Harris Classification: Pt. 7, Whitman Classification

This introductory section outlines the major changes in the Whitman Classification scheme. For classification purposes, please ignore this section, and proceed to the text, The Whitman class numbers.

The present version of the Whitman Classification contains revisions of the classes devoted to Whitman's works. The scheme has not undergone quite the extensive revision and reworking that has been given to all classes in the Poe Classification. The basic structure remains much the same.

Many new individual titles have been added, in particular where similar or even identical titles may be confused. For example, Whitman wrote the Paumanok [Long Island] poems, each with its own title. Then there are books and poems with the same title, such as I sit and look out; the book is a collection of editorials from a newspaper! It is also hoped that all the well-known poems have been included. For instance, Whitman's famous Lilacs (When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd) now has its own class number. In fact all poems featuring Abraham Lincoln are represented in the list. Note that the list of individual titles is not nearly as comprehensive as the similar list of Poe titles. Whitman's output of poetry, spread over a lifetime, was much greater than Poe's in his short span. Since one cannot tell in advance which poems, or other works, will attract the attention of future scholars or fine press publishers, we will need to continue to add specific classes as they are needed. Note also that many of these class numbers have not yet been used (as of February 1996.)

The subject entries have also been reviewed, one aim being to bring them as close as possible to the entries used for Poe. Unfortunately the arrangement of the two lists is significantly different, particularly in the Y and Z sections; at this stage it is difficult to make substantial changes to one or other of the schemes. Subject entries have been added for iconography (Z15), sculpture (Z17), and Whitman in the media (Z18). They have also been added for works on Whitman as an author (Z52), including his manuscripts, and on Whitman as an editor/publisher (Z53). New entries have been provided for events connected with Whitman (Z57), Whitman's influence (Z59), and textual criticism and language (Z68-Z69). Local and personal associations (Z56) have been separated from biography of friends and biographers (Z55). The list of biography classes has also been expanded (Z5).

Bibliography

The following works were found particularly useful in revising the Whitman Classification.

Works by Whitman

WW A1 1982; PS3200 F82 1982--Complete poetry and collected prose. New York, c1982. The Library of America ed. Always start with this when seeking to identify a title. Its main drawback is its incompleteness; cf. Introd. to The neglected Walt Whitman (see below), which attempts to remedy this.

1-SIZE WW A2 1965a; 1-SIZE PS3201 1965--Leaves of grass. Comprehensive reader's edition, ed. H.W. Blodgett and Sculley Bradley. [New York], c1965. Probably the best source for titles of poems in Leaves of grass and elsewhere.

WW A2 1928h--Leaves of grass. Inclusive edition, ed. by Emory Holloway. Garden City, N.Y., 1928. More handy than the previous listing, although more selective with regard to supplementary poems; long a standby on the Harris reference shelf in the Catalog Dept.

1-SIZE WW A3 1963; 1-SIZE PS3202 1963--Prose works 1892, ed. Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. [New York], c1963. The chief source for his prose works

WW A4 1993; PS3204 1993--The neglected Walt Whitman: vital texts, ed. Sam Abrams. N.Y., 1993. When all else fails ...

Bibliographies of Whitman

WW Z2 B58; Z8971.5 B5--A bibliography of Walt Whitman. Port Washington, N.Y., 1965. Vol. 1: Trent Collection of Duke University, comp. E.F. Frey. Vol. 2: Concise bibliography of the works of Walt Whitman, by C. Wells and A.F. Goldsmith

Z927 P2 222 Hum-RR--Bibliothéque nationale. Catalogue générale des livres imprimés : auteurs. Tome 222, section on Whitman. Paris, 1975

Z1225 B55 9 Hay Ref and Rock Ref--Blanck, Jacob. Bibliography of American literature. New Haven, 1955- Known by the abbreviation BAL. Vol. 9 contains the section on Whitman (p. 28-103). Should be cited where appropriate; however many reprint editions are not included

1-SIZE WW Z2 K695w; 1-SIZE Z8971.5 G5 1981--Kummings, D. D. Walt Whitman, 1940-1975: a reference guide. Boston, c1982. Index is useful for indicating titles of individual poems or prose works on which scholars have written books or articles.

