Print Resources:

Adams, Richard P. "Whitman's 'Lilacs' and the Tradition of Pastoral Elegy." PMLA 72 (1957): 479-487.

Blasing, Mutlu Konuk. "Whitman's 'Lilac's and the Grammars of Time." PMLA 97 (1982): 31-39.

Chase, Richard. "An Analysis of 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.' Critical Essays on Walt Whitman. Ed. James Woodress. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1983. 253-257.

Faderman, Lillian, ed. Chloe Plus Olivia. New York: Viking, 1994.

Fone, Byrne R.S., ed.The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.

Giffen, Allison. "That White Substance Despair: Emily Dickinson and the Convention of Loss." The Emily Dickinson Journal 5 (1996): 273-79.

Hinz, Evelyn J. "Whitman's 'Lilacs': The Power of Elegy." Bucknell Review 20 (1972): 35-54.

Kosinski, Dorothy M. Orpheus in Nineteenth-Century Symbolism. Ann Arbor: UMI Press, 1989.

Loving, Jerome. Emily Dicksinson: The Poet on the Second Story. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

McElroy, Harmon. The Sacrificial Years: A Chronicle of Walt Whitman's Experience in the Civil War. Boston: David R. Godine, 1999.

Moon, Michael. Disseminating Whitman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Petrino, Elizabeth A. 'Feet So Precious Charged': Dickinson, Sigourney, and the Child Elegy." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 13 (1994): 317-38.

Price, Kenneth M. Whitman and Tradition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

Reilly, John M. "'Threnody' and the Traditional Funeral Elegy." ESQ 47 (1967): 17-19.

Reynolds, David. Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography . New York: Knop, 1995.

St. Armand, Barton Levi. Emily Dickinson and Her Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Smith, Martha Nell. Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992.

Sudol, Ronald A. "Elegy and Immortality: Emily Dickinson's 'Lay this Laurel on the One.'" ESQ 26 (1980): 10-15.

Summers, Claude J.,ed. The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage. New York: Holt, 1995.

Wolosky, Shira. Emily Dickinson: A Voice of War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.

Zeiger, Melissa. Beyond Consolation: Death, Sexuality, and the Changing Shapes of Elegy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.

Electronic Resources

The American Civil War Homepage

Civil War Battle Summaries by State

Civil War Photographs Home Page—Library of Congress

Civil War Women

An Introduction to Walt Whitman’s Civil War Years

Lincoln/Net

Making of America

Time Line of the Civil War