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His last book, November Boughs as he calls it, published in the winter of the old man's life, reveals

best characterizations of "Leaves of Grass" is that of a lady, who said: "It does not read like a book

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

I did not know, until I last night saw the book advertised in a newspaper, that I could trust the name

That beside its assured hearty reception the book will be much maligned and ridiculed is a matter of

The book teems with the ecstasy of being.

WHITMAN'S NEW BOOK. The Prose Writings of the "Good Gray Poet." A Twin Volume to "Leaves of Grass."

Walt Whitman's new book, with the odd, but thoroughly characteristic and descriptive title, "Specimen

Had "Leaves of Grass" never been written this book alone would be enough to establish the author's fame

Indeed, too much stress cannot be laid upon this phase of the book.

Whitman's New Book

Several years had passed away, his worse than worthless book had been forgotten, and we hoped that this

He makes no allusions to books or writers; their spirits do not seem to have touched him; he has not

inexpressible purposes of nature, and for this haughtiest of writers that has ever yet written and printed a book

issues, published by the author himself in little pittance-editions, on trial, have just dropped the book

For all our intellectual people, followed by their books, poems, novels, essays, editorials, lectures

Whitman into literature, talking like a man unaware that there was ever hitherto such a production as a book

Nature may have given the hint to the author of the "Leaves of Grass," but there exists no book or fragment

of a book, which can have given the hint to them.

In opinions, in manners, in costumes, in books, in the aims and occupancy of life, in associates, in

The book now in the market, the third issue, containing, large and small, one hundred and fifty-four

Such is the book to which this curious collection of "criticisms" refers.

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

majority, will be perplexed and baffled by it at first; but in frequent cases those who liked the book

critics,” (carefully minding never to state the foregoing fact, thought it is stamped all over the book

I T is rather remarkable that Walt Whitman's last book, "The Two Rivulets," should have received so little

Yet this book contains, perhaps, the best defence of Democracy which has been offered of late years,

My book ought to emanate buoyancy and gladness legitimately enough, for it was grown out of those elements

a grave offence for an author to thrust his personality between the reader and the truth which the book

We have been drawn irresistibly to the book, again and again, for there is a simple-minded and strong

This opinion will doubtless astonish many who have read the book.

have any appreciation of the essential dignity of man and the grandeur of his destiny, to buy the book

the Liberator," WWQR 24.4 (2007): 201-207. http://www.uiowa.edu/~wwqr/greenspan_article_Spring%202007.pdf

the Liberator," WWQR 24.4 (2007): 201-207. http://www.uiowa.edu/~wwqr/greenspan_article_Spring%202007.pdf

Of late years the name of Walt Whitman has been a good deal bandied about in books and magazines.

that he was not unacquainted with the works of Herbert Spencer; and yet where, in all the history books

Now, how is the poet to convince like nature, and not like books?

the poet must study his fellow-countrymen and himself somewhat like a traveler on the hunt for his book

There is a sense, of course, in which all true books are books of travel; and all genuine poets must

satire and sarcasm, and its often sublime and exquisite touches of poetry—it is a repulsive and nasty book

We have read the book, but cannot say with Emerson that we think it "the beginning of a great career,

It will become a "Household Book of Poetry" just about as soon as that other volume of which we read

Walt Whitman's New Book.

where he lived as boy and young man, will no doubt take special interest in the fact that the new book

The book teems with the ecstacy of being.

FROM WALT WHITMAN'S NEW BOOK. PATROLING BARNEGAT.

Walt Whitman's New Book

finally printed it, but without their name, and without taking any of customary steps to introduce the book

Yet neither the author nor the book have any merit to be compared with Tupper and the Country Parson

We have quoted perhaps the most effective poem in the book; but there are lines or passages in nearly

shown by quotations is the broad effect of his poems as a whole; as he says himself, "The words of my book

Harlan's hymn-book. It will do much, we are confident, to remove the prejudice against Mr.

Altogether the book might seem to a too-fanciful critic to have abandoned, at least in externals, its

But it is still as ever far more easy to argue for or against the book than to convey a clear account

For the answers we must refer the reader to the book that it may give its own reply.

"You shall," he says at the beginning of his book: "You shall no longer take things at second or third

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

The book was published posthumously in 1869 and gained renown as a significant text of urban writing.

