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Spain and Spanish America, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): Zapata-Whelan, Carol M.
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Roger Asselineau and William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1972. 41–42.Nolan, James.

Roger Asselineau and William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1972. 9–12.

Gray, Fred (1834–1891)

  • Creator(s): Yannella, Donald
Text:

family and visited them, but the connection apparently dissolved in the 1870s.Bibliography Howells, William

Swinton, John (1829–1901)

  • Creator(s): Yannella, Donald
Text:

Born in Scotland, as was his brother William, he resided there until the family's migration to Canada

"Whitman and William Swinton." American Literature 30 (1959): 425–449. Hyman, Martin D.

White, William. "Whitman and John Swinton: Some Unpublished Correspondence."

Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833–1908)

  • Creator(s): Yannella, Donald
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that the seemingly innovative poetics was conventional, with roots in English Bible translations and William

Pfaff's Restaurant

  • Creator(s): Yannella, Donald
Text:

Among the most visible were King Clapp and the queen, Ada Clare, Fitz-James O'Brien, George Arnold, William

promoted free love—and validated and encouraged many of Whitman's predilections.BibliographyHowells, William

Pseudoscience

  • Creator(s): Wrobel, Arthur
Text:

New Haven: Yale UP, 1955.Finkel, William L.

Phrenology

  • Creator(s): Wrobel, Arthur
Text:

that nature emphatically chose him for the profession of poet, more so than Oliver Wendell Holmes, William

Democratic Vistas [1871]

  • Creator(s): Wrobel, Arthur
Text:

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1955.Erkkila, Betsy. Whitman the Political Poet.

'Song of the Exposition' [1871]

  • Creator(s): Wolfe, Karen
Text:

Kennedy, William Sloane. The Fight of a Book for the World. West Yarmouth, Mass.: Stonecroft, 1926. 

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980. ____.

"World Below the Brine, The" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Wohlpart, A. James
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American Transcendental Quarterly 53 (1982): 49–66.Freedman, William A.

Egyptian Museum (New York) (1853–1859)

  • Creator(s): Winslow, Rosemary Gates
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New York: Harper, 1854.Williams, Carolyn Ransom. Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities.

Whitman Noir: Black America & the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Wilson, Ivy G.
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readers: a white fireman would have taken the white faces for granted and not have specified their color

The white that is—to whites—normally transparent becomes instead opaque, worth mentioning, there.

to a white speaker the whiteness of white faces is invisible or transparent.

to black and black to white.

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 3:748. 22.

The Gospel According to Walt Whitman

  • Date: 25 January 1889
  • Creator(s): Wilde, Oscar
Text:

William Rossetti's attempt to Bowdlerize and expurgate his song.

Barnburners and Locofocos

  • Creator(s): Widmer, Ted
Text:

New York: New York UP, 1925.Trimble, William.

Leggett, William L. (1801–1839)

  • Creator(s): Widmer, Ted
Text:

TedWidmerLeggett, William L. (1801–1839)Leggett, William L. (1801–1839) William Leggett, poet and journalist

"William Leggett." United States Magazine and Democratic Review 6 (1839): 17–28. Leggett, William.

A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett. Ed. Theodore Sedgwick, Jr.

White. Indianapolis: Liberty, 1984. Meyers, Marvin.

Leggett, William L. (1801–1839)

Providence, Rhode Island

  • Creator(s): Widmer, Ted
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Founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, who wished to acknowledge divine assistance in his forced relocation

& smart, but too constrained & bookish for a free old hawk like me" (61).BibliographyMcLoughlin, William

New York: New York, 1961.Woodward, William, and Edward F. Sanderson.

New York Evening Post

  • Creator(s): Widmer, Ted
Text:

Its first editor was William Coleman, who served until 1829, when the reins were passed to William Cullen

Leaves of Grass Imprints (1860)

  • Creator(s): Whitt, Jan
Text:

express surprise that his collection of reviews included even a particularly harsh moral attack by William

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 30 October 1881
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Sylvester Baxter
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I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing.

Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains from home, Singing all time, minding

Whitman's New Book

  • Date: 15 October 1882
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Sylvester Baxter
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tree itself; everybody knows that the cedar is a healthy, cheap, democratic wood, streaked red and white—an

Walt. Whitman's New Poem

  • Date: 28 December 1859
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Henry Clapp
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his vulgar and profane hoofs among the delicate flowers which bloom there, and soiling the spotless white

Walt Whitman, a Brooklyn Boy

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

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

Walt Whitman and His Poems

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

He does not separate the learned from the unlearned, the Northerner from the Southerner, the white from

Whitman among the Bohemians

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

William Michael Rossetti, “Adah Isaacs Menken,” in American Poems, ed.

Fowler,William Chauncey. “Charles William Chauncey of New York.”

Howells,William Dean.

Edited by William White. New York: New York University Press, 1978. ———.

, 114– 15 O’Connor,William, 5 Mullen, Edward F.

Style and Technique(s)

  • Creator(s): Warren, James Perrin
Text:

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

November Boughs

  • Date: 2 March 1889
  • Creator(s): Walsh, William S.
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manner which, if irony were not a mode rather foreign to him, we should consider ironical, that "William

William O'Connor and Dr.

We have no concern with William O'Connor and Dr. Bucke. If we have concern with Mr.

wants something newer and better than the old poetry, and that his poetry is not an achievement (William

All this is granted by us, or rather spontaneously asserted, and if William O'Connor and Dr.

