Criticism, Scholarship and Biography in The United States
- Roger Asselineau, The Evolution of Walt Whitman
- Walter Lowenfels, editor, Walt Whitman's Civil War, Whitman's writing about the war
- Edwin Haviland Miller, The Correspondence of Walt Whitman (1842–1875, in two volumes)
- Archibald MacLeish, Poetry and Experience (autobiography)
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