"Leaves of Grass," the book which first made Whitman a public character, was published in 1855, and after

second-hand from some one else; custom and convention play so large a part in the making of modern books

Such being the case a book which, like "Leaves of Grass," is an unmistakably sincere expression of human

Whitman's books have had must be accounted for.

admirers would have us believe, and having made that admission, pro forma, proceed to consider why his books

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

I did not know, until I last night saw the book advertised in a newspaper, that I could trust the name

the last number of the I The "Leaves of Grass" is published by Thayer & Eldridge, of Boston, and the book—take

WALT WHITMAN'S BOOK A Striking Collection of Essays and Poems—A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads.

identified with place and date, in a far more candid and comprehensive sense than any hitherto poem or book

In another place the feeling of pride leads to this exclamation: "My Book and I—what a period we have

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

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

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

which a new edition has just been issued, not because we accept it as a just critical estimate of that book

The book is, perhaps, the most astounding one of the age.

There is an immense sense of space in the book.

Wherever she appears in the book, she appears augustly. She is the matrix of all.

WHITMAN'S book may not be understood at all for a long time.

refer to Walt Whitman, who has just published another edition of his much criticised and remarkable book

This unique and original book can be obtained by addressing the author here and enclosing three dollars

without reserve and with perfect indifference to their effect on the reader's mind; and not only is the book

this gross yet elevated, this superficial yet profound, this preposterous yet somehow fascinating book

"Did you read in the books of the old- fashioned old-fashioned frigate fight?

shining , and the leaks on the gain, and five feet of water reported; The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners

As seems very proper in a book of transcendental poetry, the author withholds his name from the title

One may not care for this or that so-called poem—think it no poem, for that matter; but take his book

To leave preface just at the end and come to the book—most welcome is this 'Second Annex.'

I am sorry the book is not now before me, that I may refresh myself with lines that it would also be

Fancy the untamable, untranslatable Walt pottering over rondeaux, or elaborating canzonets, or measuring

I N a letter dated Concord, 6th May, 1856, Emerson wrote to Carlyle:—'One book, last summer, came out

terrible eyes and buffalo strength, and was indisputably American, which I thought to send you, but the book

The book referred to was a copy of the singular looking thin quarto volume of little more than a hundred

The solid sense of the book is a sober certainty.

Thoreau wrote of the book in a similar, if more guarded, strain.

present volume is distinctly a political, a historical, or, perhaps more correctly still, a prophetic book

more delightfully evinced by Whitman than in 'A Word out of the Sea,' to our thinking the poem of the book

must be thankful, though we may mildly complain that Whitman's other prose works, consisting of two books—one

Even in America, says a personal friend of the author, these books can hardly be said to have been published

This does not mean that his books have not been bought and read: indeed, the number of copies sold of

extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed' was Emerson's verdict on the book

This book, with its Carlylian eloquence and anti-Carlylian optimism, is not more remarkable on account

Whitman's books have been expensive and scarce.

some other newspaper; his opinion of sundry great men whom he has known personally or through their books

They will be delighted to learn that he thought once of calling his book "Cedar Plums like," and will

—anything from art, books, sermons, or from science, old or new.

which he says that "not for his merely literary merit (though that was great), not as a 'maker of books

sympathy; and, accordingly, in three separate articles in this volume, he discourses of himself and his book

The book is valuable precisely because it is a faithful and self-willed record.

From a book of 107 pages it has developed into the compact work of to-day.

His life and his book are so interwoven, that it is premature to write "finis" to the latter until the

The solid sense of the book is a sober certainty.

Few if any copies of the book were sold.

Whitman, like his book, is strong. It is himself that speaks, not the echo of another.

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

Two prose pieces which appeared there under the titles "My Book and I" and "How I made a Book" are now

on Burns as Poet and Person, and on Tennyson, also reappear; but most of the other contents of the book

Elias Hicks's—not argumentative or intellectual, but so penetrating—so different from anything in the books

the same fleet with his clipper, you must first be careened over and scrape off the barnacles of old books

Not a fierce revolution in this world's history but may be regarded as a grand psalm in the Book of Time

Before we condemn the book, let us read it. Before we cry out 'Eccentricity!'

Opening this book has been to us a revelation. Reading it has yielded us exquisite pleasure.