WW Z2 M99w; Z8971.5 M93 1993--Myerson, Joel. Walt Whitman: a descriptive bibliography. Pittsburgh, 1993

The Whitman Class Numbers

All assigned call numbers for monographs and serials classed by the Whitman Classification begin with one line: WW. This is a unique classification for a class consisting primarily of literary monographs. The top line serves both as a class identifier and as the first line of the call number, and as such resembles a generic class such as Music rather than a dated class such as 76.

Note that the first line in each entry below is in fact the second line of the call number. Many items also use a third line in their call numbers. This may be nothing more elaborate than a publication date or other distinguishing device for a particular item, or it may be the formalized entry for a name or title different from that found on the previous line. See below for elaboration of this aspect of call numbers.

Note also that Whitman serials are assigned to this class, not to Serial/Coll, as is the case with Poe serials.

The class numbers are arranged in the order found in the manual shelflist. On the left is the class number; on the right is a brief description of each class.

To class a particular title, find the appropriate entry from the table below. Occasionally the required entry may not be present; it may be necessary for a new category to be established. In such a case, consult your supervisor. When in doubt as to where to class a particular title, and there are two or more poossibilities for classing, prefer the class that appears earliest in the scheme.

Many of Whitman's poems have been included among the individual titles listed below. The list should contain most of his better-known works. Selected titles from his prose works have also been included. Note that titles are arranged letter by letter, not word by word. For example, his Tomb blossoms (To54) precedes To one shortly to die (To59). Numbers precede letters where there is a conflict; they are not treated as if spelled out (see placing of Walt Whitman : an 1855-56 notebook.)

Many references have been made from one form of title to another. For example, the reference, American Institute poem, sends the user from an unused class in the Am sequence to the class used in the scheme, So58, for Song of the exposition. Other references send the user from titles of reprint collections to the class number used, usually A2 (Collected poems), A3 (Collected prose), or A4 (Selected works, etc.); for example, Best of Whitman is classed at A4. One should always remember that a future collection issued under the title Best of Whitman, but with different content, may be classed somewhere else. At this point (1996), titles of Whitman collections have rarely been duplicated except where the contents have classed in the same location anyway (for instance, Good-bye, my fancy at Go59) Probably the most used is the generic title Poems (A2 or A4), not included in the list for obvious reasons.

Note that references have also been made from titles of foreign translations of Whitman's works. For example, Dormeurs refers to SL48, Sleepers; Demokratische Ausblicke refers to De54, Democratic vistas. Then a collection of translations such as Cinq petits poèmes may have a reference from the foreign-language title to A5, the class for translations of collected or selected works.

Wherever possible, add new titles of individual poems or prose works using one of the forms used in the general index to Joel Myerson's Walt Whitman: a descriptive bibliography (1993). Occasionally however the same work may be indexed in two or more different ways. Additional help may be sought in other works listed in the bibliography. Usually consult first the Library of America edition of Whitman, Complete poetry and collected prose (1982); the poetry and first lines are indexed, but the prose needs to be searched via the contents lists!

In most cases a form of the title found in the item itself, or in one of the works listed in the bibliography, should also form a solid basis for establishing a uniform title for the authority file when this is needed. If however the Libary of Congress Name Authority File (NAF) should prefer a different form, that form should be used for Brown also, in accordance with our policy. Be sure to disregard nonstandard punctuation in a title.

Titles beginning with the letters X, Y or Z. Should it be necessary to establish a call number for an individual title by Whitman where the first filing word begins with one of the letters X, Y or Z, establish a class within the range Wz X-Z. The class Wz is a combination of letters with the sole purpose of maintaining alphabetization of titles in the individual titles section. Individual titles are filed alphabetically within the sequence. The poem, You lingering sparse leaves of me, could be classed at Wz Yo95, while another title, a prose work, Zollverein between the U.S. and Canada, could file at Wz Zo55. At present (February 1996), the library has no titles in this group.

Note that articles are omitted from the beginning of all titles in the Whitman Classification. They are also not used in the inverted form, such as Poem, A; they are simply ignored.

