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White, William (1910–1995)

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
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Donald D.KummingsWhite, William (1910–1995)White, William (1910–1995)From the 1950s to the 1990s, William

White was a strong presence in literary studies in general and in Whitman studies in particular.

Housman, Sir William Osler, Ernest Hemingway, and Nathanael West.

"William White, 1910–1995." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 12 (1995): 205–208.

White, William (1910–1995)

Smith, Logan Pearsall (1865–1946)

  • Creator(s): Davey, Christina
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Smith devoted a chapter of Unforgotten Years to his remembrances of Whitman; however, William White has

version of the Smiths' arrangements for this visit differs from accounts found in sources cited by White

White, William. "Logan Pearsall Smith on Walt Whitman: A Correction and Some Unpublished Letters."

Periodicals Devoted to Whitman

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

White also oversaw the production of several special issues and publications, including Walt Whitman

1982 Wayne State University Press abruptly withdrew its support of the Review, and White and Feinberg

White until it was discontinued after the 1985 issue.

In Japan, William L.

New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 1992.White, William.

"Death in the School-Room (a Fact)" (1841)

  • Creator(s): McGuire, Patrick
Text:

For publication information see William White and G.R. Thompson; see also Thomas L.

Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America 67 (1973): 64–65.White, William.

Hartshorne, William (1775–1859)

  • Creator(s): Gibson, Brent L.
Text:

Brent L.GibsonHartshorne, William (1775–1859)Hartshorne, William (1775–1859) William Hartshorne grew

White, William. "A Tribute to William Hartshorne: Unrecorded Whitman."

Hartshorne, William (1775–1859)

Leggett, William L. (1801–1839)

  • Creator(s): Widmer, Ted
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TedWidmerLeggett, William L. (1801–1839)Leggett, William L. (1801–1839) William Leggett, poet and journalist

"William Leggett." United States Magazine and Democratic Review 6 (1839): 17–28. Leggett, William.

A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett. Ed. Theodore Sedgwick, Jr.

White. Indianapolis: Liberty, 1984. Meyers, Marvin.

Leggett, William L. (1801–1839)

Racial Attitudes

  • Creator(s): Hutchinson, George and David Drews
Text:

DrewsHutchinsonRacial AttitudesRacial AttitudesWhitman has commonly been perceived as one of the few white

truth is that Whitman in person largely, though confusedly and idiosyncratically, internalized typical white

nationalist terms, opposing "the great cause of American White Work and Working people" to "the Black

Elsewhere he refers to slave labor as a "black tide" threatening white workingmen.

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor. College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1978. 

Daybooks and Notebooks (1978)

  • Creator(s): Renner, Dennis K.
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also managed the promotion of his own poetry during the same period, kept similar records, which William

New York University volumes, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and edited by William

White, whose notes identify most individuals mentioned in the daybooks, placed primary materials within

Études Anglaises 32 (1979): 106.Charvat, William.

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978.Zweig, Paul.

'There Was a Child Went Forth' [1855]

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
Text:

observes a colorful array of plant and animal life, including the grass, "early lilacs," the ovoid "white

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Vol. 6. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982. 

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1980.

Collected Writings of Walt Whitman, The (1961–1984)

  • Creator(s): Graham, Rosemary
Text:

White, consists of three volumes.

The third volume edited by White contains the complete text of a diary Whitman kept during a trip to

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White, consists of three volumes.

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978.____. The Early Poems and the Fiction. Ed.

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

Parodies

  • Creator(s): Andriano, Joseph
Text:

Intermediate Geography" (Falk 138).Some parodies were downright mean-spirited, like Richard Grant White's

But mainly White views Whitman as a drunken, disreputable boaster reveling in physical corruption—"Of

White especially takes umbrage at Whitman's vision "Of the beauty of flat-nosed, pock-marked" Africans

White's, is Helen Gray Cone's verse dialogue, "Narcissus in Camden: A Classical Dialogue of the Year

New York: Scribner's, 1922.Zaranka, William, ed. The Brand-X Anthology of Poetry.

Swinton, John (1829–1901)

  • Creator(s): Yannella, Donald
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Born in Scotland, as was his brother William, he resided there until the family's migration to Canada

"Whitman and William Swinton." American Literature 30 (1959): 425–449. Hyman, Martin D.

