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Later in the manuscript he writes of "the buckwheat and its white tops and the bees that hum there all
day," and on page 36 of the 1855 Leaves he writes of the "white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and a
—Our conversation, too, was a caution to white folks; it consisted principally, as you may imagine, of
pork; believe L.I. sound and the south bay to be the ne plus ultra of creation; and the "gals" wear white
—Forms that the coffin shrouds in its white linings; voices that once sounded joyous and light, but which
For instance, in a poem titled "The Ideal," by William H.C.
Levine, "William Shakespeare in America," Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America
the reference to the “Youth’s guide to Polite Manners” could be related to the 1833 publication of William
Many advice manuals quoted William Scott’s definition of good-breeding from his 1817 publication of Lessons
Levine, "William Shakespeare and the American People: A Study in Cultural Transformation," The American
delightfully variegated with rolls and slight elevations of land: on the highest of these I beheld a white
The ideologial founder of the Loco focos, William Leggett (1801-1839), advocated for free trade, and