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The Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 1866 (republished 1883)
  • Creator(s): William Douglas O'Connor
Text:

I play Alphonso neither to genius nor to God.

Here in my knowledge is an estimable family which, when the baby playing on the floor kicked up its skirts

This is one of the central ideas which rule the myriad teeming play of his volume, and interpret it as

a law of Nature interprets the complex play of facts which proceeds from it.

Notes on Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

sky, and yet from time to time, and especially in some of the concluding parts, abandons itself to a play

or have the rocks and the weeds a part to play also?

unconscionable energy, as of earthquakes, and ocean storms, and cleft mountains, across which things of beauty play

The Carpenter

  • Date: 1868
  • Creator(s): William Douglas O'Connor
Text:

"When the children come, you'll have a good time playing with them.

"Old uncle Peter always said he was alive, and going round doing good.

"That's a sample lot of old Peter Dyzer," he resumed. "Lord, sir!

'That's him,—that's Christ,' says old Peter. 'But, Mr.

"I mentioned that old Peter Dyzer left me this place.

Suppressing Walt Whitman.

  • Date: April 22, 1876
  • Creator(s): William Douglass O'Connor
Text:

blackened corpse of Glanas swung beside the carcass of the regicide for having translated Plato, and where Peter

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1883
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

Yes, unhesitatingly; the plays of the great poet are not only the concentration of all that lambently

played in the best fanciesof those times — not only the gathering sunset ofthe stirringdays of feudalism

corner of the room where there was a group ofyoung children, with whom he talked and laughed and played

I play Alphonso neither togenius nor to God.

, and interpret itas a law of Nature interpretsthe complex play of factswhich proceeds Iroiuit.

Anna Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings

  • Date: 1887
  • Creator(s): Herbert Harlakendend Gilchrist | Anna Gilchrist | William Michael Rossetti
Text:

Age 48— 51. new country — Description of Philadelphia— Edward The Carpenter — Walt Whitman at the play

Round the Priory we findart and nature playing into each other's hands.

A fondness for music was soon to show itself;an announcement ,that her mistress would play asonata of

Tennyson is all that he said. having men- tioned that they had just come over from Peters- field, and

His play ought to be worth reading and seeing.

Camden’s Compliment to Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1889
  • Creator(s): Horace L. Traubel
Text:

Whitman gone, the fruitless. meeting had gone with him, as though a more than Hamelinic pipe had been played

In him 24 ADDRESSES. nature has ample play.

But the gentleman willnot slapthe pick-pocket on the back and play the political harlotto gain his favor

Then willcome into play, for the firsttime, the marvellous genius of the poet who sang the "Song of Myself

Walt Whitman: A Study

  • Date: 1893
  • Creator(s): John Addington Symonds
Text:

it in the edition of 1856. publishing enlarged It must be inserted here,for the part this letter played

This played propagation spirit was somewhat grotesquely exhibited in his table-talk at a banquet held

His lofty and vigorous nature lent itself to the of this which would have playing part, been unbearable

During my darkest hours, itcomforted me with inthe the conviction that I too played my part illimitable

take that he the section. it recognised right and the of " native moments " in that necessity free play

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

A canary sang with all his might, and a kitten played toand fro.

When the committee handed him the he said: thisislike bag, "Why, a play.

How " " is it with you now, Robert Browning, maker of plays ?

The dialogues of the play are mostly in and the and inheroics.

In our modern-life plays the stifantiqueness of heroic verse is unendurable.

Walt Whitman: The Man

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): Thomas Donaldson
Text:

his &Yest; but as to Bacon head, ; and Shaks- peare, admitting Shakspeare wrote the there is else plays

WHITMAN, LXIX. ofthe he Impotent Pieces Game Plays Upon the Chequer-board ofNights and Days : Hither

D. and Peters, Firestone, O. G.

Peters, all of Columbus, O. for their kindness in thematter of the buggy. 328MICKLE STREET, CAMDEN, N.J

When Peter asks thee of thy crimes, You answer not with clearness, Shrieking fiends with shame willyell

Whitman: A Study

  • Date: 1902
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

his rank aftera time familiar, contemporaneity; you willsurely see the lambent spiritualflames that play

"Oncere I to charge you give play your self.

