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"our huge earth itself, which, to ordinary scansion, is full of vulgar contradictions" (Prose Works 2:

ensemble, that can transform the "ungrammatical, untidy,...ill-bred" average of Democratic Vistas (2:

the contrary, I hereby retract it," he announces, or "Now I reverse what I said" ("Says," sections 2

Vol. 2. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961.Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Ed.

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964.Zapata-Whelan, Carol.

poems and poets, binding the lands of the earth closer than all treaties and diplomacy" (Prose Works 2:

I know not a land except ours that has not, to some extent . . . made its title clear" (Prose Works 2:

all-assuming identity, with dilating internal atlas ("Within me latitude widens, longitude lengthens" [section 2]

The Evolution of Walt Whitman. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1960, 1962. Erkkila, Betsy.

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964.____.

However, Canto General parts ways with Leaves of Grass as an ideological tract in which "comrade" denotes

Lorca wrote "Oda a Walt Whitman" as part of his lyrical collection of angst in America, El poeta en Nueva

Duyckinck probably served as the Review's literary editor and was coeditor and part owner of other radically

judicially" about the work rather than the man—a cardinal principle embraced by the critical group he was part

The weakest part of his treatment is the judgment that Whitman was insufficiently modest when treating

An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside, 1900. ———, ed.

Vol. 2. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921.Yannella, Donald. "Cornelius Mathews."

less obscure despite his statement near the beginning that describes it as dialectical: "I feel the parts

Personalism," as it is nurtured by the emergence of a "New World literature" (405), the subject of the final part

of his essay.In the first part, Whitman inveighs, with apocalyptic fervor, against the awful discrepancy

The "mental-educational part" of Whitman's model would attend to everything from a program of stirpiculture

Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964. 361–426. Democratic Vistas [1871]

the pseudosciences.In the case of phrenology, Whitman constructed a mythical persona, based in large part

the past and predict a joyous future, resembles the invisible musicians of séances (sections 1 and 2)

American Literature 2 (1931): 350–384.Reiss, Edmund. "Whitman's Debt to Animal Magnetism."

American Literature 2 (1931): 350–384.Kaplan, Justin. Walt Whitman: A Life.

At least part of the answer lies in Whitman's quest to express the totality of existence, to encompass

interesting resemblance to Whitman's own later sense of spirit at work in the natural world.A large part

This allegiance was confirmed by the long line of Democratic papers he wrote for in the early part of

Part of the reason Whitman's poetry was so little influenced by that of other poets is to be found in

The Evolution of Walt Whitman. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1960–1962.Reynolds, David S.

though in Democratic Vistas Whitman acknowledges the people's "crude defective streaks" (Prose Works 2:

Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1961. ____.

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963-1964.  'Song of the Exposition' [1871]

fellow of my size, the friendly presence & magnetism needed, somehow, is not here)" (Correspondence 2:

Vols. 2–3. New York: New York UP, 1961–1964. Whitman, Louisa Orr Haslam (Mrs. George) (1842–1892)

The bird imagery in the first part of the cluster, arising out of and closely connected to the land (

humans), is used to symbolize the boy's growing awareness of mortality; the ship imagery in the second part

Lines and parts of lines that fit the parameters of traditional metrical or strong-stress poetry abound

The two groups have the same accentual contour—falling 1–2, primary to secondary prominence.

Line 2 does not pick up the iambic rhythm of line one but rather this 1–2 falling contour.

Again there are two groups, with 1–2 contours, with the first accent on pronouns—I and you and -sume

("Song of Myself," section 2) Many poems ask to be read at a rapid, exuberant pace, with no time for

WILSoN PART 1 1. Erasing Race: The Lost Black Presence in Whitman’s Manuscripts 3 Ed FoLSom 2.

Transforming the Kosmos: Yusef Komunyakaa Musing on Walt Whitman 124 JACoB WILkENFELd PART 2 7.

June Jordan’s 1980 essay is the lead piece in part 2, which fea- tures reflections on Whitman by contemporary

Ibid., 2:572.

This kind of erasure would continue to dominate Civil War memory, as monuments to only part of the story

In the story of his life, as he tells it to us, we find him at the age of sixteen beginning a definite

The reader will have his or her part to do, just as much as I have had mine.

On 2 March 1850, he published his important early poem, "Song for Certain Congressmen" (later called

Vol. 2. 1908. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961. Leggett, William L. (1801–1839)

Vol. 2. New York: New York, 1961.Woodward, William, and Edward F. Sanderson.

Do not these fragments, picked from different parts of the country, at random, give an idea of what the

The foregoing lines are but a part of the bird song.

Stedman had failed to grasp the wholeness of the work, though no finer characterization of the parts

The whole volume, in its arrangement, is pregnant with Whitman's personality, and it seems more a part

…Prefaces to "Leaves of Grass," l855, 1872, 1876…Poetry Today in America…Death of Abraham Lincoln…Stories

The parts that deal with the war have been emphasized as forming one of the most important phases of

Occasionally throughout the book, and as notable as any parts, are some of Whitman's special letters.

Here, for example, is one which tells its own story. CAMDEN, N. J., U. S. A., Dec. 20, 1881.

