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Interpretation of the Poetry of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1930
  • Creator(s): Pavese, Cesare
Text:

In his History of American Literature, William P.

dressed in white and olive-skinned girls with beautiful white teeth and flowers in their hair.

You don’t mess with William Kennedy!

Kennedy, William S. Fight of a Book for the World.

Kennedy, William S. Reminiscences of Walt Whitman. London: Alexander Gardner, 1896.

Walt Whitman's “Song Of Myself”

  • Date: 1989
  • Creator(s): Miller, Edwin Haviland
Text:

William White. NUPM Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, ed. Edward F. Grier.

William M.

White, William M. "The Dynamics of Whitman's Poetry." The Sewanee Review, 80 (1972):347-60.

William White. New York: New York University Press, 1978. 3 vols. - - .

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White.

Selected Letters of Whitman

  • Date: 1990
  • Creator(s): Miller, Edwin Haviland
Text:

A friend of mine, William D.

William E.]

William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919).

William F.Channing (1820-r9or), the brother-in-law of Ellen O'Connor and son of William Ellery Channing

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:424. 48.

Whitman in His Own Time

  • Date: 1991
  • Creator(s): Myerson, Joel
Text:

Gilder], The Lounger 66 William H.

Gertrude Traubel and William White; Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982), 7July 1890

Garrison William H.

William T.

His hair was perfectly white.

The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman: The Life after the Life

  • Date: 1992
  • Creator(s): Martin, Robert K.
Text:

The white socks take on a fetishistic quality, as does the water of the shower.

To take only one example, shortly after Whitman was fired, William D.

Her most recent works are The Imaginary Lover, which won the 1986 William Carlos Williams Award from

Edited by William White. New York: New York University Press, 1978. - - . Leaves ofGrass. 1855 ed.

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. New York: New York University Press, 1980. - - .

Whitman’s “Live Oak with Moss”

  • Date: 1992
  • Creator(s): Helms, Alan
Text:

To take only one example, shortly after Whitman was fired, William D.

hurry in and out, Not the air, delicious and dry, the air of the ripe summer, bears lightly along white

Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays

  • Date: 1994
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

DN William White, ed., Daybooks and Notebooks (New York: New York University Press,1978), 3vols.

TV Sculley Bradley, Harold W Blodgett, Arthur Golden, William White, eds.,Leaves of Grass: A Textual

William H.

Eliot, and William Carlos Williams.

William C.

Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle

  • Date: 1994
  • Creator(s): Murray, Martin G.
Text:

Their names can be found on the passenger list for the vessel William Patten .

They had two sons, Edward, a bricklayer, and William, a carpenter.

William R.

Whites ( ., 2: 308).

McLaughlin's mother); Katherine; William E.; and Henrietta.

Constructing the German Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1995
  • Creator(s): Grünzweig, Walter
Text:

Kennedy, William O'Connor also wrote of personal contacts with Knortz.

-On the white, fleshy chest. . . . From the dark red-blonde flood of hair. . . .

William M. Rossetti (London: John Camden Hot ten, 1868).

William D.

William O'Connor to William Sloan Kennedy, 9 April 1886, Whitman Collec tion, Special Collections, VanPelt

Walt Whitman & the World

  • Date: 1995
  • Creator(s): Allen, Gay Wilson | Folsom, Ed
Text:

This is what William Carlos Williams learned from Whitman, the natural cadence, the flow ofbreath as

Roger Asselineau and William White, eds.Walt Whitman in Europe Today (Detroit: Wayne State University

See Roger Asselineau and William White, eds., Walt Whitman in Europe Today (De troit: Wayne State University

See Asselineau and White, Walt Whitman, 1B-19. 1B.William White, ed., The Bicentennial Walt Whitman (

Mariolina Meliado-Freeth, "Walt Whitman in Italy," in Roger Asselineau and William White, eds., Walt

Traveling with the Wounded: Walt Whitman and Washington's Civil War Hospitals

  • Date: 1996
  • Creator(s): Murray, Martin G. | Price, Kenneth M., Folsom, Ed
Text:

America, already brought to Hospital in her fair youth—brought and deposited here in this great, whited

William J. Stone, on Meridian Hill near 14th Street.

