期刊名称：Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing
电子版ISSN：2167-1257
出版年度：2016
卷号：37
页码：1-35
出版社：University of Nebraska-Lincoln
摘要：Editing the corpus of documents associated with Walt Whitman might be described as a series of compromises or as a quixotic task, depending on whether you are of a practical or a despairing inclination—a challenging e.ort to impose order on a notoriously unruly set of materials. An infamous picture of Whitman at the end of his life captures what appears to be chaos: the elderly poet, in a chair in his house on Mickle Street in Camden, surrounded by the debris of his writing life, a tossed sea of papers that were—loosely at best—organized into piles.