White, William. "Whitman and John Swinton: Some Unpublished Correspondence."

Long Island Patriot

  • Creator(s): Karbiener, Karen
Text:

charisma and powerful position, Whitman was more deeply impressed by the Patriot's foreman printer, William

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980.White, William.

"A Tribute to William Hartshorne: Unrecorded Whitman."

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837–1909)

  • Creator(s): Kozlowski, Alan E.
Text:

His William Blake (1868) includes a favorable comparison of Blake and Whitman, noting their identical

Noting that they both have flaws, Swinburne calls William Blake's work more profound but finds Whitman's

Published in 1887, "Whitmania" is a far cry from the admiration expressed in William Blake.

London: White, 1872. ———. "Whitmania." Fortnightly Review ns 42 (1887): 170–176.

William Blake: A Critical Essay. London: Hotten, 1868. Rpt. in Walt Whitman: The Critical Heritage.

Africa, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
Text:

Asselineau, Roger, and William White, eds. Walt Whitman in Europe Today.

William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1976. 27. Senhor, Léopold Sédar.

Roger Asselineau and William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1972. 33. Smuts, Jan Christian.

Leaves of Grass, Variorum Edition

  • Creator(s): Golden, Arthur
Text:

After a number of delays, William White and Arthur Golden were brought in to complete the textual variorum

New York: Putnam, 1902. 83–255.White, William. "Editions of Leaves of Grass: How Many?"

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

Columbus, Christopher (ca. 1451–1506)

  • Creator(s): Stuckey-French, Ned C.
Text:

Boston: Little, Brown, 1942.Shurr, William H.

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.

Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [1984]

  • Creator(s): Andriano, Joseph
Text:

comprises all of Whitman's notebooks and unpublished prose manuscripts except those published in William

White's Daybooks and Notebooks (1978).

it is of limited interest and value (e.g., Whitman's factual notes on geography in volume 5); even William

White questioned whether lists of melons and other meaningless or only partially legible fragments should

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978. ____.

"I Hear America Singing" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Mignon, Charles W.
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Introduction.

Bradley, Blodgett, Golden, and White. Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1980. xv–xxv.Duncan, Isadora.

Washington, D.C. [1863–1873]

  • Creator(s): Murray, Martin G.
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comrades" ("These I Singing in Spring") formed loving friendships with Charles Eldridge, Lewy Brown, William

influence of his friends in the Attorney General's office in the Treasury building, adjacent to the White

He relied on his married friends, William and Ellen O'Connor, and John and Ursula Burroughs, to provide

William O'Connor's advocacy of Negro suffrage and Whitman's indifference bordering on hostility was the

William Douglas O'Connor: Walt Whitman's Chosen Knight.

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 14 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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within him by Wordsworth's "Excursion," on the first appearance of that poem in 1814, and by the "White

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) published The Excursion in 1814, a collection of philosophical monologues

"White Doe of Rylston" was a long narrative poem published in 1815.

Annotations Text:

"White Doe of Rylston" was a long narrative poem published in 1815.; The Edinburgh Review, an influential

Associations, Clubs, Fellowships, Foundations, and Societies

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
Text:

William A.PannapackerAssociations, Clubs, Fellowships, Foundations, and SocietiesAssociations, Clubs,

Whitman's American admirers—William D.

Johnston, John, and James William Wallace.

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.

White, William.

Painters and Painting

  • Creator(s): Bohan, Ruth L.
Text:

larger and more established American Art Union, whose president in the mid-1840s was Whitman's friend, William

A black and white print of Eakins's gripping Gross Clinic, given him by the painter, graced Whitman's

completion of the portrait and painted portraits of several Whitman associates, including Talcott Williams

Two of Eakins's associates, sculptors William R.

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982.Whitman, Walt.

Sculptors and Sculpture

  • Creator(s): Bohan, Ruth L.
Text:

Whitman much preferred Morse's bust to the painted portraits of either John White Alexander or Herbert

In the last year of Whitman's life Samuel Murray and William R.

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Vol. 6. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982.Whitman, Walt.

