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Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 15 March 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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The American Phrenological Journal contrasts the poet of with Tennyson:— The best of the school of poets

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 13 November 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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periodical entitled the United States Review , the other was headed 'From the American Phrenological Journal

On subsequently comparing the critiques from the and the Phrenological Journal with the preface of the

Walt. Whitman's New Poem

  • Date: 28 December 1859
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Henry Clapp
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We had come to look upon that journal as the prince of literary weeklies, the arbiter elegantiarum of

invited to read such stuff as this, by its publication in the columns of a highly respectable literary journal

All about a Mocking-Bird

  • Date: 7 January 1860
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
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Passing by certain of the latter, the complimentary sort, with which the journals, welcoming Walt's reappearance

Literary Nonsense

  • Date: 24 March 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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The most insignificant stuff that ever was uttered has made its appearance in first class journals, and

half-crazy, half-idiotic nonsense, and, considered as a literary production, is a disgrace to the journal

A Hoosier's Opinion Of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 11 August 1860
  • Creator(s): Howells, William Dean
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From the journals therefore, and from talk of those who know him, we gather that W lives in Brooklyn,

Review of Drum-Taps

  • Date: 24 February 1866
  • Creator(s): Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin
Text:

advertise it in all the newspapers; they send advance copies and secure long notices in the leading journals

Post notices it at some length; the Round Table blows a trumpet before and behind it; and other journals

Walt Whitman And His 'Drum Taps'

  • Date: 1 December 1866
  • Creator(s): Burroughs, John
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phrenological publishing house in Broadway, whose proprietors advertised it and sent specimen copies to the journals

The journals remained silent, and several of the volumes sent to the distinguished persons were returned

Walt Whitman

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

intentions and object, joined with his well-known career during the war, would seem to require of journalism

Walt Whitman

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

phrenological publishing house in Broadway, whose proprietors advertised it and sent specimen copies to the journals

The journals remained silent, and several of the volumes sent to the distinguished persons were returned

Walt Whitman

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

He has been a constant contributor of prose to the Republican journals.

Review of Poems by Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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In a paper which appeared in a weekly journal, he puts the claim on the rather curious ground of his

Walt Whitman's Poems

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

Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) was an English essayist, critic, journalist, poet, and editor of significant journals

Walt Whitman's Poems

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

In a paper which appeared in a weekly journal, he puts the claim on the rather curious ground of his

The Poetry of the Period

  • Date: October 1869
  • Creator(s): Austin, Alfred
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Rossetti has given utterance to his views in the columns of highly influential critical journals; and

Rossetti's word for it that the journals in question have shown themselves "discerning" in the matter

estimate is very undiscerning-we have already seen; and though we may be surprised to hear that a journal

Walt Whitman

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

"The real truth," says an American journal, which has taken up the subject apparently in the interest

Whitman, Poet and Seer

  • Date: 22 January 1882
  • Creator(s): G. E. M.
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A correspondent for the Providence Journal gives this account of the origin of the term "Hoosier": "Throughout

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 1 August 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

too involved and difficult for discussion here; it has been argued by able writers in prominent journals

Review of Specimen Days and Collect

  • Date: 1 November 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Whitman's new book, "Specimen Days and Collect" is a literary curiosity made up of extracts from journals

All About Walt Whitman

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

Whitman was editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle ; then he went South, and worked at journalism a little

Orleans; then up into the Northwest and so round to New York again; then took to housebuilding and journalism

Walt Whitman

  • Date: September 1883
  • Creator(s): Metcalfe, William Musham
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'The journals,' continues Mr.

Walt Whitman

  • Date: June 1884
  • Creator(s): Kennedy, Walker
Text:

In a recent issue of a New York journal, Walt Whitman casts a backward glance on his own road.

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: September 1887
  • Creator(s): Lewin, Walter
Text:

The Writings of Henry David Thoreau , Journal II, 1850-September 15,1851, ed.

Review of Democratic Vistas, and Other Papers

  • Date: 30 June 1888
  • Creator(s): Lewin, Walter
Text:

Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) wrote essays, poems, and an autobiography along with being an editor of journals

Walt Whitman's "November Boughs"

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

Bible as Poetry'; 'Father Taylor and Oratory'; 'A Word about Tennyson' (originally published in this journal

Interpretation of the Poetry of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1930
  • Creator(s): Pavese, Cesare
Text:

reading, wish that “he had sufficient internal spiritual strength not to be influenced by any mound of journals

truly critical monographs and of too many articles and essays dispersed among the newspapers and journals

Bailey attributes a certain prophesying rhetoric of the streets to the poet’s background in journalism

Everything we have of Walt's journalism— not just the strictly literary but also the political—demonstrates

truly critical monographs and of too many articles and essays dispersed among the newspapers and journals

Walt Whitman's “Song Of Myself”

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

Thomas Couser (85) ar gues that the poet "imitates the pattern of composition of the Quaker journal;

Journals. Ed. Odell Shepard. Boston: Little, Brown, 1938. Allen, Gay Wilson.

Fishkin, Shelley Fisher.From Fact to Fiction-Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America.

