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When Walt Whitman, as the story goes, drove an omnibus along Broadway to oblige the regular driver, who

published many volumes of poems and compiled a number of anthologies, including Poets of America , 2

He published many volumes of poems and compiled a number of anthologies, including Poets of America, 2

but the idea back of the form is the main thing, and that is what the world, or at least the western part

The whole volume, in its arrangement, is pregnant with Whitman's personality, and it seems more a part

…Prefaces to "Leaves of Grass," l855, 1872, 1876…Poetry Today in America…Death of Abraham Lincoln…Stories

The parts that deal with the war have been emphasized as forming one of the most important phases of

Occasionally throughout the book, and as notable as any parts, are some of Whitman's special letters.

Here, for example, is one which tells its own story. CAMDEN, N. J., U. S. A., Dec. 20, 1881.

It ends with the 'Songs of Parting,' under which the last is 'So Long,' a title that a foreigner and

He has gained a vigorousness of support on the part of his admirers that probably more than outbalances

His rhythm, so much burlesqued, is all of a part with the man and his ideas.

But these are parts of him.

has been already said, and must serve as a great reason why of this whole book—first, that the main part

The reader will always have his or her part to do, just as much as I have had mine.

—tangled and many- veined many-veined and hard has been thy part, To admiration has it been enacted?

Duly the needed discord parts offsetting, blending, Weaving from you, from Sleep, Night, Death itself

May-be I am non-literary and non-decorous (let me at least be human and pay part of my debt) in this

Yet consider the forces that make the flower, the elements that are parts of it, the intricacy of its

eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span, or make it impatient, They are but parts

, anything is but a part.

They say there is a time to be silent, and though no part or function of man if properly treated is disgraceful

It consists for the most part of hack writers to the press who think it no portion of their duty to know

Veiled obscenity in the shape of a joke, a spicy story, or the reports of criminal cases in the Pall

above all else zealous for the virtue of their womankind, just as if they had never laughed over the story

Gespräche mit Goethe , Leipzig, Band 1 und 2: 1836, Band 3: 1848, S. 743.

Gespräche mit Goethe, Leipzig, Band 1 und 2: 1836, Band 3: 1848, S. 743.; Ernest Rhys, "Introduction"

I remembered the story of Miller at Lundy's Lane, of Bruce (was it?)

The newer parts were printed at this office.

works which aim at satirising the manners and customs of every-day life are necessarily the first parts

To deal with these seriatim , in the first Whitman takes part in a natural and easily comprehensible

have successively added, or from which they have subtracted—we should have expected that the greater part

Part of the present prose has appeared before in his books, part in the magazines, and part in the newspapers

any person, place, or thing to which the author "feels to devote a memorandum," falling for the most part

add, in every respect but one,—in this instance, the reader can discover a definite meaning on the part

Book of Ezekiel 2:1. The edition of Messrs.

Book of Ezekiel 2:1.; The edition of Messrs.

They are but parts of the actual distraction, heat, smoke, and excitement of those times.

The poet and short story writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) also served as editor of the Atlantic

The American poet and critic Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903) was part of a circle of genteel writers

.; The poet and short story writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) also served as editor of the Atlantic

The stories written while he was still in his teens are so melodramatic and unreal, that they would be

The passages about the civil war (he was in the hospitals through the greater part of the war) are very

—from his 'Chants Democratic,' from his Drum Taps , from his Leaves of Grass , from his 'Songs of Parting

Mere parts have been nowhere selected.

to his productions, to those Poems of his which have been here selected for us from his 'Songs of Parting

Friends,"— "Two two simple men I saw to-day on the pier, in the midst of the crowd parting the parting

Keats's (1795-1821) poem "Isabella, or the Pot of Basil" (1817-18), which is an adaptation of the story

Keats's (1795-1821) poem "Isabella, or the Pot of Basil" (1817-18), which is an adaptation of the story

In part this opinion is already proved to have been a mistaken one, for a West-end publisher has taken

Rossetti severe pangs, so he informs us, to part with so much as, from considerations of prudence, he

application of rules of art which is found to hold good in the works of other poets, and to constitute a part

If I worship one thing more than another it shall be the spread of my own body or any part of it."

