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Malcolm Cowley saw the poet's ideas as pell-mell driftwood in a flooding river. D.H.

Along with historical summaries and sky-view grids of railroads and rivers, he records the Cossack's

And, as Phillips illuminates in his essay, the function of the East River as thelocusclassicusinWhitman

(Whitman writes, “Just as you are refresh’d by the gladness of the river, and the bright flow, I was

probes the menacing history of bondage evoked by the river’s continuity with times past: “But there’

But Komunyakaa’s river carries haunting, unsolicited memories his speaker would rather not remember:

The East River, a locus classicus of Whitman’s work, is recon- textualized in order to circumscribe a

He would have met another Brooklynite who managed the leap over the East River and found success in the

duringWhitman’s tenure; both sites were located nearWil- liamsburg’s two ferry landings on the East River

Let us hope that he will indulge us with a hymn to the aresnicated Undin of the rejuvenating river.”

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

As the medical historian Howard Markel observes, “the river of human pathology at Bellevue had no end

their tiny leaves . . . without the actual army sights and hot emotions of the time rushing like a river

in the woods or by the road-side (hundreds, thousands, obliterated)— the corpses floated down the rivers

the diaspora of “the strayed dead” whose unburied bodies littered battlefields and became lost to rivers

even take one in my hand, without the actual army sights and hot emotions of the time rushing like a river

Evok- ing the chaotic scene of the night battle on the river as the “shock of ships”colliding amid the

,The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, and contrasted with his youthful journey back up the Ohio River

“Our rival Roses warred for Sway— / For Sway, but named the name of Right” in “The Battle of Stone River

Soldiers become an “Abrahamic river” in “The Muster,” the flashes of bayonets are northern lights in

homage to Whitman in novels of artistic development such as The Custom of the Country (1912), Hudson River

Between 1681 and 1700, they settled on the eastern shore of the Delaware River across from Philadelphia

Several ferry companies provided transit across the river, William Cooper's giving the town its early

Many of these essays, such as "Scenes on Ferry and River—Last Winter's Nights," eloquently express the

in downtown Camden, finished in 1925, was named for Whitman, and a new bridge across the Delaware River

Big Rivers My own favorite loafing places have always been the rivers, the wharves, the boats—I like sailors

I have never lived away from a big river.

and of achieving a view of the Delaware River below.

And I know best of all the rivers—the grand, sweeping, curving, gently un- dulating rivers. Oh!

there, but a river that does.

Composed at his biogra- pher’s Manhattan apartment window, which looked out on the East River just southoftheBrooklynBridge

to the life before me: And, Walt, there’s no end to your life: You’d say: “Tell me about the East River

naturalist, writer, and friend of Walt Whitman, built a house with a spectacular view of the Hudson River

He purchased the land in September 1873 and called the home "Riverby" (meaning "by the river" and pronounced

"river bee").

breakfast table and listened from the rooftop to a thirty-gun salute as it resounded across the East River

Thus Dimock sees “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” as being situated si- multaneously on the East River and the

Harkening back to that river, the pouring-in of the flood-tide and the falling-back of the ebb-tide now

Grows like a bit of debris lodged in the river—the currents flow on—add to it—fasten it—till in time it

Maurice Kilwein Guevara, Poems of the River Spirit (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,1996),

In addition to Walden (1854), Thoreau's major works include A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

During August 1881, Whitman stayed with the Johnstons at their summer home at Mott Haven on the Harlem River

in Kings County, which gave Whitman responsibility for leadership in political communication only a river

StephenRachmanNiagara FallsNiagara FallsWalt Whitman twice visited the famous falls on the Niagara River

parts: first by rail to Aquia Creek Landing, Virginia, and then by government steamer up the Potomac River

spirit responds to his country’s spirit . . . . he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers

The coon-seekers go now through the regions of the Red United States and States United : 75 river, or

gone down the American river!

Rivers, Walt Whitman’s Anomaly (London: George Allen, 1913), 9.

Gere, an East River ferry captain, recalled that Whitman would regale pas- sengers with Shakespearean

.—— I My eyes are bloodshot, they look down the river, A steamboat carries off paddles away my woman

Hopple and ball at ancles, and tight cuffs at the wrists does must not detain me will go down the river

gloss on the poem by placing just before it "Enfans d'Adam 2" (later titled "From Pent-up Aching Rivers

At the end of "From Pent-up Aching Rivers," possession itself is reversed by desire for the body, and

A series of efforts—"Literature" (drafted c. 1914), The Custom of the Country (1913), Hudson River Bracketed

Walt loved living close to the East River, where as a child he rode the ferries back and forth to New

The first, 1848-49: To Louisiana, the “great river,” New Orleans and the “magnet south” and on the way

equated to “From Pent-up Aching Rivers.”

"I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

In the specific case of art, we have also seen how he loves to compare his songs to a plant, a river,

and Nights” (117), “Hudson River Sights,” “Departing of the Big Steamers” (p. 125), and “Only a New

Philadelphia was the third most populous city in the United States when Whitman resided across the Delaware River

which lasted until 1919.A century after the first publication of Leaves of Grass in 1855, the Delaware River

Authority decided to name a new bridge after the poet so closely associated with both banks of the river

Others, like "Scenes on Ferry and River," celebrate the heavens.

references to North and South and the key references to the Allegheny Mountains and the Mississippi River

In Philadelphia on professional business, Bucke crossed the river to Camden and looked the poet up.

Lawrence River, and the following year, in preparation for the biography, they visited places important

HowardNelsonTimber CreekTimber CreekTimber Creek, a tributary of the Delaware River, runs through southern

in this mode.Late in life Whitman commented, "My own favorite loafing places have always been the rivers

I have never lived away from a big river" (Traubel 71).

