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When one notes the importance that oratory played in Whitman's mind and writing, the presence of such

Underlying Whitman's play is a sense of the opacity and elusiveness of language.

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

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

In Jeff's youth, Walt helped him learn to read, played games with him, and stimulated his love of music

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.

(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.

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.

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.

That is, Whitman could see the role society played in formulating a person's view of self and of others

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."

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.

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

"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."

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.

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.

friendships with Charles Eldridge, Lewy Brown, William and Ellen O'Connor, John and Ursula Burroughs, and Peter

critical biography, Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (1867).Whitman found friendship with Peter

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.”

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.”

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

Bemoaning lover problems, Whitman in 1870 compared Vaughan with Peter Doyle, admonishing himself: "Remember

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

.: Peter Smith, 1972. Travels, Whitman's

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

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

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.

1873, became a favorite retreat for the poet for several years in the late 1870s and into the 1880s, playing

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

here uses correctly; it is the musical notation for full tonality of all instruments in an orchestra played

Peters. 3 vols. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1967–1969.____. Memoirs of John Addington Symonds. Ed.

Between the two ends of the spectrum, however, Whitman displays great artistry in the play of stanza

Section 11 of "Song of Myself," for instance, owes much of its dreamlike tone to the delicate play of

Moreover, Stoics tend to see one's personal existence as a role in a play directed by nature, thus conceiving

exuberance and excitement do not allow the speaker to advance a carefully reasoned argument; the poem plays

When he died, Whitman left Stafford his silver watch, originally intended for Peter Doyle.  

DavidKuebrichSoul, TheSoul, TheWhitman's understanding of the soul is extremely complex, and it plays

can, with Thomas, read the poem's opening lines as a ritual purification of the axe so that it can play

"Song of the Banner" plays a similar role in what eventually became the "Drum-Taps" cluster.

Traces of this same paradox also play through "Song of the Answerer."

Whitman plays with the conventional meaning of the word "prudence" by employing the vocabulary of finance—good

finds the revision rather pointless because he feels that for all the poet's supposed intimacy with Peter

Christian (1870–1950) Jan Christian Smuts was an influential South African leader and prime minister who played

A brief review of how Whitman's attitudes evolved makes clear the significant role slavery plays in his