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appreciate the natural Man and freeing me from much [sic] theological or conventional preconceptions due to my
Sin ceased to dominate my view of life..." (qtd. in Hancock 48).
After the Supper and Talk" can be compared to two other farewell poems, "Good-Bye my Fancy!
what he had recently described in "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads" as his program to "exploit [my
The dominant themes in the two annexes, "Sands and Seventy" and Good-Bye my Fancy," as well as in "Old
Speaking to Horace Traubel about their subject matter, Whitman said, "Of my personal ailments, of sickness
This questioning mood may be found in "Queries to my Seventieth Year," published about a month before
Still the lingering sparse leaves are, he says, "my soul-dearest leaves confirming all the rest, / The
"If I worship one thing more than another," he proclaims, "it shall be the spread of my own body" ("Song
"Whitman's Image of Voice: To the Tally of my Soul." Walt Whitman. Modern Critical Views. Ed.
bodies and bodies" line the decks; the masts and spars are spotted with "dabs of flesh"; beside the captain's
letters to Brown say the sight of Brown's face was "welcomer than all," and he refers to Brown as "my
But a later letter to Rossetti recanted this position: "I cannot and will not consent, of my own volition
, to countenance an expurgated edition of my pieces" (Whitman 942).
in 1882: "But first I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my
heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.
visit was an important acknowledgment of his work, Whitman in turn publicly acknowledged Longfellow in "My
Lowell was his bitterest enemy: "'Lowell never even tolerated me as a man: he not only objected to my
at this benefit Lowell is said to have exclaimed, "This has been one of the most impressive hours of my
They were also nearly exact contemporaries, and Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!"
Born in Hingham, Massachusetts, Stoddard was raised in poverty after his sea-captain father was lost
named for himself" (2:41), and most strongly praises one of Whitman's most conventional lyrics, "O Captain
My Captain!" Stoddard's published criticism of Whitman widened the gap between the two.
It is a joy and a pride to my heart to know that this feeling is truly returned" (qtd. in Evans 115).
Andrew appears in an early Whitman prose work, "My Boys and Girls," published in The Rover (20 April
She is an unnamed fourteen-year-old in his story "My Boys and Girls" (1844) and is presented as the sweet
man who tenderly nursed the wounded Union soldiers and as tenderly sung the dirge of their great captain
declaring that Sawyer had his love "in life and death forever" and assuring the young soldier that "my
[S]he possessed herself of my body and soul" (Traubel 500).
In turn, Twain noted, "If I've become a Whitmanite I'm sorry—I never read 40 lines of him in my life"
WalterGraffinHarris, Frank (1856–1931)Harris, Frank (1856–1931) Best known for his unreliable autobiography My
In My Life and Loves, he tells of hearing Whitman's 1877 Philadelphia lecture on Paine and being greatly
My Life and Loves. 1922. Ed. John F. Gallagher. New York: Grove, 1963. Pullar, Philippa.
"Millet is my painter," Whitman said; "he belongs to me: I have written Walt Whitman all over him" (With
Townsend Trowbridge left a deft and important portrait of their relationship in his autobiography, My
In My Own Story Trowbridge relates how he first came across excerpts of Leaves of Grass while staying
accepted me on general principles and has never so far as I know revised his original declaration in my
little scholarship exists which examines Whitman's influence on Trowbridge but surely poems such as "My
My Own Story. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. ———. The Poetical Works of John Townsend Trowbridge.
Stephen A.CooperWilliams, Captain JohnWilliams, Captain John Captain John Williams, great-grandfather
/ List to the yarn, as my grandmother's father the sailor told it to me" (section 35).Bibliography Allen
Williams, Captain John
Whitman's poems, "O Captain! My Captain!"
Whitman eventually added four poems: "O Captain! My Captain!
"O Captain!"
The Lincoln poems, particularly "O Captain!
"Damn My Captain," he said, "I'm almost sorry I ever wrote the poem" (With Walt Whitman 2:304).
