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the story of walt whitman’s reCePtion history grows more fascinating as additional documents gradually come to light. we have listed here all reviews identified since the publication of Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews (1996), edited by Kenneth m. Price, including a handful that have been posted on the Walt Whitman Archive in the meantime. in the following pages, we reproduce in full or in part those reviews that seem to us most illuminating. (all of the listed new reviews will be made available in their entirety on the Whitman Archive shortly after publication in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review.) the reviews collected here span the entire range of whitman’s writing career, from his temperance novel Franklin Evans (1842) to the so-called deathbed edition of Leaves of Grass (1891-1892), and they address every edition of Leaves as well as “a child’s reminiscence,” As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free, Two Rivulets, Memoranda During the War, November Boughs, Specimen Days & Collect, Good-Bye My Fancy, william michael rossetti’s 1868 British edition (Poems by Walt Whitman), and Ernest rhys’s 1886 British edition (Leaves of Grass: The Poems of Walt Whitman). these reviews also represent the views of critics on both sides of the atlantic (and include irish and Scottish perspectives). whitman’s long-term critical reception has its roots in the reviews that were published during his lifetime. many of the same ideas and themes that emerged in other previously collected contemporary reviews—as well as in the critical debates that continued after whitman’s death—are evident in the reviews collected here. for example, many of the american reviews tended to take an extreme view, either proclaiming whitman to be the american homer or Shakespeare or condemning him for being obscene and vulgar. in an early 1860 review, “umos” unequivocally declares that whitman’s work is not poetry: “my private opinion expressed to you confidentially is, that whitman found a lot of dictionary-pi going on at auction, bought it for a song, employed a chinese type-setter from the Bible house to set it up in lines of unequal length, and then sold it to you as an original Poem.” reviewers attacked both the form and content of Leaves of Grass. “a more scandalous volume we never saw,” declares The Springfield Daily Republican in June of 1860. “it ought to be enough for walt whitman, if

Sixty-Eight Previously Uncollected Reviews of Walt Whitman