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A Wild Poet of the Woods

  • Date: February 1861
  • Creator(s): Hollingshead, John
Text:

Land of the spinal river, the Mississippi! Land of the Alle- ghanies Alleghanies ! Ohio's land!

Whitman's New Book

  • Date: 15 October 1882
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Sylvester Baxter
Text:

spent in the open air down in the country in the woods and fields, and by a secluded little New Jersey river

Starr'd Nights…Mulleins…A Sun-Bath—Nakedness…Human and Heroic New York…Hours for the Soul…Delaware River—Days

Whitman's Complete Works

  • Date: 3 January 1889
  • Creator(s): Baxter, Sylvester
Text:

Whitman passing his last years across the river from the great Quaker City, always using the quaint Quaker

Whitman’s Drift

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Cohen, Matt
Text:

literati, and preachers famousandobscure,asteadystreamofvisitorsfromallovertohissmallhouse across the river

John Newton married young, and moved across the river to a 160-acre plantation.

, and re- turned to a war-torn county whose seat, Guntersville, had been burned to the ground in a river

He died young, drowned in the Oktahutche River (about which he had written many a poetic verse), some

name as “meeting place by the rapid water.” http://www.tourismsarnialambton.com/communities/st-clair-river

Whitman: The Correspondence, Volume VII

  • Date: 2004
  • Creator(s): Genoways, Ted
Text:

as far ahead of “the fat gentleman in striped trousers,” as a Baltimore clipper does beyond a North River

wereneverpublishedinnewspapersormagazines;however,they appear in Specimen Days from sections “Swallows on the River

Who knows but that element, like the course of some subterranean river, dipping invisibly for a hundred

often–Mrs O’C (I fear by accounts) is left with very little financially–spent an hour down by the Delaware river

sells his own books to purchasers, and gets outdoors in good weather, propelled down to the Delaware River

The Whitman Revolution: Sex, Poetry, and Politics

  • Date: 2020
  • Creator(s): Erkkila, Betsy
Text:

A young man stands at the Delaware River’s edge, with the Walt Whitman Bridge in the background, and

burning, aching, “resistless,” emphatically physical yearning for young men (see “From Pent-Up Aching Rivers

“I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

Commune and “From the Genius of Liberty,” 215 Leaves of Grass (1870–71), 145–60; “From Pent- Up A ching Rivers

Whitman, Poet and Seer

  • Date: 22 January 1882
  • Creator(s): G. E. M.
Text:

It is a land to which all the currents, and longings, and peoples of history move like rivers converging

vitreous form of the fall moon just tinged with blue: Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river

Whitman Noir: Black America & the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Wilson, Ivy G.
Text:

And, as Phillips illuminates in his essay, the function of the East River as thelocusclassicusinWhitman

(Whitman writes, “Just as you are refresh’d by the gladness of the river, and the bright flow, I was

probes the menacing history of bondage evoked by the river’s continuity with times past: “But there’

But Komunyakaa’s river carries haunting, unsolicited memories his speaker would rather not remember:

The East River, a locus classicus of Whitman’s work, is recon- textualized in order to circumscribe a

Whitman in His Own Time

  • Date: 1991
  • Creator(s): Myerson, Joel
Text:

At all times he was keenly inquisitive in matters that belonged to the river or boat.

There had been a good deal of rain, the river was high, and the falls finer than usual.

Lawrence River, which he had seen during the past summer.

We were cross ing a bridge over the Concord river, about a mile from Mr.

I have tried them by stars, rivers.

Whitman East & West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2002
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

“I will plant companionship thick as trees all along the rivers of America . . .

Hence the poem’s great concluding benediction on time’s pro- cess: “Flow on, river!

My mighty Yangtse River in the south! Good morning! My icy Yellow River in the north!

Rivers.

Whitman East & West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2002
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

As we drove across the river from Philadelphia into Camden, we were shocked by the slums that seemed

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

A Whitman Chronology

  • Date: 1998
  • Creator(s): Krieg, Joann P.
Text:

, their return is via the Mississippi to the Great Lakes, finally on the Hudson River.

Lawrence River.

Whitman enjoys a sight on the Delaware River of what seems to him a perfect combination of nature and

Whitman and William Duckett drive four miles to "Billy" Thompson's on the Delaware River at Glouces ter

A Delaware River ferryman visits Walt, bringing news of scenes and people Whitman has been incapable

Whitman among the Bohemians

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Levin, Joanna | Whitley, Edward
Text:

He would have met another Brooklynite who managed the leap over the East River and found success in the

duringWhitman’s tenure; both sites were located nearWil- liamsburg’s two ferry landings on the East River

Let us hope that he will indulge us with a hymn to the aresnicated Undin of the rejuvenating river.”