Boker, George Henry (1823–1890)

  • Creator(s): Gould, Mitch
Text:

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982.

"Mannahatta [I was asking...]" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Lulloff, William G.
Text:

William G.Lulloff"Mannahatta [I was asking...]" (1860)"Mannahatta [I was asking...]" (1860)Walt Whitman's

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Vol. 6. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982.Whitman, Walt.

"To the Sun-Set Breeze" (1890)

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
Text:

Correspondent Breeze," by Dwight Kalita, who connects it to the poems of other romantic poets, notably William

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980.

Bibliographies

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
Text:

White's "Whitman in the Eighties: A Bibliographical Essay" (1985); Donald D.

William Peterfield Trent et al. Vol. 3. New York: Putnam, 1918. 551–581.[Kebabian, Paul, et al.].

New York: New York Public Library, 1953.Kennedy, William Sloane.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922.White, William. "Walt Whitman: A Bibliographical Checklist."

Chesley Mathews, 445–451.White, William. "Whitman in the Eighties: A Bibliographical Essay."

"Faces" (1855)

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
Text:

sometimes enigmatic, lyric is a testimonial to Whitman's faith in mankind and his belief that "red, white

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1980. "Faces" (1855)

"Native Moments" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Klawitter, George
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.

"Thought of Columbus, A" (1892)

  • Creator(s): Stuckey-French, Ned
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.

"Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Klawitter, George
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980. ____.

"As Adam Early in the Morning" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Klawitter, George
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980. ____.

To Walt Whitman, America

  • Date: 2004
  • Creator(s): Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

Swinton's Rambles among Words , means "white man."

Wasn't he a white man?

has it—both white and black, both slave and master.

in American culture is white.

But the trapper is by no means unambiguously white.

Vaughan, Frederick B. [ca. 1837-1893]

  • Creator(s): Shively, Charley
Text:

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Vol. 6. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982. Whitman, Walt.

Smith, Robert Pearsall (1827–1898)

  • Creator(s): Davey, Christina
Text:

William White. Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1978. Smith, Robert Pearsall (1827–1898)

"Beat! Beat! Drums!" (1861)

  • Creator(s): Schwiebert, John E.
Text:

.: Harvard UP, 1987.White, William. "'Beat! Beat! Drums!' The First Version."

"Old Age's Lambent Peaks" (1888)

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980.

"L. of G.'s Purport" (1891)

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
Text:

New York: New York UP, 1986.Moore, William L. "L. of G.'

William White. Supplement to the Walt Whitman Review.

Gilder, Jeannette L. (1849–1916)

  • Creator(s): Roberson, Susan L.
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notes on Ralph Waldo Emerson; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Edgar Allan Poe; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; William

Francis Whiting Halsey. New York: Pott, 1903. Gilder, Jeannette L. (1849–1916)

Long Island Democrat

  • Creator(s): Karbiener, Karen
Text:

University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1973.White, William.

Taylor, Father (Edward Thompson) (1793–1871)

  • Creator(s): Jellicorse, John Lee
Text:

William Ellery Channing, Charles Dickens, Jenny Lind, Harriet Martineau, and countless others chorused

White, 1906. 464. Whitman, Walt. Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. Vol. 2.

"Hand-Mirror, A" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Losey, Jay
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1980.

"Pioneers! O Pioneers!" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Mignon, Charles W.
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980. "Pioneers!

"To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod" (1865–1866)

  • Creator(s): Olson, Steven
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.

"Prayer of Columbus" (1874)

  • Creator(s): Stuckey-French, Ned C.
Text:

Gilded Age, when in 1872 his opposition to black suffrage cost him his important friendship with William

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.

Harned, Thomas Biggs (1851–1921)

  • Creator(s): Mattausch, Dena
Text:

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.

Long Island Star

  • Creator(s): Karbiener, Karen
Text:

University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1973.White, William.

"Osceola" (1890)

  • Creator(s): Sierra-Oliva, Jesus
Text:

Soon, some white raiders kidnapped Osceola's wife.

to add to Leaves of Grass his homage to Osceola, one of their bravest heroes.BibliographyHartley, William

Whigs

  • Creator(s): Hatch, Frederick
Text:

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978. Whigs

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