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especially, he sought for:— I have allowed the stress of my poems from beginning to end to bear upon American

I think this pride indispensable to an American.

gives breath to my whole scheme that the bulk of the pieces might as well have been left unwritten were

and Mario being his special favourites: others on the native Indians, on the Spanish element in American

of the leading publishers of the United States is a literary event, for through it the greatest American

I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion, but the solid sense of the book is

Though these words were afterward somewhat taken back—a little Galileo-like, through fear of the New

He looks exceeding well in his broad hat, wide collar and suit of modest gray.

is already established as a popular American classic.

putting in identity of the wayside itemizings, memoranda and personal notes of 50 years under modern American

(To city man, or some sweet parlor lady, I now talk.)

The others surrender'd; the odds were too great.)

The rebels were driven out in a very short time.

You Russians and we Americans!

he is a native and resident of Brooklyn, Long Island, born and bred in an obscurity from which it were

His Leaves of Grass were a revelation from the Kingdom of Nature.

If there were any relief to the unmeaning monotony, some glimpse of fine fancy, some oasis of sense,

-1874) was an American writer and actress who contributed a lively column for the Saturday Press from

The comedic works of François Rabelais (c. 1490-1553) were known for their risqué quality.

-1874) was an American writer and actress who contributed a lively column for the Saturday Press from

1859-1864.; The comedic works of François Rabelais (c. 1490-1553) were known for their risqué quality

indelibly fix it and publish it, not for a model but an illustration, for the present and future of American

letters and American young men, for the south the same as the north, and for the Pacific and Mississippi

Of pure American breed, of reckless health, his body perfect, free from taint from top to toe, free forever

cruise with fishers in a fishing smack—or with a band of laughers and roughs in the streets of the city

AN ENGLISH AND AN AMERICAN POET.

Thus what very properly fits a subject of the British crown may fit very ill an American freeman.

Sure as the heavens envelope the earth, if the Americans want a race of bards worthy of 1855, and of

Poetry, to Tennyson and his British and American eleves, is a gentleman of the first degree, boating,

An English and an American Poet

soon crop out the true "L EAVES OF G RASS ," the fuller- grown work of which the former two issues were

Quite after the same token as the Italian Opera, to most bold Americans, and all new persons, even of

Then, in view of the latter words, bold American!

You, bold American!

No, bold American!

A N American bard at last!

The interior American republic shall also be declared free and independent.

But where in American literature is the first show of America?

Where is the vehement growth of our cities?

Walt Whitman was born on Long-Island, on the hills about thirty miles from the greatest American city

and in England, a perfect specimen of choice typography,) came forth in Boston, the current year, 1860

Thus the book is a gospel of self-assertion and self-reliance for every American reader—which is the

of countless squads of vagabond children, the hideousness and squalor of certain quarters of the cities

Revenue department at Washington, who is led by the course of his employment to regularly visit the cities

The great cities reek with respectable as much as non-respectable robbery and scoundrelism.

He found the average American in the United States' armies, under pressure of want, disease, danger,

If a motto were to be chosen for "The Two Rivulets," and for Walt Whitman generally, it should be that

Whitman says, in a manner which, if irony were not a mode rather foreign to him, we should consider ironical

We should be very much surprised if they were not. William O'Connor and Dr.

Glance o'er Travel'd Roads" amounts to an acknowledgment by Walt Whitman himself, not that his critics were

the rising and sinking waves—over the myriad fields and the prairies wide: Over the dense-packed cities

so—was indeed not in the original "Leaves of Grass," as it appeared more than thirty years ago, nor were

The review by the Cincinnati Commercial of Walt Whitman's last yawp, which (the review) you were frank

but "tried, tried again," until I believe the closed-up sutures in my cranium were opened as widely as

if the brains were out, and a pint of white beans were in with the whole caput-al arrangement-soaking

publication in the Liberator , please see Ezra Greenspan's article, "An Undocumented Review of the 1860

publication in the Liberator, please see Ezra Greenspan's article, "An Undocumented Review of the 1860

What he calls ‘Feudal Literature’ could have little living action on the tumult of American democracy

If verbal logic were sufficient, life would be as plain sailing as a piece of Euclid.

