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perhaps, he felt what you are feeling now, as he watched the spring of another year. that is the best part

There is something brutal and fatuous in the habit we commonly have of passing the parts of nature in

it is not art in parts d, e, f.’

Section 38 initiates a second part.

In the 2 chapter, “W. W.'

Michaud, Littérature Amèricanie, ed.cit., 41-2. 15 Sherwood Anderson, A Storyteller’s Story (Garden City

Trent, op.cit., 494. 2 J.

SONG OF MYSELF 2 :2 2 -3 :5 1 Have you reckoned a thousand acres much ?

SONG OF M YSELF 2 1 :4 3 2 -2 2 :4 6 7 1 5 Have you olitstript the rest ?

SONG OF M YSELF 2 5 :5 6 4 -2 6 :5 9 2 19 We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found

SONG OF M YSELF 4 9 :1 2 9 6 -5 2 :1 3 2 4 43 t ascend from the moon . . . .

AmericanPoetry, 2, no. 2 (Winter 1985): 2-16. Adicks, Richard R.

ofthe original story, consisting very much ofprolix 2 2 Selected Letters of Walt Whitman details of

historical events, gives it thatme-but that part of the story I have contracted into a few paragraphs-and

J.2& shall probably go there & spend a few days, latter part of October. . . .

Traubel, 2: 39· 2.

6 2 - 2 8 0 64.

For my part, I said, I thought Mr.

Late number, 328 Mickle Street 2.

"That is only a part and not the most impor tant part of it,'' said Dr. Furness, in substance.

It's all part of the whole; and I can no more honestly cut out that part than any other.''

I caught some part of the writer's faith in American manhood and the part America was going to play in

twelve of the poems had originally formed a sequence entitled "Live Oak with Moss," which tells the story

Only in "Live Oak" do we get a clear story of a love affair with a man, along with a story of a coming

Poem 2 gives the sequence part of its title: "I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing."

But he knows he can't—except of course in "parting," which by this point in Whitman's career has become

He's extremely ambivalent about the act of writing poetry: in poem 2 he needs a lover to "utter leaves

, while another part of herself (her body?)

But then everything is also part of everything else, in a sort of mystic relation of parts to wholes.

I am thinking of book 1,part 3 ("Statement"), and the more obviously parodic section of book 2 called

Only in "Live Oak" do we get a clear story of a love affair with a man, along with a story of a coming

Poem 2 gives the sequence part of its title: "I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing."

BUT PURSUE HER NO MORE." ( , 2: 887).

"Let Riker go to hell," Walt advised Pete ( ., 2:106).

Peter's Catholic Church ( ., 2: 113).

Cloud, on the corner of 9th and F Streets, NW ( ., 2: 116).

Whites ( ., 2: 308).

Galway Kinnell, however, hears another part ofthe story when he observes that in "Lilacs" "the griefis

Vistas(Pw, 2:426-433).

"(Pw, 2:363-364).

SeePW, 2:361-362n.

5I7;NUP, 6: 2,I71.

3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 "or a hand kerchief.... designedly dropped" - a n d there is a break down, a designed

Nowyou can ofcourse saythat he meant pure verse and that the foot is a paeon 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 "or

(London: Walter Scott,1894),xx-xxi, xxii. 2 2 .

Appleton, 1908), 2:431-432. 2.

This I however is a part ofAmerica, a part ofthe earth, a part of mankind, a part of the All.

M A X H A Y E K ( 1 8 8 2 - ?

Inspired bythe Irish nationalist movement, NOTES TO PAGES 2 0 -2 3 213 this group was part ofthe British

10.See Griinzweig, '"Teach Me Your Rhythm,'" pp. 2 2 6 -2 2 8 . n.

Grunzweig, 16 December1987. 2.

2 0 3 finde ihn doch nicht.

poet who previously had seen himself as the singer of songs for "The States" (l. 43), like Whitman in parts

The five-line fourth poem ("This moment as I sit alone") announces the poet's thought (part hope, part

(l. 46) and answers that it is the parting of two men on a pier: "The one to remain hung on the other's

of a love affair with a man, along with a story of a coming out that affects Whitman's other poetry

Nina Baym, et al., 2 vols. (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1994), I, 2,097–2,101.

