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Walt Whitman, the American Poet

  • Date: May 1876
  • Creator(s): Adams, Robert Dudley
Text:

while admitting that the venerable and heavenly forms of chiming versification have in their time played

caste, joyfully enlarging, adapting itself to comprehend the size of the whole people, with the free play

The passionate, teeming plays this curtain hid!)

Review of Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: November 1856
  • Creator(s): Alger, William Rounseville
Text:

or not he is considered among his friends to be of a sane mind,—whether he is in earnest, or only playing

'Leaves of Grass'—An Extraordinary Book

  • Date: 15 September 1855
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

In his philosophy justice attains its proper dimensions: "I play not a march for victors only: I play

Studies Among the Leaves

  • Date: January 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

ready, The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow- drawn slow-drawn wagon, The clear light plays

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 18 February 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

for his picture would answer equally well for a "Bowery boy," one of the "killers," "Mose" in the play

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 15 March 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Every move of him has the free play of the muscle of one who never knew what it was to feel that he stood

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 22 March 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Philosopher (1762), the poem The Deserted Village (1770), the novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), and the play

Annotations Text:

Philosopher (1762), the poem The Deserted Village (1770), the novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), and the play

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1 April 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 2 June 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Even when his expression torments you, the great, surcharged soul that throbs and plays underneath, looks

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 7 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

William Wycherley (1641-1716) was an English playwright whose plays juxtaposed deep-seated Puritanism

Annotations Text:

William Wycherley (1641-1716) was an English playwright whose plays juxtaposed deep-seated Puritanism

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 14 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

loosed to the eddies of the wind, A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms, The play

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 July 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

The most renowned poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums.

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 26 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Grundy is a character from Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough (1798); by the nineteenth century her

Annotations Text:

Grundy is a character from Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough (1798); by the nineteenth century her

The Poetry of the Future

  • Date: 19 January 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

The term is taken from the play A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718) by Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist

Annotations Text:

The term is taken from the play A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718) by Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: February 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

is a rational animal, and not like the beasts, which have no sense; and all effort on his part to play

All About Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 November 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Look at this sturdy child of Nature playing with his mother: Hanging clothes on a rail near by, keeping

Review of Specimen Days and Collect

  • Date: 27 November 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

dry and flat Sahara appears, these cities, crowded with petty grotesques, malformations, phantoms, playing

Whitman's November Boughs

  • Date: 8 December 1888
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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He has taught, as far as his voice has reached, that literature is something more than a playing with

"Good-Bye, my Fancy!"

  • Date: 5 September 1891
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) was a popular English actress and author of plays, poems, and memoirs concerning

Annotations Text:

.; Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) was a popular English actress and author of plays, poems, and memoirs concerning

Good-Bye My Fancy

  • Date: 12 September 1891
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

and Fanny Kemble in Fazio, "a rapid-running, yet heavy-timber'd, tremendous, wrenching, passionate play

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 9 June 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

prose is verse, and all that is not verse is prose," a line from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670), a play

Annotations Text:

prose is verse, and all that is not verse is prose," a line from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670), a play

Walt Whitman's Works

  • Date: 3 March 1867
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

may be gathered from one or two passage selected as illustrative of different phases of mind:— "I play

not here marches for victors only; I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 8 June 1867
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

muscular build, his antecedents here being a race of farmers and mechanics, silent, good-natured, playing

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 19 February 1876
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

The passionate, teeming plays this curtain hid!)

while admitting that the venerable and heavenly forms of chiming versification have in their time played

caste, joyfully enlarging, adapting itself to comprehend the size of the whole people, with the free play

New Work by Walt. Whitman

  • Date: 11 March 1876
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

while admitting that the venerable and heavenly forms of chiming versification have in their time played

caste, joyfully enlarging, adapting itself to comprehend the size of the whole people, with the free play

The passionate, teeming plays this curtain hid!)

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 13 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

a passage remarkable for its nobility: "With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play

not marches for accepted victors only, I play Marches for conquer'd and slain persons.

Whitman for the Drawing Room

  • Date: April 1886
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Grundy, a term for an extremely conventional or priggish person, refers to a character in the play Speed

This quotation is from a collection of conversations between Goethe and Johann Peter Eckermann.

