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a grave offence for an author to thrust his personality between the reader and the truth which the book

We have been drawn irresistibly to the book, again and again, for there is a simple-minded and strong

This opinion will doubtless astonish many who have read the book.

have any appreciation of the essential dignity of man and the grandeur of his destiny, to buy the book

the Liberator," WWQR 24.4 (2007): 201-207. http://www.uiowa.edu/~wwqr/greenspan_article_Spring%202007.pdf

the Liberator," WWQR 24.4 (2007): 201-207. http://www.uiowa.edu/~wwqr/greenspan_article_Spring%202007.pdf

George and Susan Stafford were the parents of Harry Stafford, a young man Whitman met and befriended

Harry's parents were tenant farmers in Laurel Springs, outside of Glendale, near Camden, New Jersey.

Harry invited Whitman to his family home, and Whitman immediately fell in love with the homestead and

Whitman only stopped going to the farm when his friendship with Harry Stafford became strained, which

New York: Bantam Books, 1982.Reynolds, David S. Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography.

participated in the American Revolution (1780–1781), during which he was captured and held as a prisoner

Watson, Harry L. Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America.

He went to Fort King to demand justice but, instead, was put in prison for twenty months.

When on 22 October 1837 he appeared under a flag of truce at Three Pines he was seized and taken prisoner

New York: Hawthorne Books, 1973.Todd, Edgeley W. "Indian Pictures and Two Whitman Poems."

John T.MattesonHarris, Thomas Lake (1823–1906)Harris, Thomas Lake (1823–1906) Born in England, Thomas

Lake Harris came to the United States as a young boy.

Around 1850, Harris began to go into trances.

The Life and World-Work of Thomas Lake Harris. 1908. New York: AMS, 1975. Harris, Thomas Lake.

Harris, Thomas Lake (1823–1906)

WalterGraffinHarris, Frank (1856–1931)Harris, Frank (1856–1931) Best known for his unreliable autobiography

My Life and Loves (1922, 1934, 1963), with its exaggerated accounts of his lusty affairs, Harris was

Among his other works, Harris published five volumes of Contemporary Portraits (1915–1927).

language of the flesh, and that the poet was the greatest American—superior even to Lincoln.Bibliography Harris

Frank Harris: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976. Harris, Frank (1856–1931)

Potter of an engraving by W.J. Linton) as its reference.

Lyman L.LeathersMusic, Whitman's Influence onMusic, Whitman's Influence onRobert Faner's book, Walt Whitman

The work is included in "The AIDS Quilt Song Book" recording and follows the recitative and aria form

Certainly, the most prominent representative of that nationalistic idiom was Roy Harris (1898–1979).

But unlike Copland, Harris was attracted to Whitman.

ideals.At present, there are no major books which deal definitively with the topic.

, that he is well but a prisoner.

Harry and Whitman quarrel frequently, and on this date some sort of "scene" with Harry takes place at

Writing to Harry Stafford about a Robert Ingersoll book that has brought unfavorable comment from Harry's

Whitman writes to Harry Stafford that, with the publication ofthe two books containing all his (cho sen

Harry Stafford visits.

apparently read the first edition right after publication—and was instrumental in arranging the prisoner

He ran a controversial labor weekly, John Swinton's Paper, from 1883 to 1887, and wrote a few short books

ArnieKantrowitzStafford, Harry Lamb [1858-1918]Stafford, Harry Lamb [1858-1918]Harry Stafford was only

Stafford, Harry Lamb [1858-1918]

George Knox and Harry Lawton. New York: Herder, 1971. ———.

George Knox and Harry Lawton. Bern: Lang, 1976. Hartmann, C. Sadakichi (ca. 1867–1944)

Although the book was initially criticized by a number of confused readers, Sartor eventually drew praise

Carlyle condemned overly liberal views on such issues as human rights and prison reform, and opposed

Whitman reviewed several of Carlyle's books while he was a journalist with the Brooklyn Daily Eagle,

Horace Traubel notes that during his time at Camden Whitman read many books by and about Carlyle.

when it became the pleasing duty of that model judge to administer the last rites of the law to a prisoner

of the roughs, a kosmos, Disorderly, fleshy, sensual, &c. was the "poet of pantheism," and that the book

of Spinoza, perfectly indifferent with regard to the matter that enters into the composition of his book

her later work in its unconventional portrait of an unhappy wife who tries to free herself from the prison

New York: Basic Books, 1984. Sand, George (1804–1876)

It was through one of the Stafford sons, Harry, whom he met in a print shop where his pamphlet Two Rivulets

Stafford had a special fondness for Whitman, and his relationship with her son Harry became one of the

The company of Harry and other young men from the neighborhood was a key part of the powerful attraction

From a book of 107 pages it has developed into the compact work of to-day.