To glance with an eye, were it only at a chair or a park railing, is by far a more persuasive process

for city and land for land.

A statement which is among the happiest achievements of American humour.

Whitman," an American—one of the roughs—a kosmos, and what he says he will, he does—"utters his barbaric

of healthy Americans, than in never-so-much psalm-singing and opera.

silly ostrich, the poet hastens to hide his better, and expose his more indecent parts—as though it were

before and after his appointment and dismissal from a clerkship at Washington, he sought in his native city

"The Lady of this teeming and turbulent city" calls forth her children as bees are called from the hive

"I see a sad procession, And I hear the sound of coming full-keyed bugles; All the channels of the city

John Esten Cooke (1830-1886) was an American novelist noted for his grandiloquent writings centered on

Possibly referring to Marion Lumpkin Cobb, wife of Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (1823-1862), an American

John Esten Cooke (1830-1886) was an American novelist noted for his grandiloquent writings centered on

Virginia.; Possibly referring to Marion Lumpkin Cobb, wife of Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (1823-1862), an American

London: Chatto & Windus) S EVERAL years have now passed since Walt Whitman's poetical works and claims were

this new edition of the 'Leaves of Grass' may be the occasion of a deeper and wider study of the American

entirely uniform; sometimes he speaks as a federation of nations, sometimes as if mankind at large were

This is what he calls "robust American love."

No Englishman, no one indeed, whether American or Englishman, need be deterred from reading this book

pseudonym of Johann Paul Friedrich Richter) (1763-1825) was a German novelist and humorist, whose works were

But the great American poem when it comes will certainly not be written with deliberate intent.

politics, art or literature, we present here a finely-executed portrait of W ALT W HITMAN , the new American

publication of a superb edition of whose poems "Leaves of Grass" is bringing him permanently before the American

day and generation. was born in Brooklyn, Long Island, May 31, 1818, and is yet a resident of the "City

I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is

In 1856 he issued another and somewhat enlarged edition, which were speedily disposed of.

Upon one we find this faultless epigram on "The Bravest Soldiers": "Brave, brave were the soldiers (high

Sands at Seventy" contain no word that is objectionable as certain passages of the "Leaves of Grass" were

say that "November Boughs" (Philadelphia: David McKay) is an important permanent contribution to American

Take, for example, this epigram on "The Bravest Soldiers:" "Brave, brave were the soldiers (high-named

He published many volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were

(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885) and A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to

For more information about McKay, see Joel Myerson, " McKay, David (1860–1918) Walt Whitman's Book

" presumably Lincoln's first campaign song, and served as correspondent of the New York World from 1860

He published many volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were

(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885) and A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to

Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998).; David McKay (1860–1918) took over Philadelphia-based

For more information about McKay, see Joel Myerson, "McKay, David (1860–1918)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia

WALT WHITMAN as distinctively and transcendently the representative Poe of America-as holding to American

: Where the city stands with the brawniest breed of orators and bards; Where the city stands that is

; Where the city of the healthiest fathers stands Where the city of the best-bodied mothers stands; There

the grand city stands.

The thought of the comradeship of Americans is never absent from the poet's pages.

Pericles (c. 495-429 BC) advanced both Athenian democracy and the Athenian empire, ushering in the city's

. ***** They were the glory of the race of rangers, Matchless with a horse, a rifle, a song, a supper

if our colors were struck and the fighting done?

Only three guns were in use.

That he was an American, we knew before, for, aside from America, there is no quarter of the universe

he was one of the roughs was also tolerably plain; but that he was a kosmos, is a piece of news we were

auditor's smile or half sneer at the author's sometimes forced rhymes or prosy lines; as though that were

uniting the whole" may be lost "just in moving this trifle or that," and so you "Take away, as it were

rearrangement with reference to the sub-titles and to each other, leave them, we are told, as they were

If all poets were in the habit of using this recitative rhythm as a vehicle for their thoughts, what

Bucke informs us, were given away, most of them were lost, abandoned, or destroyed. ∗ According to Mr

'On the whole, it sounds to me,' were his words, 'very brave and American, after whatever deductions.

