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Ah, but Whitman is nothing if not a spectator, a cosmic poet to whom the whole world is a play.

Except play his harp and wear his crown.

We can't play at life without getting some knocks and bruises, and without running some chance of defeat

Croce saw all of history as a playing out of the human spirit into a multitude of individual acts.

It is an insistent, a loud work, like a long piece of music played continuously con brio.

Peter Bondanella and Julia Conaway Bondanella (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996)143; Antonio Gramsci

AAminta: a lyric, pastoral play first performed in 1573; considered Torquato Tasso’s most important and

That is, while he composed the national epic in which the figures and forces creating the nation play

I play not a march for victors only .... I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

Miller (1968, 21): The scene is played out in regressive sexual imagery.

What part do I have to play?

What will he, she, or they do in this or that event, what role am I to play?

Press, 1981. 168 BIBLIOGRAPHY Peters, Robert L.

Well, Tom, it looks as though secesh was nearly played o u t-if they lose Charleston, as I believe they

Late in 1865 Whitman met a veteran of the Confederate Army, Peter Doyle, now a streetcar conductor in

Instead ofthat, the Book is the product ofthe largest universal law & play of things, & of that sense

The truth is, Peter, that I am here at present times mainly in the midst of female women, some of them

I also read the Peter Bayne article. 30(It was copied in full here at once, & circulated quite largely

We played ball, but I don't think Walt ever took part in it.

He asso ciated more with the younger scholars, frolicing rather than playing games.

Were the Shakespeare plays the best acting plays? W. said: "That's a superstition-an exaggeration."

In his later publications, I find many passages that were dis played to me in embryo.

Some where in your play or novel let the sunlight in."

The song plays variations on its principal themes, "I am a reaper" and "I hunger."

is based on a photo of Peter pulling himself up on the hood of a car.

The viewer is located within the room from which Peter apparently wants to escape.

He told her that the next issue of his newspaper was to be about Peter Doyle.

Outrageously elusive play is its essence.

Granted, other influences played their part in the sea-change that took place in Whitman's life and work

remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing

The night before, in Washington, Peter Doyle, who liked the theater and was attracted by celebrities,

had gone to see the play, the President, and his wife.

The vexed question ofreference comes into play here.

Jiirgen Wellbrock, "Dein Selbst kann ich nicht singen," in Hermann Peter Piwit and Peter Riihmkorf, eds

in Peter C.

Peter Doyle, Sr. was a blacksmith (Bucke, 22).

Francis was nearly ten years older than Peter.

It remains unclear what happened to Peter's father.

Peter's Roman Catholic Church on Capitol Hill.

Peter's Catholic Church ( ., 2: 113).

Whitman played an interesting role in this endeavor.

Peter Boie read Walt Whitman's "Song ofMyself." ... Peter liked what he read about the animals.

child of nature, who feels equal to Peter and who tells him so.

Social Democrats' interest in Whitman comes into play here).

Hermann Peter Piwit and Peter Rtihmkorf (Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1976), p.l36.

Dan Lewis played a major role in the complex job ofgathering and editing the materials for this volume

Hermann Peter Piwit and Peter Rtihmkorf, eds.Literaturmagazins.Das Vergehen von Horen und Sehen.

Bazalgette translated The Wound-Dresser (Le Panseur de Plaies) (1917).

We shall see later the part played by this same spectacle in the growth ofthe poem.

not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.

performed the smallest of tasks—writing a letter home, feeding a sweet tooth, passing the time by playing

A carpenter from Elmira, New York, Haskell played the fife for the 141st New York Infantry band.

His close friend, streetcar conductor Peter Doyle, is to his right. Courtesy of Frank Wright.

Painting of the Grand Review showing Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle.

him to leave Washington for his brother George's home in Camden, where the great hospital visitor played

address to a new man whom he visits: "Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing

"The Play-Ground," a poem about children at play, appears in theEagle. LATE JUNE.

Peter Doyle's brother, police officer Fran cis M.

