The Texts and Contexts of "Calamus": Did Whitman Censor Himself in 1860?

Examines the recent controversy over the relationship of the "Live Oak, with Moss" sequence to the \u27Calamus\u27 cluster and argues that, "when paired with contextual evidence, an examination of the manuscripts of the \u27Calamus\u27 poems offers no basis for the charge of self-censorship and defeat" in this sequence of poems