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The Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays is composed of approximately 250,000 volumes of American

and Canadian poetry, plays, and vocal music dating from 1609 to the present day.

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays

On the back of the leaf is a draft of Whitman's early poem "The Play-Ground," which was published in

The title "The Play-Ground" is written vertically along the left side of this leaf, presumably labeling

On the reverse of this leaf is a draft of Whitman's poem "The Play-Ground." far. Amongst this

On the back of the leaf is a draft of Whitman's early poem "The Play-Ground," which was published in

The title "The Play-Ground" is written vertically along the left side of this leaf, presumably labeling

from digital images of the original.; On the reverse of this leaf is a draft of Whitman's poem "The Play-Ground

28The Play-Ground (1846).

A.MS. draft.loc.00264xxx.00741The Play-GroundAbout 1846poetryhandwritten1 leaf20 x 16.5 cm; A draft of

the early poem The Play-Ground, nearly as it appeared in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on June 1, 1846 (during

The Play-Ground

9Doyle, Peter.

humility's book]1868poetryhandwritten2 leaves; A draft of a poem on the verso of an 1868 draft letter to Peter

The Play‑Ground.

For there are merry children, the village children come— The cheeriest things on earth, I see them play—I

This manuscript is a draft of the early poem "The Play-Ground," nearly as it appeared in the Brooklyn

The Play-Ground

This manuscript is a draft of the early poem "The Play-Ground," nearly as it appeared in the Brooklyn

Whitman referred to Mario in Specimen Days & Collect, published in 1882-1883, in the passages entitled Plays

fol.00003xxx.00465S.b.89What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays?

[manuscript], ca. 1884What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays?

leaveshandwritten; A late-stage manuscript of Whitman's essay What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays

What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays?

28"The Play-Ground" (1846), draftloc.07421xxx.01143far.

On the back of the leaf (loc.00264) is a draft of Whitman's early poem The Play-Ground, which was published

The title The Play-Ground is written vertically along the left side of this leaf, presumably labeling

several notes that scholars have identified as autobiographical comments on Whitman's relationship with Peter

This manuscript contains notes about the characters and physical traits of three men: Bill Guess, Peter

In this particular manuscript, Whitman lists figures such as "Peter the Hermit" and "The Popes."

1 His earl ies t printed plays 1597 Romeo & Juliet Richard 3d & Richard 2d Chapman's trans. of Homer,

1596—his sone son Hamnet died, in the 12th year of his age. 1598 To this year, only five of his plays

"To be or not to be" is taken almost verbatim from Plato— —To the Iliad, every one of his best plays

—"What Pope says of some of the Plays of Shakespeare is probably true of all—that they were pieces of

His earliest printed plays

Comparison between Homer's Iliad Shakespeare's plays & Leaves of Grass Transcribed from digital images

Whitman saw in New York in the 1850s, and who Whitman mentions in the section of Specimen Days entitled Plays

The Nibelungen vast passions of man, with play of heat & cold & storm, like undercurrents, or volcanos

.— wood-duck on my distan le around. purposes, nd white playing within me the tufted crown intentional

I believe in those winged purposes, / And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me, / And

The passionate, teeming play this curtain hid!)

.— Peter — —large, strong boned youn young fellow, driver.—should guess he weigh ed s 200 180 .

They know that no critic could, by reading a play, evolve a portrait of the man whom an original actor

Yet this by-play of the great actress was such that the audience, looking at her, forgot to listen to

They contain acting editions of the plays in which she appeared, edited by Mrs. Inchbald.

Siddons play this part you scarcely can believe that any acting could make her part subordinate.

The notes on this play will now be given, only so much of each scene being quoted as is necessary to

The passionate, teeming play this cur- curtain tain hid!)

After the cycles, poems, singers, plays, Vaunted Ionia's, India's—Homer, Shakspere Shakespeare — all

warrior, king, full of courage—the usual type‑hero, as seen, duly followed, in all modern novels and plays

known & better off —then prosperous received sums of £200, £300, £600 &c for his poems, histories & plays

good family, inherited some property,—wrote fables in verse— somewhat like Æsop's—also wrote poems & plays—lived

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast."