His life and his book are so interwoven, that it is premature to write "finis" to the latter until the

The solid sense of the book is a sober certainty.

Few if any copies of the book were sold.

Whitman, like his book, is strong. It is himself that speaks, not the echo of another.

.; American writer (1825–1878) who wrote for newspapers, travel books, novels, poetry, and critical essays

Harris (?)

From Harry Stafford. CT: November 7. From Harry Stafford. CT: Shively (1), 154.

From Harry Stafford. enclosing payment for books. Manchester. November 2. From John Burroughs.

Mattie Maxim, ordering Company, ordering a book. a book. LC. September 29. From R.

William Lloyd, book. acknowledging receipt of a book. November 16. From Dr. L. M. Bingham.

His book is one of courage, most downright in its dogmatics, and says its say apparently without the

This is a book which makes not only war upon nearly all traditional theories of true poetry, but in many

And yet there are gleams in his book, not only of great things, but of possibly magnificent ones.

"The Singer in the Prison" (p. 292) beginning O sight of pity, shame and dole !

We say of him, and of all who have assisted in the making of his book, that they are guilty of an act

Whitman's influence is especially apparent in the paintings of Lawren Harris, prime mover of the group

Harris was an early convert to the Bucke/Whitman version of cosmic consciousness and holds the "distinction

of being the sole Canadian ever" to review Bucke's book on Whitman (Greenland and Colombo 227).

In the final phase of his career, Harris gave up representational art, as he tried to re-create a cosmic

things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books

Whitman associates the spoken word of the human voice in his naming all of the poems, the entire book

Harned, Frank Harris, William Dean Howells, Bertha Johnson, Dr.

Less a man of books, more a man of men,—less a recluse, more a man of the world,—than either Carlyle

certainly is—a man of vast reading, fulfilled more than most students with what is to be had from books

a certain breadth of historic grandeur, of peace or war, far surpassing all the vaunted samples of book-heroes

dysentery, inflammations, and blackest and loathsomest of all, the dead and living burial-pits, the prison

(not Dante's pictured hell, and all its woes, its degradations, filthy torments, excell'd those prisons

or man that has been in prison, or is likely to be in prison?" (1860 Leaves).

Whereas Whitman's German reception has been the focus of several specialized studies since the 1930s (Harry

The book could only appear in Switzerland with a progressive publisher, J.

which has remained in print for ninety years and has always been available in inexpensive "pocket book

Republic and the United States, and various Whitman translations were always available, even in a book

Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 1987. 49–86.Law-Robertson, Harry. Walt Whitman in Deutschland.

. ∗ The book is not intended for the confirmed admirers of Whitman, for they will be satisfied with nothing

There are even certain fellows of the baser sort whose trade consists in lending out willfully obscene books

Rhys' book, there is no hope that it will benefit them.

Coming now to the book itself we find something to condemn and something, also, to praise.

Another omission which we can hardly approve is The Singer in Prison , but after all, something had to

The appearance of Walt Whitman's new book of poems, conjointly with Ward's "Indian Hunter," is not without

All the hapless silent lovers, All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked, All

Whitman did not just write his book, he made his book, and he made it over and over again, each time

Each edition of is essentially a different book, not just another version of the same book.

Potter (fig. 50).

Potter.

Working again with Harry Bonsall at the Printing Office in Camden, Whitman had the book in print by December

Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman: A Catalog and Commentary, by Ed Folsom, was published by the

Rights to the electronic edition are held by the author.The print edition of Whitman Making Books/Books

appreciation for Walt's generosity; not only did he consistently send her money, but he also sent her books

Also see her letters in the Hanley Collection, held in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center in

In New Jersey, Harry Stafford provided Whitman with a measure of the companionship that Doyle was not

Included with the letters was Bucke's interview of Doyle, which Henry James in his 1898 review of the book

(union)-was a long while a prisoner in secesh prisons in Georgia, & in Richmond-three times the devils

Harry, I wish when you see Ben.

He wrote less frequently and more quietly to Harry, and sent long gossipy letters to Harry's mother,

Henry (Harry) L.

Harry Fritzinger, Warren's brother.

God sends Alza, the angel of tears, to the criminal's bedside in prison to soothe the murderer's sleep

She served as matron of Sing Sing prison for four years (1844–1848), worked at the Perkins Institution

Nor is it only in the form of the pieces composing the book that he follows a double line.

I close my extracts from advance sheets of the book with two little pieces of a political character:

Possibly a reference to book 11 of the Odyssey.

Probably a misquotation of "Stone walls do not a prison make,/ Nor iron bars a cage;/ Minds innocent

and quiet take/ That for an hermitage" from Richard Lovelace's "To Althea: From Prison."

