Tyler Hoffman

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Walt Whitman seminar

Dr. Tyler Hoffman                                                           

Fall 2009                 

Schedule of readings

Th                  Sept ?              Introduction

Th                 Jan 31              1855 Preface; Song of Myself

                                                Frontispiece assignment/passage from Song of Myself and its personal meaning

Th                  Feb 7               Song of Myself

                                                Gloss image from Song of Myself (using add an image)

M                  Feb 14              Song of Myself

M                  Feb 21              Remainder of 1855 edition

M                  Feb 28              1856 edition

M                   Mar 7              1860 edition: Children of Adam (248-267) & Calamus (268-281; 684-688)

M                 Mar 14             1867 and 1871-2 editions

M                 Mar 28             1873 move to Camden

                                                1876 Memoranda during the War; Two Rivulets; “Centennial” edition

M                   Apr 4               Specimen Days (1882)

M                  Apr 11              1881-21 (banned) and deathbed eds.

                                                Camden/Philadelphia

M                  Apr 18              Field trip to Whitman house museum and gravesite

                                                Film posting

M                  Apr 25              Camden/Philadelphia

                                                Looking for Whitman digital recital due

M                  May 2              Retrospective