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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.

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'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, 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

Walt Whitman's Yawp

  • Date: 14 January 1860
  • Creator(s): Umos
Text:

the closed-up sutures in my cranium were opened as widely as if the brains were out, and a pint of white

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

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'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'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.

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

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

Walt. Whitman's New Poem

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

his vulgar and profane hoofs among the delicate flowers which bloom there, and soiling the spotless 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 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 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.

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.

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'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

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, 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

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

Walt Whitman and His Poems

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

He does not separate the learned from the unlearned, the Northerner from the Southerner, the white from

Walt Whitman And His 'Drum Taps'

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

During this period he was on familiar terms of acquaintance with William Cullen Bryant, and the two were

again, this soil'd world; For my enemy is dead a man divine as myself is dead I look where he lies white-faced

and still in the coffin—I draw near I bend Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in

Walt Whitman, a Brooklyn Boy

  • Date: 29 September 1855
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
Text:

shirt-collar flat and broad, countenance of swarthy transparent red, beard short and well mottled with white

Walt Whitman

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

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

again, this soil'd world. … For my enemy is dead—a man divine as myself is dead; I look where he lies, white-faced

and still in the coffin—I draw near; I bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the

Walt Whitman

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

As he speaks, we more than once see a man's face at white heat, and a man's hand beating down emphasis

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

Walt Whitman

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

During this period he was on familiar terms of acquaintance with William Cullen Bryant, and the two were

William Hepworth Dixon (1821–1879) was a British journalist and editor of the Athenæum from 1853–1869

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

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.

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

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

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.

Transatlantic Latter-Day Poetry

  • Date: 7 June 1856
  • Creator(s): Eliot, George
Text:

the western persimmon . . . over the long-leaved corn and the delicate blue flowered flax; Over the white

Swimming Against the Current

  • Date: 10 June 1860
  • Creator(s): Heenan, Adah Isaacs Menken
Text:

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

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

Studies Among the Leaves

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

means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and nar- row narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

calmness and beauty of person; The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, yellow and white

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

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.

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

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!

Review of Poems by Walt Whitman

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

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

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

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

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

The early lilacs became part of this child; And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 8 December 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

It is called 'Harrington'; but it ought to be styled, 'A Glorification of Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

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

squash, crooked-necked crook- ed-necked squash, cowcumber, beets, pars- nip parsnip , carrot, turnip, white

the slow, lumbering cart, blood-dabbled and grease dropping, bears away from the slaughter-house, a white-armed

white- armed boy sitting on top of it, shouting Hi!

And I swear that I don't see why a man in gold spectacles and a white cravat stuck up in a library, stuck

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

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

within him by Wordsworth's "Excursion," on the first appearance of that poem in 1814, and by the "White

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) published The Excursion in 1814, a collection of philosophical monologues

"White Doe of Rylston" was a long narrative poem published in 1815.

Annotations Text:

"White Doe of Rylston" was a long narrative poem published in 1815.; The Edinburgh Review, an influential

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

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

Stimson, the New York Day Book had a distinct proslavery agenda and billed itself as the "White Man's

Annotations Text:

Stimson, the New York Day Book had a distinct proslavery agenda and billed itself as the "White Man's

Review of Leaves of Grass (1856)

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

The attribution of this review to William Rounseville Alger is indebted to Gary Scharnhorst's article

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

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

White and beautiful are the faces around me…the heads are bared of their fire- caps firecaps — The kneeling

Examine these limbs, red, black, or white… they are very cunning in tendon and nerve; They shall be stript

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

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