Auteur: Folsom Ed Folsom

Celebrating the various ethnic traditions that melded to create what we now call American literature, Whitman did his best to encourage an international reaction to his work. But even he would have b …

In 1992, the year of the hundredth anniversary of Walt Whitman’s death, a major gathering of international scholars took place at the University of Iowa. Over 150 participants heard papers by 20 of t …

In Whitman East and West, fifteen prominent scholars track the surprising ways in which Whitman’s poetry and prose continue to be meaningful at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Covering a b …

Written in the aftermath of the American Civil War during the ferment of national Reconstruction, Walt Whitman s Democratic Vistas remains one of the most penetrating analyses of democracy ever writt …

This book offers the most comprehensive and detailed reading to date of Song of Myself. One of the most distinguished critics in Whitman Studies, Ed Folsom, and one of the nation’s most prominent wri …

This book is the first to offer a comprehensive selection of Walt Whitman’s Civil War poetry and prose with a full commentary on each work. Ed Folsom and Christopher Merrill carry on a dialogue with …