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Walt Whitman & the World

  • Date: 1995
  • Creator(s): Allen, Gay Wilson | Folsom, Ed
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Dan Lewis played a major role in the complex job ofgathering and editing the materials for this volume

Hermann Peter Piwit and Peter Rtihmkorf, eds.Literaturmagazins.Das Vergehen von Horen und Sehen.

Bazalgette translated The Wound-Dresser (Le Panseur de Plaies) (1917).

We shall see later the part played by this same spectacle in the growth ofthe poem.

not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.

Walt Whitman, the American Poet

  • Date: May 1876
  • Creator(s): Adams, Robert Dudley
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while admitting that the venerable and heavenly forms of chiming versification have in their time played

caste, joyfully enlarging, adapting itself to comprehend the size of the whole people, with the free play

The passionate, teeming plays this curtain hid!)

Review of Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: November 1856
  • Creator(s): Alger, William Rounseville
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or not he is considered among his friends to be of a sane mind,—whether he is in earnest, or only playing

Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [1984]

  • Creator(s): Andriano, Joseph
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avoid seeing her, or meeting her" (Notebooks 2:889), he had originally written "him," referring to Peter

'Leaves of Grass'—An Extraordinary Book

  • Date: 15 September 1855
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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In his philosophy justice attains its proper dimensions: "I play not a march for victors only: I play

Studies Among the Leaves

  • Date: January 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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ready, The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow- drawn slow-drawn wagon, The clear light plays

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 18 February 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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for his picture would answer equally well for a "Bowery boy," one of the "killers," "Mose" in the play

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 15 March 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Every move of him has the free play of the muscle of one who never knew what it was to feel that he stood

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 22 March 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Philosopher (1762), the poem The Deserted Village (1770), the novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), and the play

Annotations Text:

Philosopher (1762), the poem The Deserted Village (1770), the novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), and the play

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1 April 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 2 June 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Even when his expression torments you, the great, surcharged soul that throbs and plays underneath, looks

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 7 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

William Wycherley (1641-1716) was an English playwright whose plays juxtaposed deep-seated Puritanism

Annotations Text:

William Wycherley (1641-1716) was an English playwright whose plays juxtaposed deep-seated Puritanism

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 14 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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loosed to the eddies of the wind, A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms, The play

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 July 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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The most renowned poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums.

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 26 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Grundy is a character from Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough (1798); by the nineteenth century her

Annotations Text:

Grundy is a character from Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough (1798); by the nineteenth century her

The Poetry of the Future

  • Date: 19 January 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

The term is taken from the play A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718) by Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist

Annotations Text:

The term is taken from the play A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718) by Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: February 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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is a rational animal, and not like the beasts, which have no sense; and all effort on his part to play

All About Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 November 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Look at this sturdy child of Nature playing with his mother: Hanging clothes on a rail near by, keeping

Review of Specimen Days and Collect

  • Date: 27 November 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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dry and flat Sahara appears, these cities, crowded with petty grotesques, malformations, phantoms, playing

Whitman's November Boughs

  • Date: 8 December 1888
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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He has taught, as far as his voice has reached, that literature is something more than a playing with

"Good-Bye, my Fancy!"

  • Date: 5 September 1891
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) was a popular English actress and author of plays, poems, and memoirs concerning

Annotations Text:

.; Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) was a popular English actress and author of plays, poems, and memoirs concerning

Good-Bye My Fancy

  • Date: 12 September 1891
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

and Fanny Kemble in Fazio, "a rapid-running, yet heavy-timber'd, tremendous, wrenching, passionate play

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 9 June 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

prose is verse, and all that is not verse is prose," a line from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670), a play

Annotations Text:

prose is verse, and all that is not verse is prose," a line from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670), a play

Walt Whitman's Works

  • Date: 3 March 1867
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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may be gathered from one or two passage selected as illustrative of different phases of mind:— "I play

not here marches for victors only; I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 8 June 1867
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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muscular build, his antecedents here being a race of farmers and mechanics, silent, good-natured, playing

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 19 February 1876
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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The passionate, teeming plays this curtain hid!)

while admitting that the venerable and heavenly forms of chiming versification have in their time played

caste, joyfully enlarging, adapting itself to comprehend the size of the whole people, with the free play

New Work by Walt. Whitman

  • Date: 11 March 1876
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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while admitting that the venerable and heavenly forms of chiming versification have in their time played

caste, joyfully enlarging, adapting itself to comprehend the size of the whole people, with the free play

The passionate, teeming plays this curtain hid!)

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 13 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

a passage remarkable for its nobility: "With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play

not marches for accepted victors only, I play Marches for conquer'd and slain persons.

Whitman for the Drawing Room

  • Date: April 1886
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Grundy, a term for an extremely conventional or priggish person, refers to a character in the play Speed

This quotation is from a collection of conversations between Goethe and Johann Peter Eckermann.

