Weekly Whitman In Review: October 31, 2021-October 31, 2020
The final installment of the Weekly Whitman is an index of all the poems, newspaper articles, movie-and-TV bits, and everything else I could think of to expand a reader’s ideas about a man who is considered by many to be America’s best poet. I have enjoyed this experience. I thank you for hanging in there when I was in the hospital, which is where the missing dates occur. The illustration I chose for this final offering is one I found a year ago. Whitman never, to my knowledge, wrote about coffee, or I would have used it before. If nothing else shows how pervasive Whitman is in America, surely a Starbucks card with a Whitman quote does the trick.
October 31, 2020:
A new blog series was announced—Weekly Whitman—which explores the writing of Walt Whitman and the Civil War. “Not a Trick! Walt Whitman Every Week”
November 8, 2020: Weekly Whitman: Ashes of Soldiers
November 15, 2020: Weekly Whitman: “America”
November 22, 2020: Weekly Whitman: “By the Bivouac’s Fearful Flame”
November 29, 2020: Weekly Whitman: “Thick-Sprinkled Bunting”
December 6, 2020: Weekly Whitman: “Pioneers! O Pioneers!”
December 13, 2020: Weekly Whitman: “To a Locomotive in Winter”
December 20, 2020: Weekly Whitman: “A Christmas Greeting from a Northern-Star Group to a Southern. 1889-90”
December 27, 2020: Weekly Whitman: Not Such a Merry Christmas
January 3, 2021: Weekly Whitman: … and the war came
January 10, 2021: Weekly Whitman: The Sounds of Winter
January 17, 2021: Weekly Whitman: An Earlier Inauguration
January 24, 2021: Weekly Whitman: “The Dresser”
January 31, 2021: Weekly Whitman: City of Ships
February 7, 2021: Weekly Whitman: An Army Corps on the March
February 14, 2021: Weekly Whitman: Happy Valentine’s Day
February 21, 2021: Weekly Whitman: “A Dirge for Two Veterans”
February 28, 2021: Weekly Whitman: “Drum-Taps”
March 7, 2021: Weekly Whitman: “Look down fair moon”
March 14, 2021: Weekly Whitman: “Come up from the fields, Father”
March 21, 2021: Weekly Whitman: “Beat! beat! drums!”
March 28, 2021: Weekly Whitman: Fire in the Sky
April 4, 2021: Weekly Whitman: Certain Civilians
April 11, 2021: Weekly Whitman: Old Ireland
April 18, 2021: Weekly Whitman: “Walt Whitman on the Death of President Lincoln”
June 6, 2021: Weakly, Whitman
June 13, 2021: Weekly Whitman: Hush’d Be the Camps Today
June 20, 2021: Weekly Whitman: “O Captain! My Captain”
June 27, 2021: Weekly Whitman: “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”
July 4, 2021: Weekly Whitman: The 4th of July
July 11, 2021: Weekly Whitman: “This Dust was Once the Man”
July 18, 2021: Weekly Whitman: “A March in the Ranks Hard-prest and the Road Unknown”
July 25, 2021: Weekly Whitman: Walt Whitman would have loved the Olympics
August 1, 2021: Weekly Whitman: A Postage Stamp
August 8, 2021: Weekly Whitman: “Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim”
August 15, 2021: Weekly Whitman: “Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice”
August 22, 2021: Weekly Whitman: Whitman on Film
August 29, 2021: Weekly Whitman: “Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me”
September 5, 2021: Weekly Whitman: “Camps of Green”
September 12, 2021: Weekly Whitman: “Weave In, My Hardy Life”
September 19, 2021: Weekly Whitman: “I Saw Old General at Bay”
September 26, 2021: Weekly Whitman: “In Clouds Descending, In Midnight Sleep”
October 3, 2021: Weekly Whitman: Jottings on an Execution
October 10, 2021: Weekly Whitman and the World Series
October 17, 2021: Weekly Whitman: “To the Leaven’d Soil They Trod”
October 24, 2021: Weekly Whitman: “Years of the Modern”
October 31, 2021: Weekly Whitman: “To a Historian” which is the conclusion of the blog series Weekly Whitman. Thanks for reading.
Thank you for this series. It opened my eyes to Whitman’s work.
Thanks so much. That was the goal, so I am thinking we met it. Happy Holidays.
Thank you, a new and valuable perspective on the Civil War after reading countless books and articles.
Meg, this is a wonderful series. Thank you so much! I appreciate this final entry where you put all the links together. Starbucks card a bonus!
I love that Starbucks card!! I wish I had one! Thanks for the kind words, and Happy Thanksgiving.
This was a great series and, I’m sure, a labor of love. I appreciate this synopsis. We should remember to repost this every year on Uncle Walt’s birthday or maybe on the anniversary of his death as a memorial.
When I was in the hospital I kept thinking “You have to get better. You have to do that Whitman project!” Looking forward to the next one!