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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

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

He disapproves of borrowed, European names for American cities, states, rivers, or mountains, and he

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

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

and Fulton streets.In the early 1830s Whitman began spending more of his free time across the East River

Whitman celebrated Brooklyn's growth, especially as opposed to what he called the "Gomorra" across the 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

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

Lawrence, heading north on the Saguenay River to Chicoutimi, Quebec.Although Whitman kept a diary of

Whitman described the Saguenay as less appealing, referring to the "dark-water'd river" and its environs

"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

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

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

Rivers, the author of a pamphlet en- HOMOSEXUALITY 193 titledWalt Whitman's Anomaly, 22Bertz wrote in

Rivers,Walt Whitman's Anomaly (London: GeorgeAllen, 1913), pp. 4f.

Rivers mentions Bertz's works favorably.

Like Bertz, Rivers attempted to provide "scientific" evidence. 23.

Bertz to Rivers, 12March 1913, 4:16. 24. Bertz to Rivers, 29 March 1913, 4:20. 25.

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

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

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

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

The text of I855 is a river of lava.

How good they look as they tramp down to the river, sweaty, with their guns on their shoulders!

See Thoreau, "Slavery in Massachusetts," in Works (River side ed., I894), Vol. X. 107.

Insert natural things, indestructibles, idioms, charac teristics, rivers, states, persons, etc.

Rivers 22 studied Whitman's case scientifically and dispassionately.

Scheduled ferries traveled from Manhattan to the west bank of the Hudson and to the cities across the East River

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

"From Pent-up Aching Rivers" (1860)

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

ready to spend the rest of the day alone with his interesting visitor, and proposes a trip across the river

And yet, deep down like in Wagner's Rheingold , we keep hearing the dark, incessant running of the river

, that in our case will be the "spinal river," as Whitman called the Mississippi, America's backbone.

The letter is written in the simple language familiar to Pete, who was an omnibus driver: "The river

At either tide, flood or ebb, the water is always rushing along as if in haste, & the river is often

Nathan C.FariesHudson RiverHudson RiverDespite its modest 315-mile length, the Hudson River is famous

In 1848 he traveled to and from a short-lived newspaper job in New Orleans via the Hudson River, the

In these the river is listed alongside the Mississippi, Paumanok Sound, and the alien Thames.

The Hudson River and Its Painters. New York: Viking, 1972.Whitman, Walt.

Hudson River

mysteries of identity in "Song of Myself," of childhood in "There Was a Child Went Forth," of the rivers

through regenerative participation in the comradeship of the twenty-eight young men afloat in the rivers

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

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

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

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.

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

man writing for a party paper, defending the Democrats against the powerful Whig papers across the river

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

their trips to Sarnia, Toronto, and the Thousand Islands in Ontario, and to Montreal and the Saguenay River

of my friend for perhaps an hour, and when I found him again he was sitting in a quiet nook by the river

midwestern lawyer who took on literature as an avocation, Masters gained fast fame for his popular Spoon River

Beyond Spoon River: The Legacy of Edgar Lee Masters. Austin: U of Texas P, 1981.

Across Spoon River: An Autobiography. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1936. ———. Whitman.

Burleigh used the words from "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors" on his collection of spirituals entitled Deep River

In Specimen Days he calls the river "the most important stream on the globe" (Complete 865).In 1848,

During their stay, from 25 February until 27 May, Whitman made daily visits to the river to observe the

While there he visited the river as frequently as his health would allow, "every night lately" (Complete

Mississippi River

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

employing their words, so that every time Americans spoke the names of the country's towns and states and rivers

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

Located in the hollow of a three-sided bend of the Mississippi River as it reaches the Gulf of Mexico—hence

ideal locale for a newspaper, for the city flourished with trade going up and down the Mississippi River

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

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.

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

and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers

When New England was covered with extensive systems of river-powered textile mills, and even Emerson’

Considering midcentury environmental discussions, Whitman’s con- cluding call “Flow on, river!

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

Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity and the Growth of the American West.

strengthen it, conjuring and multiplying "the act-poems of eyes, hands, hips and bosoms" ("Pent-up Aching Rivers

: "His spirit responds to his country's spirit … he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers

growing industrialization and expansion, promoting the building of roads, railroads, and canal and river

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

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").