Whitman sends a postcard greeting to Peter Doyle.

Peter Doyle visits Whitman (DN,2:325). g DECEMBER.

"'Pete the Great': A Biography of Peter Doyle."

86 He evidently wanted this play on words.

The passionate teeming plays this curtain hid!).

Letter to Peter Doyle, September 6, I87o, SPL, p. 993· 3x.

See also "The Mystic Trum peter,"Inc. Ed., p. 39I, §6, II.

But in a letter to Peter Doyle June 27, I872 (SPL, pp.

another occasion many years later, in 1888, Whitman was deep in memories of his dearest companion Peter

I can't think of the author's name—my memory plays me such shabby tricks these days—(though I should

We do not know if Whitman was aware that the author was born in Limerick, birthplace of his friend Peter

Peter Barr Sweeny, one of the original Ring organizers, was a Tammany sachem and city chamberlain, and

He wrote to Peter Doyle: The N.

[A few days later:] W. told Ed: “Play your violin: play it as much as you choose: I like it: when I am

Ed at first played in the next room. I advised him to play downstairs.

Think of it—the games they play—the travesty!

Peter Doyle no writer In October 1891 Whitman was surprised to learn that Peter Doyle was thenbasedinBaltimore

Greeks versus Shakespeare The Shakespeare plays are essentially the plays of an aristocracy: they are

crudities were offensive to [Voltaire]: there was something crude, powerful, drastic, in the Shake-speare plays

A photo of the actor playing the Whitman figure in The Carpenter.

In the play, the ad- mirers of Whitman are Agatha, Ginny (Merrill’s daughter), and Dr.

Fay Kanin’s original play makes clear that the college is set in Massachusetts.

Price sode treats the Peter Doyle–Whitman relationship.

Pantheism played an increas- ingly important role in shaping his own thought.

the same role that self-respect plays for individuals.

he seems to say, "encompass worlds, play wherever you wish—just stay out of the house, you're crowding

play that need not be collared by the stiff expectations of correspondence theory.

( 65) Of course, he also restricts the meaning of that divinity by playing with the classic definition

Just as significant is the pivotal part played by emotion in the transaction.

Griffith through Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler and on up to contemporary directors like Peter Weir,

it did not overtly repress or privatize the role that passion, eroticism, sympathy, and love might play

influence to other modernist Chinese writers and discusses Whitman in terms of "the unique role he played

From Peter Eckler. 1865 April 26. From Peter Eckler. January 4. From Dana F. Wright. Berg. May 1.

From Peter Doyle. Trent. November 25. From Louisa Van Velsor September 23. From Peter Doyle.

Schueller and Peters, 2: 201–3. [September?].

Peters, 2: 374–75. November 7. From Peter Doyle. CT: Shive- June 14. From John M. Rogers.

CT: Schueller and Peters, 3: January 6.

The famous nature writer Peter Matthiessen invoked the war metaphor when he traveled to east Tennessee

What is fascinating about the poems considered in this chapter is the way Whitman plays with closeness

Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep, and Peter MacNicol in Sophie's Choice 14.

Peter Hassrick comments on the aura of Miller's works: "His characters, whether trappers or Indians,

In contrast, in Whitman's lines, the rifle plays a much more threatening role.

Given that Oliver's father, Peter Alden, wants his son to "understand America" and wants to free Oliver

She frequently played the self-sacrificing and self-effacing mother, a role Fullerton encouraged.

Undoings': Walt Whitman's Writing of the 1855 ," in Anthony Mortimer, ed., From Wordsworth to Stevens (Peter

Recchia (New York: Peter Lang, 1998-2003 LG Leaves of Grass, Comprehensive Reader's Edition, ed.