Whitman also befriended a Wisconsin soldier, William Hugh McFarland.

Whitman befriended Wisconsin Volunteers William Hugh McFarland (seated, center) and Stephen M.

Photograph of William Bliss.

A Whitman Chronology

  • Date: 1998
  • Creator(s): Krieg, Joann P.
Text:

Blod gett, Arthur Golden, and William White.)

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1978. EPF Early Poetry and Fiction.Ed.

William B.

White, William. "An Unknowri Check for Ed Whitman's Board." Walt Whitman Review 22 (June 1976): 91.

William, 85 Cottage Fund, 130, 156 Chapin, William, 73 Cox, G.

The Evolution of Walt Whitman: An Expanded Edition

  • Date: 1999
  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
Text:

Eldridge also introduced him to William D.

William Robinson, Brooklyn lad (Socratic nose) Aug.

Zunder, "William B.

White, "Thoreau's Opinion of Whitman," NEQ, VIII (June I935) 262-264.

Butler, I 5 Winter, William, Io5, 308 Williams, Francis Heward, 269 Zola, Emile, 248 Williams, Talcott

Walt Whitman & the Irish

  • Date: 2000
  • Creator(s): Krieg, Joann P.
Text:

The unnamed author, whom Whitman seems to assume his readers will know, was William Carleton (1794–1869

Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy ), has been seconded by literary critics of the caliber of William

Rolleston, William Butler Yeats, and others in furthering an appreciation of Whitman among Europeans.

William M.

For some years William Tweed wielded great power in the state legislature.

Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman’s Conversations with Horace Traubel 1888-1892

  • Date: 2001
  • Creator(s): Schmidgall, Gary
Text:

William R.

Note: William W. Thayer and Charles W.

Is it white or yellow or black or all three or none of them?

Douglas O’Connor How much I owe 6:135 There is hilarity 1:162 William will die 2:176 William says 3:

352 William is in 2:11 I wonder 3:55 William is one 3:562 William would talk 4:70 he had an ideal 5:166

Debating Manliness: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Sloane Kennedy, and the Question of Whitman

  • Date: 2001
  • Creator(s): Nelson, Robert K. | Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

In 1908 William Sloane Kennedy, one of Walt Whitman's close allies in his final years, wrote a barbed

Surprisingly, the restriction also emboldened Kennedy to attack Whitman's "dearest friends"—William Douglas

Since it was precisely the mailing of that was later banned, at least one of Whitman's friends, William

William White (New York: New York Univ. Press, 1978), 2, 289 n. 1515; and Correspondence , ed.

Debating Manliness: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Sloane Kennedy, and the Question of Whitman

Whitman East & West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2002
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

Here are Whitman’s words as transcribed by Williams: The Chinese don’t progress.

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

Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, D.

William Cookson (New York: New Directions, 1973), 145. 6.

Williams, William Carlos, 9 in tension with his chauvinism, Wills, Garry, 141n 163–166; and Japan, 161

The Pragmatic Whitman

  • Date: 2002
  • Creator(s): Mack, Stephen John
Text:

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

philosophical tradition of American pragmatism, especially such pragmatists as Ralph Waldo Emerson, William

And so, mindful of William James's great pragmatic insight that "truth happens to an idea," I will test

Like William James's pragmatic theory of truth, Whitman's conception of judgment endlessly defers any

William James famously claimed that pragmatism is not a philosophy but a methodology only, not a closed

Whitman East & West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2002
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

Here are Whitman's words as transcribed by Williams: The Chinese don't progress.

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

Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, D.

William Cookson (New York: New Directions, 1973), 145.