Otherwise than in one fragmentary instance like the foregoing, the book is, as we have said, altogether

how unfaltering, how affectionate and faithful they were, Then I am pensive—I hastily put down the book

Turning the leaves of these poems, the reader may say before the book is closed as the Poet himself says

Queene (1590), "Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled,/On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be filed" (book

Queene(1590), "Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled,/On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be filed" (book

It contained several selections from the book which induced a feeling of utter bewilderment.

of indiscriminate eulogy, or has confined itself to a condemnation of the glaring vulgarity of the book

There is still considerable curiosity about him and his book, and some sort of settled opinion should

Has the author ever stated in intelligible English the purpose of his book?

. * I T has been a melancholy task to read this book; and it is a still more melancholy one to write

Whitman is very fond of blowing his own trumpet, and he has made very explicit claims for his book.

your dear sake, O soldiers, And for you, O soul of man, and you, love of comrades; The words of my book

He tells us, in the lines quoted, that the words of his book are nothing.

We look in vain, however, through your book for a single idea.

and prose, but also digests of facts and events, copies of important documents, etc.), compiled into book-length

A NEW BOOK BY MR. WHITMAN. A new book has just come to us from America, from Mr. Walt Whitman.

The book opens with an article of thirteen pages, called "A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads."

Probably by the time this notice is in print the book will be in the hands of the English publishers,

and even absorbing interest there is in store for those, who shall by-and-bye possess and read the book

A New Book By Mr. Whitman

make his way into the confidence of his readers, and his poems in time will become a pregnant text-book

The poetry of Harris is very fine, but then he said out plumply that the spirits of departed poets gave

He is the author of a book of poetry called "Leaves of Grass," which, whatever else you may think, is

Ralph Waldo Emerson pronounced it the representative book of the poetry of our age.

Since the publication of his book, Walt Whitman has driven hack in New York, and employed the hours of

We remember to have seen a brief criticism of the book in dear dead Putnam , by a critic who seemed to

If you attempt to gather the meaning of the whole book, you fail utterly.

Yet there are passages in the book of profound and subtle significance, and of rare beauty; with passages

so gross and revolting, that you might say of them, as the Germans say of bad books— Sie lassen sich

W goes through his book, like one in an ill-conditioned dream, perfectly nude, with his clothes over

Poet or not, however, there was that in Walt Whitman's first book which compels attention to his second

Whitman for his first book is past.

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

The pieces of the new book are nearly all very brief, but generally his expression is freer and fuller

strange, shadowy sort of pleasure, but they do not satisfy, and you rise from the perusal of this man's book

WALT WHITMAN calls his latest book November Boughs , and in more ways than one it testifies and it appeals

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

the reader that these are as innocent as so many sprays of apple blossom, and that he may take the book

The book is well named : it is meditative and reminiscent, with a sober fragrance in it like the scent

Cyclopædias, commercial dictionaries, directories, and such books are plentiful enough, and in the slang

must have authors of such works keen enough to take to street tumbling to stimulate the sale of their books

public excitement had upon his "editions," but we have no doubt that many people never bought his book

The inventory of nature is the only thing solid in a book, one-half of which is quite as coarse as Rabelais

Elsewhere, there is some philosophy in the book; there are pages of force and rough beauty; there is

The book is not the creation of a literary quack.

We hold much of his book to be infamous according to the universal code of ethics; and contrary to all

Is this true of Walt Whitman's book?

Succulence, marrow, poetic feeling course through the book exultantly.

The most remarkable part of the book is its first heart-beat: 'A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads,

E VERYTHING about the external arrangement of this book was odd and out of the way.

reader goes to a bookstore for it, he may expect to be told at first, as we were, that there is no such book

Nevertheless, there is such a book, and it is well worth going twice to the bookstore to buy it.

In this book, however, the prophecy is fairly fulfilled in the accomplishment.

The book is divided into a dozen or more sections, and in each one of these some thread of connection

We, however, believe that this book does express the bolder results of a certain transcendental kind

Once it shunned the light; now it courts attention, writes books showing how grand and pure it is, and

In our allusions to this book, we have found it impossible to convey any, even the most faint idea of

WALT WHITMAN'S NEW BOOK. Two Rivulets By Walt Whitman. (Camden, 1876.)

A wise admirer might even say that the book called Leaves of Grass was intended to give a section, as

The book before us contains all the small miscellaneous writings of Whitman now collected for the first

The ethical purpose of the book—and it is needless to say that it has one—manifestly is to exemplify

Walt Whitman's New Book