For our part, we hope it will remain "well enveloped" till doomsday; and as for "definition," all we

connoisseurs of his time, may obey the laws of his time, and achieve the intense and elaborated beauty of parts

The perfect poet cannot afford any special beauty of parts, or to limit himself by any laws less than

Meanwhile a strange voice parts others aside and demands for its owner that position that is only allowed

listener or beholder, to re-appear through him or her; and it offers the best way of making them a part

qualities, tumble pell-mell exhaustless and copious, with what appear to be the same disregard of parts

us in the Saturday Press, of Dec. 24, preceding, we seize upon and give to our readers, in another part

trying his hand at the edifice, the structure he has undertaken, has lazily loafed on, letting each part

have time to set—evidently building not so much with reference to any part itself, considered alone,

reference to the ensemble,—always bearing in mind the combination of the whole, to fully justify the parts

well accomplished, grasps not, sees not, any such ideal ensemble—likely sees not the only valuable part

convening of Congress every December, the members coming up from all climates, and from the uttermost parts—the

"I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, and feeling are miracles, and each part and

Doubtless in the scheme this man has built for himself the writing of poems is but a proportionate part

Anderson, “‘Be Up and Doing,’” 2. 50.

guise of mourning the demise of this gender-bending, part Amazonian, part Gorgonian beast whose pen had

“Thoughts and Things,” SP, June 2, 1860. 34.

“Thoughts and Things,” SP, Jan. 14, 1860, 2. 44. Pw 2:693–94; Ackerman, Portable Theater, 42.

Katz, Love Stories, 134. 35. “Frances Gray,” 1–2.

It parades before us a weak despair, an insistence on the irreconcileable in nature, the parting of friends

"My hands, my limbs, grow nerveless; My brain feels rack'd, bewilder'd; Let the old timbers part I will

not part I will cling fast to , O God, though the waves buffet me— Thee, , at least, I know.

Cherson, also known as Chersonesus, was a Greek colony in 6th century BC, located in the southwestern part

The general tendency of criticism has been to tell a tragic story of decline and failure, seeing the

are not always sure you have heard aright, but somehow you feel that the very Distance is the truest part

The reader will always have his or her part to do, just as much as I have had mine.

Whitman (he would not like to be called Mr., but he has done what he likes himself for the most part,

That work, or rather the important part of it—for little that has appeared since makes much difference—was

We cannot, for our part, conceive any theory of poetry which shall shut out stuff such as the Death Carol

Whitman would later say that he came to make sure that, if Sanborn were convicted, he—Whitman—might take part

Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908. Waldron, Randall.

mother, he wrote, were "the two best and sweetest women I have ever seen or known" (Correspondence 2:

When the newly married couple moved into the Whitman household, Mattie became an integral part of the

For his part, undoubtedly with pride in Jeff's accomplishments in mind, Walt praised the great achievements

(Prose Works 2:693). BibliographyAllen, Gay Wilson.

Floyd Stovall. 2 Vols. New York: New York UP, 1963-1964. Whitman, Thomas Jefferson [1833–1890]

I remembered the story of Miller at Lundy's Lane, of Bruce (was it?)

Memoirs. 2 vols. London: William Heinemann, 1893. Stovall, Floyd.

(See figure 2.)

Whitman, LG 1855, 14. 2.

Huntington, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, vol. 2, part 3 (Washington,

Vol. 2, part 3. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1883. Otis Historical Archives.

Vol. 2.

his British reviewers, the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass was met in London for the most part

But in the latter part of the nineteenth century the most strikingly original British response to Whitman

, rolling in superfluity, against the vast bulk of the work-people, living in squalor" (Prose Works 2:

Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908.Whitman, Walt. The Gathering of the Forces. Ed.

Cleveland Rodgers and John Black. 2 vols. New York: Putnam, 1920.____.

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964.____.

Emory Holloway. 2 vols. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921.____.

All these first became part of the young journalist who went forth every day during the 1840s, licensed

The Thought and Character of William James. 2 vols. Boston: Little, Brown, 1935.Tanner, James T.F.

Calamus: Walt Whitman Quarterly International 2 (1970): 6–23. James, William (1842–1910)

, whose adherents and practitioners clearly preached the doctrine of acquired characteristics as a part

Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1964. Evolution

proper forces tends continually to increase the volume of every body possessing it, and to enlarge its parts

up to a limit which it brings about; (2) The production of a new organ in an animal body results from

243) and even that Scott's novels are his "chief pleasure nowadays" (2:251).

like Shakspere, exhale that principle of caste which we have come on earth to destroy" (Prose Works 2:

Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906; Vol. 2. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1915. Whitman, Walt.

Cleveland Rodgers and John Black. 2 vols. New York: Putnam, 1920. ———. Prose Works 1892. Ed.

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964. Scott, Sir Walter (1771–1832)

His New Paper" in which Whitman claims Dickens is "staunch for the Democratic movement" (Gathering 2:

Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908. Whitman, Walt. "Boz and Democracy."

Cleveland Rodgers and John Black. 2 vols. New York: Putnam, 1920. ———.

He takes the loftiest views of man, reverences all his parts, and will not have any thing omitted.

shouldn't wonder if I have unconsciously put a sort of autobiographical dash in it" (Correspondence 2:

"Thought" was then added to the tenth edition of Leaves of Grass (1897) as part of "Old Age Echoes."

Van Velsor Whitman, of Dutch descent and Quaker faith, was fond of singing folk songs and telling stories

"combiner, nothing more spiritual, nothing more sensuous, a god, yet completely human" (Prose Works 2:

In the American opera the story and libretto must be the body of the performance.

Cleveland Rodgers and John Black. 2 vols. New York: Putnam, 1920.____. Leaves of Grass. Ed.

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964.____.

Colorado was too late to influence much of Whitman's poetry, but his memories of Denver became a frequent part