Whitman & Dickinson: A Colloquy

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Athenot, Éric | Miller, Cristanne
Text:

See, your own shape and countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the

Phenomenological Approaches to Human Contact soulstakeshapeinandthroughworldlyengagementswiththetrees,rivers

anyefforttocontactthatchildwillnecessarilyinvolvetheobjectsthrough which he creates himself, the “substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers

too,includingThoreau’s“Walking” (1862) and his more wide-ranging AWeek on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

thatDickinsontellsuscansendabraincareeningfromitsnormal “Groove” into uncharted territories as unstoppably as a river

Wharton, Edith (1862–1937)

  • Creator(s): Singley, Carol J.
Text:

homage to Whitman in novels of artistic development such as The Custom of the Country (1912), Hudson River

West, The American

  • Creator(s): Albin, C.D.
Text:

For him the region meant far more than mighty rivers, fertile soil, and apparently limitless natural

Looking out upon the jagged, looming majesty of a mountain peak, or the raw, river-forged scoop of a

suspect it in the future" without viewing the prairies, the states of the Midwest, or the Mississippi River

Walt Whitman's Works

  • Date: 3 March 1867
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Grande—friendly gatherings, the characters and fun, Dwellers up north in Minnesota and by the Yellow Stone River

Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus"

  • Date: 2011
  • Creator(s): Erkkila, Betsy
Text:

“I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of america, and along the shores of the

57.SeealsoWhitman’sdeletionofthereferenceto“theperfect girl” in “enfans” 2 (“from Pent-Up aching rivers

Walt Whitman's Reconstruction: Poetry and Publishing between Memory and History

  • Date: 2011
  • Creator(s): Buinicki, Martin T.
Text:

3/ of a pound, so there must have been the blood of 1000 men coloring the waters of our beautiful river

marked by considerable con- fusion and casualties from friendly fire in woods south of the Rapidan River

Croly and George Wakeman, Miscegenation (1864; Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House, 1970), 18–19

Miscegenation.1864; Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House, 1970. Cushman, Stephen.

A Conscious Stillness: Two Naturalists on Thoreau’s Rivers.

Walt Whitman's Prose Works

  • Date: 21 July 1883
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

tells us that Grant's life "transcends Plutarch," that "it was a happy thought to build the Hudson River

Walt Whitman's Prose

  • Date: 18 December 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

The whole river is now spread with it—some immense cakes.

Walt Whitman's Poetry

  • Date: 9 October 1886
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 17 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Kent, William Charles Mark
Text:

below there—and the beautiful curious liquid "In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: December 1875
  • Creator(s): Bayne, Peter
Text:

a very large place, the United States a republic of federated nations, the Mississippi an immense river

science of geography was in its earliest dawn—when not one man in ten thousand had heard of towns or rivers

Turner could not have given the misty curve of his horizons, the perspective of his rivers winding in

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 19 February 1876
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

The infinite oceans where the rivers empty!

practical labor of farms, factories, foundries, workshops, mines, or on shipboard, or on lakes and rivers—resumes

Walt Whitman's Poems

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

primal man—the gigantic and multiplied possibilities of a continent of vast lakes and praries, and rivers

Walt Whitman's "November Boughs"

  • Date: 19 January 1889
  • Creator(s): Harrison, W.
Text:

Already there is a shimmer of frozen rivers in the distance, a ripple of soft reverberations from vanished

Walt Whitman's Good-Bye

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

gives the following picture:— In the upper of a little wooden house of two stories near the Delaware river

Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps

  • Date: March 1866
  • Creator(s): B.
Text:

This quotation is taken from Henry David Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849).

Walt Whitman's Claim to Be Considered a Great Poet

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

, The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast on the main, the thirty thousand miles of river

Walt Whitman's “Song Of Myself”

  • Date: 1989
  • Creator(s): Miller, Edwin Haviland
Text:

toward dusk near the cottonwood or pekantrees, The coon-seekers go now through the regions of the Red river

Earth of shine and dark mottlin6 the tide of the river!

streets and public halls .... coming naked to me at night, Crying by day Ahoy from the rocks of the river

make their living in some way as longshoremen, while some ... are pretty well known by the police as river

Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Literature House, 1970.

Walt Whitman, Where the Future Becomes Present

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

breakfast table and listened from the rooftop to a thirty-gun salute as it resounded across the East River

Thus Dimock sees “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” as being situated si- multaneously on the East River and the

Harkening back to that river, the pouring-in of the flood-tide and the falling-back of the ebb-tide now

Grows like a bit of debris lodged in the river—the currents flow on—add to it—fasten it—till in time it

Maurice Kilwein Guevara, Poems of the River Spirit (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,1996),

Walt Whitman. The Man and His Book—Some New Gems for His Admirers

  • Date: 2 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance

grappling, In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight down- ward downward falling, Till o'er the river

Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays

  • Date: 1994
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

wrote to Abby Price as Meade was unable to slow the Confeder at~ advance across Virginia's Rapidan River

picturesqueness, and oceanic amplitude and rush ofthese great cities, the unsurpass'd situation, rivers

A young man stands at the Delaware River's edge, with the Walt Whitman Bridge in the background, and

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers ofAmerica, and along the shores ofthe

JA M E S E .M IL L E R , JR . 197 Earth ofshine and dark mottling the tide ofthe river!

