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Review of Leaves of Grass (1891–92)

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

eminent and distinguished subject-matter: Lowell's 'Choice Odes, Lyrics, and Sonnets,' in a setting of white

Walt Whitman's Good-Bye

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

On another side is the bed with white coverlid and woollen blankets.

Queen Nathalie.—Walt Whitman.—The Young Emperor.

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

soil's May-utterance here (Smelling of countless blessings, prayers, and old-time thanks)— A bunch of white

'November Boughs'

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

old man, through crippled somewhat in his gait by paralysis, well over six feet in height, with long white

Walt Whitman's Book

  • Date: 16 March 1889
  • Creator(s): Payne, W. M.
Text:

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) succeeded William Wordsworth as poet laureate of Great Britain in 1850

At the conclusion of William Blake: A Critical Essay (1868), 300–303, Swinburne pointed out similarities

William Michael Rossetti (1829–1915), brother of Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti, was an English

For more on Whitman's relationship with Rossetti, see Sherwood Smith, " Rossetti, William Michael (1829

November Boughs

  • Date: 2 March 1889
  • Creator(s): Walsh, William S.
Text:

manner which, if irony were not a mode rather foreign to him, we should consider ironical, that "William

William O'Connor and Dr.

We have no concern with William O'Connor and Dr. Bucke. If we have concern with Mr.

wants something newer and better than the old poetry, and that his poetry is not an achievement (William

All this is granted by us, or rather spontaneously asserted, and if William O'Connor and Dr.

Walt Whitman's Latest Work

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

This is actually William Michael Rossetti, not Dante Gabriel Rossetti as identified by the reviewer.

The Gospel According to Walt Whitman

  • Date: 25 January 1889
  • Creator(s): Wilde, Oscar
Text:

William Rossetti's attempt to Bowdlerize and expurgate his song.

Whitman's Complete Works

  • Date: 3 January 1889
  • Creator(s): Baxter, Sylvester
Text:

cover is a plain one, with marbled sides and back of dark olive, with the title pasted on in plain white

says one white-haired old fellow remonstratingly to another in a budget of letters I read last night.

Whitman's "November Boughs"

  • Date: 15 November 1888
  • Creator(s): Garland, Hamlin
Text:

In calculating the decision of the world upon his book, he says William O'Connor and Dr.

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: September 1887
  • Creator(s): Lewin, Walter
Text:

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), English novelist, best known for his satirical novel Vanity

Harold Williams. Vol. III. London: Oxford UP, 1963. 102-105.

Walt Whitman's Poetry

  • Date: 9 October 1886
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

new edition of the "Poems of Walt Whitman" (published by Chatto and Windus), selected and edited by William

Walt Whitman

  • Date: September 1883
  • Creator(s): Metcalfe, William Musham
Text:

, of original grandeur and elegance of design, with the masses of gay colour, the preponderance of white

Probably a slip of the hand or printer's error for William Bell Scott.

Review of Specimen Days and Collect

  • Date: July 1883
  • Creator(s): Call, Wathen Mark Wilks
Text:

gentlemen know that (leaving out all the border States) there were fifty regiments and seven companies of white

Walt Whitman

  • Date: December 1882
  • Creator(s): Macaulay, G. C.
Text:

Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

the child, gliding down to the beach, had stood with bare feet, the wind wafting his hair, with 'the white

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark brown fields uprisen, Passing the apple-tree blows of white

Review of Specimen Days and Collect

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

would revive the sights and sounds and smells of his Long Island youth, the "stretch of interminable white-brown

the schooner-yachts going in a good wind—"those daring, careening things of grace and wonder, those white

gorges, the streams of amber and bronze, brawling along their beds with frequent cascades and snow-white

Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901) was a British poet, novelist and dramatist.

Suggestions and Advice to Mothers

  • Date: 11 November 1882
  • Creator(s): Elmina
Text:

And it means, sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

All About Walt Whitman

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

William Henry Seward (1801-1872) was a U.S. politician and an antislavery activist.

William Walker (1824-1860) was an American adventurer and soldier who attempted to conquer several Latin

Walt Whitman's New Volume

  • Date: 30 October 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

malachite green, and floating—flying over and among them in all directions, myriads of these same white

Whitman's New Book

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

tree itself; everybody knows that the cedar is a healthy, cheap, democratic wood, streaked red and white—an

Whitman, Poet and Seer

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

Sidgwick and William Clifford were both members of "The Apostles," the famous elite literary society

The Poetry of the Future

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

In the dooryard fronting an old farmhouse near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing

Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white, or white come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 1882–1883
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

The sun just shines on her old white head. Her ample gown is of cream-hued linen.

simplicity of his nature are revealed in the following incident: "In the middle of the room in its white

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 12 December 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879) was an English mathematician who also wrote on philosophy.

Walt Whitman's Claim to Be Considered a Great Poet

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

William Hurrell Mallock (1849-1923) was an English author.

