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whoexplainedthemysteriesoftheuniverse—because“Themost they offer for mankind and eternity [is] less than a spirt of my
“A sprit of my own seminal wet”: Spermatoid Design in Walt Whitman’s 1860 Leaves of Grass
Whitman’s famous rhymed dirge for Lincoln, “O Captain! My Captain!
my Captain!
My Captain!” An unsigned review in The Inde - pendent in 1865 mused that “O Captain!”
My Captain!,” and “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” 15.
My Captain!
.— (He could say) I know well enough the perpetual myself in my poems—but it is because the universe
Myself": "Looking in at the shop-windows in Broadway the whole forenoon . . . . pressing the flesh of my
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[(Returning to my pages front once]
which was first published in the August 16, 1890 issue of the Critic and later reprinted in Good-Bye My
My situation is rather a pleasant one.
There are many peculiarities in New Orleans that I shall jot down at my leisure in these pages.
My health was most capital; I frequently thought indeed that I felt better than ever before in my life
After changing my boarding house, Jef. and I were, take it altogether, pretty comfortable.
My own pride was touched—and I met their conduct with equal haughtiness on my part.
Bliss Perry, with my kindest regards—Ellen M. Calder. June 24, 1906."
Brown"; in pen (probably Mitchell's hand), "Given to my son Langdon March 1887". Dr.
Emory Holloway / My dear Mr.
Holloway, / You ask for some history of my 'Leaves of Grass' and I find myself rather vague as to my
My father-in-law, Thomas [illeg.]
leafhandwritten; A scrap of Civil War memoranda headed "51st N Y V" in which Whitman mentions the death of Captain
"So my friends tell me, but I never met him." "Don't you think, Mr.
James Gray, Bookbinder 16 Spruce st. 4th floor, is the custodian of the sheets of my Leaves of Grass,
O my body, that gives me identity! O my organs !
Underfoot, the divine soil— Overhead, the sun.— Afford foothold to my poems, you Nourish my poems, Earth
In Poem The earth, that is my model of poems model ?
The body of a man, is my model—I do not reject what I find in my body—I am not ashamed—Why should I be
My Darling (Now I am maternal— a child bearer— bea have from my womb borne a child, and observe it For
It later appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and, as part of the Good-Bye my Fancy annex, in the so-called
Baltimore June 6th 1891 My Dear Walt Whitman Please write your autograph & enclose in the accompanying
envelope I appreciate the many & favors asked of you but desire your autograph so much to add to my
I regret that it is not in my power to comply with your request. Very respectfully, A. J.
Dear Sir: I return with my thanks the letter of the Attorney General to the Postmaster General of the
Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith my accounts as Disbursing Clerk for the Department of Justice
about your dismissal from the Interior Department, and as I once read your book, I am moved to express my
the President coming in and we stept back into the East Room and stood near the front windows, where my
It didn't last more than three or four minutes, but there was something about a letter which my friend
I expect to be in Washington on my way down South in a few days and will take the freedom of giving you
Please don't mention my name in connection with what I write about Harlan.
I am very anxious to hear something of the whereabouts of my Capt I have written several times and as
I suppose that you have nearly forgotten me, but if you will think back you will remember a man by my
And now you will please accept my thanks for all the favors that you have shown me while lying then unable
Made Captain Aug. 1864—got a family in Buffalo" (Manuscripts of Walt Whitman in the Collection of American
State Volunteers where he enrolled as first sergeant of Company F (and was eventually promoted to captain
and other customs of the ancient Egyptians, in whose country I have passed the last twenty years of my
My dear Walt. Your welcome letter was duly received for which accept many thanks.
The tax on my part the last year was quite as much as I received— Well, what we want is to have them
Bayard Taylor says of the masses of China people, "Their touch is pollution—it is my deliberate opinion
About "My Boys and Girls" Whitman's " My Boys and Girls " is a brief sketch that first appeared in The
Because issues of The Rover do not include a publication date, there is some disagreement about when "My
See Whitman's " My Boys and Girls ."