Walt Whitman, The American Poet of Democracy

  • Date: November 1869
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

descending the Alleghanies; Or down from the great lakes, or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river

; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chatta- nooga on the mountain top, Saw

Walt Whitman, the American Poet

  • Date: May 1876
  • Creator(s): Adams, Robert Dudley
Text:

energetic sons did, and still do, amidst a newer and far grander variety of wilderness of lake, plain, river

practical labor of farms, factories, foundries, workshops, mines, or on shipboard, or on lakes and rivers—resumes

The infinite oceans where the rivers empty!

"Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?

Walt Whitman and the Poetry of the Future

  • Date: 19 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Mitchell, Edward P.
Text:

of clover and timothy, Kine and horses feeding, and droves of sheep and swine, And many a stately river

Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white, or white come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

Walt Whitman and the Earth: A Study in Ecopoetics

  • Date: 2004
  • Creator(s): Killingsworth, M. Jimmie
Text:

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

posed a problem for the plans of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to dam the Little Tennessee River

The sense that something valuable had been lost in the Tellico Valley with its little river and fertile

Unlike a boat or even a bridge, the dam interferes with the very "riverness" of the Rhine.

Like the undammed river, the soul flows and may flood unexpectedly.

Walt Whitman And His 'Drum Taps'

  • Date: 1 December 1866
  • Creator(s): Burroughs, John
Text:

spots, and you airs that swim above lightly, And all you essences of soil and growth—and you, my rivers

green leaves of the trees pro- lific prolific In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

Walt Whitman, a Brooklyn Boy

  • Date: 29 September 1855
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
Text:

full-blooded, six feet high, a good feeder, never once using medicine, drinking water only—a swimmer in the river

Walt Whitman & the World

  • Date: 1995
  • Creator(s): Allen, Gay Wilson | Folsom, Ed
Text:

He is Behemoth, wallowing in primitive jungles, bathing at fountain-heads of mighty rivers, crushing

"Flood-tide ofthe river, flow on!

": "From pent-up aching rivers, I From that ofmyselfwithout which I were nothing" (LG, 91).

Thus he is called by the wind, the birds, and the currents ofthe great rivers ofhis people.

These boundless rivers! You are measureless and boundless like them!"

Walt Whitman & the Irish

  • Date: 2000
  • Creator(s): Krieg, Joann P.
Text:

chapter on Philadelphia, another city with a large Irish population and located just across the Delaware River

The Irishman took the Germans to the boat and saw them safely across the river, where, with no common

Walt Whitman & the Class Struggle

  • Date: 2006
  • Creator(s): Lawson, Andrew
Text:

asks its subject, 36 : the american 1848 Seek’st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river

are overlaid with foreign ones: “[h]ills became mountains and dales valleys, streams were called rivers

” by “men of truly proper style” like Duy- ckinck.88 For Whitman to flee the perfumed salon for the river

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 19 May 1860
  • Creator(s): Clapp, Henry
Text:

sweeps over great oceans and inland seas, over the continents of the world, over mountains, forests, rivers

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

simplicity can give of power, pathos, and music: "Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf—posh and ice in the river

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2 December 1866
  • Creator(s): O'Connor, William Douglas
Text:

take a serpentine course—their arms flash in the sun—Hark to the musical clank; Behold the silvery river—in

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 July 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

wharves —the huge crossing at the ferries, The village on the highland, seen from afar at sunset—the river

To think that the rivers will flow, and the snow fall, and the fruits ripen, and act upon others as upon

that separates it from prose of any sort: Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf—posh and ice in the river

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 8 June 1867
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Hafiz again, only drunk now with Catawba wine instead of the Saoma, and worshipping the Mississippi river

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

Walt Whitman

  • Date: September 1883
  • Creator(s): Metcalfe, William Musham
Text:

comrades, With the life-long love of comrades, 'I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers

picturesqueness, and oceanic amplitude and rush of these great cities, the unsurpassed situation, rivers

Always, and more and more, as I cross the east and north rivers, the ferries, or with the pilots in their

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1 June 1872
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

like beads on my smallest sights and hearings—on the walk in the street, and the passage over the river

couplets of our orthodox English verse, and this wild, free, reckless voice of the fields, and the rivers

Walt Whitman

  • Date: December 1882
  • Creator(s): Macaulay, G. C.
Text:

Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

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