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Broadway Journal

  • Creator(s): Rachman, Stephen
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StephenRachmanBroadway JournalBroadway JournalAs editor of the Broadway Journal, Edgar Allan Poe printed

When Poe joined the staff, however, the Journal soon became a forum for his critical obsessions, most

The Journal ceased publication in January 1846."

Broadway Journal 29 November 1845: 318–319.

Broadway Journal

American Phrenological Journal

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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JournalPublished in New York by Fowler and Wells from January 1851 to April 1861, the American Phrenological Journal

and Repository of Science, Literature and General Intelligence continued the American Phrenological Journal

merged with Life Illustrated, another Fowler and Wells periodical, to form the American Phrenological Journal

1855) in their shop at 308 Broadway, and they permitted Whitman to use the American Phrenological Journal

American Phrenological Journal

Periodicals Devoted to Whitman

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
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Flora MacDonald Denison edited the journal and wrote many of its articles; other notable contributors

, no journals devoted to Whitman's work appeared for the next couple of decades.

However, in 1979 the Birthplace Association began another journal, West Hills Review: A Walt Whitman

Journal.

Folsom took over sole editorship of the journal in 1990.

Williams, Talcott (1849–1928)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
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He learned journalism in New York City at the World and at the Sun.

there for thirty-one years until he became the first head of the Columbia University School of Journalism

The Encyclopedia of American Journalism. New York: Facts on File, 1983. Traubel, Horace.

White, William (1910–1995)

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
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of his career he had contributed roughly twenty-five hundred articles and reviews to professional journals

White's important contributions to Whitman scholarship can be noted here: he authored Walt Whitman's Journalism

Southern California (M.A., 1937), and the University of London (Ph.D., 1953), White taught courses in journalism

Hicks, Elias (1748–1830)

  • Creator(s): Davey, Christina
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Hicks explained his religious views and recorded his experiences as a minister in his Journal (1832).

He educated himself by reading the Bible, Quaker journals and histories, and borrowed books, having received

commitment with the publication of his November Boughs essay "Elias Hicks" (1888); he used Hicks's Journal

Journal of the Life and Religious Labours of Elias Hicks. Written by Himself. 1832. 5th ed.

Journalism, Whitman's

  • Creator(s): Killingsworth, M. Jimmie
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It was through journalism that Whitman first discovered himself to be a writer, first joined the public

By 1838, Whitman was back to regular work in journalism, this time as the founding editor and publisher

During the early 1840s, he contributed reviews and essays to papers and literary journals and also began

The significance of journalism in Whitman's overall development is at least partly clear, however.

Journalism, Whitman's

Clapp, Henry (1814–1875)

  • Creator(s): Stansell, Christine
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In 1858 Clapp had founded a literary journal, the Saturday Press, which was dedicated to publishing new

Twenty items on Whitman and/or Leaves of Grass appeared throughout 1860, including reviews from other journals

Clapp's journal folded in 1860.

Holloway, Emory (1885–1977)

  • Creator(s): Garvey, T. Gregory
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This book established the importance of Whitman's journalism and prose to the emergence of Leaves of

largely bypass Holloway's work, but by emphasizing the importance of Whitman's early career in journalism

Denison, Flora MacDonald (1867–1921)

  • Creator(s): Kalnin, Martha A.
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suffrage movement, she also established a Whitman club and edited The Sunset of Bon Echo, the club's journal

By founding a society for Whitman, providing a meeting place for it, and producing a journal, Denison

Willis, Nathaniel Parker (1806–1867)

  • Creator(s): Garvey, T. Gregory
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Britain's refusal to offer American authors copyright protection, Willis founded the short-lived journal

He achieved his greatest stature between 1846 and 1864 as editor of the New York Home Journal, which

Parton, James (1822–1891)

  • Creator(s): Garvey, T. Gregory
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Willis's popular magazine The New York Home Journal.

