Walt Whitman Collection

1819-1892

The Walt Whitman Collection at Northern Illinois University includes variant issues of single and collected works by the poet and selected critical and bibliographical works about Whitman. We hold virtually all editions of Leaves of Grass, as well as several copies of works inscribed by Whitman. We continue to add materials to this collection. To see which particular titles we own, please search our online catalog.

Highlights of the collection include two different issues of the first edition of Leaves of Grass, as well as the the "Deathbed Edition" of this book.

Whitman Links

• Academy of American Poets: Walt Whitman
• Defending Walt Whitman Sherman Alexie, pub. in the Beloit Poetry Journal
• Leaves of Grass
• I Hear America Singing
• Mickle Street ReviewAn Electronic Journal Of Whitman and American Studies
• Modern American Poetry: Walt Whitman University of Illinois
• Poet at Work: Recovered notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection Library of Congress, American Memory Project
• Passage to India : autograph manuscript; Washington, 1870. 21s. (21p.) Harvard University
• Revising Himself: Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass Library of Congress Online Exhibition
• Walt Whitman and the Development of Leaves of Grass University of South Carolina
• Walt Whitman Archive
• Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site and Interpretive Center
• Whitman American Experience
• Whitman Biography
• Whitman Hypertext Archive(Electronic Text Collection) University of Virginia
• Whitman Manuscripts at New York Public Library
• Whitman Time Linefrom PBS American Experience
• Whitman Wikipedia