, so explore it thoroughly. [|http://www.whitmanarchive.org] **Reviews:** This is part of the Whitman Archive, and this site includes all the contemporary reviews of Whitman's work, so you can get a good idea of how readers in the nineteenth century responded to his poetry. [] **Photo Index:** Again, this is part of the Whitman Archive. Here you can view all the photographic portraits of Whitman, arranged by decade. When you click on any individual photo, you will get a large version of the photo along with my annotations about that particular portrait. Take a look especially at the annotations for the 1855 frontispiece portrait that we will discuss in class. [|http://www.whitmanarchive.org/gallery/] **//Leaves of Grass//** **Editions:** Again part of the Whitman Archive. Here you can see facsimiles of various editions of //Leaves of Grass//, and you can view, page by page, the 1855, 1856, 1867, and 1871 editions of //Leaves//. [] **Walt Whitman Home Page:** This is the great Library of Congress site, with wonderful facsimiles of several Whitman notebooks, including the notebook in which he can be seen working out the new style for the 1855 //Leaves of Grass//, and some Civil War notebooks, which he kept while nursing soldiers in Washington DC hospitals. []/ **Leaves of Grass 1891:** An electronic version of Whitman's final edition of //Leaves of Grass//. [|http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/logr/index.html] //American Experience// PBS Walt Whitman film biography: This is the film we watched in class, with extra materials, available for viewing online. []

**DICKINSON SITES:** **Dickinson Electronic Archives:** This is a great site, but it changes regularly and can be hard to figure out. There are lots of different pieces. Take some time to explore. You can view a number of Dickinson's manuscripts, and you can click to have them magnified for very close examination. Do note that this site at points requires a username and password. To gain access, type "dickinson" (with a small "d") for the name, then the password "ink_on_disc". [] **Emily Dickinson Lexicon:** This is a remarkable site, facilitating a careful examination of Dickinson's language. It contains a complete lexicon of every word she used in her poetry, and it offers a searchable version of the 1844 Webster's Dictionary of the American Language, which both Dickinson and Whitman depended on. [] //**Poems by Emily Dickinson**//, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson: [|This site] lets you examine the complete 1891 edition of Dickinson poems, so you can see what her poetry looked like in the hands of her earliest editors. The revised 1924 edition is available [|here]; you can see how for the first seventy years after Dickinson's death, her poems were a very different body of work than they are today. **Emily Dickinson Links:** this site gives links to information about Emily's family, pictures of family members and of their homestead, early reviews, and many other materials. [|http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/dickinson.htm] **Contents of Emily Dickinson Journal:** This site lets you link to all the articles and reviews that have appeared in the journal over the past eighteen years, many of which you will find illuminating. []