English Journal, 27(1938):597-607. Summerhayes, Don. "Joyce's Ulysses and Whitman's 'Self."'

CLA Journal, 6(1962):44-49. Tanner, James T. F. "The Superman in Leaves of Grass."

Selected Letters of Whitman

  • Date: 1990
  • Creator(s): Miller, Edwin Haviland
Text:

Mark Twain, in the political an.d social comments, and sometimes flat in the style of contemporary journalism

, and suggest something to m e-so I now make fuller notes, or a sort of jour nal, (not a mere dry journal

The journals are often inveterately spiteful.

Have been dipping in the new French book Amiel's Journal Intime trans lated by Mrs: Humphrey Ward.

Stafford's granddaughter, Susan Browning. 55· In his journal Burroughs wrote: "He presses my hand long

Whitman in His Own Time

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

record ofhis life was as compelling as the written one that was conveyed in his own letters and journals

He regularly wrote to newspapers and journals about his books and his life; and these letters or articles

But I have lately been looking over the journals of Thoreau, and I am satisfied that I was right.

How good is that article in the January number of Appleton's Journal on Heine!

From The journals of Bronson Alcott,ed.

The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman: The Life after the Life

  • Date: 1992
  • Creator(s): Martin, Robert K.
Text:

(One of Whit man's favorite passages culled from his journal reading was "The mountains, rivers, forests

Gregory Woods : 139 ported this transatlantic tendency and published these poets in its own house journal

that recalls how agitated he could become when he was in love, as in the following entry from his journal

How can we capture between journal covers a major literary figure who pretends literature doesn't exist

He was deeply involved in the Body Politic,Can ada's leading gay and lesbian journal, and in the AIDS

Whitman’s “Live Oak with Moss”

  • Date: 1992
  • Creator(s): Helms, Alan
Text:

that recalls how agitated he could become when he was in love, as in the following entry from his journal

Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays

  • Date: 1994
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
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based on Leaves ofGrass took place in Tokyo; a feature film on Whitman appeared in Canada; and major journals

Fortunately, journalism allowed Whitman to escape country school teach ing.

Some bi ographers say he was a failure in journalism, but actually journalism failed him.

he failed to get financial backing for a new start.e became a carpenter and con tractor because journalism

Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes, ed., journals ofRalph Waldo Emerson (Boston: Houghton

Constructing the German Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1995
  • Creator(s): Grünzweig, Walter
Text:

A large number of articles in literary, philosophical, artistic, and other journals introduced Whitman

She wrote on German lit erature in American magazines and on American literature in German journals.

Her "Letter from America," which appeared regularly in that journal, con tained penetrating accounts

Other socialist and leftist journals and papers also published transla tions of Whitman poems between

There are references to articles on Whitman in journals that are presently not available.

Walt Whitman & the World

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

In the same year, they began publishing a journal in which they tried to dispel scientifically the de

A regular series in this journal featured the contributions of homosexuals to human history.

During Drey's short literary career, he contributed to the important expressionist journals Der Sturm

Antun Nizeteo, "Whitman in Croatia: Tin Ujevic and Walt Whitman," Journal of Croatian Studies 11-12 (

Petersburg journals, that the student Youth Circle ofthe St.

Traveling with the Wounded: Walt Whitman and Washington's Civil War Hospitals

  • Date: 1996
  • Creator(s): Murray, Martin G. | Price, Kenneth M., Folsom, Ed
Text:

Walt remained with his brother for two weeks, recording camp life in his journal and visiting injured

The poet noted in his journal, "Lewis K.

Montague Cobb, M.D., "A Short History of Freedmen's Hospital," Journal of the National Medical Association

The Real "Live Oak, with Moss": Straight Talk about Whitman's "Gay Manifesto"

  • Date: 1996
  • Creator(s): Parker, Hershel
Text:

the most important American bibliographical annual, was, after all, a highly specialized scholarly journal

teacher-critics found extremely awkward if not downright threatening, whether in the classroom or in learned journals

Far from being a routine article in a run-of-the-mill journal, Helms's essay was showcased in —"the most

Commentary

  • Date: 1997
  • Creator(s): Helms, Alan | Parker, Hershel
Text:

Professor Helms writes: A year ago in this journal, Hershel Parker attacked me because of a sequence

interpretation could harm gay teenagers is the most underhanded piece of slander I've ever read in an academic journal

A Whitman Chronology

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

"The Boy Lover" is published in the American Re view, a Whig journal.

Walter keeps a journal and later publishes portions of it in the Crescent. 2 5 FEBRUARY.

Wells), publishers of the American Phreno logical Journal (Myerson, Walt Whitman, 19).

This is a positive review in the country's most influential literary journal.

"Old Brooklyn Days" appears in the New York Morning Journal (seePW, 2:773-774). 16 AUGUST.

The Evolution of Walt Whitman: An Expanded Edition

  • Date: 1999
  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
Text:

Above all, journalism opened his mind.

JOURNALISM OR POETRY?

Journalism was only a poor substitute.

See also his Journal, VIII, I85-r86. 106.