In his younger adult years and again in old age, his river experiences were especially connected with

Crossing" says nothing about the poet's reason for crossing the river; the focus is not on a purpose

The river, the ebb and flow of tides, the boat, the shuttling from one shore to the other—some of the

At all times he was keenly inquisitive in matters that belonged to the river or boat.

There had been a good deal of rain, the river was high, and the falls finer than usual.

Lawrence River, which he had seen during the past summer.

We were cross ing a bridge over the Concord river, about a mile from Mr.

I have tried them by stars, rivers.

This river port city on the Potomac is a few miles south of Washington, D.C.

for railroads that included the Baltimore & Ohio, Pennsylvania Railroad, Manassas Gap, and Hudson River

These battles were fought along the Chickahominy River, just outside the Confederate capital.

Surrounded by the Potomac River, the Eastern Branch (now called the Anacostia) River, and the City Canal

the Maryland side of the river, and take the ferry across to Virginia.

Evenings were reserved for moonlit walks along the Potomac River that had Whitman reciting Shakespeare's

MaireMullins"From Pent-up Aching Rivers" (1860)"From Pent-up Aching Rivers" (1860)This poem was initially

"From Pent-up Aching Rivers" (1860)

masterpiece, in this regard, is "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (1856), where a ride on the ferry across the East River

borrowed from Whitman's line in "Song of Myself," "Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river

Oulipo, and numerous occasional practitioners such as John Ashbery, whose catalog poem of the world’s rivers

of local news, and frequently did his own legwork on news stories in Brooklyn and across the East River

In “Sun-Down Poem” he stresses the shared material of water in the river and, more problematically, the

odditwasforareviewtocontainsuchdetailsaboutitssubjectas“six feet high, a good feeder, never once using medicine, drinking water only—a swimmer inthe river

"From Pent-up Aching Rivers," second in the cluster, has the tone of a defiant proclamation ("what I

The rhythmic urgency of the poem, beginning with the "pent-up aching rivers" seemingly at flood-tide,

In brief, Whitman's poem portrays the sex drive as a "pent-up aching river" or a "hungry gnaw" present

It dominates the "Children of Adam" cluster by its sheer length and, like "From Pent-up Aching Rivers

As the poet drains his "pent-up rivers" into the "woman who waits" for him, "warm-blooded and sufficient

far ahead of "the fat gentle man in striped trousers," as a Baltimore clipper does beyond a North River

The river & bay of New York & Brooklyn are always a great attraction to me. It is a lively scene.

I was out early taking a short walk by the river-only two squares from where I live.

H .-28th & 29th slowly up the White River valley, a captivat ing wild region, by Vermont Central R.

The river steamer Wawassett caught on fire on August 8 on the Potomac River with a frightful loss of

toward dusk near the cottonwood or pekantrees, The coon-seekers go now through the regions of the Red river

Earth of shine and dark mottlin6 the tide of the river!

streets and public halls .... coming naked to me at night, Crying by day Ahoy from the rocks of the river

make their living in some way as longshoremen, while some ... are pretty well known by the police as river

Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Literature House, 1970.

See, your own shape and countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the

Phenomenological Approaches to Human Contact soulstakeshapeinandthroughworldlyengagementswiththetrees,rivers

anyefforttocontactthatchildwillnecessarilyinvolvetheobjectsthrough which he creates himself, the “substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers

too,includingThoreau’s“Walking” (1862) and his more wide-ranging AWeek on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

thatDickinsontellsuscansendabraincareeningfromitsnormal “Groove” into uncharted territories as unstoppably as a river

Louis in 1764 to be a focal point for French trade on the Mississippi River.

that, therefore, there is a constancy to human experience that transcends time:To think that the rivers

" "frankness and expansion," and "abundant opportunity to develope a genius, wide and full as our rivers

of their bodies and left the rest in strong shadow. (27-29) The endless procession across the East River

The loss of Whitman's dream of America "may be read . . . all the way from river to river and from the

": I've known rivers ancient as the world and old as the flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.

By granting the river, clouds, and foundries permission, as it were, to be what they are, he is also

before Asselineau and Allen were written by a renowned man of American letters and the author of Spoon River

instance, in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" Whitman's images of the gulls, the waves, and the flow of the river—contrasted

asks its subject, 36 : the american 1848 Seek’st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river

are overlaid with foreign ones: “[h]ills became mountains and dales valleys, streams were called rivers

” by “men of truly proper style” like Duy- ckinck.88 For Whitman to flee the perfumed salon for the river

Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997.Fineberg, Gail.

Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997. Internet, Whitman on the

thematic center of a larger pattern of aquatic symbolism in Leaves which includes the rain, sea-breezes, rivers

unknown, the spiritual, the only permanently real, which as the ocean waits for and receives the rivers

, their return is via the Mississippi to the Great Lakes, finally on the Hudson River.

Lawrence River.

Whitman enjoys a sight on the Delaware River of what seems to him a perfect combination of nature and

Whitman and William Duckett drive four miles to "Billy" Thompson's on the Delaware River at Glouces ter

A Delaware River ferryman visits Walt, bringing news of scenes and people Whitman has been incapable

chapter on Philadelphia, another city with a large Irish population and located just across the Delaware River

The Irishman took the Germans to the boat and saw them safely across the river, where, with no common

dropped personal references to prostitutes in several other poems, including "From Pent-up Aching Rivers

as one of three "delirium" poems in "Children of Adam," the other two being "From Pent-up Aching Rivers