He presents you the elements of good and evil in himself in vitalfusion and play; your part to how the

Sin, repentance, fear,Satan, hell, Creation had resulted play important parts. in a tragedy in which

Death is the right hand of God, and evil a also. plays necessary part Nothing is discriminated against

Days with Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1906
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

would quite enjoy, on a rainy after- noon, having a game of twenty questions such as he had "often played

far, far reaching, giving weight and permanent value to what would other- wise have been only two plays

The truth is, Peter, here at the present time mainly that I am in the midst of female women, some of

Isay the matter isnot very important because itis obvious that whatever part Emerson's teaching played

In his heart of hearts— though doubtless he thought Whitman had played him unfair, and 173 Days with

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-1891

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): J. Jonston, M.D. | J. W. Wallace
Text:

Then the band the National Anthem and we went played into the house.

The great poems Homer's Iliad,' Shakespeare's plays, etc. discuss great themes and are long poems.

His assistants had told me that Peter Peppercorn had been in the day before. "Do you know Peter?"

A Play in Five Acts By LEONIDAS ANDREIEV. Translated by C. J. HOGARTH. A remarkable Times.

Lar "Cn 8vo '25'M ' net" play.

The Fight of a Book for the World

  • Date: 1926
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

s letterto his mother and to Peter Doyle.

J., I give to my friend,Peter Doyle, my silverwatch. I give to H.

Bayne, Peter, 28, 29. Answerer, the. See Song.

Doyle, Peter, 261. Finta, Alexander, 118, 119.

Herald, 260; Letters to Peter sirs ^ , a.

Biography of Richard Maurice Bucke

  • Date: 1998
  • Creator(s): Howard Nelson
Text:

Calamus: A Series of Letters Written During the Years 1868—1880 by Walt Whitman to a Young Friend (Peter

Introduction to Horace Traubel

  • Creator(s): Matt Cohen
Text:

As Whitman's health failed, he needed more help with daily tasks, and from the mid-1880s, Traubel played

Walt Whitman: Is He Persecuted?

  • Creator(s): William Douglass O'Connor
Text:

periodical pretends to cater to; but only, instead, put in to do the poet harm, the dull insults of Peter

Bayne—Peter Bayne, the purblind devotee of weak superstition, whose essays in criticism, marked by such

in his age, his poverty, his infirmity, no friend of his could desire a worthier tribute than fair play

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 2)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

But I, for my part—we—must not play the game with that end in view.

He often plays with his penknife, opening and shutting as he talks.

Lust, whiskey, such things, played heavy cards in his game of life.

I doubt whether I would ever care for the play." Better today.

Tom, don't play with fire."

Tuesday, July 17, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

But I, for my part—we—must not play the game with that end in view.

Wednesday, July 18, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

were offensive to him: there was something crude, powerful, drastic, in the Shakes-speareShakespeare plays

Sunday, July 22, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

deserted, fall from his high place, sink into total obscurity: but on the stage, at the moment, while the play

Tuesday, July 24, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Whitman,These last days have been so crowded with work and play that there has been no fair chance to

Saturday, July 28, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

importance in a day—amputations, blood, death are nothing to him—you will see a group absorbed in playing

He often plays with his penknife, opening and shutting as he talks.

my first tries with the lute—in that book I am just like a man tuning up his instrument before the play

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 5)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

They had played Raff's "Lenore" Symphony among other things.Evening, 8:00.

The whole subject, Beethoven, and the playing absolutely without note.

But the average pianist plays by sight only, and has no ears.

He listened intently while Anna played a fine air (and played it finely) on the piano.

and played around the chair.

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 1)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Peter's. It is grand, grand—O how grand!

