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"our huge earth itself, which, to ordinary scansion, is full of vulgar contradictions" (Prose Works 2:

ensemble, that can transform the "ungrammatical, untidy,...ill-bred" average of Democratic Vistas (2:

the contrary, I hereby retract it," he announces, or "Now I reverse what I said" ("Says," sections 2

Vol. 2. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961.Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Ed.

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964.Zapata-Whelan, Carol.

poems and poets, binding the lands of the earth closer than all treaties and diplomacy" (Prose Works 2:

I know not a land except ours that has not, to some extent . . . made its title clear" (Prose Works 2:

all-assuming identity, with dilating internal atlas ("Within me latitude widens, longitude lengthens" [section 2]

The Evolution of Walt Whitman. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1960, 1962. Erkkila, Betsy.

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964.____.

However, Canto General parts ways with Leaves of Grass as an ideological tract in which "comrade" denotes

Lorca wrote "Oda a Walt Whitman" as part of his lyrical collection of angst in America, El poeta en Nueva

Duyckinck probably served as the Review's literary editor and was coeditor and part owner of other radically

judicially" about the work rather than the man—a cardinal principle embraced by the critical group he was part

The weakest part of his treatment is the judgment that Whitman was insufficiently modest when treating

An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside, 1900. ———, ed.

Vol. 2. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921.Yannella, Donald. "Cornelius Mathews."

less obscure despite his statement near the beginning that describes it as dialectical: "I feel the parts

Personalism," as it is nurtured by the emergence of a "New World literature" (405), the subject of the final part

of his essay.In the first part, Whitman inveighs, with apocalyptic fervor, against the awful discrepancy

The "mental-educational part" of Whitman's model would attend to everything from a program of stirpiculture

Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964. 361–426. Democratic Vistas [1871]

the pseudosciences.In the case of phrenology, Whitman constructed a mythical persona, based in large part

the past and predict a joyous future, resembles the invisible musicians of séances (sections 1 and 2)

American Literature 2 (1931): 350–384.Reiss, Edmund. "Whitman's Debt to Animal Magnetism."

American Literature 2 (1931): 350–384.Kaplan, Justin. Walt Whitman: A Life.

At least part of the answer lies in Whitman's quest to express the totality of existence, to encompass

interesting resemblance to Whitman's own later sense of spirit at work in the natural world.A large part

This allegiance was confirmed by the long line of Democratic papers he wrote for in the early part of

Part of the reason Whitman's poetry was so little influenced by that of other poets is to be found in

The Evolution of Walt Whitman. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1960–1962.Reynolds, David S.

though in Democratic Vistas Whitman acknowledges the people's "crude defective streaks" (Prose Works 2:

Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1961. ____.

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963-1964.  'Song of the Exposition' [1871]

fellow of my size, the friendly presence & magnetism needed, somehow, is not here)" (Correspondence 2:

Vols. 2–3. New York: New York UP, 1961–1964. Whitman, Louisa Orr Haslam (Mrs. George) (1842–1892)

The bird imagery in the first part of the cluster, arising out of and closely connected to the land (

humans), is used to symbolize the boy's growing awareness of mortality; the ship imagery in the second part

Lines and parts of lines that fit the parameters of traditional metrical or strong-stress poetry abound

The two groups have the same accentual contour—falling 1–2, primary to secondary prominence.

Line 2 does not pick up the iambic rhythm of line one but rather this 1–2 falling contour.

Again there are two groups, with 1–2 contours, with the first accent on pronouns—I and you and -sume

("Song of Myself," section 2) Many poems ask to be read at a rapid, exuberant pace, with no time for

WILSoN PART 1 1. Erasing Race: The Lost Black Presence in Whitman’s Manuscripts 3 Ed FoLSom 2.

Transforming the Kosmos: Yusef Komunyakaa Musing on Walt Whitman 124 JACoB WILkENFELd PART 2 7.

June Jordan’s 1980 essay is the lead piece in part 2, which fea- tures reflections on Whitman by contemporary

Ibid., 2:572.

This kind of erasure would continue to dominate Civil War memory, as monuments to only part of the story

On 2 March 1850, he published his important early poem, "Song for Certain Congressmen" (later called

Vol. 2. 1908. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961. Leggett, William L. (1801–1839)

Vol. 2. New York: New York, 1961.Woodward, William, and Edward F. Sanderson.

Anderson, “‘Be Up and Doing,’” 2. 50.

guise of mourning the demise of this gender-bending, part Amazonian, part Gorgonian beast whose pen had

“Thoughts and Things,” SP, June 2, 1860. 34.

“Thoughts and Things,” SP, Jan. 14, 1860, 2. 44. Pw 2:693–94; Ackerman, Portable Theater, 42.

Katz, Love Stories, 134. 35. “Frances Gray,” 1–2.

The general tendency of criticism has been to tell a tragic story of decline and failure, seeing the

Whitman would later say that he came to make sure that, if Sanborn were convicted, he—Whitman—might take part

Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908. Waldron, Randall.

mother, he wrote, were "the two best and sweetest women I have ever seen or known" (Correspondence 2:

When the newly married couple moved into the Whitman household, Mattie became an integral part of the

For his part, undoubtedly with pride in Jeff's accomplishments in mind, Walt praised the great achievements

(Prose Works 2:693). BibliographyAllen, Gay Wilson.