Peter and St. Michael and the Virgin Mary.— 2 Before the vesper hour, lo!

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast" (p. 71).

1921), nature writer, literary critic, and author of Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (1867); Peter

C., assignor to himself and Peter Hannay. Gas generators. James A.

Review— fifes like a tho the thousand whistles of the fifes, (playing Lannigan's ball) so ro with inexpressible

years old many of the characters living in 1870 (runs up to 1870) — Swedenborg........1668 1772 104 Peter

Dizzy shock, 1067 16 David played on his harp to drive away Saul's melancholy.

Peter crucified, and St. Paul beheaded. Judge, 66 51 Destruction of Jerusalem.

Time rough, 1348 35 Peter the Cruel came to the throne.

Dutch book, 1697 100 Peter the Great engaged in ship-building.

Dutch pipe, 1699 5 Battle of Narva—Peter the Great defeated.

anticipating the description in the following lines: "The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play

—Here, at least if nowhere else if anywhere over the whole world, shall be fair play.

225 775 6000 1000 400 32-5-32 3 5 the same right to come that we have, and on the same terms.— Fair play

alarmed about the union of these states; , like all good and noble feelings, it is susceptible of being played

unerringly signified which is the their knowledge of a bogus article from solid gold : The men who played

the great parts in these plays dramas have all, without one single exception, been set aside, without

—Work of some sort Play?

weapons or helmets—all emblematic of peace—shadowy—rapidly approaches and pauses sweeping by— if in a play—let

The keel-boatmen were great sticklers for "fair-play," and would permit of no interference with either

Naval Hospital, granted by Peter Minuet, first Director General and Governor of New Netherlands.

"To all people to whom this present writing shall come: Peter, Elmohar, Job, Marquiquos, and Shamese,

grant, bargain and sell unto the said Monsier Machiell Hainelle, Thomas Lambertse, John Lewis and Peter

limits before described, unto the said Monsier Machiell Hainelle, Thomas Lambertse, John Lewis and Peter

Louch, Samuel § his mark Davis, John Garland The mark of § PETER, L.S. The mark of O ELMOHAR, L.S.

. / And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me, / And consider the green and violet and

the poem later titled "I Sing the Body Electric": "The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play

—the vocal performer to make far more of his song, or solo part, by by-play, attitudes, expressions,

edition of The bugle calls in the ballroom—the dancers gentlemen lead out go for their partners—the playing

The fingers of the pianist playing lightly and rapidly over the keys. illustration a man placing his

as it is now; It could as easily have unfolded to him, the counsel of God, as to bid him send for Peter

ordained the use of instrumental means, was it any reason, why Cornelius should reject the teaching of Peter

If when Peter came, Cornelius had said to him, I have the Light in myself–this is all-sufficient for

"Whitman's Anthology of English Literature," Library Notes [Duke University] 50 (1982), 33-34, and Peter

isolated, perfect and sound, is isolated all all things and all other beings as an audience at the play-house

fire. / From the cinder-strew'd threshold I follow their movements, / The lithe sheer of their waists plays

had no niche with its holy image; and because the naked Dryads of Paganism were permitted there to play

Nay, often he plays on the poetic strings with so rich and jewel-loaded a hand, that the sparkling mass

disturbs, if not the playing, yet our hearing of it."

In the summer of the next year, Director Peter Minuit purchased from the aborigines, the whole of Manhattan

NEW YORK: PETER ECKLER, 35 F ULTON TREET 26 THE RUINS OF EMPIRES. family against family, tribe against

To suppose that this product of the play of the organs, born with them, matured with them, and which

calls out to "you precedents," and vows to connect with them, and he describes "[o]ne generation playing

its part and passing on, / And another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn."

Peter the Great, (1689-1725,) founding the Russian Empire by his genius, had chalked out for his successors

in which all the characters have perished, without leaving a seed behind;—while on its surface is played

it—the affair of Leisler (1691) printer of the "Weekly Journal," (1735)—the trial of its printer, John Peter

myths—the interminable ballad-romances of the Middle Ages—the hymns and psalms of worship—the epics, plays

Van Egmond, Peter. "Bryn Mawr College Library Holdings of Whitman Books." 20 (June 1974): 41-50.