Walt Whitman's Yawp

  • Date: 14 January 1860
  • Creator(s): Umos
Text:

the closed-up sutures in my cranium were opened as widely as if the brains were out, and a pint of white

Leland, Henry Perry (1828–1868)

  • Creator(s): Tyrer, Patricia J.
Text:

London: William Heinemann, 1893. Stovall, Floyd. The Foreground of "Leaves of Grass".

Keller, Elizabeth Leavitt (b. 1839)

  • Creator(s): Tyrer, Patricia J.
Text:

Born in Buffalo, New York, she married William Keller in 1858 and was widowed seven years later.

The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman’s Civil War

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Tuggle, Lindsay
Text:

See also William J.

Morehouse, and William W.

William A.

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White, eds. “Clus- ter Arrangements in Leaves of Grass.”

Williams, William Carlos. “An Essay on Leaves of Grass.”

British Isles, Whitman in the

  • Creator(s): Thomas, M. Wynn
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It was, in fact, by relating Whitman to William Blake, or to Percy Bysshe Shelley, that many radicals

Nicholas (Niclas y Glais), the great Welsh-language poet Waldo Williams, and of course Dylan Thomas,

Burgess pointed out, distinguished British composers have remedied this deficiency: Ralph Vaughan Williams's

Labor and Laboring Classes

  • Creator(s): Thomas, M. Wynn
Text:

These included Tom Paine, Fanny Wright, Robert Dale Owen, and William Leggett, all of whom preached that

(in Franklin Evans [1842]) the prevailing antislavery and anti-black philosophy characteristic of white

Here again, his main concern was to protect the status and the rights of white labor (male and female

New York City

  • Creator(s): Thomas, M. Wynn
Text:

Sharpe, William Chapman. Unreal Cities. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1990. Spann, E.K.

Evolution

  • Creator(s): Tanner, James T.F.
Text:

New York: King's Crown, 1951.Conner, Frederick William.

Lamarck, Jean Baptiste (1744–1829)

  • Creator(s): Tanner, James T.F.
Text:

Conner, Frederick William.

Darwin, Charles (1809–1882)

  • Creator(s): Tanner, James T.F.
Text:

Conner, Frederick William.

James, William (1842–1910)

  • Creator(s): Tanner, James T.F.
Text:

James T.F.TannerJames, William (1842–1910)James, William (1842–1910)It is certain that William James,

William James: A Biography. New York: Viking, 1967.Bucke, Richard Maurice, ed.

Philadelphia: Innes, 1901.James, William. Pragmatism and Other Essays. 1907.

"Walt Whitman and William James." Calamus: Walt Whitman Quarterly International 2 (1970): 6–23.

James, William (1842–1910)

Columbus, Christopher (ca. 1451–1506)

  • Creator(s): Stuckey-French, Ned C.
Text:

Boston: Little, Brown, 1942.Shurr, William H.

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.

"Prayer of Columbus" (1874)

  • Creator(s): Stuckey-French, Ned C.
Text:

Gilded Age, when in 1872 his opposition to black suffrage cost him his important friendship with William

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.

"Thought of Columbus, A" (1892)

  • Creator(s): Stuckey-French, Ned
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.

Music, Whitman and

  • Creator(s): Strassburg, Robert
Text:

Among twentieth-century composers inspired by his rhapsodic word-music are Ralph Vaughan Williams, Frederick

Delius, Gustav Holst, Paul Hindemith, Roger Sessions, Ernest Bloch, Charles Ives, Roy Harris, William

Denver, Colorado

  • Creator(s): Stifel, Timothy
Text:

Martin, and William W.

Rocky Mountains

  • Creator(s): Stifel, Timothy
Text:

Martin, and William W. Reitzel, traveled to the Colorado Rockies in September of 1879.

Fowler, Lorenzo Niles (1811–1896) and Orson Squire (1809–1887)

  • Creator(s): Stern, Madeleine B.
Text:

Its London agent, William Horsell, would play a part in establishing Whitman's English reputation.

“This Mighty Convlusion”: Whitman and Melville Write the Civil War

  • Date: 2019
  • Creator(s): Sten, Christopher | Hoffman, Tyler
Text:

Whitman, letter to William D.

See William H.

William Wordsworth,The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, 394; also at Melville’s Marginalia

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1980. ———.

Williams, Megan Rowley.

Cooper, James Fenimore (1789–1851)

  • Creator(s): Stein, Jennifer J.
Text:

Three Voices from Paumanok: The Influence of Long Island on James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant

"Sands at Seventy" (First Annex) (1888)

  • Creator(s): Stauffer, Donald Barlow
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980.

Opera and Opera Singers

  • Creator(s): Stauffer, Donald Barlow
Text:

,' with Donizetti's 'Lucia' or 'Favorita' or 'Lucrezia,' and Auber's 'Massaniello,' or Rossini's 'William

He had little interest in what the critic Richard Grant White called "the thin, throaty, French way of

Clapp, Henry (1814–1875)

  • Creator(s): Stansell, Christine
Text:

He worked as a journalist and theater critic in New York until his death.Bibliography Howells, William

Winter, William. Old Friends, Being Literary Recollections of Other Days.

Swinton, William (1833–1892)

  • Creator(s): Southard, Sherry and Sharron Sims
Text:

Sherry and Sharron SimsSouthardSwinton, William (1833–1892)Swinton, William (1833–1892) Although William

William and his older brother, John, became intimates of Whitman in the mid-1850s.

"Whitman and William Swinton: A Cooperative Friendship." American Literature 30 (1959): 425–449.

"Swinton, William." Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. 18. New York: Scribner's, 1936. 252–253.

Swinton, William (1833–1892)

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