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

  • Date: 2010
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
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loveflesh swellinganddeliciouslyaching,/Limitlesslimpidjetsoflovehotandenormous.... quiveringjellyoflove...white-blowanddeliriousjuice

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

“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.

Actors and Actresses

  • Creator(s): Meyer, Susan M.
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favorites as Junius Brutus Booth, Charlotte Cushman, Edwin Forrest, Thomas Hamblin, Fanny Kemble, and William

The British style was best exemplified by William Charles Macready, subdued and rather tame, as opposed

Adams, Henry Brooks (1838–1918)

  • Creator(s): Newstrom, Scott L.
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Jordy, William H. "Henry Adams and Walt Whitman." South Atlantic Quarterly 40 (1941): 132–145.

Africa, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
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Asselineau, Roger, and William White, eds. Walt Whitman in Europe Today.

William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1976. 27. Senhor, Léopold Sédar.

Roger Asselineau and William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1972. 33. Smuts, Jan Christian.

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.”

"Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Klawitter, George
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980. ____.

Allen, Gay Wilson (1903–1995)

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
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genius seems to have resided in the artful rendering of lives, for he also wrote major biographies of William

State Department to send Allen, along with William Faulkner, on a 1955 tour of Japan.

"America [Centre of equal daughters]" (1888)

  • Creator(s): Griffin, Larry D.
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980.

American Character

  • Creator(s): Gruesz, Kirsten Silva
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overcome the most pressing social and political problem of the day, the racial division between black and white

American Phrenological Journal

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.PannapackerAmerican Phrenological JournalAmerican Phrenological JournalPublished in New York

their own books: nevertheless, in an unsigned review in the New York Daily Times (13 November 1855) William

American Primer, An (1904)

  • Creator(s): Dressman, Michael R.
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William White. New York: New York UP, 1978. 728–757. American Primer, An (1904)

"America's Mightiest Inheritance" (1856)

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
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poetry of Leaves of Grass and the prose of the prefaces and of Democratic Vistas, contributions to William

Architects and Architecture

  • Creator(s): Roche, John F.
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Similarly, in the prose pieces of Specimen Days, architecture serves to evoke a theme or mood, as in "The White

These include Edward Carpenter, William Sloane Kennedy, John Burroughs, and Elbert Hubbard.

Near Philadelphia, architect William L.

Sullivan worked for the important Philadelphia architect Frank Furness, who was the son of the Reverend William

"Army Corps on the March, An" (1865–1866)

  • Creator(s): Lulloff, William G.
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William G.Lulloff"Army Corps on the March, An" (1865–1866)"Army Corps on the March, An" (1865–1866)The

Art and Daguerreotype Galleries

  • Creator(s): Dougherty, James
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Kensett, William Sidney Mount, and George Caleb Bingham prior to its yearly lottery of paintings.

Arts and Crafts Movement

  • Creator(s): Roche, John F
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Philadelphia and Chicago.In England, where the movement started under the aegis of John Ruskin and William

William Lloyd also spoke highly of Whitman.The arts and crafts movement subsided after 1917, though its

"As Adam Early in the Morning" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Klawitter, George
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980. ____.

Ashton, J. Hubley (1836–1907)

  • Creator(s): Bawcom, Amy M.
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] Hubley Ashton was one of the founders of the American Bar Association and a long-time friend of William

his interventions on Whitman's behalf were all due to the promptings of the poet's devoted friend William

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor. College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1978.

Associations, Clubs, Fellowships, Foundations, and Societies

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.PannapackerAssociations, Clubs, Fellowships, Foundations, and SocietiesAssociations, Clubs,

Whitman's American admirers—William D.

Johnston, John, and James William Wallace.

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

White, William.

Attorney General's Office, United States

  • Creator(s): Graham, Rosemary
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His friends William O'Connor and J.

Australia and New Zealand, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): McLeod, Alan L.
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traditional forms—especially the quatrain and the rhymed couplet.A Scottish visitor to Australia, William

Barnburners and Locofocos

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

Baxter, Sylvester (1850–1927)

  • Creator(s): Griffin, Christopher O.
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In 1887, he and William Sloane Kennedy raised $800 to build a cottage for Whitman on Timber Creek, where

"Beat! Beat! Drums!" (1861)

  • Creator(s): Schwiebert, John E.
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.: Harvard UP, 1987.White, William. "'Beat! Beat! Drums!' The First Version."

Bibliographies

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
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White's "Whitman in the Eighties: A Bibliographical Essay" (1985); Donald D.