While Whitman's parents were not members of any religious denomination, Quaker thought always played

Fenimore Cooper, and other romance novelists), theaters (where he fell in love with Shakespeare's plays

and saw Junius Booth, John Wilkes Booth's father, play the title role in Richard III , always Whitman's

appearance of his book, and his changes reflect his evolving notions of what role his writing would play

The color shift from green to dark red, burnt orange, or purple is one that Whitman would play on for

He prepared the broadside before contracting with the printer Peter Eckler in New York.

My thanks to Aidan Arrowsmith, Peter Heaney, Laura Peters, and Shaun Richards.

(LG 85) Whitman, the reader of dictionaries, is playing a complicated game here.

Peter G. Buckley, “Culture, Class, and Place in Antebellum New York,” 34. 26.

For a more nuanced reading of Whitman’s class location, see Peter G.

Buckley, Peter G. “Culture, Class, and Place in Antebellum New York.”

The poem, combined with pictures of Buckingham learning to play the guitar, works to connect the musician's

of the cradle endlessly rocking," is flanked by two large photographs: on the left is a young boy playing

a guitar and singing, on the right is the adult Buckingham playing a guitar and singing.

entertainment—listening to a string quartet, going to the Met (Joey mistakenly thinks she means seeing the Mets play

Yours truly, Peter G. Doyle.

This is where Shaw plays trumps.

The “Interview with Peter Doyle” by Dr.

a cat is passing through my poem; See—it plays the fiddle, rapturously: It plays sonatas, fugues, rigodons

aged cow; But most of all it plays nocturnes, and plays them pyrotechnically as befits the night time

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast” (71).

Miller Jr., Colleen Lamos, Wayne Koestenbaum, and John Peter.

See also Peter, “Postscript (1969),” 165–66; and James E.

Peter also discusses canto 26 (“Postscript [1969],” 170).

Bellis, Peter J. “Whitman in 1855: Against Representation.”

Dissolving a national literature in the fluid play of genres,lyricandepicmergehereintoasea-bornetradition

1990),296,280. 5.Walcott’sfascinationwiththeOdysseyisevidentnotonlyinOmerosbutevenmoreclearlyin his play

newgreatmasters”—or,moreprecisely,this call for a call—so much as to situate his poetry within the play

its part and passing on, Another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn, With faces

{ kirsten silva gruesz } “dim” of the bus station; the fierce current of economic opportunity they play

—Workofsomesort Play?

Play? “Novel?

, but if a play it must straddle the line with poetry, with even the stage directions in some kind of

Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005. ———.

Gloucester ma: Peter Smith, 1972. ———. “Walt Whitman and His Poems.”

Peter Coviello. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. PW ProseWorks 1892. 2 vols. Ed.

Peter Coviello (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 3. Hereafter MDW.

In his biographyof Peter Doyle, Martin G.

“Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle.”

Edited by Peter Coviello. NewYork: Oxford University Press, 2004. ———. ProseWorks.

political, and other contests surrounding these poems, and the constitutive role these poems have played

or remain in the same room with you, littleyou know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing

Calamus  as a cluster of poems focused on the love between men, “live oak, with moss” played a crucial

Brown and other soldiers he met and cared for in the Washington hospitals, as well as with Peter doyle

Coviello, Peter. “Intimatenationality: anonymityand attachment inWhitman.”

In ecocriticism, the concept does not yet play a significant role, either.

Bowler, Peter J. The Earth Encompassed: A History of the Environmental Sciences.

Friztell, Peter A. Nature Writing and America: Essays upon a Cultural Type.

Temin, Peter. “The Industrialization of New England, 1830–1880.”

Wenz, Peter S. Environmental Justice. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988.

Rather, in puffing Whitman, the Saturday Press played at and played with repre- sentations of Whitman

, play-goers, and ye general reader, in a state of utter despair. . . .

“‘Pete the Great’: A Biography of Peter Doyle.”

Gloucester, ma: Peter Smith, 1872. Winter,William.

Feminist Conversations: Fuller, Emerson, and the Play of Reading.

Sundquist’s To Wake the Nations (1993) and Toni Morri- son’s Playing in the Dark (1992), among others

Vodou ritu- als played an integral role in fomenting the Haitian revolution. C. L. R.

