Commentaries

• Calamus from Leaves of Grass:
  Comprehensive Reader's Edition
  by Harold Blodgett and Sculley Bradley
• "Calamus": The Leaf and the Root from A Critical Guide to Leaves of Grass by James E. Miller, Jr.
• Calamus and Enfans d'Adam
  from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass--A Parallel Text
  by Fredson Bowers
• Link to J.A. Symonds' denouncement of the "Calamus" poems.
• Link to Whitman's angry August 19, 1890 letter to J.A. Symonds denouncing Symonds' interpretation of the "Calamus" poems.