Welcome to the Course Blog!

To start things off, I’m sharing a resource: The Whitman Archive. This is a pretty amazing set of materials, including digitized copies of all six American editions of Leaves of Grass published during Whitman’s lifetime, manuscripts, letters, critical commentary, and even a short recording of Whitman himself reading from “America.” It’s edited by prominent Whitman scholars, and published by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at U Nebraska.

That's an example of a resource post. 

Remember, the blog assignment for this week:

• Group 1: Post a resource. I'll make it easy for you. You may direct our attention to and comment briefly upon a particular item in the Whitman Archive, if you wish; but you're also welcome to share a new resource.
• Groups 3 & 4: Post a response to a particular poem or section from the assigned Whitman selections. These posts are due by Thursday, September 6.
• Group 2: Comment on one of the primary posts from groups 3 & 4 by Sunday, September 9.

Enjoy the holiday weekend. Go read Whitman by a lake or on the beach. Or on the bus ...

Or else by stealth in some wood for trial,
Or back of a rock in the open air,
(For in any roof'd room of a house I emerge not, nor in company,
And in libraries I lie as one dumb, a gawk, or unborn, or dead) ...