Parting track'd by arriving—perpetual payment of perpetual loan, Rich, showering rain, and recompense

Here is part of a birds-eye view with which he favours us of sailors and their doings throughout the

more truly human not to speak of, than to speak of (such speech producing self-consciousness, whereas part

Had Whitman ventured upon the hundredth part of his grossness in the camp of the Greeks, he would have

He says in a concluding part of the preface: Without being a scientist, I have thoroughly adopted the

Put in thy chants, said he, No more the puzzling hour, nor day—nor segments, parts, put in, Put first

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emotional, artistic, indefinable, indescribably beautiful charm and hold which fused the separate parts

venerable and heavenly forms of chiming versification have in their time played great and fitting parts

but the overlying grace of the poet and the underlying spirit of the philanthropist animate every part

promised, When through these States walk a hund- red hundred millions of superb persons, When the rest part

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

I am not shocked when I read the stories of the Old Testament: I see behind the apparently gross form

it with a memorandum ("mem.," as he is fond of neglecting to write it) made "Down in the Woods July 2,

For our part, we hope it will remain "well enveloped" till doomsday; and as for "definition," all we

seems obvious in the face of a dozen such passages as the famous "Burial Hymn," or the picturesque parts

his prose style may be justly criticised as heavy and disjointed, but the intrinsic interest of the story

It is the old story of Achilles and Patroclus transferred from windy Troy to the banks of the Potomac

Osgood & Co. of Boston, in a handsome 382 page volume, price $2.

decency, but the one page in all of Walt Whitman's works which may be objected to on this ground is part

the little cottage" he gives the following picture:— In the upper of a little wooden house of two stories

For the story of Swinburne's veneration of Whitman and his later recantation, see two essays by Terry

volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were Poets of America , 2

) took over Philadelphia-based publisher Rees Welsh's bookselling and publishing businesses in 1881–2.

For the story of Swinburne's veneration of Whitman and his later recantation, see two essays by Terry

volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were Poets of America, 2

) took over Philadelphia-based publisher Rees Welsh's bookselling and publishing businesses in 1881–2.

with the rest into competition for the usual rewards, business, political, literary, &c., to take part

pois'd, the twain yet one, a mo- ment moment 's lull, A motionless still balance in the air, then parting

After detailing how he found the small, wooden house of two stories, in which Whitman resided, "after

away its greenness—and was so like the earth upon which he rested, that he seemed almost enough a part

He is no longer one of the curiosities of the Republic; and while the stories of his extreme poverty

venerable and heavenly forms of chiming versification have in their time played great and fitting parts

Put in they chants, said he, No more the puzzling hour, nor day—nor segments, parts, put in, Put first

So he turned and went away in a rage" (2 Kings 5:12).

The review that is quoted here in parts originally appeared in the New York Daily Tribune , 19 February

So he turned and went away in a rage" (2 Kings 5:12).; "But wisdom is justified of all her children"

that if the new edition is a triumph for the poet, it has been achieved without any concession on his part

The additional verses are not so important in themselves as in the relation of parts to a completed whole

The poet has compared his work to one of those ambitious old architectural edifices, built part by part

A considerable part of his contemporaries hold him to be beneath criticism; a small circle of ardent

It is not from any lack of conscientious intention that the poet fails in part of his purpose, and instead

convening of Congress every December, the members coming up from all climates, and from the uttermost parts—the

"I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, and feeling are miracles, and each part and

Doubtless in the scheme this man has built for himself the writing of poems is but a proportionate part

build—his antecedents here being a race of farmers and mechanics, silent, good-natured, playing no high part

