The Rose-Gardens of the World: Near East Imagery in the Poetry of Walt Whitman

Explores Whitman\u27s relationship to poetry of the Near East, focusing on "two specific areas of Near East studies: the Persian poets, such as Hafiz and Saadi, who were associated with . . . Sufism, and Egyptology"; applies Whitman\u27s knowledge of the Near East (by way of his reading of texts such as Alger\u27s The Poetry of the East, Emerson\u27s "Persian Poetry" and Glidden\u27s Ancient Egypt) to poems including "Salut au Monde!," "Passage to India," and "Song of the Exposition.