The journey from Falmouth to Washington was made in two parts: first by rail to Aquia Creek Landing,

After the war, the poet rented a room in the 3-story brick building shown directly next to the Corcoran

He died on August 2, 1863.

Press, 1981), 2.

Floyd Stovall (New York: New York University Press, 1964), 2: 625.

Whitman's 'Gay Manifesto,"' which appeared in the September 1996 issue of Nineteenth-Century Literature (51:2)

notebook a sequence of twelve poems ("Live Oak with Moss" or "Live Oak, with Moss") that narrate the story

:2 1 -2 2 ). 2 4 APRIL.

:2 4 2 ).

(Myerson, Time, 2 8 2 ) 2 JUNE.

:2 2 2 , 223). 26 JUNE.

:2 9 8 ). 1 7 - 2 8 OCTOBER.Whitman is ill of a liver disorder, and a newspaper story puts him at death's

In 1868, HAPPY BUREAUCRAT, TORMENTED POET 2 I I in a story entitled The Carpenter, he presented Christ

Thus he belatedly took cognizance 2 2 2 THE EVOLUTION OF WALT WHITMAN in I876 of the transformation which

Then, on April 2 2 O'Connor in his turn came into the lists, 2 2 6 THE EVOLUTION OF WALT WHITMAN striking

See Imprints, p. 2. 2.

"Letter to Harry Stafford, January 2, I884, Berg Collection. 2.

Historical Background Chapter 2. Time Line Chapter 3. New York City Chapter 4.

As for Carleton, Yeats so admired his writing that he edited the anthology Stories from Carleton (1889

Whitman created no Irish characters in his early works of fiction but did include the Irish as part of

of this "Irishness" swirled about Whitman as he trod the streets of his "Mannahatta," and it became part

The defeat at the Boyne would echo through the streets of New York City every July for a good part of

He lied to me 2 or 3 times.

Several of his friends know the story in part (from his own lips).

This is the whole story.

Appleton, 1908), 2:19–20.

(2:16).

Introduction xxxii Part One Whitman’s two-story house on Mickle Street, Camden, in 1890 The Whitman house

2:244 The instant you 2:351 W. rarely gives 2:261 Walt do I come 2:375 I want to be 4:88 Well—you are

I made that 2:98 Tell her 5:63 About that 7:370 roared when I 8:116 Yes, it was 1:390 It is part 7:294

86 Said again 2:146 W. said to me 2:316 You’ll hear that 2:306 that big story 2:415 Walt, are you 2:511

115 It is hard 2:235 I have belly aches 2:356 Bad day today 2:376 Osler made light 2:383 I am getting

The working premise of the project was that scholars from different parts of the world working on the

Floyd Stovall, 2 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1963–1964).

Walt Whitman is already part of the blended cultural landscape in China.

The redwood trees of California have been an important part of that conservationist debate.

Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1985), 2. T. S.

"To Learn from the Crises of Anguish": Tragedy, History, and the Meaning of Democratic Mourning Part

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1963. QC The Quest for Certainty .

First, I attempt to explicate the many parts of Whitman's democratic vision and describe how those parts

In chapter 2, I take up the issue of Whitman's democratic conception of selfhood.

Just as significant is the pivotal part played by emotion in the transaction.

(LGV 2:365) Just as the “Songs of Parting” cluster works on a reader’s emotions, so, too, does the “Calamus

(LGV 2:561) notes 1.

2.

as part two, and twenty-three poems as part three.

Ibid., chapter 2. 14. Tao Te Ching, chapter 2. 15. Chuang-tzu, chapter 32. 16.

Whitman in Blackface Chapter 2. Edith Wharton and the Problem of Whitmanian Comradeship Chapter 3.

The Trapper's Bride , by Alfred Jacob Miller, 1850 2. , by Alfred Jacob Miller, 1845 3.

I thank University of Iowa Press for allowing me to reproduce that part of Chapter 4 dealing with John

Chapter 2 analyzes how Edith Wharton benefited from a newly available past.

He has freed no slave, taken no part in action on the Underground Railroad.

Things of the Earth Chapter 2. The Fall of the Redwood Tree Chapter 3.