NEW UNCERTAINTIES 1 .The Journals of Bronson Alcott, ed.

Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman’s Conversations with Horace Traubel 1888-1892

  • Date: 2001
  • Creator(s): Schmidgall, Gary
Text:

Traubel’s“liberaltendencies”wereimpressivelydemonstratedinthe pages of the Conservator, a monthly journal

The journals are many of them inveterately spiteful.

to be put in gaol any more than Robert Ingersoll or Walt Whitman or the editor of the great daily journal

Intimate with Walt 230 The Snarling Press “It seems to me that in the whole range of journals pretending

Traubel responds with the view that “letters, journals, should be free: float along word by word, as it

Debating Manliness: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Sloane Kennedy, and the Question of Whitman

  • Date: 2001
  • Creator(s): Nelson, Robert K. | Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

Less than a month before was banned in Boston, Higginson published "Unmanly Manhood" in the Woman's Journal

Scott's article in the American Journal of Psychology (edited by Hall), which "exactly express[es] the

H[igginson], "Unmanly Manhood," Woman's Journal, 4 February 1882, 1.

Theodore Dwight Weld and Angelina Grimké Weld, observed of Higginson: "[W]hen I met him in the Woman's Journal

C[oad], "Whitman as Parent," Journal of the Rutgers University Library 7 [December 1943]: 32).

Whitman East & West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman

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

Agatha’s rise to public success, through an earlier ca- reer in journalism, occurred despite a scandal

Louis Hyde, ed.,Rat and the Devil: Journal Letters of F. O.

and in his journals and notebooks of the time, Whitman was so gloomy about the state of national and

Whitman’s Leaves of Grass,” Journal of Foreign Languages 3 (May 1985), 24. 9.

His many essays on Whitman have appeared in numerous journals and books, including A Historical Guide

Whitman: The Correspondence, Volume VII

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

Meanwhile, Herbert Bergman’s planned multivolume edition of Whit- man’s journalism was abandoned by New

On June 9 Bloor sent to WW “a copy of the selections you made from my journal, and also an account of

Trent. in Letters: American Autograph Journal, 2 [April 2?].

Chicago Evening Journal, enclosing his Syracuse. CT: Lozynsky, 114. review of November Boughs.

Journal. LC. June 13. From Alys Smith. July 30.

Re-Scripting Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2005
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed | Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

The Journalism, 2 vols., ed. Herbert Bergman, Douglas A. Noverr, and Edward J.

punishment, a common practice in schools and one that he would attack in later years in both his journalism

that career, he would need to return to New York City and re-establish himself in the world of journalism

He dedicated himself to journalism in these years and published little of his own poetry and fiction.

poetry, or was this poetry the result of an original and carefully calculated strategy to blend journalism

Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman

  • Date: 2005
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

as the London Leader , the New York Daily Times The Brooklyn Daily Eagle , and the Phrenological Journal

rambling essay , bringing together three separate essays he had written (two of which appeared in the journal

He wrote numerous dispatches for newspapers and kept thinking about combining his war journalism and

Walt Whitman & the Class Struggle

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

Another way of putting this would be to say that Whitman, in the journal- ism as in the poetry, is both

“But now we are a mob,” Emerson told his journal for March 10, 1839: “man does not stand in awe of man

Emerson, Journals, vol. 7, 174. 7. “New Publications,” BrooklynDailyTimes, December 17, 1856, 1. 8.

] Review is like seeing your brother in jail” (Journals, vol. 5, 97).

New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1992. Bowers, Fredson.

Twentieth-Century Mass Media Appearances

  • Date: 2006
  • Creator(s): Jewell, Andrew | Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

It is even fair to call today's university a form of popular culture, in competition with journalism

Conserving Walt Whitman’s Fame: Selections from Horace Traubel’s Conservator, 1890-1919

  • Date: 2006
  • Creator(s): Schmidgall, Gary
Text:

Clearly, Traubel and his journal came to be perceived by the public as nearly one and the same. xxiv

Just a few examples will convey the remarkable way the journal speaks to present American vistas.

Tobey, despite his contributions to literature in the Boston journals.

But I have lately been looking over the journals of Thoreau, and I am satisfied that I was right.

Gore, when he retired from journalism and was succeeded as editor of The Aurora by Walt Whitman.

Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays

  • Date: 2007
  • Creator(s): Belasco, Susan | Folsom, Ed | Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

English Journal 26 [1937]: 51–52; emphasis added).

Cross, George Eliot’s Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals, 3 vols.

Indeed, we can say that Whitman left journalism for a career as a poet only if we narrowly define journalism

American Phrenological Journal 22, no. 4 (October 1855): 90–91.

Canadian Journal, n.s., 1 (November 1856): 541–51.

Walt Whitman, Where the Future Becomes Present

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

lustre.”SeeD.W.,[reviewofW.EdmondstouneAytoun,Bothwell:APoeminSixPartsandLeavesof Grass], Canadian Journal

This professor quotes racialist and racist passages from Whitman’s journalism and concludesthat“togetatruepictureofWhitmanonehastoreadhiswritingsthat

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