Introduction: "This Heart's Geography's Map": The Photographs of Walt Whitman

“Strong, manly, and full of human nature”: The Roots of Rubén Darío’s “Walt Whitman”

“…Widely shared photographic portraits "had made him something of a celebrity" and were of keen interest to O'Connor, who had "vowed to make a collection of Whitman photos." 61 The sketch in Coates and Fort's report resembles Napoleon Sarony's 1878 photograph and Rivas's essay in the Revista Ilustrada frames a sketch of Whitman that may derive from Jacob Spieler's 1876 photograph, or from an intermediate rendering (see figures 3 and 4). Darío's imagining of a patriarchal Whitman parallels the textual and visual nuances observed in the Revista Ilustrada.…”

The Maturing Vision of Walt Whitman's 1871 Version of Drum-Taps

“…18 The memories which remain with the narrator in "The Dresser" are not the glories of war, but the expressions of love. The poet-figure believes, as stated in "Long, too Long, 0 Land," that he and his country have learned from the war and its "crises of anguish," and he will try to show the world in his songs: An excellent example of his acceptance of the cost of war is ilhistrated in "Dirge for Two Veterans."…”