Concerning Walt Whitman and his work there is a superabundance of material. The best recent biography,
with a satisfactory criticism of his verse, is the Life of Walt Whitman, by Bliss Perry. See also Walt
Whitman by George R. Carpenter, in the English Men of Letters Series. A good short sketch of the
poet is the volume in the Beacon Biographies, by I. H. Platt. The study of Whitman, in Trent's American
Literature is impartial and admirable. The volume of Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Walt Whitman,
edited by O. L. Triggs, and Selected Poems by Walt Whitman, edited by Arthur Stedman (in Fiction,
Fact, and Fancy Series), may prove more profitable as an introduction to the poet than an edition of his
complete works.