First we may notice that in spirit he is intensely American.

There is little in them that is distinctively American.

Were it not that we have Mr.

communist and utopian communities in the United States, including La Reunion in Texas and North American

But, if many opposed him, many were of his party, and the most opposite and opposed schools of poetry

Americans question his right to be the typical singer of America.

Yet Walt Whitman has merits that no American prose-writer or poet ever yet had, with virtues and strength

sufficient for claiming laureateship of the great American nation.

Such, hurriedly sketched, were the accompaniments of the death of President Lincoln.

, The best farms—others toiling and planting, and he unavoidably reaps, The noblest and costliest cities—others

feeling are caught, and of the grand yet melancholy suggestiveness which sets the whole picture, as it were

It is time, however, that an attempt were made to arrive at a sober estimate of his real value; and to

Nor does it mean that the merit of the author was quite unrecognized: on the contrary, by some who were

But the mass of his countrymen were not and are not strong enough to accept him; they have perhaps too

If we were asked for justification of the high estimate of this poet, which has been implied, if not

They themselves were fully at rest, they suffered not; The living remained and suffer'd.

It is curious that the writings of the "Poet of Democracy" have had to wait so long before they were

family and ancestors; notes of his experiences during the Civil War, contributed at the time they were

The "familiar letter" method has advantages of its own, "portraying American eyesights and incidents

, of Sunderland (to whom Ruskin's letters—entitled Time and Tide —"to a working man of Sunderland" were

If his worldly gains were small, there was compensation in the modesty of his wants.

Nay, have we not felt we were in some sort worse than those others, because, being guilty, we were praised

A thousand copies were printed.

Few if any copies of the book were sold.

Among Whitman's personal friends were Bryant and Longfellow.

.; American writer (1825–1878) who wrote for newspapers, travel books, novels, poetry, and critical essays

the finest strain that a human ear can hear, yet conclusively and past all refutation, that there were

Whitman's parents were "Hicksite" Quakers; and Whitman himself, in his early days, saw something of the

Two lines called "The Bravest Soldiers" are characteristic: "Brave, brave were the soldiers (high named

[From the Philadelphia City Item] WALT WHITMAN. BY HENRY P. LELAND.

Those old-world conquerors, the Romans, carried just such tools, and Americans of all nations now extant

raftsmen, and farmers and red-cheeked matrons, and omnibus-drivers and mechanics; and for all true Americans

Malaga, Spain, was once a major Moorish city and port, famed for its figs and wine.

In 1487 the city fell to Isabella and Ferdinand, the Christian conquerors.

Malaga, Spain, was once a major Moorish city and port, famed for its figs and wine.

In 1487 the city fell to Isabella and Ferdinand, the Christian conquerors.; Quevredo is a misspelling

of West Hills, Long Island, in the state of New York, somewhere about thirty miles from the great American

If I were to suspect death I should die now: Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well suited to-

At the City Dead House in his "Leaves of Grass," we see him standing—gazing—yearning, in tenderest pity

youth, and through middle and through old age, how unfaltering, how affectionate and faithful they were

And, as it has been with those, so it is now and henceforth with this true American Poet Walt Whitman

Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780-1857) was a popular and influential French poet and songwriter whose lyrics were

reference to holly alludes to Burns's poem, "The Vision" (1786): "Green, slender, leaf-clad holly boughs/Were

Whitman says that "the volumes were intended to be most decided, serious, bona fide expressions of an

If the critic or the laborious reader were to devote himself to this "poem," what would he find in it

Cicero, Virgil, and Horace were not trammeled by the polished completeness of Latin.

In all his labor there were system, consecutiveness, and art; otherwise, he would have failed.

Whitman desires an original American literature, his plea is praiseworthy.

