AN ACADEMIC IN AMERICA

Authoritative Online Editions

While cherishing the material culture of books, an English professor nonetheless sees some distinct advantages to online sources

By THOMAS H. BENTON

One of the great pleasures of my time in graduate school was acquiring, piece by piece, the entire 24 volumes of The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman, along with the nine volumes...

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