Walt Whitman and the Poetry of the Future

  • Date: 19 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Mitchell, Edward P.
Text:

Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white, or white come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

New Publications

  • Date: 19 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

After the dilettante indelicacies of William H.

"Leaves of Grass"

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

Growing among black folks as among white, Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I gave them the same,

Walt Whitman's New Book

  • Date: 11 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Shepard, Charles E.
Text:

and pealing, Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing, Out in the shadows there, milk-white

wending, Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting, Along the midnight edge, by those milk-white

Walt Whitman's New Book

  • Date: 10 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your woolly-white and turbaned head, and bare

Walt Whitman's Works

  • Date: 9 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

In the night, in solitude, tears, On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand, Tears

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 30 October 1881
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Sylvester Baxter
Text:

I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing.

Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains from home, Singing all time, minding

Songs Oversea

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

Walt Whitman has been often, and with justice, compared to the painter—poet—prophet William Blake; like

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 18 March 1876
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

from the article appeared in the London Athenaeum (11 March 1876), followed by Robert Buchanan's and William

Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901) was a British poet, novelist and dramatist.

Walt Whitman's Poems

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

exceptions whose appreciation distinguishes the thinker from the dogmatist: intense black and glaring white

and all hearts thrill at the thought of murdered Naboth and his sons, and of Lear hanging over the white

women, or from offspring taken out of their mother's laps, This grass is very dark to be from the white

Here goes:— "Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead works, the sugar-house, steam-saws, the grist-mills, and

Scottish poet (1777–1844), writer of the long narrative poem Gertrude of Wyoming William Morris, "The

American Poets Part 2

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

Sigourney, the chief poetess of the United States, of the classical William Cullen Bryant, the Catholic

The monk endeavours to console him with the prospect of eternal rest, the white robe and the golden crown

White the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping

William Michael Rossetti was principally concerned in introducing his works into the English market;

American Poets Part 1

  • Date: 4 April 1874
  • Creator(s): Earle, John Charles
Text:

Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti. London: John Camden Hotten. 1868.

The article focuses on descriptive poetry quoting from Taylor's "Lars," William Gilmore Simms, Alfred

Walt Whitman

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

grave, an ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen, now lean and tattered, seated on the ground; Her old white

Abraham Lincoln, seeing him for the first time, from the East Room of the White House, as he passed slowly

The Poetry of Democracy: Walt Whitman

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

soiree, I heard what the singers were singing so long, Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farmhouse, The sun just shines on her old white

, of original grandeur and elegance of design, with the masses of gay colour, the preponderance of white

and sunny temperament, a sight to draw near and look upon with her large figure, her profuse snow-white

Walt Whitman, The American Poet of Democracy

  • Date: November 1869
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

over six months ago we came across an edition of the Works of Walt Whitman, selected and edited by William

grey shirt, his iron grey hands, his swart sun-browned face and bare neck, he laid upon the brown and white

The Poetry of the Period

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

William Bell Scott , a name perhaps not very familiar to most of our readers, but which Mr.

William Bell Scott, British poet and artist, introduced Rossetti to the 1855 Leaves of Grass.

Walt Whitman

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

Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration

The sum of all known reverence I add up in you, whoever you are; The President is there in the White

afar at sunset—the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, light falling on roofs and gables of white

Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti Hotten: Piccadilly.

Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) was an English physician who famously published an expurgated edition of William

Poems of Walt Whitman

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

Certainly, nothing like this could be said of poor William Shakespeare.

instance:— "All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it; Did you think it was in the white

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 2 May 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti London: John Camden Hotten. 1868.

Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901) was a British poet, novelist and dramatist.

Review of Poems by Walt Whitman

  • Date: 25 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Marston, John
Text:

Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti (Hotten.)

the stumpy bars of pig-iron, the strong, clean-shaped T-rail for railroads; Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead-works

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

Poems by Walt Whitman

  • Date: 19 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

William Michael Rossetti has been for some time what may be called a disciple of Whitman.

Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti —J.C. Hotten.

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 17 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Kent, William Charles Mark
Text:

Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti One Vol., pp. 406. J.C. Hotten.

To William Michael Rossetti, as the selecter of these poems, we are not simply, in old-fashioned phrase

That immortal house, more than all the rows of dwellings ever built, Or white domed white-domed Capitol

William Wordsworth was reputedly fond of the lesser celandine and it inspired him to write three poems

William Cowper (1731-1800) was a popular English poet of his time.

Walt Whitman.—Second Notice

  • Date: 29 March 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti John Camden Hotten.

William Michael Rossetti's edition of Poems by Walt Whitman (1868) included approximately half the poems

Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) produced a famous expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's work entitled

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 21 March 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

the mass:— "All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it; Did you think it was in the white

Review of Poems by Walt Whitman

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

Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti London: John Camden Hotten. 1868.

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