Zachary Turpin, a PhD candidate in English at the University of Houston (who made international headlines in April 2016 with his discovery of a previously unknown journalistic series by the poet Walt Whitman entitled “Manly Health and Training”) has made another major find: a long-lost, secret novella, also authored by Whitman, entitled Life and AdventuresContinue reading “Announcing “A Rich Revelation”: Zachary Turpin Discovers Lost Novella by Walt Whitman”
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Co-Editing a Digital Edition of Walt Whitman’s Short Fiction
The Walt Whitman Archive recently published a new digital edition of Whitman’s short fiction. Most people know Whitman as America’s poet and the author of Leaves of Grass, but in the early 1840s, he was a journalist, a newspaper editor, and the author of numerous short stories. Whitman wrote at least twenty-six (and likely more)Continue reading “Co-Editing a Digital Edition of Walt Whitman’s Short Fiction”
The Discovery of “Manly Health and Training”: Walt Whitman’s Long-Lost Guide to Getting the Body You’ve Always Wanted
In the third open-access issue of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (WWQR) Editor Ed Folsom and Managing Editor Stefan Schöberlein publish in full a newly discovered book-length work by the poet Walt Whitman entitled “Manly Health and Training.” Zachary Turpin, a PhD candidate in English at the University of Houston, recently discovered “Manly Health and Training,”Continue reading “The Discovery of “Manly Health and Training”: Walt Whitman’s Long-Lost Guide to Getting the Body You’ve Always Wanted”