Perhaps every mite has once form'd part of a sick person—yet behold!

Words are signs of natural facts. 2.

The web of written words resonates with the stories the people tell.

She is sitting in her room thinking of a story now I'm telling you the story she is thinking. (1) In

L E T T E R 2 6 : J A N U A R Y 2 9 , 1 8 6 2 15 1862 26.

“No. 2” was part of a series of six articles entitled “How I Get Around at 60 and Take Notes.” 62 T H

L E T T E R 2 2 5 1 : J U L Y 2 , 1 8 9 0 103 1 2250.

Shively (2), 166. September 27. From Louisa Van Velsor June 18. From Kate Richardson, an Whitman.

August 2. From Kate A. Evans, a “rather October 24. From Harry Stafford. CT: gushing” admirer.

the most important texts in American literature has, remarkably, never been examined in detail, in part

The poet answered, "Whack away at everything pertaining to literary life—mechanical part as well as the

understanding of literature, with words rooted in nature, with language as abundant as grass (fig. 2)

Great primer ornamented . . . 2 line pica ornamented No. 7 . . .

Enfans d'Adam . . . 2 line Saxon ornate shade . . . 2 lines English scribe text."

the Age of Accelerating Print: Whitman as Printer, Journalist, Teacher, and Fiction Writer Chapter 2.

Part of chapter 2 appeared in another form as Ed Folsom, "'Many MS.

Writing of the 1855 ," in Anthony Mortimer, ed., From Wordsworth to Stevens (Peter Lang, 2005), and part

The Journalism, 2 vols., ed. Herbert Bergman, Douglas A. Noverr, and Edward J.

to Rudolfo Anaya, Garrett Hongo, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Yusef Komunyakaa—the intense urge on the part

stressed when the United States Postal Service unveiled first in Camden a Whitman postage stamp as part

Treatments of Whitman provide a way to gauge the type of stories popular culture was telling about US

"One Wicked Impulse" for his series "Favorite Story TV."

Covert to a major character, but in other respects the stories differ markedly from one another.

Like "Favorite Story TV," Fox's The Simpsons invoked Whitman primarily for the power of his name.

Wallace (2), Frank Sanborn (2), John Clifford (1), and Sidney Morse (1).

Asymmetry of the body or of any part or parts of it. 122 Topical Articles on Whitman 3.

Binns has not made a long story short. He has made a long story longer.

Some part of Carpenter’s story is set down in this book.

not part.

Parts of the book have appeared previously.

: sex, class, & commerce 2.

(GF 2:64).

The linguistic textures of the verse, however, tell another story: a story of conflicting levels of language

Smith, Loafer,” 63. 2. See R. H.

the First Edition 2.

United States and States United: Whitman’s National Vision in 1855 m. wynn thomas 62 part 2 : Reading

Recchia, 2 vols.

(nupm, 2:831).

he refers to the story as “an almost absurd account” [2:471]) in depicting the first edition as a kind

,” Essays in Litera- ture19,no.2(Fall1992):221–230,quote225. 29.

Price http://www.whitman archive.org/criticism/reviews/drumtaps/nation.html. 2.

Poland, Whaler of Nantucket (1952–1953), steel, 34 1/2″ x 45 1/2″ approximately 525 pounds, Edward E.

You see again how far away 2 each thing is from every other thing.

See César Salgado, “Martín Espada” in Latino and Latina Writers, vol. 2, ed.

for assembling these stories for the page.

From Democratic Vistas (pw 2:367, 396); “Origin of Attempted Seces- sion” (pw 2:433); “Poetry To-Day

—Shakspere—The Future” (pw 2:486); “A Word about Tennyson” (pw 2:570); and “The Bible as Poetry” (pw

San Jose Studies 12, no. 2 (1986): 75–83.

Vol. 2.

inOnWhitman:TheBestfrom AmericanLiterature,ed.EdwinH.CadyandLouisJ.Budd(Durham,N.C.,1987),273–89at273,283. 2.

butneverincorporatedinanyeditionthepoeteverpublished.Suchdeletionsandex- clusionsarenotableinanenterprisemarkedinotherrespectsforitsremarkableinclu- 2

responsenotonlytothepoliticaleventsofthewarbutalsotohishands-onworkasa clerkandasadevotedvisitortowoundedsoldiersinthehospitals. 2.

/whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/loc.00885.html. 22.Golden,WaltWhitman’sBlueBook,2:

Philadelphia,1892),296. 28.CompleteProse,282,101,and158. love, war, and revision in the blue book 691 figure 2.

atWashingtonatthearmyHospitals,orwaitingfortheboatsbringingloads ofwounded&c—dippeditintothoseyears1862,’3,’4,and’5”(seefig.2)

501–2).

(PW, 2:528) While this “Part of a Lecture proposed, (never deliver’d)” is undated, the description of

In the story, he is an eccentric part of the “sur- face life” of the capital, the “old poet” even at

(PW, 2:736).

(Corr, 2:81).

ISBn-13: 978-1-58729-958-2 (pbk.), ISBn-10: 1-58729-958-5 (pbk.)

the parting of dear friends.

Walt Whitman, ProseWorks, 2: 466. 49.

Walt Whitman, ProseWorks, 2: 471. 52.

Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality.

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.

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

Part 2, “Describing Local Lands,” explores how Dickinson and Whit- man treat nearby natural places as

As al lother ele- c h a p t e r   2•  79 ments become “part of” the child, they mainly serve the constitution

It is part of the poem’s achievement that it invokes conflicting stories of how to relate to the land

Part of what makes this scene ideal and common at the same time are its stories of agricultural balance

Part I 1.

has been part of all the editions of Leaves of Grass.

The story is not unlike the story Whitman tells in his 1859 elegy “A 162 Radical Imaginaries WordOutoftheSea

Bryan Rennie (London: Equinox, 2006), 17–22; 20. 2.

Floyd Stovall, 2 vols. (NewYork: NewYork University Press, 1964), 1:288.

(Fr 391). 2. Walt Whitman, Daybooks and Notebooks, ed.

Part of this story will be told The Good Gray Market . 75 in the next chapter, widening the frame to

WC 2:55. 2.

WC 2:421. 57.

2 (July 1868): 371.

Walt Whitman to John and Ursula Burroughs, 2 March 1875, CO 2:325. 64.

(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.

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.

The project did not materialize, but on May 2, 1877 Carpenter managed to reach that shabby working-class

In a couple of scathing short stories Melville squared his account with a money-oriented society.

"Leaves-Droppings," divided into two parts: "Correspondence" and "Opinions.1855-6."

There are 2 or 3 pieces in the book which are disagreeable to say the least, simply sensual.

(and a main part) in the construction of my poems, "Children of Adam."

(WJ, 2: 62; ellipsis mine).

(WJ, 2: 319).

(PW, 2: 373).

and one part national revival.

Crowell, 1976), 575. 2.

LG (1871–72) Leaves of Grass (Washington, DC, 1871–2).

New York: Barnes, 1963), 187 n.21. ³⁰ NUPM, 2:635. ³¹ NUPM, 4:1346. ³² Prose Works 1892, 2:587–89. 16

See also NUPM, 2: 602. 32    Figure 2.5.

Arthur Golden, 2 vols.

152 and sexuality 2, 105, 131–2, 133–6, 141–3 “Farm Picture, A” 66 and slavery 3, 69, 73, 83, 86–7,

. . 19 Post-RisorgimentoEncounters: EnricoNencioni,WilliamMichaelRossetti,andGiosuèCarducci Chapter 2

This story has prompted some doubts.

Luigi Gamberale, 2 vols. (Milano: Sonzogno, 1887, 1890).

Italo Calvino and Lorenzo Mondo, 2 vols. (Torino:Einaudi,1966),1:17.Mytranslation. 8.

“LavitaeleoperediWaltWhitman.”Rivistad’Italia6,bkt.2(February1903):181–7. ———.

col.2. 32.

Argus,October31,1840, p.2,col.2. 56.

col.2. 67.

,p.2,col.2;and“TheOldandtheNew,”Chicago(IL)Democrat, May17,1856,p.2,cols.1–2. 21.SeeRobertJ.Cook,BaptismofFire

.2. 62.

responded with "The Sobbing of the Bells," inserting the freshly composed poem into the "Songs of Parting

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