They were reviving a whole series of old English plays: very good, staple plays: I saw a good many of

In the plays—the historical plays especially—Bacon sees the basilisk in all his nature and proportions.I

There is much in the plays that is offensive to me, anyhow: yes, in all the plays of that period: a grandiose

Kennedy came along and put in a demurrer, W. resuming: "The Shakespeare plays are essentially the plays

Monday, February 25, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

"That's a little of Maurice's stage-play," he said: "he will go: Bucke knows, as we all know, that the

said at once: "At least as potential: at least, at least: there may be more reasons some days for playing

He smiled sadly: "I'd give a lot to be able to play a game of foot and a half with you this minute."

Wednesday, February 27, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

me, I get nearer to them, than any others: they have no axe to grind, no wires to pull, no game to play

Saturday, March 2, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

William, who couldn't write his name, was the author of reams of plays of the most astonishing quality

Tuesday, March 5, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

couldn't be weak if he tried: he has no resources of the pettifying order—no idiocy—in him: even his play

while play has in it the vehemence of faith.

Tuesday, March 12, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

nothing of Tannhäuser: I only know some of its friends—like you, for example: I know some bits of it played

Friday, March 22, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

towards the floor—"was honest—that his integrity was beyond any corrupting influence: that he would play

Tom is not only straight but shrewd: he is a past master in the engineering of corporations: Doctor played

Tuesday, March 26, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Look at our stage: in fact we have no stage at all: a jumble of plays packed together without logic or

It occurs to me we have so far not had one American play—not one.

Wednesday, March 27, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

He said: "You are my right bower: I can't play the game without you." Wednesday, March 27, 1889

Thursday, March 28, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

It's a feeble copy of the British Micawberism: British humbug about British fair play, British liberty

Monday, April 1, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

were originally Democrats but when the time came we went over with a vengeance: it was no role, no play

Thursday, April 4, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

W. said: "I guess the economics play a part: that's rather your cue than mine: I have heard about Glasgow

Friday, April 5, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

reasons for it—some innate, some political: the anti habit is more or less active in all of it: it plays

Donnelly has made lately a remarkable discovery—that the two folio editions of the plays following the

I asked W.: "There was Nicholas Bacon: what part did he perform in the mystery of the plays?"

Have you the idea that Nicholas was somehow intimately, dynamically, a party to the production of the plays

Sunday, April 7, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Young Kersley and Danney came for me in a carriage at 1, and bro't me back at 5; enjoy'd the ride, the play

Tuesday, November 27, 1888

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

O'Connor, is veritably a Peter the Hermit, a Luther."

Friday, November 30, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

all then laughingly going their ways again: no scheme, no reward: just the finer human impulse at play

Sunday, December 2, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

chief figure in a box with Childs, Dayton and self on the eve of the 24th inst at the opening of my play

Tuesday, December 4, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

think so: maybe: hardly: there were other elements in the story—venom, jealousies, opacities: they played

Friday, December 7, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

troubling myself with Faustian problems: I have heard all the Fausts, I may say: Gounod's, others: Faust plays

W. said: "He wrote his plays in trilogies (I have a friend—he always amuses me—calls them trillogies)

Saturday, December 8, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

books about me: not cumbersome—light: carried them in my pocket: Shakespeare, for instance—one of the Plays

respects the most characteristic—I carried it most: I would buy a cheap second-hand book—tear out the play

Monday, December 17, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

all—would personally have been as well satisfied if the game had been declared off at any stage of the play

"And about redistributing the poems—giving them new titles: did n'tdidn't that play hob with your scheme

Tuesday, December 18, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

—the play of his imagination quite fine.

Friday, December 21, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

W. thought that "surely the greatest farce they had ever played in."

Sunday, December 23, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

The tangerines and a book beside him: he played with them. I was happy. He seemed so well.

Sunday, December 30, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

I heard this in a play: "a walking shadow ending in nothing." W. asked me: "Don't you like it?

Monday, December 31, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

"I suppose there will be an account in to-morrow'stomorrow's papers of the opening of the play house

the notes of a Scotchman—a gentleman: barrister: something or other: going into the pit, seeing the play

Garrick-Garrick was the first to break through the old bonds—he would have insisted that Garrick should play

Hamlet wearing small clothes and a periwig, as it had once to be played.

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