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Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 15:28, 2 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]


  • " and helped to improve his reputation" - Whitman's, or Lincoln's?
  • Clarified
  • "There is an account of Lincoln reading Whitman's Leaves of Grass poetry collection in his office, and another of the president saying "Well, he looks like a man!" upon seeing Whitman in Washington, D.C., but these accounts may be fictitious" - Reading through ref 19, I'm not sure what part of this the reference really supports
  • Removed, it's better addressed in the other sources anyways
  • "Whitman's choice to publish "My Captain" in The Saturday Press is sometimes considered a 'teaser' for Sequel" - By whom?
  • Gailey, clarified and directly cited
  • "Whitman wrote two other poems on Lincoln's assassination that were not included in the cluster" - So if one is the two-line one, what is the other?
  • Honestly not sure, I spent a while looking a few weeks back and couldn't determine what it was. Vendler is a talented scholar, but makes it hard to follow her sourcing
  • I find it odd that "This Dust Was Once the Man" is never given by its full name in the Memories of President Lincoln section while the others are.
  • Sure, done
  • "Several critics Whitman's response to Lincoln's death to memorialize all those who had died in the Civil War" - I think you are missing a word here
  • "consider". Had to read it a few times to figure out.
  • According to worldcat, Walt Whitman Review has a ISSN that can be added
  • Bloom needs a publishing location
  • added
  • The Eiselein long citation includes a page number, but other pages of the book are cited, so the "p. 473" should be removed from that long citation
  • cut
  • Morris 2000 is not used as a source so far as I can tell, move to further reading or remove entirely
  • He's one of the "several critics", got axed out in a recent ce, forgot to retain the cite

Sources look reliable, and image licensing seems appropriate. Good work, placing on hold. Hog Farm Talk 18:43, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]