An essay by David S. Reynolds in the Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman:
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James Perrin Warren on Whitman’s poetry after the war:
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M. Wynn Thomas on Whitman and the Civil War:
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I addressing You:

“Another very important secondary source for us was the Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman, edited by Ezra Greenspan.
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A word on Paul Zweig’s article:
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Whitman’s poetical re-working, by R. W. B. Lewis:
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This is what translators call the theory of untranslatability of poetry:

“Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.”

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How delicate Whitman’s poetry is, by James A. Wright:
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Whitman’s political mind, by Richard Chase and his constant revisions and rearrangements, by Roy Harvey Pearce:

“Continuing our critical review, we shall refer now to Richard Chase, whose article, “The Theory of America”, helped us a lot in understanding the political mind of Whitman.

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Kenneth Burke, Politics,  and Whitman’s contradictions:

“Another critic in this volume is Kenneth Burke, whose article, “Policy Made Personal” (BLOOM, 1985, pp.25-54), naturally revolves around the political issue in Whitman’s works.
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