In general class titles of collections in the appropriate collective class: A1, A2, etc. Unlike the current practice with Poe, class titles such as City of orgies & other poems, selections from his Leaves of grass, at A2, not at Ci91. It is quite common for a modern anthology of Whitman to be published with the same title as a well-known individual poem: an example is his I sit and look out (editorials from a Brooklyn newspaper!) A good rule of thumb is: when classing titles of collections, ignore any individual titles you may recognize: class as a collection.

Class bilingual editions of texts, containing the text in the original language, with texts in the original language. Disregard earlier practice to the contrary. Do the same with multilingual editions: class such editions with texts in the original language.

Third line of the call number: In the table below, this appears as the second line (indicated in the table as [date] or as A-Z, etc.--for fuller information, see examples at end.) In the Whitman scheme, the main entry for an item, or an alternative entry such as the name of the editor, is used in the line below an individual title for a work of biography, criticism, or bibliography. Unlike other sections of the Harris Classification, this entry is not preceded by an x, y or z (some items that had been classed this way have been reclassed for consistency.) Such entries are also used in the class A2 A-Z, criticism of editions of collected poems--which is no longer used, Z6 now being preferred. They are also used extensively in classes X-Z for authors of titles of works of questionable authorship; musical arrangers; adapters; authors of poems addressed to Whitman; writers on Whitman subjects; and authors of dedications to Poe in books.

Important note: Many changes have been introduced into this edition of the Whitman Classification. A number of items are now to be found in the "wrong" (previous) classification. In general, do not reclass items already in the database. A few items have been reclassed, either to avoid confusion, or for use as examples.

The Scheme

A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P R S T U V W X Y Z

A1 [date]	Collected works (Poetry and prose)

A2 [date]	Collected poems;. includes all editions of Leaves of grass

A2 A-Z	Criticism of editions of collected poems, including Leaves of grass. Do not use this number, unless an edition or copy of the work already exists at this number, use Z6 instead

A3 [date]	Collected prose; includes major collections, which need not be complete

A4 [date]	Selected works; Minor works; Anthologies; Extracts; Fragments; Quotations; Advertisements containing selections. For miscellaneous writings about Whitman, see WW Z3

A5 [date]	Translations (Collections). Arranged by language, e.g. WW A5F 1932 for a translation into French. Do not class here translations accompanied by text in the original language; class those in WW A1-WW A4. Ignore earlier practice to the contrary

Ab-Wz	Individual titles, both poetry and prose. Arranged by title (A-W). The titles are arranged letter by letter, not word by word. Includes references to titles of questionable authorship classed in WW X. Note that some titles in this category are still classed here as if Whitman were the author

Ab81	Abraham Lincoln (prose, from November boughs; first line: Glad am I to give)
Ab813	Abraham Lincoln, born Feb. 12, 1809 (verse)
Af93	After all, not to create only (book)
	After all, not to create only (first line of poem), use So58, Song of the exposition
Af95	After the sea-ship [formerly Af25]
	American Institute poem, use So58, Song of the exposition
Am56	American primer
As25	As a strong bird on pinions free
As42	As consequent, etc.
As55	Ashes of soldiers
As85	As the time draws nigh
	Auf der Brooklyn Fähre (translated selections from Leaves of grass), use A5
	Autobiographia, or, The story of a life, use A4

Be14	Beat! Beat! Drums
	Best of Whitman, use A4
	Blue book, use A2
	Book of heavenly death, use A4
Bo85	Boston ballad (all versions)
Br62	Broadway (all versions)
Br72	Broadway pageant
Br77	Brooklyniana (individual titles only); for full set of articles, use Ne48, New York
By36	By blue Ontario's shore

Ca31	Calamus
	Canção da estrada larga, use So59, Song of the open road
	Canti scelti, use A5
	Canto a mí mismo, use So57, Song of myself
	Cantos, use A5
	Carol of harvest, for 1867, see Re85, Return of the heroes
	Child's reminiscence, use A4
	Choix des textes et traduction, use A4
Ch87	Christmas greeting
Ci91	City of orgies (poem)
	City of orgies & other poems, use A2
Ci92	City of ships
	Cinq petits poèmes, use A5
Ci95	Civil War (book)
CL43	Clear midnight
Co49	Collect
Co55	Come up from the fields father
Co59	Criticism
Cr95	Crossing Brooklyn ferry
Cu88	Custer's last rally

