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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.

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: September 1855
  • Creator(s): Norton, Charles Eliot
Text:

Of course we do not select those which are the most transcendental or the most bold:— "I play not a march

for victors only…I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

Walt Whitman and His Poems

  • Date: September 1855
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
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

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

'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

An English and an American Poet

  • Date: October 1855
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
Text:

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

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: 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

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 (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 (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

Walt. Whitman's New Poem

  • Date: 28 December 1859
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Henry Clapp
Text:

wandered alone, bare- headed, barefoot, Down from the showered halo and the moonbeams, Up from the mystic play

Picaninies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with a little round button at the top; and they all fell to playing

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

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

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

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

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

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

Review of Drum-Taps

  • Date: 24 February 1866
  • Creator(s): Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin
Text:

John Esten Cooke is a Virginian, who early joined the rebellion, in which his State played so prominent

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

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2 December 1866
  • Creator(s): O'Connor, William Douglas
Text:

more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce, With war's flame flames , and the lambent lightnings playing

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

  • 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

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

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

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 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

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?

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

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

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.

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'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!)

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!)

Songs Oversea

  • Date: 21 October 1876
  • Creator(s): McCarthy, J. H.
Text:

rush generally upon it, at least the strong men do—the actors and actresses are all there in their play

you sons of———. " Such the wild scene, or a suggestion of it rather, inside the play-house that night

most flagrant, the idle and unnecessary dislike of the poet to "old romance," to "novels, plots, and plays

The Gospel of Walt Whitman

  • Date: October 1878
  • Creator(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis
Text:

Until you are content to pick poetry out of his pages almost as you pick it out of a Greek play in Bohn

A good deal of this is the result of theory playing its usual vile trick upon the artist.

But the Philistines have been too strong; and, to say truth, Whitman has rather played the fool.

"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.

"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

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

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

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

Whitman's New Book

  • Date: 15 October 1882
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Sylvester Baxter
Text:

Printing Office—Old Brooklyn…Lafayette…Broadway Sights…My Passion for Ferries…Omnibus Jaunts and Drivers…Plays

The play of imagination, with the sensuous objects of nature for symbols, and faith—with love and pride

He says "there is another shape of personality dearer far to the artist sense (which likes the play of

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: 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

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

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