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Was Pete the muse for Whitman's most popular Lincoln tribute, the poem, "O Captain! My Captain!"?
While "O Captain!"
Like as not I would go to sleep—lay my head on my hands on the table.
I wish it given to him with my love."
Give my love to dear Mrs. and Mr.
My Captain!": O Builder! My Builder!
My Captain!" several times (see Mad issues for April 1959, September 1967, and March 1983).
The song's narrator claims "I'd give my left lung to be hers for one night" and "she breaks my heart
'Leaves of Grass,' my ass!"
My Robot Friend (2004). Walt Whitman.
His and Lisa Samuels's notion of deformance has shaped my and many others' approaches to tagging and
My co-editor Rachel Price and I recently edited Álvaro Armando Vasseur's 1912 translation of Whitman's
with the famous stepped indentations of "O Captain! My Captain!"
I make my way, / I am stern, acrid, large, undissuadable—but I love you, / I do not hurt you more than
edition of 500," he wrote to his friend William O'Connor, adding that "I could sell that number by my
My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd."
And he found particular significance in the cover: "This is my design—I conceived it."
Body, set to them my name," followed by a blank space where Whitman added his signature in each copy
mouth.—— I My eyes are bloodshot, they look down the river, A steamboat carries off paddles away my woman
beard, and reached till you held my feet."
Oh my free, proud, secure soul, where are you?"
'The moment my eyes fell on him I was content.'"
My only dread is lest my love should blind me, & my heart whisper "Tomorrow" when my reason says "Today
I saw before me, sitting on the counter, a handsome, burly man, heavily built, and not looking, to my
me as more of a man, more of a democratic man, than the tallest of Whitman's roughs; to the eye of my
love had no bounds—all that my natural fastidiousness and cautious reserve kept from others I poured
Whitman might say to him "'od's my life, Saint Thomas, I am Snug the joiner & no lion, in this poem,
I, for my part, am no believer in the sacredness of the marriage ceremony, can imagine a perfect pure
My version of "Live Oak" differs from Parker's version in the Fourth Edition of The Norton Anthology
of American Literature (1994) , and Parker disapproves of my version, my title, and my interpretation
My essay first appeared in American Poetry Review months before The Continuing Presence came out, and
In any case, it's the later essay with my version of "Live Oak" that Parker rails against.
Parker is right in saying that I neglected to defend my choice, clearly a flaw in my essay.
A line like "What think you I take my pen in hand to record?"
dear friends, my lovers.
my thoughts—I do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems.
What is yours is mine, my father . . .
my likeness!
Years ago, when I used to hit a key on my old typewriter, I could follow and even explain the mechanical
Now, when I hit a key on my computer keyboard, my knowledge of the process that makes a letter appear
on my screen is hazy, to say the least, not to mention the process that transfers it to paper.
How this sentence I'm now writing gets preserved on my USB stick and in what form is a mystery to me.
If my rhetoric is, as Freedman suggests, "utopian," my experience in working on the archive is anything
Ken recommended that in preparation for my work I read the chapter of Guidelines for Electronic Text
imagining "gentle" to mean gradual and pleasant, as in "a gentle slope," so I pictured myself easing my
Though I found the "gentle introduction" daunting and more often blunt than gentle, by working my way
My experiences since those first days have only reinforced my initial impressions; as I've worked at
Perhaps a portion of my frustrations (and also insights) are the result of Ken's somewhat fortuitous
I took my M.A. in 1947 and my Ph.D. in 1949, the year after Lucy took hers.
I want to conclude by describing my encounter with someone my wife and I met when we visited Whitman's
body to meet my lover the sea, I will not touch my flesh to the earth as to other flesh to renew me.
I am grateful to my colleague Jerome Loving for calling my attention to this essay by Allen, an early
I thank my friend and former colleague Kenneth Price, who directed this dissertation, for calling my
There is something in my nature furtive like an old hen!
of my real life, Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirection I seek for my own use
I wish to see my benefactor, & have felt much like striking my tasks, & visiting New York to pay my respects
Among the pilots are some of my particular friends—when I see them up in the pilot house on my way to
, and exemplify it," was my candid response.
One of the great pleasures of my time in graduate school was acquiring, piece by piece, the entire 24
for those books—in the years just before the creation of the World Wide Web—gave me a reason to leave my
still had many secondhand bookstores, and sometimes travel to other cities in the hope of completing my
On the boat I had my hands full. One poor fellow died going up."
the hospitals, Whitman dolefully observed: Looking from any eminence and studying the topography in my
"There comes that odious Walt Whitman to talk evil and unbelief to my boys," she wrote in a letter to
"I think I would rather see the evil one himself—at least if he had horns and hoofs—in my ward.
"He took a fancy to my fever boy, and would watch with him sometimes half the night.
My thinking on a set of interrelated issues—what is it we should be editing?
He once said that "arose out of my life in Brooklyn and New York from 1838 to 1853, absorbing a million
Based on my experience with this project, it is a responsibility not quickly or easily met. developed
(I wouldn't be surprised, conversely, if my historian friends regard the as a long footnote on war-time
My own contribution will be an analysis of the Armory Square Hospital Gazette .
more audacious artistic uses of Whitman is the Flash animation " Walt Whitman " by performance artist My
One day in 1995 Charles Green and another graduate student, David Donlon, strolled into my office and
Susan Belasco, my colleague at the University of Nebraska, has made significant strides in presenting
My advice to Whitman scholars would be to hang on to your electronic rights.
This idea also appeals to me because of my academic place , the University of Nebraska.
Even these days, at the lapse of many years, I can never turn their tiny leaves, or even take one in my
See my "Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection: What's in a Name?"
his life, he could still recall the excitement of seeing this first article in print: "How it made my
heart double-beat to see my piece on the pretty white paper, in nice type" ( , 1:287).
to the President in the midst of his cabinet, and Good day my brother, to Sambo, among the hoes of the
lesson complete" ("Who Learns My Lesson Complete"), "Clear the way there Jonathan" ("A Boston Ballad
Commenced putting to press for good, at the job printing office of my friends, the brothers Rome, in
At the time, I was teaching at the College of William & Mary, and one of my graduate students, Charles
In my view, Primary Source Media would have been much better off to use SGML, a recognized international
Iowa cooperated because my co-director, Ed Folsom, edits the journal and controls copyright.
Now he announces: "I am indifferent to my own songs" (l. 44); it is enough that he is to be with the
The five-line poem VI poses the question: "What think you I have taken my pen to record?"
My summary at the outset of this article delineates a coherent, frank, confident, and even ebullient
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman (Boston: Beacon Press, 1985), p. 131.
He is my key—sometimes daily—intellectual consultant for the project.
The project has become central to my scholarly life (in that it has become the most time consuming and
important of my projects).
texts are becoming fundamentally or solely "literary-encoders" and "literary-librarians," then, despite my
He once said that "arose out of my life in Brooklyn and New York from 1838 to 1853, absorbing a million
ultimately is folded into the or remains a separate, stand-alone collection, it certainly grew out of my
After the publication of the 1881-1882 , Whitman remarked, "All this is not only my obligation to Henry
It should be noted that my view of differs here from that of some commentators.
Whitman in the early 1990s, and it took more than ten years and at least a thousand dollars to complete my
I have sometimes used the while working on scholarly essays when I am away from my home institution.
You know my motto: "Better than to stand to sit, better than to sit to lie, Better than to dream to sleep
Whitman said to one of his early German translators: "It has not been for my country alone—ambitious
The final aim of the United States of America is the solidarity of the world One purpose of my chants
Most of my graduate students are still surprised to find Whitman wrote a novel and published fiction