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Spain and Spanish America, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): Zapata-Whelan, Carol M.
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Roger Asselineau and William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1972. 41–42.Nolan, James.

Roger Asselineau and William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1972. 9–12.

Gray, Fred (1834–1891)

  • Creator(s): Yannella, Donald
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family and visited them, but the connection apparently dissolved in the 1870s.Bibliography Howells, William

Swinton, John (1829–1901)

  • Creator(s): Yannella, Donald
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Born in Scotland, as was his brother William, he resided there until the family's migration to Canada

"Whitman and William Swinton." American Literature 30 (1959): 425–449. Hyman, Martin D.

White, William. "Whitman and John Swinton: Some Unpublished Correspondence."

Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833–1908)

  • Creator(s): Yannella, Donald
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that the seemingly innovative poetics was conventional, with roots in English Bible translations and William

Pfaff's Restaurant

  • Creator(s): Yannella, Donald
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Among the most visible were King Clapp and the queen, Ada Clare, Fitz-James O'Brien, George Arnold, William

promoted free love—and validated and encouraged many of Whitman's predilections.BibliographyHowells, William

Pseudoscience

  • Creator(s): Wrobel, Arthur
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New Haven: Yale UP, 1955.Finkel, William L.

Phrenology

  • Creator(s): Wrobel, Arthur
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that nature emphatically chose him for the profession of poet, more so than Oliver Wendell Holmes, William

Democratic Vistas [1871]

  • Creator(s): Wrobel, Arthur
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New York: William Sloane Associates, 1955.Erkkila, Betsy. Whitman the Political Poet.

'Song of the Exposition' [1871]

  • Creator(s): Wolfe, Karen
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Kennedy, William Sloane. The Fight of a Book for the World. West Yarmouth, Mass.: Stonecroft, 1926. 

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980. ____.

"World Below the Brine, The" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Wohlpart, A. James
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American Transcendental Quarterly 53 (1982): 49–66.Freedman, William A.

Egyptian Museum (New York) (1853–1859)

  • Creator(s): Winslow, Rosemary Gates
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New York: Harper, 1854.Williams, Carolyn Ransom. Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities.

Whitman Noir: Black America & the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Wilson, Ivy G.
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readers: a white fireman would have taken the white faces for granted and not have specified their color

The white that is—to whites—normally transparent becomes instead opaque, worth mentioning, there.

to a white speaker the whiteness of white faces is invisible or transparent.

to black and black to white.

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 3:748. 22.

Barnburners and Locofocos

  • Creator(s): Widmer, Ted
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New York: New York UP, 1925.Trimble, William.

Leggett, William L. (1801–1839)

  • Creator(s): Widmer, Ted
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TedWidmerLeggett, William L. (1801–1839)Leggett, William L. (1801–1839) William Leggett, poet and journalist

"William Leggett." United States Magazine and Democratic Review 6 (1839): 17–28. Leggett, William.

A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett. Ed. Theodore Sedgwick, Jr.

White. Indianapolis: Liberty, 1984. Meyers, Marvin.

Leggett, William L. (1801–1839)

Providence, Rhode Island

  • Creator(s): Widmer, Ted
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Founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, who wished to acknowledge divine assistance in his forced relocation

& smart, but too constrained & bookish for a free old hawk like me" (61).BibliographyMcLoughlin, William

New York: New York, 1961.Woodward, William, and Edward F. Sanderson.

New York Evening Post

  • Creator(s): Widmer, Ted
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Its first editor was William Coleman, who served until 1829, when the reins were passed to William Cullen

Leaves of Grass Imprints (1860)

  • Creator(s): Whitt, Jan
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express surprise that his collection of reviews included even a particularly harsh moral attack by William

Whitman among the Bohemians

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Levin, Joanna | Whitley, Edward
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William Michael Rossetti, “Adah Isaacs Menken,” in American Poems, ed.

Fowler,William Chauncey. “Charles William Chauncey of New York.”

Howells,William Dean.

Edited by William White. New York: New York University Press, 1978. ———.

, 114– 15 O’Connor,William, 5 Mullen, Edward F.

Style and Technique(s)

  • Creator(s): Warren, James Perrin
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hieroglyphic,And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,Growing among black folks as among white

Leland, Henry Perry (1828–1868)

  • Creator(s): Tyrer, Patricia J.
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London: William Heinemann, 1893. Stovall, Floyd. The Foreground of "Leaves of Grass".

Keller, Elizabeth Leavitt (b. 1839)

  • Creator(s): Tyrer, Patricia J.
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Born in Buffalo, New York, she married William Keller in 1858 and was widowed seven years later.

The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman’s Civil War

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Tuggle, Lindsay
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See also William J.

Morehouse, and William W.

William A.

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White, eds. “Clus- ter Arrangements in Leaves of Grass.”

Williams, William Carlos. “An Essay on Leaves of Grass.”

British Isles, Whitman in the

  • Creator(s): Thomas, M. Wynn
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It was, in fact, by relating Whitman to William Blake, or to Percy Bysshe Shelley, that many radicals

Nicholas (Niclas y Glais), the great Welsh-language poet Waldo Williams, and of course Dylan Thomas,

Burgess pointed out, distinguished British composers have remedied this deficiency: Ralph Vaughan Williams's

Labor and Laboring Classes

  • Creator(s): Thomas, M. Wynn
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These included Tom Paine, Fanny Wright, Robert Dale Owen, and William Leggett, all of whom preached that

(in Franklin Evans [1842]) the prevailing antislavery and anti-black philosophy characteristic of white

Here again, his main concern was to protect the status and the rights of white labor (male and female

New York City

  • Creator(s): Thomas, M. Wynn
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Sharpe, William Chapman. Unreal Cities. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1990. Spann, E.K.