After observing that "the lush white flowers" on the ground beneath a wild azalea "have not begun to

Whitman: The Correspondence, Volume VII

  • Date: 2004
  • Creator(s): Genoways, Ted
Text:

Facsimile: WWR 24 (1978), [134], 133, ed. by William White. 1.

Facsimile: WWR 25 (1979), [182], ed. by William White. 1.

Facsimile: WWR 26 (1980), [40], with notes by William White. 1.

Facsimile: WWR 28 (1982), 108, ed. by William White; and Miller, 33.

White, WW’s February 28. From William H. Millis, Jr. landlady. Berg.

Walt Whitman and the Earth: A Study in Ecopoetics

  • Date: 2004
  • Creator(s): Killingsworth, M. Jimmie
Text:

The environmental historian William Cronon, on whom Buell relies, is no doubt right in suggesting that

The spider of Jonathan Edwards, the waterfall of Henry Vaughan, the waterfowl of William Cullen Bryant

And as to you corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses

And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers, Darker than the colorless beards of

To Walt Whitman, America

  • Date: 2004
  • Creator(s): Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

Swinton's Rambles among Words , means "white man."

Wasn't he a white man?

has it—both white and black, both slave and master.

in American culture is white.

But the trapper is by no means unambiguously white.

Re-Scripting Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2005
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed | Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

William White 1978 D-T Drum-Taps (New York: 1865 ) and Sequel to Drum-Taps (Washington: 1865-6 ).

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White 1980 NUPM Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, ed.

From Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams to Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg; from Langston

Whitman's grandmother Amy Williams Van Velsor was especially committed to her Quaker beliefs, and her

He sometimes dreaded slave labor as a "black tide" that could overwhelm white working men.

Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman

  • Date: 2005
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

typesetting at the young age of twelve as an apprentice on the Long Island Patriot under the tutelage of William

By the end of August he had engaged the New York printer William E.

Hotten, meanwhile, advertised the book by associating Whitman with Swinburne and William Blake (whose

Redfield, like William E.

This printing was bound in half cream leather with red, green, black and white marbled paper; the spine

Walt Whitman & the Class Struggle

  • Date: 2006
  • Creator(s): Lawson, Andrew
Text:

Reprinted in William White, “A Tribute to William Hartshorne: Unrecorded Whitman” (Brooklyn Printer,

John O’Sullivan, “White Slavery,” 260. 85. O’Sullivan, “White Slavery,” 261. 86.

Shane White and Graham White, Stylin’, 74. 43.

White, Shane, and Graham White.

In “A Tribute to William Hartshorne: Unrecorded Whitman.” William White.

Twentieth-Century Mass Media Appearances

  • Date: 2006
  • Creator(s): Jewell, Andrew | Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

the Dooryard Bloom'd" (titled "I Saw the Vision of Armies" on the album) with works by James Joyce, William

influence of literature ("Rave on words on printed page"), mentions Whitman along with John Donne, William

A Wartime Whitman was edited by Major William A. Aiken.

Major William A. Aiken. New York: Editions for the Armed Services.

Conserving Walt Whitman’s Fame: Selections from Horace Traubel’s Conservator, 1890-1919

  • Date: 2006
  • Creator(s): Schmidgall, Gary
Text:

testimonial by William F.

longtime printer, William T.

*William W.

William D.

William M.

Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays

  • Date: 2007
  • Creator(s): Belasco, Susan | Folsom, Ed | Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

William White, 3 vols. [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:263). 28.

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 3:676. 15.

White, William. “More about the ‘Publication’ of the First Leaves of Grass.”

White, William. “The First (1855) Leaves of Grass: How Many Cop- ies?”

White, William. “An Unknown Whitman ms on the 1855 Leaves.”

