Search Results

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

when it became the pleasing duty of that model judge to administer the last rites of the law to a prisoner

of the roughs, a kosmos, Disorderly, fleshy, sensual, &c. was the "poet of pantheism," and that the book

of Spinoza, perfectly indifferent with regard to the matter that enters into the composition of his book

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

His book is one of courage, most downright in its dogmatics, and says its say apparently without the

This is a book which makes not only war upon nearly all traditional theories of true poetry, but in many

And yet there are gleams in his book, not only of great things, but of possibly magnificent ones.

"The Singer in the Prison" (p. 292) beginning O sight of pity, shame and dole !

We say of him, and of all who have assisted in the making of his book, that they are guilty of an act

Less a man of books, more a man of men,—less a recluse, more a man of the world,—than either Carlyle

certainly is—a man of vast reading, fulfilled more than most students with what is to be had from books

a certain breadth of historic grandeur, of peace or war, far surpassing all the vaunted samples of book-heroes

dysentery, inflammations, and blackest and loathsomest of all, the dead and living burial-pits, the prison

(not Dante's pictured hell, and all its woes, its degradations, filthy torments, excell'd those prisons

. ∗ The book is not intended for the confirmed admirers of Whitman, for they will be satisfied with nothing

There are even certain fellows of the baser sort whose trade consists in lending out willfully obscene books

Rhys' book, there is no hope that it will benefit them.

Coming now to the book itself we find something to condemn and something, also, to praise.

Another omission which we can hardly approve is The Singer in Prison , but after all, something had to

The appearance of Walt Whitman's new book of poems, conjointly with Ward's "Indian Hunter," is not without

All the hapless silent lovers, All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked, All

Nor is it only in the form of the pieces composing the book that he follows a double line.

I close my extracts from advance sheets of the book with two little pieces of a political character:

Possibly a reference to book 11 of the Odyssey.

Probably a misquotation of "Stone walls do not a prison make,/ Nor iron bars a cage;/ Minds innocent

and quiet take/ That for an hermitage" from Richard Lovelace's "To Althea: From Prison."

.; Possibly a reference to book 11 of the Odyssey.; The "seven cities" refer to Chios, Athens, Rhodes

mystic.; Several lines from the poem are omitted.; Probably a misquotation of "Stone walls do not a prison

;/ Minds innocent and quiet take/ That for an hermitage" from Richard Lovelace's "To Althea: From Prison

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

The book is an intertwining of the author's characteristic verse, alternated throughout with prose; and

pieces, here, some new, some old—nearly all of them (somber as many are, making this almost Death's book

In You, whoe'er you are, my book perusing, In I myself—in all the World—these ripples flow, All, all,

He says, as he introduces these little note-book mementoes of the war: Vivid as life they recall and

Perfume this book of mine, O blood-red roses! Lave subtly with your waters every line, Potomac!

Its title-page, as will be seen, bears upon it the name of no author, and the book is ushered into the

teacher of the thoughtfulest, a farmer, mechanic, or artist, a gentleman, sailor, lover, or quaker, a prisoner

Are they not all written in the "golden" book aforesaid?—a book which Mr.

When we read that eulogy we were satisfied that this volume would prove to us a sealed book, and that

but very little—not only summer but all seasons—not only days but nights—some literary meditations—books

—or may-be in sick room or prison—to serve as cooling breeze, or Nature's aroma, to some fever'd mouth

Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel (1834-1894) was an English poet; his best-known book of verse was A Little

.; Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel (1834-1894) was an English poet; his best-known book of verse was

There is nothing in that which you may not read, or the book would not be noticed in these columns.

The shape of the prisoner's place in the court-room, and of him or her seated in the place; The shape

Fortnightly Review : 'Having occasion to visit New York soon after the appearance of Walt Whitman's book

There was not, apparently, a single book in the room….

The books he seemed to know and love best were the Bible, Homer, and Shakespeare: these he owned, and

The book is too radical, too free, too independent and far too true to make its conquest of a popular

To the question, "Will the book and the man ever be popular?"

