March 5, 1999

New Biography and Encyclopedia on Walt Whitman Delve Into Poet's Psyche; Biographer of Andre Gide Says His Book Faces Little Competition

Has Walt Whitman been "Freudianized"?

Freudianized, historicized, and made to "fit current political and literary ideologies," writes Jerome Loving in a new biography, Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself.

The University of California Press, presenting the biography as its lead book for the spring season, promotes it as "the first full-length critical biography of Walt Whitman in over 40 years."

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