Evolution

  • Creator(s): Tanner, James T.F.
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New York: King's Crown, 1951.Conner, Frederick William.

Lamarck, Jean Baptiste (1744–1829)

  • Creator(s): Tanner, James T.F.
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Conner, Frederick William.

Darwin, Charles (1809–1882)

  • Creator(s): Tanner, James T.F.
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Conner, Frederick William.

James, William (1842–1910)

  • Creator(s): Tanner, James T.F.
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James T.F.TannerJames, William (1842–1910)James, William (1842–1910)It is certain that William James,

William James: A Biography. New York: Viking, 1967.Bucke, Richard Maurice, ed.

Philadelphia: Innes, 1901.James, William. Pragmatism and Other Essays. 1907.

"Walt Whitman and William James." Calamus: Walt Whitman Quarterly International 2 (1970): 6–23.

James, William (1842–1910)

Columbus, Christopher (ca. 1451–1506)

  • Creator(s): Stuckey-French, Ned C.
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Boston: Little, Brown, 1942.Shurr, William H.

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.

"Prayer of Columbus" (1874)

  • Creator(s): Stuckey-French, Ned C.
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Gilded Age, when in 1872 his opposition to black suffrage cost him his important friendship with William

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.

"Thought of Columbus, A" (1892)

  • Creator(s): Stuckey-French, Ned
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.

Music, Whitman and

  • Creator(s): Strassburg, Robert
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Among twentieth-century composers inspired by his rhapsodic word-music are Ralph Vaughan Williams, Frederick

Delius, Gustav Holst, Paul Hindemith, Roger Sessions, Ernest Bloch, Charles Ives, Roy Harris, William

Denver, Colorado

  • Creator(s): Stifel, Timothy
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Martin, and William W.

Rocky Mountains

  • Creator(s): Stifel, Timothy
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Martin, and William W. Reitzel, traveled to the Colorado Rockies in September of 1879.

Fowler, Lorenzo Niles (1811–1896) and Orson Squire (1809–1887)

  • Creator(s): Stern, Madeleine B.
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Its London agent, William Horsell, would play a part in establishing Whitman's English reputation.

“This Mighty Convlusion”: Whitman and Melville Write the Civil War

  • Date: 2019
  • Creator(s): Sten, Christopher | Hoffman, Tyler
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Whitman, letter to William D.

See William H.

William Wordsworth,The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, 394; also at Melville’s Marginalia

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1980. ———.

Williams, Megan Rowley.

Cooper, James Fenimore (1789–1851)

  • Creator(s): Stein, Jennifer J.
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Three Voices from Paumanok: The Influence of Long Island on James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant

"Sands at Seventy" (First Annex) (1888)

  • Creator(s): Stauffer, Donald Barlow
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980.

Opera and Opera Singers

  • Creator(s): Stauffer, Donald Barlow
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,' with Donizetti's 'Lucia' or 'Favorita' or 'Lucrezia,' and Auber's 'Massaniello,' or Rossini's 'William

He had little interest in what the critic Richard Grant White called "the thin, throaty, French way of

Clapp, Henry (1814–1875)

  • Creator(s): Stansell, Christine
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He worked as a journalist and theater critic in New York until his death.Bibliography Howells, William

Winter, William. Old Friends, Being Literary Recollections of Other Days.

Swinton, William (1833–1892)

  • Creator(s): Southard, Sherry and Sharron Sims
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Sherry and Sharron SimsSouthardSwinton, William (1833–1892)Swinton, William (1833–1892) Although William

William and his older brother, John, became intimates of Whitman in the mid-1850s.

"Whitman and William Swinton: A Cooperative Friendship." American Literature 30 (1959): 425–449.

"Swinton, William." Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. 18. New York: Scribner's, 1936. 252–253.

Swinton, William (1833–1892)

Democratic Review

  • Creator(s): Smith, Susan Belasco
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Evert Duyckinck, Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Horatio Greenough, William

Cullen Bryant, James Russell Lowell, William Gilmore Simms, William Ellery Channing, and Henry David

Rossetti, William Michael [1829–1915]

  • Creator(s): Smith, Sherwood
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SherwoodSmithRossetti, William Michael [1829–1915]Rossetti, William Michael [1829–1915]One of Whitman's

most important European editors, critics, and supporters, William Michael Rossetti, brother of Dante

Rossetti, William Michael. The Diary of W.M. Rossetti, 1870-1873. Ed. Odette Bornand.

Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti. Ed. Roger W. Peattie.

Rossetti, William Michael [1829–1915]

"To the States, To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Smeller, Carl
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The poem's parenthetical concluding lines offer a milder version of the essay's call for young, white

"We Two Boys Together Clinging" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Smeller, Carl
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activeness also recalls the wrestling apprentices in "I Sing the Body Electric" (1855), the kind of young white

Davis, Mary Oakes (1837 or 1838–1908)

  • Creator(s): Singley, Carol J.
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Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.

Cather, Willa (1873–1947)

  • Creator(s): Singley, Carol J.
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William M. Curtin. 2 vols. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1970. Comeau, Paul.

Harleigh Cemetery

  • Creator(s): Sill, Geoffrey M.
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Designed by Whitman to resemble the etching of "Death's Door" by William Blake, the tomb was constructed

Camden, New Jersey

  • Creator(s): Sill, Geoffrey M.
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Several ferry companies provided transit across the river, William Cooper's giving the town its early

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.

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