But let us take a survey of the book. Let us see how far it fits the foregoing remarks.

Since I have seen him, I am not disturbed by any brag or egoism in his book. He is a great fellow.

There are two or three pieces in the book which are disagreeable, at least, simply sensual.

The preface of the book contains an inestimable wealth of this unworked ore—it is a creed of the material

A single glance of it mocks all the investigations of man, and all the instruments and books of the earth

or Asia…a wandering savage, A farmer, mechanic, or artist…a gentleman, sailor, lover orquaker, A prisoner

A curious title; but the book itself is a hundred times more curious.

It is like no other book that ever was written, and therefore, the language usually employed in notices

The book, perhaps, might be called, American Life, from a Poetical Loafer's Point of View .

The discerning reader will find in this singular book much that will please him, and we advise all who

We may add that the book was printed by the author's own hands, and that he is philosophically indifferent

Whitman's 'Specimen Days and Collect' is a book to be picked up at an odd moment and read in instalments

Here at last is a book by Walt Whitman, in whose pages no mawkish morality and squinting prudery can

It is not an easy book to characterize, but it is a book which every lover of our literature will prize

NEW BOOKS.

Look here, Walt Whitman, what made you write this book, these Leaves of Grass, full of good thoughts,

You’ve made a book, it can’t be rubbed out for it is a fact.

New Books

Several books of considerable interest have been published this month, but there is no one book which

A very different book is the latest collection of the poems of Walt Whitman, entitled "Good-bye, My Fancy

The book is published as a memorial of war times.

Of the English books, that which bears most closely upon current affairs is Harold Frederic's volume

His book on "The Young Emperor" is thoroughly characteristic.

the soft heads, on the shoulders of men and women indiscriminately, have conceived that it is a pure book

A professedly obscene book carries with it its own condemnation among decent people, and finds its own

for the Atlantic Monthly—"for sale everywhere" on respectable book-shelves—in very respectable type

The dangers of the book lie in its claiming to be a respectable book—in its claiming to be a pure book

We are inclined to think that the author considers the book a pure one.

These books have just been reprinted, and are now once more accessible to the admirers of Mr.

Walt Whitman to the general reader—indeed, his books are only fit for those who make researches in literature

The volumes will, however, be looked after by hunters of curiosities in the book world.

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

CONCERNING OLD AND NEW BOOKS, With a Hint at the Wisdom of Times and Seasons. [Written by Mrs.

It is a curious paradox that while books are certainly indispensable to our modern life, their chief

The book which starts no echo is without meaning to us.

Concerning Old and New Books

Wendell Phillips, turning the pages of the book, remarked, "Here seem to be all sorts of leaves except

On the reverse the reader was informed that the book had been duly "Entered according to act of Congress

The book was not "published" in the official sense.

The book, however, was misunderstood, as was to have been expected. Mr.

Of indecency, of essential grossness, there is in the book really nothing.

Walt Whitman's new book, "Specimen Days and Collect" is a literary curiosity made up of extracts from

fragments of essays and correspondence; scraps written for newspapers; samples from his commonplace book

Added to this, in a second part of the book, are "Democratic Vistas," the long essay written for one

'Sensation books,' or what are so called, are now the rage, and each successive production of this kind

Their authors for the most part belong to the foggy or to the flippant schools of book-makers; for the

And now we have another 'sensation' book—an anti-slavery affair—one of the brood spawned by 'Uncle Tom

As a work of art it will be as ephemeral as most books of its class.