Walt Whitman, Where the Future Becomes Present

  • Date: 2008
  • Creator(s): Blake, David Haven | Robertson, Michael
Text:

to life, enters the zone of elegy—thepoetworkingthroughtheimagery(“Thisgrassisverydarktobefrom the white

However, when these same editors joined forces with Arthur Golden and William White to produce the VariorumofLeavesofGrass

the coffin—I draw near; I bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.

father of American poetry, the white-bearded, white-haired, whitepoetwithanamethatisdefinedinRamblesamongWords

William White, 3 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 3: 669.

Collage of Myself: Walt Whitman and the Making of Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 2010
  • Creator(s): Miller, Matt
Text:

William White. lg Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: Comprehensive Reader’s Edition, ed. Harold W.

Mishra works accurately from William White’s transcription of this passage in Daybooks and Notebooks

WilliamS.

In the only complete, published version of this notebook, the editor William White refers to this as

, William Carlos, 94, 122 Yeats, William Butler, 120–21 words as material objects, 122–23, “A young man

“A sprit of my own seminal wet”: Spermatoid Design in Walt Whitman’s 1860 Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 2010
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

loveflesh swellinganddeliciouslyaching,/Limitlesslimpidjetsoflovehotandenormous.... quiveringjellyoflove...white-blowanddeliriousjuice

seminal and ejaculatory image: page 84—“Limitless limpidjetsoflovehotandenormous,quiveringjellyoflove,white-blowanddelirious

Walt Whitman's Reconstruction: Poetry and Publishing between Memory and History

  • Date: 2011
  • Creator(s): Buinicki, Martin T.
Text:

man should marry the black woman and the white woman the black man. . . .

of the Chicago Tribune, William Cullen Bryant of the New York Evening Post, and Edwin L.

Gilette,William. Retreat from Reconstruction, 1869–1879.

Hesseltine,William B.Ulysses S.Grant, Politician. NewYork: Frederick Ungar, 1957.

Interracialism: Black‑White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law.

Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus"

  • Date: 2011
  • Creator(s): Erkkila, Betsy
Text:

sea-waves hurry in and out, not the air, delicious and dry, the airof the ripe summer, bears lightlyalong white

heat flames up and consumes,” “the sea-waves hurry in and out,” “the air of the ripe sum- mer” drops “white

by the concluding passage in which he associates thepoeticallymovinganderoticallysuggestiveimageof “white

october 31, 1863 [Saturday] and novem- ber 1, 1863 [Sunday], in which he describes a visit to the White

[new york: new york University Press, 1984], 539). althoughWhitman may not have “slept over at the White

A Place for Humility: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Gerhardt, Christine
Text:

And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird

Charles Reagan Wilson and William R. Ferris.

William Cronon. Washington, DC: Library of America, 1997. Mulder, William.

Charles Reagan Wilson and William R. Ferris.

Charles Reagan Wilson and William R. Ferris.

Whitman among the Bohemians

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Levin, Joanna | Whitley, Edward
Text:

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.

Whitman Noir: Black America & the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Wilson, Ivy G.
Text:

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.

Whitman & Dickinson: A Colloquy

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Athenot, Éric | Miller, Cristanne
Text:

William Douglas O’Connor, Three Tales (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892).

William James famously analyzes the corporeality of feeling in his 1884 “What Is an Emotion?”

William James, “What Is an Emotion?” Mind 9, no. 34 (April 1884): 188–205.

William White, vol. 3 (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 816.

White, “Emily Dickinson’sExistentialDramas,” in The CambridgeCompanionto Emily Dickinson, ed.

Whitman’s Drift

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Cohen, Matt
Text:

For help with chapter 1, I am indebted to William L.

DB William White, ed., Walt Whitman: Daybooks and Notebooks. 3 vols.

William G.

William H.

, William Allen, 57 “Verses Written at the Grave of white settlement myth, 184, 251n116 McIntosh” (Posey

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

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Tuggle, Lindsay
Text:

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.”

