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Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 23 July 1855
  • Creator(s): Dana, Charles A.
Text:

conquered, The captain on the quarter-deck coldly giving his or- ders 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

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it; Did you think it was in the white or gray

ly unearthly cry, Its veins down the neck distend…its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: September 1855
  • Creator(s): Norton, Charles Eliot
Text:

White and beautiful are the faces around me…the heads are bared of their fire- caps firecaps — The kneeling

Examine these limbs, red, black, or white… they are very cunning in tendon and nerve; They shall be stript

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farm house— The sun just shines on her old 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

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

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

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1 April 1856
  • Creator(s): Eliot, George
Text:

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

Transatlantic Latter-Day Poetry

  • Date: 7 June 1856
  • Creator(s): Eliot, George
Text:

the western persimmon . . . over the long-leaved corn and the delicate blue flowered flax; Over the white

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: November 1856
  • Creator(s): D. W.
Text:

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

Examine these limbs, red, black or white…they are very cunning in tendon and nerve; They shall be stript

William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865) was an influential Scottish poet famed for his parodies and light

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

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.

Walt. Whitman's New Poem

  • Date: 28 December 1859
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Henry Clapp
Text:

his vulgar and profane hoofs among the delicate flowers which bloom there, and soiling the spotless white

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

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

New Books

  • Date: 26 May 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Newport, Rye, Niagara, Shirley, Long Island, Cohasset, Bergen Point, Cape May, or the Mountains called White

Leaves of Grass—456 pages, electro-typed, beautiful print, fine type, elegant binding, seemly, comely, 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

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

Swimming Against the Current

  • Date: 10 June 1860
  • Creator(s): Heenan, Adah Isaacs Menken
Text:

William Seward, Charles Sumner, and Elijah Parish Lovejoy, were all famous anti-slavery advocates.

"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

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: 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

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: August 1860
  • Creator(s): Conway, Moncure D.
Text:

The early lilacs became part of this child; And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

A Hoosier's Opinion Of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 11 August 1860
  • Creator(s): Howells, William Dean
Text:

Jove's trick on Europa refers to the myth in which Zeus disguised himself as a tame, white-colored bull

Annotations Text:

.; Jove's trick on Europa refers to the myth in which Zeus disguised himself as a tame, white-colored

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 And His 'Drum Taps'

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

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

again, this soil'd world; For my enemy is dead a man divine as myself is dead I look where he lies white-faced

and still in the coffin—I draw near I bend Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in

Walt Whitman

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

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farm-house; The sun just shines on her old white

again, this soil'd world. … For my enemy is dead—a man divine as myself is dead; I look where he lies, white-faced

and still in the coffin—I draw near; I bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the

Review of Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps

  • Date: January 1867
  • Creator(s): Hill, A. S.
Text:

ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen now lean and tattered tatter'd , seated on the ground, Her old white

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: November 1867
  • Creator(s): Buchanan, Robert
Text:

As he speaks, we more than once see a man's face at white heat, and a man's hand beating down emphasis

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

  • 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

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

Walt Whitman's Poems

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

Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti One Vol., pp. 406. J.C. Hotten.

To William Michael Rossetti, as the selecter of these poems, we are not simply, in old-fashioned phrase

That immortal house, more than all the rows of dwellings ever built, Or white domed white-domed Capitol

William Wordsworth was reputedly fond of the lesser celandine and it inspired him to write three poems

William Cowper (1731-1800) was a popular English poet of his time.

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.

Review of Poems by Walt Whitman

  • Date: 25 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Marston, John
Text:

Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti (Hotten.)

the stumpy bars of pig-iron, the strong, clean-shaped T-rail for railroads; Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead-works

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

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

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

The Poetry of the Period

  • Date: October 1869
  • Creator(s): Austin, Alfred
Text:

William Bell Scott , a name perhaps not very familiar to most of our readers, but which Mr.

William Bell Scott, British poet and artist, introduced Rossetti to the 1855 Leaves of Grass.

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

The Poetry of Democracy: Walt Whitman

  • Date: July 1871
  • Creator(s): Dowden, Edward
Text:

soiree, I heard what the singers were singing so long, Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farmhouse, The sun just shines on her old white

, of original grandeur and elegance of design, with the masses of gay colour, the preponderance of white

and sunny temperament, a sight to draw near and look upon with her large figure, her profuse snow-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

American Poets Part 1

  • Date: 4 April 1874
  • Creator(s): Earle, John Charles
Text:

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

The article focuses on descriptive poetry quoting from Taylor's "Lars," William Gilmore Simms, Alfred

American Poets Part 2

  • Date: July 1874
  • Creator(s): Earle, John Charles
Text:

Sigourney, the chief poetess of the United States, of the classical William Cullen Bryant, the Catholic

The monk endeavours to console him with the prospect of eternal rest, the white robe and the golden crown

White the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping

William Michael Rossetti was principally concerned in introducing his works into the English market;

Walt Whitman's Poems

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

exceptions whose appreciation distinguishes the thinker from the dogmatist: intense black and glaring white

and all hearts thrill at the thought of murdered Naboth and his sons, and of Lear hanging over the white

women, or from offspring taken out of their mother's laps, This grass is very dark to be from the white

Here goes:— "Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead works, the sugar-house, steam-saws, the grist-mills, and

Scottish poet (1777–1844), writer of the long narrative poem Gertrude of Wyoming William Morris, "The

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 18 March 1876
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

from the article appeared in the London Athenaeum (11 March 1876), followed by Robert Buchanan's and William

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

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