William Peterfield Trent et al. Vol. 3. New York: Putnam, 1918. 551–581.[Kebabian, Paul, et al.].

New York: New York Public Library, 1953.Kennedy, William Sloane.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922.White, William. "Walt Whitman: A Bibliographical Checklist."

Chesley Mathews, 445–451.White, William. "Whitman in the Eighties: A Bibliographical Essay."

Biographies

  • Creator(s): Loving, Jerome
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Poet and Person (1867) was co-written by Whitman to promote the fourth edition of Leaves of Grass; William

upon information from Whitman associates such as Traubel and Ellen O'Connor Calder, the widow of William

Blake, William (1757–1827)

  • Creator(s): Bidney, Martin
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MartinBidneyBlake, William (1757–1827)Blake, William (1757–1827) Introspective psychological mythmaker

and political as well as cosmic visionary, poet-artist William Blake wrote and illustrated verse of

Blake, William. The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Rev. ed. Ed. David V. Erdman.

William Blake and the Moderns. Ed. Robert J. Bertholf and Annette S. Levitt.

Blake, William (1757–1827)

Boker, George Henry (1823–1890)

  • Creator(s): Gould, Mitch
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Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982.

"Boston Ballad (1854), A" (1855)

  • Creator(s): Klammer, Martin
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be resisted not to protect the freedom and rights of blacks, but to protect the freedom of Northern white

Boston, Massachusetts

  • Creator(s): Round, Phillip H.
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It was on this trip, as well, that Whitman met William Douglas O'Connor, who would become one of his

Boston, Massachusetts

  • Creator(s): Round, Phillip H.
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It was on this trip, as well, that Whitman met William Douglas O'Connor, who would become one of his

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

British Romantic Poets

  • Creator(s): French, R.W.
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well acquainted with the works of the British Romantic poets, none of them mattered to him as did William

probably dating from 1855 or 1856 specifically rebuked Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William

Swinburne's William Blake, which concluded with a laudatory comparison of Whitman and Blake.

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

Brooklyn Daily Times

  • Creator(s): Renner, Dennis K.
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after he began editing the Times, Whitman wrote the editorials "Kansas and the Political Future" and "White

If this is so, Whitman observes, then slaves are as capable as white Americans and deserve the rights

Brooklyn, New York

  • Creator(s): Gill, Jonathan
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the Whitmans lived, near the port and ferry terminals, was chaotic and dirty, densely populated with white

Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878)

  • Creator(s): Higgins, Andrew C.
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Andrew C.HigginsBryant, William Cullen (1794–1878)Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878) William Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant. New York: Scribner's, 1971. Bryant, William Cullen.

The Letters of William Cullen Bryant. Ed. William Cullen Bryant II and Thomas G. Voss. 2 vols.

The Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant. Ed. Parke Godwin. 2 vols.

Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878)

Buffalo Free Soil Convention (1848)

  • Creator(s): Lueth, Elmar S.
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viewed the extension of slavery as detrimental to American democracy and as unfair competition for white

"By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Lulloff, William G.
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William G.Lulloff"By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame" (1865)"By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame" (1865)This poem

"By the Roadside" (1881)

  • Creator(s): Rachman, Stephen
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brief lyric "Thoughts" and imagistic snapshots such as "A Farm Picture" (a poem which anticipates William

Carlos Williams's "The Red Wheelbarrow" in its photographic minimalism), which emphasize the observing

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.

Canada, Whitman's Reception in

  • Creator(s): Cederstrom, Lorelei
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William Sloane Kennedy. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1904. Canada, Whitman's Reception in

Canada, Whitman's Visit to

  • Creator(s): Mason-Browne, N.J.
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William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978.____. Specimen Days.

Carlyle, Thomas (1795–1881)

  • Creator(s): Altman, Matthew C.
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Carlyle insists in his Occasional Discourse that blacks are naturally inferior to whites, and although

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.

"Centenarian's Story, The" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Chandran, K. Narayana
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narratives are appropriately analytical, factual, and self-reflexive by turns.BibliographyBurrison, William

Chase, Richard Volney (1914–1962)

  • Creator(s): Graffin, Walter
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New York: William Sloane Associates, 1955. Chase, Richard Volney (1914–1962)

'Children of Adam' [1860]

  • Creator(s): Miller, James E., Jr.
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and deliciously aching, / Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow

Civil War, The [1861–1865]

  • Creator(s): Hutchinson, George
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Here he settled into a rooming house where an acquaintance, William Douglas O'Connor, was staying with

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

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.

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