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Walt Whitman & the World

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

This is what William Carlos Williams learned from Whitman, the natural cadence, the flow ofbreath as

Roger Asselineau and William White, eds.Walt Whitman in Europe Today (Detroit: Wayne State University

See Roger Asselineau and William White, eds., Walt Whitman in Europe Today (De troit: Wayne State University

See Asselineau and White, Walt Whitman, 1B-19. 1B.William White, ed., The Bicentennial Walt Whitman (

Mariolina Meliado-Freeth, "Walt Whitman in Italy," in Roger Asselineau and William White, eds., Walt

Gilchrist, Anne Burrows (1828–1885)

  • Creator(s): Alcaro, Marion Walker
Text:

After Alexander's death in 1861, with the help of his friends William Michael and Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Englishwoman who fell passionately in love with Walt Whitman when she read Leaves of Grass, lent to her by William

And to William Sloane Kennedy he wrote that with Anne "you did not have to abate the wing of your thought

Gilchrist, Herbert Harlakenden (1857–1914)

  • Creator(s): Alcaro, Marion Walker
Text:

However, in the winter that the Gilchrists spent in New York (1878–1879), he studied under William Merritt

Review of Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: November 1856
  • Creator(s): Alger, William Rounseville
Text:

The attribution of this review to William Rounseville Alger is indebted to Gary Scharnhorst's article

Epicurus (341–270 B.C.)

  • Creator(s): Altman, Matthew C.
Text:

New York: Bliss and White, 1825. Epicurus (341–270 B.C.)

Carlyle, Thomas (1795–1881)

  • Creator(s): Altman, Matthew C.
Text:

Carlyle insists in his Occasional Discourse that blacks are naturally inferior to whites, and although

"'Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete, The'" (1891)

  • Creator(s): Altman, Matthew C.
Text:

the "Calamus" (1860) poems, and the narrator of "Song of Myself" (1855) empathizes with blacks and whites

Society for the Suppression of Vice

  • Creator(s): Andriano, Joseph
Text:

By 1882 his influence and power were so pervasive that several of Whitman's friends (e.g., William Douglas

that Comstock finally "retire[d] with his tail intensely curved inwards" (Correspondence 3:338–339).William

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor.

"Noiseless Patient Spider, A" (1868)

  • Creator(s): Andriano, Joseph
Text:

Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 4.4 (1987): 29–31.White, Fred D. "Whitman's Cosmic Spider."

Parodies

  • Creator(s): Andriano, Joseph
Text:

Intermediate Geography" (Falk 138).Some parodies were downright mean-spirited, like Richard Grant White's

But mainly White views Whitman as a drunken, disreputable boaster reveling in physical corruption—"Of

White especially takes umbrage at Whitman's vision "Of the beauty of flat-nosed, pock-marked" Africans

White's, is Helen Gray Cone's verse dialogue, "Narcissus in Camden: A Classical Dialogue of the Year

New York: Scribner's, 1922.Zaranka, William, ed. The Brand-X Anthology of Poetry.

Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [1984]

  • Creator(s): Andriano, Joseph
Text:

comprises all of Whitman's notebooks and unpublished prose manuscripts except those published in William

White's Daybooks and Notebooks (1978).

it is of limited interest and value (e.g., Whitman's factual notes on geography in volume 5); even William

White questioned whether lists of melons and other meaningless or only partially legible fragments should

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978. ____.

Studies Among the Leaves

  • Date: January 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and nar- row narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

calmness and beauty of person; The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, yellow and white

Our Book Table

  • Date: 27 February 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers.

Then he is "Pleased with primitive tunes of the choir of the white- washed white-washed church," And

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 15 March 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

shirt collar flat and broad, countenance of swarthy transparent red, beard short and well mottled with white

And it means, sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1 April 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

fruitstand . . . . . . the beef on the butcher's stall, The bread and cakes in the bakery . . . . . . the white

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 13 November 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

White and beautiful are the faces around me…the heads are bared of their fire-caps.

The New Poets

  • Date: 19 May 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

we had conquered— The captain on the quarter-deck, coldly giving his orders through a countenance white

Near by, the corpse of the child that served in the cabin, The dead face of an old salt, with long white

Leaves of Grass

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

I depart as air—I shake my white locks at the run-away sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it

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

In 1841 Macaulay offered a scathing assessment of William Wycherley's work. Leaves of Grass

Leaves Of Grass

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

western persimmon—over the long-leaved corn—over the deli- cate delicate blue-flowered flax, Over the white

Leaves Of Grass

  • Date: 14 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

red shirt—the pervading hush is for my sake, Painless after all I lie, exhausted but not so unhappy, White

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 8 December 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

It is called 'Harrington'; but it ought to be styled, 'A Glorification of Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd

Walt Whitman.—Second Notice

  • Date: 29 March 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti John Camden Hotten.