For further discussion of the plot of "My Boys and Girls," see Patrick McGuire, " My Boys and Girls (
"My Boys and Girls" Walter Whitman My Boys and Girls The Rover March or April 1844 3 75 per.00333 Written
Because issues of The Rover do not include a publication date, there is some disagreement about when "My
suggests March or April 1844—between March 27 and April 20, 1844—as the likely date of publication of "My
Boys and Girls" in The Rover.; See Whitman's "My Boys and Girls
"; For further discussion of the plot of "My Boys and Girls," see Patrick McGuire, "My Boys and Girls
Requital," a sentence that seemed to make an explicit statement against capital punishment: "Some of my
his second letter to Hale, Whitman emphasized the success of his earlier fiction pieces, writing, "My
Boanes' nephew, admitting that "the name of the person is burnt in welcome characters of fire upon my
Much like the bachelor narrator of " My Boys and Girls ," closely identified with Whitman himself, the
Also, like "My Boys and Girls," this story too turns to the fleeting nature of youth and childhood and
in London in 1882, albeit in a significantly edited form under the title of "The Tomb Flowers," in My
It being my first efforts at publishing, I would make extraordinary efforts to have an extensive sale
One of my reasons for securing your friendship is my appreciation for you as a man, well knowing your
I shall take the liberty of enclosing a card as soon as my arrangement for location is completed.
Grose's membership in the Surrey regiment earned him the title of captain in 1766, which he adopted as
119 Lower Baggot Street Dublin 14 February 1876 My dear Mr. Whitman, 'Bram Stoker Feb, '76.
My friend Edward Dowden has told me often that you like new acquaintances or I should rather say friends
I wrote the enclosed draft of a letter which I intended to copy out and send to you —it has lain in my
much consolation—and I do believe that your open earnest speech has not been thrown away on me or that my
a hot debate on your genius at the Fortnightly Club in which I had the privilege of putting forward my
I have the shackles on my shoulders still.—but I have no wings.
If you care to know who it is that writes this my name is Abraham Stoker (Junior).
My friends call me Bram. I live at no 43 Harcourt St Dublin.
I am ugly but strong and determined and have a large bump over my eyebrows.
I say it to my own shame but not to my regret for it has taught me a lesson to last my life out—without
editorial decisions, which included editing potentially objectionable content and removing entire poems: "My
Specimen Days (1882), November Boughs (1888), and Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) are important Whitman sources
Whitman often commented upon the genius of Booth and called him "one of the grandest revelations of my
Dear Friend You were so good as to call yourself so, in my book,—that I value more than you guess,—and
The dear little crocuses I picked from my own tiny spot of earth, and sent each one laden with loving
There seemed no prospect of my going. The way seemed hedged.
V. ) in the midst of brick and stone again, in my home in Boston.
I picked them on purpose for you—and here they are—with my love and gratitude.
Of course it has all been better said, but I must have my chance just the same.
My noble and dear friend—Walt Whitman, I have had the pleasure of talking for you, and of you again.
One man—fine—true and scholarly and sincere took my hand and said: "I am converted."
Then—when it came—it was so different from my fancies—but you dear friend, were not disappointing.
Think, oh my soul, devoutly think, How, with affrighted eyes, Thou saw'st the wide-extended deep In all
Yet then from all my griefs, on lord!
Thy mercy set me free; Whilst in the confidence of prayer My soul took hold on thee.
My life, if thou preserv'st my life, Thy sacrifice shall be, And death, if death must be my doom Shall
join my soul to thee.
It would be impardonable not to notice the very beautiful mezzotint of Captain Nathan Hale, the Hero
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).
a makes raises but bubble of the sea-ooze in comparison with against that unspeakable Something in my
—I look back upon that time in my own days.— I have no gibes nor mocks mockings or laughter;—I have only
the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, which was ultimately titled "Song of Myself": "Backward I see in my
by my children? Are to be they really failures? are they sterile, incompetent yieldings after all?
Are they not indeed to be as victorious shouts from my children?
levee in life,— After death Now when I am looked back upon, I will I hold levee, after death, I lean on my
left elbow—I take ten thousand lovers, one after another, by my right hand.— I have all lives, all effects
group of little children, and their ways and chatter, flow in, upon me Like welcome rippling water o'er my
After the dazzle of day is gone, Only the dark, dark night shows to my eyes the stars; After the clangor
of organ majestic, or chorus, or perfect band, Silent, athwart my soul, moves the symphony true.
After the dazzle of Day After the dazzle of day is gone, Only the dark dark night shows to my eyes the
stars; After the clangor of organ majestic, or chorus, or perfect band, Silent, athwart my soul, moves
After the Supper and Talk" can be compared to two other farewell poems, "Good-Bye my Fancy!
excellent companionship made my Kluge tenure one of the most generative times of my creative life.
reader, and my most fiery critic.
to my barestript heart, And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet. 142 Whitman
I had to give up my health for it—my body— the vitality of my physical self. . . . What did I get?
O my soldiers twain! O my veterans, passing to burial! 80 What I have I also give you.
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
Deliriate, thus prelude what is generated, offering these, offering myself, Bathing myself, bathing my
songs in Sex, Offspring of my loins.