.; Possibly a reference to book 11 of the Odyssey.; The "seven cities" refer to Chios, Athens, Rhodes

mystic.; Several lines from the poem are omitted.; Probably a misquotation of "Stone walls do not a prison

;/ Minds innocent and quiet take/ That for an hermitage" from Richard Lovelace's "To Althea: From Prison

In the poem "To Thee Old Cause" he wrote, "My book and the war are one," and elsewhere he wrote that

By that date, the family knew brother George was missing in action—actually a prisoner of war, as they

later found out, at which point Walt would begin pulling strings to secure his release through prisoner

Also in 1864 Whitman proposed a book composed of his diary entries and observations on the war.

editor of the paper, is cited as a factor that aided him in getting the government to arrange a prisoner

without reserve and with perfect indifference to their effect on the reader's mind; and not only is the book

this gross yet elevated, this superficial yet profound, this preposterous yet somehow fascinating book

"Did you read in the books of the old- fashioned old-fashioned frigate fight?

shining , and the leaks on the gain, and five feet of water reported; The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners

As seems very proper in a book of transcendental poetry, the author withholds his name from the title

Hamsun privately discounted his book as being no more than a way of gaining notoriety (and a publication

strategy succeeded all too well; in later years Hamsun repeatedly denied permission to reissue the book

Lundkvist's enthusiasm drew together Harry Martinson and other writers in the important group known as

He began as lay chaplain to fellow prisoners while held by the British during the War of 1812, was licensed

Briggs, author of The Adventures of Harry Franco (1839); Henry C.

The book is an intertwining of the author's characteristic verse, alternated throughout with prose; and

pieces, here, some new, some old—nearly all of them (somber as many are, making this almost Death's book

In You, whoe'er you are, my book perusing, In I myself—in all the World—these ripples flow, All, all,

He says, as he introduces these little note-book mementoes of the war: Vivid as life they recall and

Perfume this book of mine, O blood-red roses! Lave subtly with your waters every line, Potomac!

Indeed, in a letter to Bridges in 1887, Hopkins, who had just reworked an old sonnet called "Harry Ploughman

"Prison-escaping" What happened next to Doyle?

It's been assumed that Doyle was a prisoner of war.

On April 18, 1863, he was confined in Carroll Prison, an annex to the Old Capitol Prison.

Now Harry was to be Whitman's "darling boy."

For the first time, Walt told Doyle of the Stafford farm, but he did not mention Harry.

sometimes concealed their wounds to avoid being taken to hospitals they saw as little better than prisons

I have made, The words of my book nothing, the drift of it every thing, A book separate, not link’d

or lot of books.

The study of a book’s drift is a study of a book’s distribution but also a study of a book’s (and an

The book came—the books—and I was taxed for duties. Yes, three dollars and a half.

“I am selling quite a good many of my books now,” Whitman wrote to Harry Stafford in October 1880, “gives

the Whitman book.

The Haldeman-Julius books were a fascinating mix of types: literary classics, self-help books, atheist

Despite wartime circumstances, few ASE books were censored.

Cole (ed.), Books in Action: The Armed Services Editions .

Golden, Harry (1960). Foreward.

Its title-page, as will be seen, bears upon it the name of no author, and the book is ushered into the

teacher of the thoughtfulest, a farmer, mechanic, or artist, a gentleman, sailor, lover, or quaker, a prisoner

Are they not all written in the "golden" book aforesaid?—a book which Mr.

When we read that eulogy we were satisfied that this volume would prove to us a sealed book, and that

letters and placed them into an edition of Selected Letters of Walt Whitman.Of course, many other books

Whitman had settled in Camden in the 1870s and 1880s, he became a close friend to another young man, Harry

"this is no book, / Who touches this touches a man" [ , 505]).

He knew how to set type, and he knew how books were printed and bound.

Late in his life, Whitman noted how "I sometimes find myself more interested in book making than in book

writing . . . the way books are made—that always excites my curiosity: the way books are written—that

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

broader concepts explicitly derived from their own discipline and from the writings of the authors whose books

of Professor George Bush on Emanuel Swedenborg, the idiosyncratic brand propagated by Thomas Lake Harris

vitalistic medical theories—Thompsonism, homeopathy, and hydropathy—and from a scattering of other books

Fowler and Wells carried an extensive stock of books that preached temperance, advocated vegetarianism

health, visiting Italy, Germany, France, and England, and returned with at least part of his first book

Maverick Marvin Harris The New Walt Whitman Handbook . 1975. New York: New York UP, 1986. ___.

Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet .New York: Basic Books, 1984.

New York: Basic Books, 1984. 

New Hyde Park, N.Y.: University Books, 1966. Carpenter, Edward. . New York: Macmillan, 1906.