Da43	Dalliance of the eagles
Da73	Darest thou now O soul
	Daybooks and notebooks, use Z5 A24; do not continue to use A3
	Dead Carlyle, use De124, Death of Carlyle
	Death carol, use Wh49, When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd
De12	Death of Abraham Lincoln
De124	Death of Carlyle
	Death of Lincoln, use De12, Death of Abraham Lincoln
De13	Death of Longfellow
De14	Death of the nature-lover
	Death of Thomas Carlyle, use De124, Death of Carlyle
De42	Delightful sites
De54	Democratic vistas
	Demokratische Ausblicke, use De54, Democraticm vistas
Di107	Dialogue [formerly Dia112]
Di11	Diary in Canada
	Días ejemplares de América, use Sp36, Specimen days
	Digte, use A5
	Dix-huitième présidence, use Ei24, Eighteenth presidency!
	Dormeurs, use SL48, Sleepers
Dr93	Drum-taps
	Drum-taps, Sequel to, use Se64, Sequel to Drum-taps

Ea17	Each has his grief
	Early poems and the fiction, use A4
Ed53	Edgar Poe's significance
Ei24	Eighteenth presidency!
Er48	Eris : a spirit record
	Essential Whitman, use A4
Eu78	Europe, the 72d and 73d years of these states
Ex23	Excelsior

Fa54	Fancies at Navesink
	Feuilles d'herbe, use A5
Fi81	Five thousand poems (early description of the Harris Collection!)
FL72	Flight of the eagle
	Foglie di erba, use A5
Fo59	Font of type
Fr14	Fragments (I too am drawn)
	Fragments from Walt Whitman (book), use A2
Fr21	Franklin Evans
Fr74	From far Dakota's cañons (June 25, 1876)
Fr75	From noon to starry night
Fr76	From Paumanok starting I fly like a bird
	Fuldkomme dage, use Sp36, Specimen days
	Fulles d'herba, use A5

	Gathering of the forces (prose), use A3
	Gems from Walt Whitman, use A4
	Gesang von der offenen Landstrasse, use So59, Song of the open road
	Gesänge und Inschriften, use A5
Gi94	Give me the splendid silent sun
Go59	Good-bye, my fancy (use for the book and the two poems with this title)
	Grashalme[n], use A5

	Half-breed and other stories, use A4
	Hojas de hierba, use A5
Hu21	Hudson River sights
	Huntting manuscript, use Re19, Record book of the Smithtown Debating Society
Hu85	Hush'd be the camps to-day (poem on Lincoln)
	Hymn on the death of Lincoln, use Wh49, When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd
	Hymnen für die Erde, use A5

	Ich singe das Leben, use A5 [note alphabetical order]
Ih43	I hear America singing (poem)
	I hear the people singing (book), use A4
In96	In Western Texas
Is81	I sing the body electric
Is82	I sit and look out (poem)
	I sit and look out : editorials from the Brooklyn daily times (book), use A3
	I too am drawn, use Fr14, Fragments
	Izbrannoe, use A5
	Iz mirovoi poezii (includes Whitman poems in Russian), use A5R [date]
	Iz novije engleske lirike (includes Whitman poems in Serbo-Croat), use A5Se [date]

	Keys to Whitman, use A4

La97	Lafayette in Brooklyn [would be better classed at La25]
	Leaves of grass, use A2
	Leaves of grass. Preface to the 1855 edition, use A2 1855p
Le19	Lecture before Brooklyn Art Union
Le85	Letters from a travelling bachelor
	Lilacs, use Wh49, When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd
	Lines on Duluth, use X Li42
	List'ia travy ; prosa, use A5
	Little book of nature thoughts, use A4
	Love of Eris : a spirit record, use Er48, Eris : a spirit record

Ma61	Mannahatta (I was asking for something specific)
Ma613	Mannahatta (My city's fit and noble name resumed)
Me54	Memoranda during the war
Me56	Memories of President Lincoln; see also individual titles of the four poems grouped under this title: Wh49, When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd; Oc25, O Captain! My Captain!; Hu85, Hush'd be the camps to-day; and Th67, This dust was once the man
	Memories of President Lincoln and other lyrics of the war, use A4
Mi19	Midnight visitor
Mi56	Miracles
My93	Mystic trumpeter