Annotations Text:

Grundy, a term for an extremely conventional or priggish person, refers to a character in the play Speed

Walt Whitman's Latest Work

  • Date: 9 February 1889
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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, after several more short essays, including "The Bible as Poetry," "What Lurks Behind Shakspere's Plays

new world receives with joy the poems of the antique, with European feudalism's rich fund of epics, plays

Review of Leaves of Grass (1891–92)

  • Date: 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Nature plays "for Seasons, not Eternities," as must "All those whose stake is nothing more than dust;

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1 June 1872
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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arising out of a life of depression and enervation, as their result; or else that class of poetry, plays

Have the old forces played their parts? Are the acts suitable to them closed?"

famously remaked, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play

Annotations Text:

famously remaked, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 14 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Jourdain, in the play of Racine, was surprised to learn from his erudite master in philosophy that for

The character Monsieur Jourdain appears in a play by Molière (1622 - 1673) Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme .

Annotations Text:

.; The character Monsieur Jourdain appears in a play by Molière (1622 - 1673) Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Poems of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 July 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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"That you are here—that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute

The Library

  • Date: March 1889
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Tennyson;" "Slang in America;" "Father Taylor and Oratory;" "What lurks behind Shakespeare's Historical Plays

The Evolution of Walt Whitman: An Expanded Edition

  • Date: 1999
  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
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86 He evidently wanted this play on words.

The passionate teeming plays this curtain hid!).

Letter to Peter Doyle, September 6, I87o, SPL, p. 993· 3x.

See also "The Mystic Trum peter,"Inc. Ed., p. 39I, §6, II.

But in a letter to Peter Doyle June 27, I872 (SPL, pp.

Whitman & Dickinson: A Colloquy

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Athenot, Éric | Miller, Cristanne
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That, like all the rest, plays about the surface,andneverintroducesmeintothereality,forcontactwithwhich

Fromthecinder-strew’dthresholdIfollowtheir movements, Thelithesheer of their waists plays evenwith their

;heis,ofcourse,thesolesubjectoftheconcluding book 4, and, as I have argued elsewhere, his writings play

the nation made him less willing to delegate political action to politicians and more inclined to play

Peter Lang, 2012), 383–92.

The Poetry of the Period

  • Date: October 1869
  • Creator(s): Austin, Alfred
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arising out of a life of depression and enervation as their result; or else that class of poetry, plays

"Orange Buds by Mail from Florida" (1888)

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
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cooped up and paralytic in his Camden, New Jersey, home, Whitman's isolation and winter loneliness play

November Boughs [1888]

  • Creator(s): Barcus, James E., Jr.
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In the historical plays, Shakespeare undermines, perhaps unconsciously, the feudal system.

In English, slang functions like the clowns in Shakespeare's plays.

"Song of Prudence" (1856)

  • Creator(s): Barton, Gay
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Whitman plays with the conventional meaning of the word "prudence" by employing the vocabulary of finance—good

City, Whitman and the

  • Creator(s): Bauerlein, Mark
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He also reviewed plays and opera and occasional ballet presented in New York theater houses.

Ashton, J. Hubley (1836–1907)

  • Creator(s): Bawcom, Amy M.
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In January 1865, in his capacity as Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Ashton played a

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: December 1875
  • Creator(s): Bayne, Peter
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Buchanan, who have praised his performances, appear to me to be playing off on the public a well-intentioned

, arising out of a life of depression and enervation as their result—or else that class of poetry, plays

Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays

  • Date: 2007
  • Creator(s): Belasco, Susan | Folsom, Ed | Price, Kenneth M.
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Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast” (71).

Miller Jr., Colleen Lamos, Wayne Koestenbaum, and John Peter.

See also Peter, “Postscript (1969),” 165–66; and James E.

Peter also discusses canto 26 (“Postscript [1969],” 170).

Bellis, Peter J. “Whitman in 1855: Against Representation.”

Miller, Joaquin (1837–1913)

  • Creator(s): Berkove, Lawrence I.
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He was a minor but colorful poet whose romantic verse, plays, and prose mainly glorified the West.

Transnational Modernity and the Italian Reinvention of Walt Whitman, 1870-1945

  • Date: 2021
  • Creator(s): Bernardini, Caterina
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sponded,infact,toaninitialbreakupofregularItalianmetrics:itallowed a certain degree of freedom, of play

Carducci’s experience, in which Whitman played, as we have seen, a relevantrole,comesparticularlyclosetothatofRussian

had hardly ever been used in Italian poetry before, and it is highly probable that Whitman’s poetry played

of Whitman’sLeavesofGrass(1855), diSanPietro”(“AnEveningofSaint 210;and2017translationof Whitman’s Peter

Psychological Approaches

  • Creator(s): Black, Stephen A.
Text:

Schyberg concluded that Whitman remained identified with his mother throughout his life, and often played

Walt Whitman, Where the Future Becomes Present

  • Date: 2008
  • Creator(s): Blake, David Haven | Robertson, Michael
Text:

Dissolving a national literature in the fluid play of genres,lyricandepicmergehereintoasea-bornetradition

1990),296,280. 5.Walcott’sfascinationwiththeOdysseyisevidentnotonlyinOmerosbutevenmoreclearlyin his play

newgreatmasters”—or,moreprecisely,this call for a call—so much as to situate his poetry within the play

its part and passing on, Another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn, With faces

{ kirsten silva gruesz } “dim” of the bus station; the fierce current of economic opportunity they play

Masters, Edgar Lee (1868?-1950)

  • Creator(s): Britton, Wesley A.
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His initial success was followed by a prolific series of poems, novels, and plays.

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