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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.

November Boughs (1888), and Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) are important Whitman sources for the names of plays

Whitman called Cushman the greatest performer he had seen and admired her for playing any role that would

toward Forrest, however, and barely mentions Macready in his articles.Thomas Hamblin (1800–1853) played

Kemble (1809–1893) impressed Whitman in his early days; he claims to have seen her every night she played

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.

Moreover, playing both Adam and Eve, Whitman's persona gives birth to himself as a poet as well.The things

Similarly, Whitman's Adam is strong, vigorous, and sexual, with limbs quivering with the fire "that ever plays

In 1865 Whitman engaged Peter Eckler to print the first issue of Drum-Taps but after Abraham Lincoln's

New York: Peter Smith, 1932. Art and Daguerreotype Galleries

In January 1865, in his capacity as Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Ashton played a

.: Peter Smith, 1972. lviii–lix n15. Kaplan, Justin. Walt Whitman: A Life.

Turkey (1871–1875) and Russia (1875) and is best known for Francesca da Rimini (staged 1855), a popular play

Boker was dissatisfied with his theatrical career and desperately wanted a following for his Plays and

.: Peter Smith, 1972. British Romantic Poets

It was also in Brooklyn that the youthful Whitman saw two more figures who would later play an important

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

The poem serves as a summation of Whitman's career and poses a tableau wherein the light and dark playing

1860), "Waves" receives little critical attention, but it chronicles a moment in the poet's life and plays

silent") and the abiding quality of his commitment to that struggle in spite of setback ("the powerful play

In spite of the vital role the landscape plays in Canadian literature and the need for a cosmic vision

democracy.Some critical interest (e.g., Howard Waskow, John Schwiebert) has focused on the roles readers play

Whitman had earlier called this poem "Washington's First Battle," referring to the part played by the

In the first he is walking with Eve, content, taking delight in the "quivering fire that ever plays"

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

Later, Whitman would get a first-hand report of the assassination from his friend Peter Doyle, an Irish

—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.”

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

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

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.

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.

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

Antipathy has reached inspired heights in such writers as Peter Bayne and Knut Hamsun, and this makes

Crossing" is a very visual poem, conveying a strong sense of particular detail, the play of light, and

Nonetheless, in a letter to Peter Doyle remarking on the commencement, Whitman seemed to feel his poem

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

It is useful to remember Whitman's love of dictionaries when reading his poems, for his words often play

Martin G.MurrayDoyle, Peter (1843–1907)Doyle, Peter (1843–1907)The romantic friendship that Walt Whitman

shared with Peter Doyle embodied the "love of comrades" celebrated in Whitman's "Calamus" poems.

Peter Doyle is buried in Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.Martin G.

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

Doyle, Peter (1843–1907)

his book published, Whitman made his own arrangements and, on 1 April 1865, signed a contract with Peter

And it in turn solidified his conviction that the teacher played a pivotal role in their education.

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.

the culture and literature it so thoroughly permeated, had become enervated, that it had at last played

New World receives with joy the poems of the antique, with European feudalism's rich fund of epics, plays

Its London agent, William Horsell, would play a part in establishing Whitman's English reputation.

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

based on "new developments in the human nervous system" (Das dritte Reich, 1900; Die Suchenden, 1902; Peter

years later in France with Bertz, Bazalgette, and others as active participants—Whitman continued to play

newspapers; edited several books, including Authors at Home (1888); and wrote a novel, a couple of plays

.: Peter Smith, 1972. 139–141. ———. Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts. Ed. Edward F.

news and the Shakespeare controversy, agreeing that the Stratford actor was not the author of the plays

Peter Van Egmond. Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1972. Traubel, Horace.

Sadakichi (ca. 1867–1944) Like the character he played in the 1924 film The Thief of Bagdad, Whitman

Sadakichi Hartmann played court magician to successive bohemian circles.

Peter Uwe Hohendahl and Sander L. Gilman. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1991. 199–223.

In a 1946 essay Hughes expressed his belief that, since Whitman had played with slave children in his

Hugo's plays were also enjoying successful performances on the New York stage.

Whitman told Horace Traubel that "Hugo's immortal works were the dramas, the plays, the poems: least

Appropriate for a poem about music, the sound effects are multiple, striking, and subtle (e.g., the play

naked in the swimming-bath," the "embrace of love and resistance" of two young boy wrestlers, the "play

presents women as exceedingly sexual, for "mad filaments, ungovernable shoots" of erotic attraction play