Ne48	New York (the Brooklyniana articles)
	New York dissected, use A4
No39	Noiseless patient spider
	Notebooks and unpublished prose manuscripts (title of book), use A3; for similar works consider also A24 or A25-29
	Notes and fragments (book), use A4
	Novellen, use A5
No96	November boughs
No97	Now precedent songs, farewell

Oc25	O Captain! My Captain; see also Me56
	Obras escogidas, use A5
	Ode à la France, use Os79, O star of France
Od27	Ode, to be sung on Fort Greene, 4th of July, 1846
	Oeuvres choisies, use A5
	One wicked impulse!, use Re93, Revenge and requital
On96	On the beach at night
On97	On the beach at night alone
	Open road, use So59, Song of the open road
	Opere alese, use A5
Os79	O star of France
Ou89	Out of the cradle endlessly rocking
Ov46	Over the carnage rose prophetic a voice (book)
Ov47	Over the carnage rose prophetic a voice (poem)
	Overhead the sun : lines from Walt Whitman, use A4
Ox83	Ox-tamer

	Pages de journal, use A5
	Panseurs de plaies, use Wo93, Wound dresser (letters)
Pa84	Passage to India
	Patriotic poems of Walt Whitman, use A4
Pa88	Patroling Barnegat
Pa92	Paumanok
Pa93	Paumanok picture
	Pearls from Walt Whitman, use A4
Pe44	People and John Quincy Adams
	Perspectivas democráticas, use De54, Democratic vistas
Pi17	Pictures
Pi64	Pioneers! O pioneers!
	Poemas, use A5
	Poet and the president, use Me56, Memories of Abraham Lincoln
	Portable Walt Whitman, use A4
	Preface to the 1855 edition of Leaves of grass, use A2 1855
	Prosaschriften, use A5
	Prose nature notes, use A4
Pr85	Proudly the flood comes in

Re18	Reconciliation
Re19	Record book of the Smithtown Debating Society; see also Z5 M724
Re21	Red Jacket
Re85	Return of the heroes
Re93	Revenge and requital [formerly Rev93]
Ri78	Rise, lurid stars
	Rivulets of prose, use A4
	Rolling earth, use A4
	Ruohonlehtiä, use A5

	Saludo al mundo, use Sa47, Salut au monde
Sa47	Salut au monde
	Sangen om meg selv, use So57, Song of myself
	Sangen om mig selv, use So57, Song of myself
	Sea drift, use A4
Se64	Sequel to Drum-taps
	Six poèmes de Walt Whitman, use A5
SL48	Sleepers
So12	Sobbing of the bells
So55	Song for occupations
	Song of a thousand years, use X So56
So57	Song of myself
So575	Song of the broad-axe
So58	Song of the exposition (After all not to create only)
So59	Song of the open road
So592	Song of the redwood-tree
So594	Song of the rolling road
So595	Song of the universal
	Songs of democracy, use A4
	Sons of Long Island, use Od27, Ode, to be sung on Fort Greene, 4th of July, 1846
So93	Sounds of the winter
Sp36	Specimen days; Specimen days, &, Collect; Specimen days in America;
	Specimen days, Democratic vistas, and other prose [ISBN punctuation omitted from titles for clarity]
	Spectacles sur un fleuve, use Hu21, Hudson River sights
Sp66	Spirit that form'd this scene
Sp67	Spirit whose work is done
St19	Starting from Paumanok
	Stébla trávy, use A5
	Strån av gräs, use A5
Su16	Success

	Tagebuch ..., use Z5 A3
Te12	Tear down and build over again
Te56	Tenderest lover : the erotic poetry of Walt Whitman
Th39	There was a child went forth
Th67	This dust was once the man
	Those who have failed, see So594, Song of the rolling earth
Th83	Thou Mother with thy equal brood
Th84	Thoughts under an oak, a dream
	Thrène pour le président Lincoln, use Wh49, When lilacs last ...
Ti76	Tis but ten years since
Ti83	Tis more than sixty years since!
To108	To a foil'd European revolutionaire [note spelling of last word]
To11	To a locomotive in winter
To38	To Him that was crucified
To54	Tomb blossoms [note order of titles]
To59	To one shortly to die
To87	To the man-of-war bird
To88	To the sun-set breeze
	Two prefaces (book), use A4
Tw92	Two rivulets