Floyd Stovall. 2 Vols. New York: New York UP, 1963-1964. Whitman, Thomas Jefferson [1833–1890]

Memoirs. 2 vols. London: William Heinemann, 1893. Stovall, Floyd.

(See figure 2.)

Whitman, LG 1855, 14. 2.

Huntington, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, vol. 2, part 3 (Washington,

Vol. 2, part 3. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1883. Otis Historical Archives.

Vol. 2.

his British reviewers, the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass was met in London for the most part

But in the latter part of the nineteenth century the most strikingly original British response to Whitman

, rolling in superfluity, against the vast bulk of the work-people, living in squalor" (Prose Works 2:

Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908.Whitman, Walt. The Gathering of the Forces. Ed.

Cleveland Rodgers and John Black. 2 vols. New York: Putnam, 1920.____.

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964.____.

Emory Holloway. 2 vols. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921.____.

All these first became part of the young journalist who went forth every day during the 1840s, licensed

The Thought and Character of William James. 2 vols. Boston: Little, Brown, 1935.Tanner, James T.F.

Calamus: Walt Whitman Quarterly International 2 (1970): 6–23. James, William (1842–1910)

, whose adherents and practitioners clearly preached the doctrine of acquired characteristics as a part

Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1964. Evolution

proper forces tends continually to increase the volume of every body possessing it, and to enlarge its parts

up to a limit which it brings about; (2) The production of a new organ in an animal body results from

243) and even that Scott's novels are his "chief pleasure nowadays" (2:251).

like Shakspere, exhale that principle of caste which we have come on earth to destroy" (Prose Works 2:

Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906; Vol. 2. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1915. Whitman, Walt.

Cleveland Rodgers and John Black. 2 vols. New York: Putnam, 1920. ———. Prose Works 1892. Ed.

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964. Scott, Sir Walter (1771–1832)

His New Paper" in which Whitman claims Dickens is "staunch for the Democratic movement" (Gathering 2:

Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908. Whitman, Walt. "Boz and Democracy."

Cleveland Rodgers and John Black. 2 vols. New York: Putnam, 1920. ———.

shouldn't wonder if I have unconsciously put a sort of autobiographical dash in it" (Correspondence 2:

"Thought" was then added to the tenth edition of Leaves of Grass (1897) as part of "Old Age Echoes."

Van Velsor Whitman, of Dutch descent and Quaker faith, was fond of singing folk songs and telling stories

"combiner, nothing more spiritual, nothing more sensuous, a god, yet completely human" (Prose Works 2:

In the American opera the story and libretto must be the body of the performance.

Cleveland Rodgers and John Black. 2 vols. New York: Putnam, 1920.____. Leaves of Grass. Ed.

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964.____.

Colorado was too late to influence much of Whitman's poetry, but his memories of Denver became a frequent part

than from books, and his lessons in reading, writing, arithmetic, and grammar were punctuated with stories

Cleveland Rodgers and John Black. 2 vols. New York: Putnam, 1920. Mitchel, O.M.

to the attention of Europe by the sixteenth-century conquistador Coronado, these mountains became part

Drawn by the stories of instant wealth to be found in the mountains, tourists traveled by the thousands

Its London agent, William Horsell, would play a part in establishing Whitman's English reputation.

American Literature 2 (1931): 350-384. Stern, Madeleine B.

2 Pet. 3:10, Rev. 16:5).

Bennett,Vibrant Matter, 2–3. 11.

Herman Melville, Correspondence, 656. 2.

Milton, Poetical Works, 2: 63. 28.

Herman Melville: A Biography. 2 vols.

It will have to be ciphered and ciphered out long—and is probably in some respects the most curious part

Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1964. "Good-Bye my Fancy" (Second Annex) (1891)

my breast a thousand wide-winged strengths and unknown ardors and terrible ecstasies" (Uncollected 2:

are printed in italics in order to emphasize the lyrical quality of the aria, while the recitative parts

Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908. Trowbridge, John Townsend. "Reminiscences of Walt Whitman."

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963-1964. ____.

Emory Holloway. 2 vols. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921.  Opera and Opera Singers

In the context of Leaves of Grass the poems about old age are part of Whitman's philosophy of contraries

mental powers, and even his fears of senility were not to be resisted but were to be thought of as a part

of the life cycle and part of a greater spiritual totality.Only two days after the three strokes that

Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906; Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908.Trent, Josiah C.

Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1964. Age and Aging

editions of Leaves of Grass as "annexes" (the 1881 edition concludes with the section called "Songs of Parting

poems he had to include references to his sickness and invalidism, since they had become so much a part

Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908.Whitman, Walt.

A poet herself, she was moved by his gifts; he, in turn, saw the group of women of which she was a part

A prolific essayist, poet, and short story writer, she won a following in the magazines and newspapers

were the ones given by Native Americans, as shown by his praise of their "sonorous beauty" (Gathering 2:

Cleveland Rodgers and John Black. 2 vols. New York: Putnam, 1920. Place Names