My Bondage and My Freedom. 1855. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1987. ———.
In his 1936 autobiography, Masters wrote, "What had enthralled me with Whitman from my days with Anne
and literary critic with whom she had just initiated a crucial correspondence, "that being foreign to my
connection with Whitman, both formally ("Let me join you again this morning, Walt Whitman, . . . even now my
On the minus side, however, Pound long felt that Whitman, although he was "to my fatherland . . . what
In his Memoirs, Neruda wrote of his own work, "If my poetry has any meaning at all, it is [its] tendency
Another poet of this same hemisphere helped me along this road, Walt Whitman, my comrade from Manhattan
Nixonicide and Praise for the Chilean Revolution) with the following invocation:It is as an act of love for my
connections between literature and psychology, as do his two biographies: Melville (1975) and Salem Is My
My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years. Ed. Richard Ellmann. New York: Viking, 1958.
Ferry" in her novel Alexander's Bridge (1912), to Whitman's doctrine of the "open road" in her novel My
"The Doctrine of the Open Road in My Ántonia." Approaches to Teaching Cather's "My Ántonia." Ed.
"My Discovery and Exploration of the Whitman Continent (1941–1991)."
Sheree L.Gilbert"As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado" (1865–1866)"As I Lay with My Head in Your
Lap Camerado" (1865–1866)"As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado" first appeared in Whitman's separately
"As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado" (1865–1866)
Whitman's own experiences during this visit to the front.The soldier's epitaph—"Bold, cautious, true, and my
The latent meaning submerged within "my loving comrade" as the antithesis of "true," in other words,
"My book and the war are one," Whitman would assert in "To Thee Old Cause" (1871); in "Toilsome" that
the ashes of the soldiers, whose dearness to him is signified by the repetition of the possessive "my
On 6 August 1889 O'Dowd commenced a letter to Whitman, addressed as "My Reverend Master," which he never
For America, autumn implies harvest, bounty, and growth; for Whitman, a time when "my soul is rapt and
originally appeared in the first edition of Leaves (1855): "There Was a Child Went Forth" and "Who Learns My
put the entire essay together from segments of four previously published essays—"A Backward Glance on My
Own Road," "How 'Leaves of Grass' Was Made," "How I Made a Book," and "My Book and I"—"A Backward Glance
the essay, his approach: "I round and finish little, if anything; and could not, consistently with my
GuiyouHuang"Beginning My Studies" (1865)"Beginning My Studies" (1865)This poem first appeared in the
declaration not to become a systematic or aggressive student of philosophy.In theme and tone "Beginning My
"Beginning My Studies" (1865)
Testament Christ; he sees himself "[w]alking the old hills of Judæa with the beautiful gentle God by my
shown, Whitman's language echoes that of biblical writing: creeds and petitions ("I believe in you my
to the Bible can best be summed up in his own expectation of the disciple he seeks: "He most honors my
stuffed canary which in life had brought him much pleasure and which he made the subject of a poem, "My
WALT 1819–1919DEDICATED TO THE DEMOCRATIC IDEALS OFWALT WHITMANBYHORACE TRAUBEL AND FLORA MACDONALD"MY
Early in 1889, Whitman listed Byron and his poetry among those poets and works referred to as "my daily
from Long Island to a house on Front Street, a waterfront area where, as the poet put it in Good-Bye My
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. Boston: Beacon, 1985.Dougherty, James.
Do you think my getting my shirts made so cheaply, or my buying clothes at a low price, has anything
In the 1860 edition he boasts that he will "take for my love some prostitute" ("Enfans d'Adam" number
" poem, which acquired its present title in 1867, was originally called by its first line, "City of my
newspapers but later gathered into Specimen Days & Collect (1882), November Boughs (1888), and Good-Bye My
in the two volumes are Specimen Days & Collect, November Boughs, and the prose portions of Good-Bye My