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

The author's later verse makes the second division of the book, and is gathered under the title, "Sands

The latter half of the book consists of papers of varying length on literary, personal, and other themes

A portrait of the author taken from life in his seventieth year is the frontispiece of the book, and

There is the name neither of author nor publisher to this singular book—one of the most singular that

Other portions of the book are perfectly kaleidoscopic—grotesque changes rapidly succeed each other;

The book is embellished with a portrait (we presume) of the author—a rather melancholy-looking gentleman

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

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

beastiality we remember ever to have seen in print; a beastiality which is the most prominent feature of the book

The book is, in many respects abominable; in many respects the maddest folly and the merest balderdash

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

publishers of the 1860–61 edition of Leaves of Grass , account at least in part for the tone of the Day Book

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

publishers of the 1860–61 edition of Leaves of Grass, account at least in part for the tone of the Day Book's

—which he has not learned in any school, at second hand, or gathered from books—or torn from parchment

And here, after so long a lapse of time,—hundreds and thousands of highly bepraised books, in the mean

day by day, and will still continue to follow them until men cease to be fools—here we say is this book

We find many things new and old in this book; the old, welcome as the familiar faces of the old Gods

And for the claims of this book to be called a book of poems, we will venture to say that there is more

The book has nearly four hundred pages of close print.

One object of the book is to inspire the reader with a desire to enlist in this limited and peripatetic

The corruption exposed in this book would "infect to the North Star."

The object of the book is to deify impulse and lawlessness.

Sold at the book stores.

Consequently this book will be received, we fancy, as none of Whitman's former books have been.

The book deserves study even as a metrical anomaly, were it not entitled to consideration upon much higher

Lofty as any sound estimate of Whitman's book must be, it has faults enough to have long ago destroyed

Here we say only that the book is a noble one, and must be so adjudged before any proper discount upon

Milton, Paradise Lost , Book I, line 540. Walt Whitman, a Kosmos

.; Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, line 540.

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

T HERE is something wholesome, fresh, invigorating, in this book, and we like it.

The book is of “healthy” tone and expression sometimes, but where is the harm?

Influence is of no account; but a few objectionable phrases ought to burn a book.

Whitman's Dirty Book. The Westminster Review, in a survey of Contemporary Literature, says: If Mr.

Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" had been printed on paper as dirty as his favourite topics,—if the book

only addresses, but has found a public of a much wider class, and it becomes a question how such a book

Whitman's Dirty Book

Altogether, the book is made up of gleanings and gatherings, the work of one who stands near the final

The examples in this volume are marked by characteristics with which those in his previous books made

The prose papers include a long one, placed first in the book, (the poetry follows it), entitled "A Backward

This is a very important addition to the list of Whitman's books.

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

Many are the books I have read and recommended to the world of seekers for knowledge, truth and wisdom

This wonderful book is "Leaves of Grass!"

I feel that I can not do better justice to the book than to give an extract from a lecture on it delivered

"Leaves of Grass" I heard him give myself, while I was in Boston, and it determined me to buy the book

I shall be glad to fill orders for this book of books.

"We have glanced through this book with disgust and astonishment;—astonishment that anyone can be found

have bestowed one line of notice upon such an insult to common sense and common propriety, as this book

we believe authentically, that Whitman has never yet found (and has not to-day) a publisher for his books

Every book has been handled by him, contains his signature, and the photograph and pictures put in by

Whitman, (P.O. address permanently here in Camden, New Jersey,) sells these books exclusively himself

OUR BOOK TABLE LEAVES OF GRASS. Brooklyn, New York, 1856.

Some of these ‘leaves-droppings’ will be found at the end of the book, together with the correspondence

looking cautiously to see how the rest behave, dress, write, talk, love—pressing the noses of dead books

Our Book Table

This is a book which thousands will read with intense interest, and tens of thousands throw down in sheer

In the book before us, his peculiar powers are exhibited in all their innate force, and the prose part

The book was still-born.

Some three score copies were deposited in a neighboring book store, and as many more in another book

The full history of the book, if it could ever be written, would be a very curious one.

But he has been a reader of men and of things, and a student of America, much more than of books.

The influence of books and works of art upon an author may be seen in all respectable writers.

. * 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

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

Nevertheless, the Orientalism of the book is manifestly unconscious, it is really meant to be, and is

to consider if it really be; A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books

The book was still-born.

Some threescore copies were deposited in a neighboring book-store, and as many more in another book-store

The only attention the book received was, for instance, the use of it by the collected attachés of a

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