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

  • Date: 2019
  • Creator(s): Sten, Christopher | Hoffman, Tyler
Text:

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.

The Furtive Hen and the Cat Whose Tail Was Too Long: On Whitman's Traces

  • Date: 2020
  • Creator(s): Corona, Mario
Text:

been stricken with paralysis: he appears "at first sight quite an old man, with long grey, almost white

England in their integrity, and not only in the necessarily anaesthetized anthology provided in 1868 by William

another office, thanks to the intervention of friends, especially the writer and fellow civil servant William

tapping (with impeccably sassy aplomb) from a very high Old World source indeed, nothing less than William

William Thayer and Charles Eldridge were enterprising young men, eager to qualify themselves on the conservative

The Whitman Revolution: Sex, Poetry, and Politics

  • Date: 2020
  • Creator(s): Erkkila, Betsy
Text:

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

MWJ Herman Melville, White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War, ed.

Let the white person tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

William L. Andrews (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 129. 10.

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1978. Bibliography 255 ———.

Transnational Modernity and the Italian Reinvention of Walt Whitman, 1870-1945

  • Date: 2021
  • Creator(s): Bernardini, Caterina
Text:

and from two collections of essays, Walt Whitman in Europe Today, edited by Roger Asselineau and William

Carlos Williams.

He soon met nu- merousAmericanwriters,includingCarlSandburg,LolaRidge,William Carlos Williams, and Alfred

See Rossetti’s letter to Whitman of March 31, 1872, in Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti,

See Humorous Poems Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti (London: E.

"The Disenthralled Hosts of Freedom": Party Prophecy in the Antebellum Editions of Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 2021
  • Creator(s): Grant, David
Text:

Mymanuscriptwasrevisedunderverydifficultconditions,andIowea great deal to my siblings—the late Rachel Grant, William

Aslateas1860,withhisnewpartyonthebrinkofnationalvictory,William Sewardcouldshowhisrhetoricaldependenceonthetraditionalrepublican

observingthatthepoemfollowstypicalantislaveryrepresentationsofthe Fugitive Slave Law as jeopardizing “the freedom of Northern white

becausetheygapeandgaze.Thegapingitselfisall thatthebroken-heartedfathershaveleftbehind;theymust“let[their]white

RobertJ.,2 forcollectiveaction,21,27–28, Sedgwick,Theodore,206 119–20,135,138–39,142,147–48, Seward,William

Boston, Massachusetts

  • Creator(s): Round, Phillip H.
Text:

It was on this trip, as well, that Whitman met William Douglas O'Connor, who would become one of his

Collected Writings of Walt Whitman, The (1961–1984)

  • Creator(s): Graham, Rosemary
Text:

White, consists of three volumes.

The third volume edited by White contains the complete text of a diary Whitman kept during a trip to

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White, consists of three volumes.

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978.____. The Early Poems and the Fiction. Ed.

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

Collectors and Collections, Whitman

  • Creator(s): Birney, Alice L.
Text:

Harned group in the Library of Congress.Some other early collectors of note were John Burroughs, William

Buxton Forman, William F. Gable, Alfred F.

Goldsmith, William Sloane Kennedy, Thomas Bird Mosher, John Quinn, William M. Rossetti, Edmund C.

New York, N.Y.; Charles Patterson Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.; William

William White edited the commonplace books and some notebooks in Walt Whitman: Daybooks and Notebooks

Columbus, Christopher (ca. 1451–1506)

  • Creator(s): Stuckey-French, Ned C.
Text:

Boston: Little, Brown, 1942.Shurr, William H.

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

"Come Up from the Fields Father" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Lulloff, William G.
Text:

William G.Lulloff"Come Up from the Fields Father" (1865)"Come Up from the Fields Father" (1865)The poem

Complete Writings of Walt Whitman, The (1902)

  • Creator(s): Graham, Rosemary
Text:

critical essay which rehearses much of the information—and defensive adulation—that had characterized William

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