Donald Kummings

Early life and education

Teaching

Books on Walt Whitman

• Walt Whitman, 1940-1975: A Reference Guide
• Approaches to Teaching Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass”
• Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia . In 2010 this book became available online at the Walt Whitman Archive. In 2011 it was reissued under the title The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman
• A Companion to Walt Whitman . In 2007 the book became part of a multi-volume Electronic Resource: Blackwell Reference Online. In 2009 it was reissued in a paperback edition

  Poems

Selected articles and reviews

• “Babette Deutsch,” “Richard Hovey,” and “Edwin Markham.” Encyclopedia of American Literature.” Ed. Steven R. Serafin. New York: Continuum, 1999, pp. 266-267, 540-541, 719-720.
• “Henry Deringer,” “Eliphalet Remington,” and “Oliver Fisher Winchester.” Violence in America: An Encyclopedia. 3 Vols. Ed. Ronald Gottesman. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999, Vol.1 pp. 392-393; Vol. 3, pp. 39, 449.
• “ Poetry.” The Oxford Companion to United States History. Ed. Paul Boyer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 601-603.
• “Literature,” “Twain, Mark,” Whitman, Walt,” Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. 3 Vols. Edited by John D. Buenker and Joseph Buenker. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2005, Vol.1, pp. 134-140; Vol. 3, pp. 972-973, 1022.