Parton chose to leave journalism in 1854 when he signed a contract to write The Life of Horace Greeley

New World, The (New York)

  • Creator(s): Erkkila, Betsy
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printer and author suggest the multivarious sources of his later writing in the world of print journalism

Journalism in the United States from 1690 to 1872. 1875.

Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880–1918)

  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
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He thought poetry should enjoy the same liberty as journalism, but considered free verse only one of

followed, which lasted for ten months in the pages of the Mercure de France as well as in other journals

Life Illustrated

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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in New York by Fowler and Wells from 1854 until it merged in 1861 with the American Phrenological Journal

, another Fowler and Wells publication, to become the American Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated

Self-Reviews of the 1855 Leaves, Whitman's Anonymous

  • Creator(s): Killingsworth, M. Jimmie
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AnonymousSelf-Reviews of the 1855 Leaves, Whitman's AnonymousThroughout his career, Whitman used his connections in journalism

of Grass in no fewer than three periodicals—the United States Review, the American Phrenological Journal

This agenda is especially clear in the piece written for the American Phrenological Journal.

Falmouth, Virginia

  • Creator(s): Rietz, John
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witnessing the war firsthand, and although the battle had ended nearly a week before his arrival, his journals

One morning the sight of three fresh corpses on stretchers moved him to make a journal entry that would

Brooklyn Daily Times

  • Creator(s): Renner, Dennis K.
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political resistance.Whitman's Times articles display the humanitarian concerns of his earlier journalism

Whitman's stint with the Times has often been considered less pertinent to his poetry than his journalism

Journalism Quarterly 48 (1971): 431–437.Erkkila, Betsy. Whitman the Political Poet.

Slavery and Abolitionism

  • Creator(s): Klammer, Martin
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Whitman's seeming indifference to the plight of blacks in his journalism and early fiction reflects a

between North and South so weakened the free-soil movement that Whitman abandoned his free-soil journalism

who had focused much of his journalistic writing on slavery, wrote three letters to the free-soil journal

egalitarianism nor his identification with slaves could have been anticipated by his free-soil journalism

One way to make sense of Whitman's seeming inconsistencies on slavery is to recognize that his journalism

Long Islander

  • Creator(s): Karbiener, Karen
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Whitman had been teaching school for three years and was clearly eager to return to journalism.

Walt Whitman's Journalism: A Bibliography. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1969. Whitman, Walt.

Review of Specimen Days and Collect

  • Date: 1 November 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Whitman's new book, "Specimen Days and Collect" is a literary curiosity made up of extracts from journals

Traubel, Horace L. [1858–1919]

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
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were Richard Maurice Bucke and Thomas Harned); he founded, edited, and published The Conservator, a journal

typesetter, a skill he would employ throughout his life as he often set the type for his monthly journal

His journal, The Conservator, which he began two years before Whitman's death and continued until his

Conservator in 1899, and Gertrude, whom Horace and Anne educated at home, joined the staff of the journal

Free Inquirer

  • Creator(s): Stein, Jennifer J.
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ideas.The Free Inquirer was originally founded in 1825 by Robert Dale Owen as the New-Harmony Gazette, a journal

New Orleans Picayune

  • Creator(s): Harris, Maverick Marvin
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staff (he never did) during his brief tenure as editor of the New Orleans Crescent in 1848 or about journalism

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

Evening Tattler (New York)

  • Creator(s): Bawcom, Amy M.
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Evening Tattler, which was emblematic of the rough-and-tumble world of nineteenth-century American journalism

Phillips, George Searle ("January Searle") (1815–1889)

  • Creator(s): Tyrer, Patricia J.
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Phillips, George Searle ("January Searle") (1815–1889) A journalist and writer of books, pamphlets, and journal

Arts and Crafts Movement

  • Creator(s): Roche, John F
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admired in Boston, home of the conservative Boston Society of Arts and Crafts, founded in 1897, and its journal

and publicize the 1897 exhibition that initiated that society and wrote occasional pieces for its journal