If this were the case, we had been a nation of poets.

But in those cases in which these expressions were written out and printed with all due regard to prosody

Of course the city of Manhattan, as Mr.

This were indeed a wise precaution on his part if the intelligence were only submissive!

In another you call upon the city of New York to incarnate you, as you have incarnated it.

of facts and events, copies of important documents, etc.), compiled into book-length volumes which were

Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780-1857) was a popular and influential French poet and songwriter whose lyrics were

breath of life to my whole scheme that the bulk of the pieces might as well have been left unwritten were

We have before us one of the most extraordinary specimens of Yankee intelligence and American eccentricity

Whitman The poems of Walt Whitman have been much praised and wondered at in this country since they were

sometimes in that of Hiawatha , sometimes absolutely prosaic, but always original and audaciously American

In the most outward city pageant the open-eyed poet sees what the mere world-eyed mass never sees.

hive-bees, The North—the sweltering South—Assyria—the Hebrews—the Ancient of ancients, Vast, desolated cities—the

If indeed, we were compelled to guess the meaning of the poem, we should say it all lay in the compass

of these lines of Tennyson—the saddest and profoundest that ever were written: Break, break, break,

states his character, and replies to this question in the following general terms: 'Walt Whitman, an American

pseudonym of Johann Paul Friedrich Richter) (1763-1825) was a German novelist and humorist, whose works were

pseudonym of Johann Paul Friedrich Richter) (1763-1825) was a German novelist and humorist, whose works were

lawlessness of this poet, and one asks himself if this is not the form which the unconscious poetry of American

Is it not more probable that, if the passional principle of American life could find utterance, it would

The people fairly rejected his former revelation, letter and spirit, and those who enjoyed it were readers

There were reasons in the preponderant beastliness of that book why a decent public should reject it;

He has truly and thoroughly absorbed the idea of our American life, and we say to him as he says to himself

the social import of his first book ("without yielding an inch, the working-man and working-woman were

The sternest enemy of the American philosopher and of the great fog-bank school to which he, in some

These dreary pieces of laboured humour are not as popular now as they were twenty years ago, but Walt

J OHN H OLLINGSHEAD . ∗ Leaves of Grass Boston (U.S.): Thayer and Eldridge. 1860–61. J. T. S.

These are slightly misquoted lines from the 1860 , pp. 46-47.

.; These are slightly misquoted lines from the 1860 Leaves of Grass, pp. 46-47.

His love of New York City has more in common with Gavroche's love for Paris than with that of Victor

The fact that the "songs" in Drum-Taps were written under such circumstances ought to have rebutted in

of the news from Sumter upon New York is thus described:— "The Lady of this teeming and turbulent city

"Over the breast of the spring, the land, amid cities; Amid the grass in the fields each side of the

both a place and the name of the Democratic Party political machine that often controlled New York City

both a place and the name of the Democratic Party political machine that often controlled New York City

a military outpost near Charleston, South Carolina, was the location of the first battle of the American

They were translated into all languages; he was ranked with Homer and Virgil; Goethe and Napoleon Bonaparte

were his warm admirers—and the collections of English poetry do not now include a line of his composing

Look at Walter Whitman, the American philosopher who is centuries ahead of his contemporaries, who, in

See editorial note 6 for the following review A New American Poem .

William Seward, Charles Sumner, and Elijah Parish Lovejoy, were all famous anti-slavery advocates.

See editorial note 6 for the following review A New American Poem.

crowd including Whitman (Lesser 60– 63).; William Seward, Charles Sumner, and Elijah Parish Lovejoy, were

Whitman is an American Naturalist, quite as reckless as Zola or Maupassant, but withal infinitely less

The chief difference between the American Naturalist and his ultra-Atlantic brethren, is that he does

Whitman has fully equalled, if not exceeded the extant writers of antiquity, and has used phraseology

publisher's name, and, if the reader goes to a bookstore for it, he may expect to be told at first, as we were

Walter Whitman, an American,—one of the roughs,—no sentimentalist,—no stander above men and women, or