![]() ![]() I (Boston: Small Maynard, 1906) II (New York: D. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, 1921. UPP The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1982. SD Specimen Days, in Walt Whitman: Complete Poetry and Collected Prose. New York: New York University Press, 1984. NUPM Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts. LG 1860 Leaves of Grass: Facsimile Edition of the 1860 Text. LG 1856 Leaves of Grass: Facsimile of 1856 Edition. ― xii ― LG 1855 Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition. Thanks to one and all for helping me on my way, even when, especially when, we didn't see eye to eye about Walt Whitman and why he matters. To the other members of my family and to personal friends. I'll say nothing of his computer expertise. And to Bob Pollak for being there on the ground, so to speak: for participating actively in the daily ins and outs, the minutiae and larger visions which have finally in some fashion come together. To my editors at the University of California Press, Linda Norton and Scott Norton (no relation), along with Damion Searls, whose meticulous attention saved me from many errors. ![]() To the National Endowment for the Humanities for a six month Fellowship for University Teachers in the last stages of the project. To the University of Washington in Seattle and to Washington University in St. To my former chairs Dick Dunn and Tom Lockwood and Joe Loewenstein and Dan Shea, to Ed Pollak for a timely bit of research assistance, to various other research assistants including Carolyn Klumpar and Christy Auston and Loretta Clayton. Yale University, Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, the Houghton Library at Harvard. Louis, Duke University, the Harry Ransom Humanities Center at the University of Texas (Austin), ![]() Alice Birney at the Library of Congress, the librarians at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Washington, Washington University in St. And then there are the institutions that hold our books and manuscripts and photographs and other valuables and the people who make them work. Nelson, Ed Folsom, Sandra Gilbert, Calvin Bedient, Carter Revard, Naomi Lebowitz, Steve Zwicker, Paul Crumbley, Adam Sonstegard, Bethany Reid. Price, David Reynolds, Geoffrey Sill, David Leverenz, Bob Milder, Dana D. Singley, anonymous readers for California University Press, Elizabeth (Sue) Avery, Kenneth M. Carroll Hollis, Carolyn Allen, Gay Wilson Allen, Paula Bennett, Margaret Dickie, Tenney Nathanson, Betsy Erkkila, Jay Grossman, Jerome Loving, Carol J. In no particular order, here's an expandable catalogue of scholars who contributed to the progress of this venture, a list which has to include C. And for phone calls, faxes, letters, e-mails, lunches, coffees, dinners, drinks-all those tokens of connectedness which Whitman in some sense inspires. First and foremost, too, colleagues and friends: for their conversations, their readings, their own modeling of the thinking life. First and foremost, to my students: for their enthusiasm and skepticism and shades of thought and emotion in between. ![]() Writing this book over the course of more years than I care to remember, I've incurred many pleasurable debts: so many, in fact, that I can't be sure I'm recollecting all of them at this moment. ![]()
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