The Oxford Handbook Of Walt Whitman Outlines Agendas For The Future Of Whitman Studies. New Discoveries And Massive Transcription Efforts Have Fundamentally Changed Our Appreciation Of The Volume And Literary Ambition Of The Poet's Oeuvre. The Past Few Years Have Seen A New Whitman Novel (jack Engle), A Hitherto Unknown Health Guide For Urban Men, New Poems, And Other Textual Objects By Whitman (letters, Notebooks, Art Criticism, Etc.) Becoming Available. This Collection Not Only Widens The Field Of Discussion But Also Brings These New Texts To Bear On Whitman's Central Poetic Concerns-- Provided By Publisher.