Peter Coviello discusses racial solidarity in Whitman’s antebellum poetry.

Peter Coviello, introduction to Walt Whitman, Memoranda during theWar, ed.

Peter Coviello (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), xlvi. 14.

That, like all the rest, plays about the surface,andneverintroducesmeintothereality,forcontactwithwhich

Fromthecinder-strew’dthresholdIfollowtheir movements, Thelithesheer of their waists plays evenwith their

;heis,ofcourse,thesolesubjectoftheconcluding book 4, and, as I have argued elsewhere, his writings play

the nation made him less willing to delegate political action to politicians and more inclined to play

Peter Lang, 2012), 383–92.

Even Whitman’s use of anonymity in the 1855 edition may have drawn upon the games of attribution played

“It seems to me as if it would give the book a formidably scientific appearance,” he hinted, playing

Whitman “played Indian,” taking the pen name of “Paumanok” early in his career.

(Gloucester: Peter Smith, 1972), 2:316–317. 88.

See also Whitman’s image of Dowden, Edward, 116, 117 neglect Doyle, Peter, 32, 143, 149, 218n11 drift

In a letter to Peter Doyle, Whitman wrote that Dr.

Peter N.

Peter W.

Halligan, Peter W. “Phantom Limbs: The Body in Mind.”

Sacks, Peter M. The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats.

Reconciliation as Sequel and Supplement: Drum- Taps and Battle-Pieces / 69 peTer J.

Robert Penn 80 } Peter J.

Olsen- Smith, Steven, Peter Norberg, and Dennis C. Marnon.

Peter Coviello. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ———.

Peter J.

A fairly rare circumstance, which calls our attention both to the synaesthetic play of text and paratext

With humorous fair play the critic finally avows to have "no intention of regularly criticising this

(New York: Peter Lang, 1998–2003).

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.

Whitman and Peter Doyle, ca. 1869. Photograph by M. P. Rice, Washington, DC.

Covielo, Peter. “Intimate Nationality: Anonymity and Attachment in Whitman.”

New York: Peter Lang, 1998–2003. ———. Leaves of Grass: An Exact Copy of the First Edition 1855.

sponded,infact,toaninitialbreakupofregularItalianmetrics:itallowed a certain degree of freedom, of play

Carducci’s experience, in which Whitman played, as we have seen, a relevantrole,comesparticularlyclosetothatofRussian

had hardly ever been used in Italian poetry before, and it is highly probable that Whitman’s poetry played

of Whitman’sLeavesofGrass(1855), diSanPietro”(“AnEveningofSaint 210;and2017translationof Whitman’s Peter

anoutdatedidealopenedupnewavenuesforthecontrastwithslaverythat willbekeytohisaccomplishmentinLeavesofGrass.Thisdevelopmentwas anticipated when Whitman played

free-statesettlerswieldedtheweaponsoflaboritself.Thehistoricalprocess in“Broad-AxePoem,”wheretheheadsman’saxegiveswaytotheworker’s, was played

suggests one way to approach a matter that has received much scholarly attention in American studies—what Peter

Cook,Robert,170–71 50,62,75,76,93;astheprime Corwin,Thomas,159 historicalagentin“Broad-Axe Coviello,Peter

He also reviewed plays and opera and occasional ballet presented in New York theater houses.

Whole letters were published by Bucke in Calamus, which contains Whitman's letters to Peter Doyle, and

At this time, the first two volumes of a projected five are scheduled for publication by Peter Lang Press

Calamus: A Series of Letters Written During the Years 1868–1880 by Walt Whitman to a Young Friend (Peter

own personal reflections in his notebooks around 1870 in which he anguishes over his affection for Peter

The extensive body of letters Whitman wrote to Civil War soldiers, and especially Peter Doyle, usually

His affectionate bond with Peter Doyle, the Washington, D.C., streetcar conductor he met in late 1865