	Uncollected poetry and prose, use A1

Vi81	Visit to Plumbe's Gallery

	Walt Whitman : an 1855-56 notebook, use Z5 A24; do not continue to use A2
	Walt Whitman and the Civil War, use A4
	Walt Whitman in Camden, use A4
Wa46	Walt Whitman in Denver (draft of proposed interview)
	Walt Whitman looks at the schools, use A4
	Walt Whitman of the New York aurora, use A4
	Walt Whitman, poet of American democracy, use A4
	Walt Whitman's America (book by Whitman), use A4
	Walt Whitman's backward glances, use A4
	Walt Whitman's blue book, use A2
	Walt Whitman's Civil War, use Ci54, Civil War
	Walt Whitman's Diary in Canada, use Di11, Diary in Canada
	Walt Whitman's Drum-taps, use Dr93, Drum-taps
	Walt Whitman, ses meilleures pages, use A5
	Walt Whitman's I hear America singing, use Ih43, I hear America singing
	Walt Whitman's memoranda during the war, see Me54, Memoranda during the war
	Walt Whitman's New York, use Ne48, New York (the Brooklyniana articles)
	Walt Whitman's workshop, use A3
	Wartime Whitman, use A4
	Waves in the vessel's wake, use Af95, After the sea-ship
	We all shall rest at last, see Ea17, Each has his grief
We36	Weave in, my hardy life
Wh36	What best I see in thee
Wh49	When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd [note spelling of "dooryard" and "bloom'd"]
	When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd, and other pieces, see Se64, Sequel to Drum-taps [note spelling of "door-yard" in this title!]
	Whitman interviews himself, use Wa46, Walt Whitman in Denver
	Whitman manuscript from the Albert M. Bender Collection of Mills College, use Af95, After the sea-ship
	Whitman reader, use A4
	Whitman's manuscripts : Leaves of grass (1860), use A2
	Wisdom of Walt Whitman, use A4
Wo92	World below the brine
Wo93	Wound dresser : a series of letters
Wo94	Wound-dresser (poem)
	Wrenching times, see Dr93, Drum-taps
	Wundarzt, use Wo93, Wound dresser (letters)

(WW) Wz Xa-Zz	Individual titles, both poetry and prose. Arranged by title (X-Z). May include references to titles of questionable authorship classed in WW X. Note extra Cutter (Wz) inserted as 2nd line to maintain alphabetization. Each call number reads: WW Wz/[title Cutter]. They all follow hypothetical call number WW Wy99, since numbers precede letters in this scheme

(WW) Wz Yo95	You lingering sparse leaves of me (WW) Wz Zo55 Zollverein between the U.S. and Canada

X-Z	Note: These classes are arranged by main entry unless otherwise indicated

X A-Z	Works of questionable authorship. Collected, selected or individual works attributed to Whitman with little or no justification, also hoaxes. Arranged by main entry/name of editor (if a collection of three or more titles), or by title of the work (where known) or other filing device (if a single title or collection of two titles)

Y A-Z	Musical arrangements of works by Whitman; Poems presented as songs. Arranged by main entry. Do not class musical arrangements of Whitman in class Music

Z1 A-Z	Adaptations (other than musical); Paraphrases; Dramatizations (excluding screen and spoken word recordings); Imitations; Parodies; Sequels

Z14 A-Z	Poems addressed to Whitman. Arranged by name of poet where known, or by title where authorship is unknown or in doubt

Z15 A-Z	Works on iconography of Whitman (general) and portraits of Whitman (artistic aspects); Reproductions of Whitman portraits and illustrations of Whitman subjects without text, or with quotations only. For works on Whitman portraits in relation to biography, consider also Z5. For works containing caricatures or cartoons, consider also Z64

Z17 A-Z	Works on sculptures of Whitman as works of art: Monuments, memorials, statuettes, busts, plaques, medals, etc. For works on Whitman sculpture in its historical context, consider also Z56. When in doubt, prefer Z17

Z18 A-Z	Works on Whitman in the media: Motion pictures, television plays, video and sound recordings, and computer files. Class filmographies and discographies at Z2