On his trip to and from that city he made it a point to penetrate various parts of the West and Southwest

cedars; and with these the evening star, which, as many may remember, night after night in the early part

ideas that they have taken at second-hand from some one else; custom and convention play so large a part

contain the raw material out of which poems might be made; but the reader is obliged for the most part

This in part is the secret of the Greek chorus-poetry, to which (though the Greek measures are more balanced

with reference to a day, but with reference to all days, And I will not make a poem, nor the least part

Let others ignore what they may, I make the poem of evil also—I commemorate that part also, I am myself

believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, and feeling are miracles, and each tag and part

He was a good fellow, free-mouthed, quick-tempered, not bad-looking, able to take his own part, witty

poetry, no equal celebration of the human being in his completeness-in his organic character-every part

express the cosmical character of the individual-yourself; the absolute miracle you are in all your parts

The thorough Americanism of the poem, permeating every part of it, appears as well in its literary form

It must remain an enduring part of the glory of our poet, that, as in such superb and powerful lines

T HE grossest abuse on the part of the majority, and the wildest panegyric on the part of a minority,

He believes hugely in himself, and in the part he is destined to take in American affairs.

properly so called; and that this grossness, offensive in itself, is highly significant—an essential part

The second part of the volume, "Drum-Taps," is a series of poetic soliloquies on the war.

Not a move can a man or woman make that affects him or her in a day or a month, or any part of the direct

mouth, or by the shaping of his great hands …and all that is well thought or done this day on any part

To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear our part!

To think that we are now here, and bear our part!

free-mouthed free-mouth'd quick-tem- pered quick-tempered , not bad-looking, able to take his own part

The novel involves a courtesan who becomes part of the fashionable world of Paris.

with the addition of a work containing much that has not been before printed, entitled "Songs before Parting

show :— "I believe in the flesh and the appetites; Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part

his antecedents here being a race of farmers and mechanics, silent, good-natured, playing no high part

On his trip to and from that city he made it a point penetrate various parts of the West and South-west

Glasgow, 1883. 2. Specimen Days and Collect Same author. Glasgow, 1883. 3. Poems of Walt Whitman .

the Preface of 1876, 'I have felt temporary depression more than once, for fear that in the moral parts

Following these, and forming the concluding part of the Specimen Days , is a number of memoranda written

The greater part of them are distributed under the headings—'Inscriptions,' 'Children of Adam,' 'Calamus

The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt-marsh and shore-mud; These become part

The simple, compact, well-joined scheme— my- self myself disintegrated, every one disintegrated, yet part

I see it part away for more august dramas: I see not America only—I see not only liberty’s nation, but

Have the old forces played their parts? Are the acts suitable to them closed?"

He takes the loftiest views of man, reverences all his parts, and will not have any thing omitted.

traits, idiosyncrasy, and environment,—'there being not merely one good way of representing a great part

Suppose, however, he undertook to play the part in a cutaway coat, a plug hat, corduroy trowsers, and

It reminds one of the negro's story of the storm that blew down the house but left the roof standing.

The doctors tell us that the body is not vile, nor any of its parts; and when a genuine poet called it

The man who has a story to build will never fail for want of verbal tools; if he falters, it will be

As for the rest, some is quite formless; but for the most part there is a strongly marked and characteristic

A 'sane sensuality,' as it is called by one of his friends, is a necessary part of the ideal man.

On the whole no part of his work is more interesting than this; it is as if he were the born poet of

of heroes and martyrs, And when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part

of the earth, Then only shall liberty, or the idea of liberty, be discharged from that part of the earth

Buchanan asserts that his idol has many worshippers in this country, but we venture to say that this is a part

The old woman's tale of there being but eight wonders in the world has long been an idle story; a brick

It would be impossible to transcribe from any part of the book without offending common sense, and it

Some time ago, so the story goes, he made the unpoetic acquaintance of a New York omnibus driver.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha (1855) told the story of the legendary chief credited as

.; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha (1855) told the story of the legendary chief credited