William Michael Rossetti's edition of Poems by Walt Whitman (1868) included approximately half the poems

Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) produced a famous expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's work entitled

Poems by Walt Whitman

  • Date: 19 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

William Michael Rossetti has been for some time what may be called a disciple of Whitman.

Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti —J.C. Hotten.

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 2 May 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti London: John Camden Hotten. 1868.

Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901) was a British poet, novelist and dramatist.

Walt Whitman

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

Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration

The sum of all known reverence I add up in you, whoever you are; The President is there in the White

afar at sunset—the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, light falling on roofs and gables of white

Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti Hotten: Piccadilly.

Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) was an English physician who famously published an expurgated edition of William

Walt Whitman's Claim to Be Considered a Great Poet

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

William Hurrell Mallock (1849-1923) was an English author.

The Poetry of the Future

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

In the dooryard fronting an old farmhouse near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing

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

All About Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 November 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

William Henry Seward (1801-1872) was a U.S. politician and an antislavery activist.

William Walker (1824-1860) was an American adventurer and soldier who attempted to conquer several Latin

Queen Nathalie.—Walt Whitman.—The Young Emperor.

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

soil's May-utterance here (Smelling of countless blessings, prayers, and old-time thanks)— A bunch of white

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 2 June 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

squash, crooked-necked crook- ed-necked squash, cowcumber, beets, pars- nip parsnip , carrot, turnip, white

the slow, lumbering cart, blood-dabbled and grease dropping, bears away from the slaughter-house, a white-armed

white- armed boy sitting on top of it, shouting Hi!

And I swear that I don't see why a man in gold spectacles and a white cravat stuck up in a library, stuck

"Leaves of Grass"—Smut in Them

  • Date: 16 June 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

William Dorrel who, seventy-five years ago, proclaimed himself the Messiah up in Franklin county, counseled

William Dorrell (1752–1846) was born in England but came to America with the British Army to fight in

Walt Whitman

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

During this period he was on familiar terms of acquaintance with William Cullen Bryant, and the two were

William Hepworth Dixon (1821–1879) was a British journalist and editor of the Athenæum from 1853–1869

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 21 March 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

the mass:— "All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it; Did you think it was in the white

Review of Poems by Walt Whitman

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

Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti London: John Camden Hotten. 1868.

Walt Whitman's Works

  • Date: 9 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

In the night, in solitude, tears, On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand, Tears

"Leaves of Grass"

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

Growing among black folks as among white, Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I gave them the same,

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 12 December 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879) was an English mathematician who also wrote on philosophy.

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 1882–1883
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

The sun just shines on her old white head. Her ample gown is of cream-hued linen.

simplicity of his nature are revealed in the following incident: "In the middle of the room in its white

Walt Whitman's Latest Work

  • Date: 9 February 1889
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

This is actually William Michael Rossetti, not Dante Gabriel Rossetti as identified by the reviewer.

Review of Leaves of Grass (1891–92)

  • Date: 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

eminent and distinguished subject-matter: Lowell's 'Choice Odes, Lyrics, and Sonnets,' in a setting of white

Walt Whitman

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

grave, an ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen, now lean and tattered, seated on the ground; Her old white

Abraham Lincoln, seeing him for the first time, from the East Room of the White House, as he passed slowly

Walt Whitman's New Volume

  • Date: 30 October 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

malachite green, and floating—flying over and among them in all directions, myriads of these same white

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 14 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

within him by Wordsworth's "Excursion," on the first appearance of that poem in 1814, and by the "White

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) published The Excursion in 1814, a collection of philosophical monologues

"White Doe of Rylston" was a long narrative poem published in 1815.

Annotations Text:

"White Doe of Rylston" was a long narrative poem published in 1815.; The Edinburgh Review, an influential

Walt Whitman's New Book

  • Date: 10 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your woolly-white and turbaned head, and bare

Walt Whitman's Poetry

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

new edition of the "Poems of Walt Whitman" (published by Chatto and Windus), selected and edited by William

Walt Whitman, The American Poet of Democracy

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

over six months ago we came across an edition of the Works of Walt Whitman, selected and edited by William

grey shirt, his iron grey hands, his swart sun-browned face and bare neck, he laid upon the brown and white

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

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

Stimson, the New York Day Book had a distinct proslavery agenda and billed itself as the "White Man's

Annotations Text:

Stimson, the New York Day Book had a distinct proslavery agenda and billed itself as the "White Man's

Poems of Walt Whitman

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

Certainly, nothing like this could be said of poor William Shakespeare.

instance:— "All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it; Did you think it was in the white

Walt Whitman's Good-Bye

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

On another side is the bed with white coverlid and woollen blankets.

New Publications

  • Date: 19 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

After the dilettante indelicacies of William H.

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