Annotations Text:

Grundy, a term for an extremely conventional or priggish person, refers to a character in the play Speed

Walt Whitman's Latest Work

  • Date: 9 February 1889
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

, after several more short essays, including "The Bible as Poetry," "What Lurks Behind Shakspere's Plays

new world receives with joy the poems of the antique, with European feudalism's rich fund of epics, plays

Review of Leaves of Grass (1891–92)

  • Date: 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Nature plays "for Seasons, not Eternities," as must "All those whose stake is nothing more than dust;

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1 June 1872
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

arising out of a life of depression and enervation, as their result; or else that class of poetry, plays

Have the old forces played their parts? Are the acts suitable to them closed?"

famously remaked, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play

Annotations Text:

famously remaked, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 14 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Jourdain, in the play of Racine, was surprised to learn from his erudite master in philosophy that for

The character Monsieur Jourdain appears in a play by Molière (1622 - 1673) Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme .

Annotations Text:

.; The character Monsieur Jourdain appears in a play by Molière (1622 - 1673) Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Poems of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 July 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

"That you are here—that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute

The Library

  • Date: March 1889
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Tennyson;" "Slang in America;" "Father Taylor and Oratory;" "What lurks behind Shakespeare's Historical Plays

The Poetry of the Period

  • Date: October 1869
  • Creator(s): Austin, Alfred
Text:

arising out of a life of depression and enervation as their result; or else that class of poetry, plays

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: December 1875
  • Creator(s): Bayne, Peter
Text:

Buchanan, who have praised his performances, appear to me to be playing off on the public a well-intentioned

, arising out of a life of depression and enervation as their result—or else that class of poetry, plays

Walt Whitman

  • Date: November 1867
  • Creator(s): Buchanan, Robert
Text:

All, he says, is sweet—smell, taste, thought, the play of his limbs, the fantasies of his mind; every

Walt Whitman And His 'Drum Taps'

  • Date: 1 December 1866
  • Creator(s): Burroughs, John
Text:

muscular build—his antecedents here being a race of farmers and mechanics, silent, good-natured, playing

of trifles and dallyings, tires even of wit and smartness, dislikes garrulity and fiction and all play

'November Boughs'

  • Date: April 1889
  • Creator(s): Carpenter, Edward
Text:

Baconian theory; and more important, to find that he is convinced that the great series of historical plays

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: August 1860
  • Creator(s): Conway, Moncure D.
Text:

to the open piano and struck with grandeur the opening chords of the Tannhaser overture; having played

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: November 1856
  • Creator(s): D. W.
Text:

What play of Shakespeare represented in America, is not an insult to America, to the marrow in its bones

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 23 July 1855
  • Creator(s): Dana, Charles A.
Text:

He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement…he sees eternity in men and women…he

The most renowned poems would be ashes…orations and plays would be vacuums.

The Poetry of Democracy: Walt Whitman

  • Date: July 1871
  • Creator(s): Dowden, Edward
Text:

To play at pastoral may be for a while the fashion, if the shepherds and shepherdesses are permitted

stand open and ready; The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon; The clear light plays

dry and flat Sahara appears, these cities, crowded with petty grotesques, malformations, phantoms, playing

Review of Specimen Days and Collect

  • Date: 18 November 1882
  • Creator(s): Dowden, Edward
Text:

me over the gaps of the bridge, through impediments, safely aboard"), and would enjoy the stir and play

activity, nor "that other shape of personality dearer far to the artist-sense (which likes the strongest play

American Poets Part 2

  • Date: July 1874
  • Creator(s): Earle, John Charles
Text:

They limp, and halt, and start, and leap, and fairly tumble; then mount and play fantastic tricks, sparkle

Peter, yet discern in every error its basis or contingent of truth.

Whitman, Poet and Seer

  • Date: 22 January 1882
  • Creator(s): G. E. M.
Text:

fight between Deity on one side and somebody else on the other—not Milton, not even Shakespeare's plays

Walt Whitman's Complete Volume

  • Date: 12 August 1882
  • Creator(s): Gordon, T. Francis
Text:

Love's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June: O my Love's like a melodie That's sweetly played

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: January 1856
  • Creator(s): Hale, Edward Everett
Text:

cuts, First-rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's-eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song, or to play

Walt Whitman's "November Boughs"

  • Date: 19 January 1889
  • Creator(s): Harrison, W.
Text:

Tennyson' (originally published in this journal, together with 'What Lurks behind Shakspeare's Historical Plays

A Hoosier's Opinion Of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 11 August 1860
  • Creator(s): Howells, William Dean
Text:

animal—and left people to infer that he was some such inspired brute as Jove infurried (sic) , when he played

The Poems of Walt Whitman

  • Date: September 1870
  • Creator(s): Howitt, William
Text:

some playing, some slumbering? Who are the girls? who are the married women?

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