Barrus, Clara (1864–1931)

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
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and Man (1920), The Life and Letters of John Burroughs (2 vols., 1925), The Heart of Burroughs's Journals

Rossetti, William Michael [1829–1915]

  • Creator(s): Smith, Sherwood
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Michael Rossetti, brother of Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti, was the editor of The Germ (1850), journal

neglect in the United States, and subsequent heated discussions of this in English and American journals

"Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher" (1891)

  • Creator(s): Collmer, Robert G.
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A flurry of articles, primarily as rebuttals, appeared in American and British journals.

Tupper, Martin Farquhar (1810–1889)

  • Creator(s): Gibson, Brent L.
Text:

American Notes & Queries: A Journal for the Curious 1 (1941): 101–102.

American Whig Review

  • Creator(s): Rachman, Stephen
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early story "The Boy Lover" in May 1845, this New York monthly was called The American Review: A Whig Journal

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

  • Creator(s): Renner, Dennis K.
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earlier critics expressed puzzlement over the difference between the literary quality of Whitman's journalism

Journalism Quarterly 48 (1871): 195–204.Brasher, Thomas L.

Woman's Rights Movement and Whitman, The

  • Creator(s): Ceniza, Sherry
Text:

focus on phrenology and numerous other reform-related issues, Whitman also wrote for one of its journals

force in the woman's rights movement until her death in 1876 and the publisher/editor of the woman's journal

Trall, Dr. Russell Thacher (1812–1877)

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
Text:

hydropathy with those of other hygienic and reformist cults; edited Fowler and Wells's Water-Cure Journal

Saturday Press

  • Creator(s): Bawcom, Amy M.
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In the 9 June 1860 issue of the journal, Mary A.

Westminster Review, The

  • Creator(s): Barcus, James E., Jr.
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Edinburgh Review, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, and the Westminster Review, a liberal Benthamite journal

Pennell, Joseph (1857–1926), and Elizabeth Robins (1855–1936)

  • Creator(s): Garrett, Paula K.
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Pennell later published The Whistler Journal (1921).

Herder, Johann Gottfried von (1744–1803)

  • Creator(s): Grünzweig, Walter
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Journal of the History of Ideas 24.1 (1963): 115–126. Mueller-Vollmer, Kurt.

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

China, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): Huang, Guiyou
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the Centennial Anniversary of Whitman's Birthday," in the inaugural issue of Young China, a radical journal

large audience of intelligentsia, and essays on and translations of Whitman soon began to surface in journals

Evil

  • Creator(s): Kahn, Sholom J.
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(section 7).Versatile Whitman wrote in prose (fiction, journalism, essays, memoirs) and verse (from early

The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 12 (1953): 98–110._____.

Hunkers

  • Creator(s): Green, Charles B.
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and nominated Martin Van Buren for president.Walt Whitman, who over the course of his career in journalism

Bazalgette, Léon (1873–1929)

  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
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Whitman (1921, but written in 1914) and later translated Specimen Days under the title of Pages de Journal

Leggett, William L. (1801–1839)

  • Creator(s): Widmer, Ted
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But his most important work was his journalism, particularly at the New York Evening Post, where he worked

Smith, Robert Pearsall (1827–1898)

  • Creator(s): Davey, Christina
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Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 26 (1969): 170–196. Strachey, Barbara.

"Reconciliation" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Mason-Browne, N.J.
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He expressed great fondness and respect for them in his journals.

Leech, Abraham Paul (1815–1886)

  • Creator(s): Golden, Arthur
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His ordeal ended when he left teaching for a journalism career in New York City.

Speed, Attorney General James (1812–1887)

  • Creator(s): Hatch, Frederick
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Louisville: Courier-Journal Job Printing, 1892. Whitman, Walt. The Correspondence. Ed.

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