EN 240 American Literature: Realism

The American poet Mark Doty, Professor Sarah Churchwell and the young British poet Andrew McMillan join Matthew Sweet for a programme dedicated to one of the classics of American poetry, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.

Emily Dickinson Archive makes high-resolution images of Dickinson’s surviving manuscripts available in open access, and provides readers with a website through which they can view images of manuscripts held in multiple libraries and archives.

The Mark Twain Papers contain the voluminous private papers of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain).

The Morgan Library and Museum offers a video on Whitman and select digitized images from their Whitman collection.

A digital exhibit from the Brooklyn Museum on Whitman and his experiences and influence on Brooklyn, New York.

The Walt Whitman Archive endeavors to make Whitman's vast work freely and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.

C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists is the first academic organization dedicated to nineteenth-century American literary and cultural studies.

In June 1989, members of the major societies devoted to American authors met at the Cal State Symposium on American Literature in San Diego, to discuss ways to provide specialists in American authors with new opportunities for scholarly interaction. The result was the American Literature Association: a coalition of societies devoted to the study of American authors. The major activity of the American Literature Association is its annual conference.

From the library's AVON database, the Voices and Visions documentary series covers the lives of seminal American poets. In this episode, dramatic scenarios and New England landscapes illuminate the passionate genius of Emily Dickinson, whose poems represent a broad range of imaginative experience.

From the library's AVON database, the Voices and Visions documentary series covers the lives of seminal American poets. This biographical overview of Walt Whitman includes brilliant readings of his poems that demonstrate his American vision and style and vividly convey their poignance and sheer power. Whitman's sources, including Emerson, the King James Bible, opera, and political oratory, are revealed.