Z2 A-Z	Bibliography; Discography; Filmography; Library and other catalogs; Collectors and collecting; Individual copies of Whitman titles. Class other works on Whitman in the media at Z18. For catalogs of museum exhibits, and for books owned by Whitman, consider also Z56. For dedications in books, class in Z7

Z3 A-Z	Periodicals; Whitman-related societies. Class miscellaneous writings about Whitman as well as scrapbooks with biography at Z5

Z4 A-Z	Dictionaries; Indexes; Concordances. Class glossaries of words used by Whitman in Z69. Class collections of quotations from Whitman at A4

Z5 A-Z	Biography (all aspects); Biography and criticism; Sources of biography; Miscellaneous writings about Whitman; Scrapbooks. For works discussing portraits of Whitman, prefer Z15. For relations with other authors, see note under Z55. For minor biography, see Z56-57

Z5 A2 [date]	Autobiography

Z5 A24 [date]	Diaries; Notebooks

Z5 A25-29	Journals; Memoirs; "Memoranda." Arranged by title within the sequence

Z5 A3 [date]	Letters (Collections)

Z5 A315-39	Letters to and from particular individuals. Arranged by correspondent (alphabetically). See Mark Twain example below

Z5 A4-44	Notebooks. Arranged by main entry within the sequence

Z5 A5-Z	General works

Z52 A-Z	Authorship; Manuscripts; Sources of texts. For autographs found in books, etc., consider Z56 or Z7. For textual criticism, use Z68

Z53 A-Z	Publishing and editing; Relations to publishers

Z55 A-Z	Whitman in historical context: Biography of friends and other contemporaries; Biography of writers on Whitman; Whitman and his times. Prefer either Z5 (biography) or Z6 (criticism) for works discussing Whitman's relationships with other literary writers (all periods)

Z56 A-Z	Whitman in local contexts: Local and personal associations, such as birthplace, homes and haunts, landmarks, monuments, museums and relics. Whitman family and ancestry. For works on the artistic aspects of sculptures, particularly when discussed as a group, or when in doubt, prefer Z17. Class exhibitions here, unless the catalog is really a bibliography, in which case class in Z2. For dedications in books, use Z7

Z57 A-Z	Events connected with Whitman, such as anniversaries and centennial celebrations

Z58 A-Z	Fiction, drama, poetry and other literary collections, based in whole or in part on Whitman's life and works

Z59 A-Z	Influence of Whitman (all forms)

Z6 A-Z	Criticism and interpretation; Philosophy; Political and social views; Study and teaching of Whitman. For relations with other authors, see note under Z55

Z64 A-Z	Wit and humor. Consider also Z15 when caricatures or cartoons are present

Z68 A-Z	Textual criticism; Commentaries; Emendations

Z69 A-Z	Language; Grammar; Style. Class here glossaries of words used by Whitman, rather than with the more comprehensive works classed in Z4

Z7 A-Z	Dedications in books by and to Whitman or family members, friends, etc.

Examples

Note: The call numbers found in the following examples do not necessarily represent the numbers actually in use at this time. They represent the numbers that would probably be used if the books were to be classed today. Note that oversize designations are omitted, also indications of specific locations such as Hay Harris Small

WW A3 1963	Prose works 1892. 1963-64
WW A3 1932	I sit and look out : editorials from the Brooklyn daily times

WW A4 1892b	Selected poems / edited by Arthur Stedman
WW A4 1899	Notes and fragments

WW A5Ca 1909	Fulles d'herba. Catalan translation of Leaves of grass
WW A5Y 1934	Finf und zwanzig lider. Yiddish translation of selected poems

WW Fr21 1842	Franklin Evans, or, The inebriate
WW Af95 1939	A Whitman manuscript from the Albert M. Bender Collection of Mills College. Scholar's edition of his After the sea-ship
WW Sp36 1935	Specimen days, Democratic vistas, and other prose. Classed for the first-named title
WW Ex23 W58L	White, Julie. Longfellow's influence on Whitman's "Rise" from Manhattan Island. [199-?]. Critical work on Whitman's poem, "Excelsior"

WW Z15 A412	Acquaroni, J. L. Walt Whitman, mensaje en cuerpo y alma. 1958
WW Z15 B914	Brydon, R. Some wood cuts of men of letters of the 19th century. [1899]

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