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PatrickMcGuire"Dumb Kate" (1844)"Dumb Kate" (1844)This short story first appeared in Columbian Magazine

, May 1844, under the title "Dumb Kate.

"Dumb Kate" is a slight tale.

Sick at heart, Kate languishes and dies.

"Dumb Kate" (1844)

GayBartonChopin, Kate (1850–1904)Chopin, Kate (1850–1904) The fiction of Kate O'Flaherty Chopin depicts

Kate Chopin: Modern Critical Views. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. 1–6.

Chopin, Kate.

"Kate Chopin and Walt Whitman." Walt Whitman Review 16 (1970): 120–121. Loving, Jerome.

Chopin, Kate (1850–1904)

PatrickMcGuire"Boy Lover, The" (1845)"Boy Lover, The" (1845)This short story was first published in American

"The Boy Lover" is a first-person account of a love story.

Whitman's fiction; it is implicit in "Death in the School-Room (a Fact)" (1841) and explicit in "Dumb Kate

MattCohenShort Fiction [1841–1848]Short Fiction [1841–1848]Whitman's roughly two dozen short stories

Many of the stories were republished, with slight alterations, during the years Whitman spent working

The sensationalism of "Death in the School Room (a Fact)" and the pathos of "Dumb Kate.

Some of the stories, such as "The Little Sleighers.

Some of the stories contain autobiographical elements.

press releases (including copies of his poem) for eastern newspapers, but these releases for the most part

mere habit has got dominion of me, when there is no real need of saying anything further" (Prose Works 2:

Miller of "The Times": The Story of an Editor. New York: Scribner's, 1931.Perry, Bliss.

Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1961.____. Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. 2 vols.

Washington was part of Whitman's family history; the poet's early youth was spent in the West Hills,

under Washington at the battle of Brooklyn (1776), an event retold by Whitman in "The Centenarian's Story

In Whitman's short story, "The Last of the Sacred Army," published in the Democratic Review (March 1842

Cleveland Rodgers and John Black. 2 vols. New York: Putnam, 1920. Washington, George (1732–1799)

Whitman, Jesse (brother) (1818–1870) The oldest of Whitman's eight siblings, Jesse Whitman was born on 2

Jeff and Walt (who for part of the time was living in Washington and keeping abreast of the situation

To varying degrees, he seems to have suppressed (or even repressed) the stories of the family's darker

, more troubled members—Jesse, Andrew, Edward, their father—perhaps fearing that part of his own psychic

Certainly Jesse's story is the darkest and most thoroughly suppressed, and it helped to form the fearful

"blood and thunder romances with alliterative titles and plots of startling interest" (Uncollected 2:

Before that, he had reported murders for the New York Tattler and wrote police and coroner's stories

for the New York Sun.Several of his early poems and stories were sensational in a straightforward way

juxtapose sensational images with life-affirming ones, as though tragic occurrences are a natural part

Emory Holloway. 2 vols. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1972.____. "Walt Whitman and His Poems."

The" (1844)"Fireman's Dream, The" (1844)Whitman's incomplete novel "The Fireman's Dream: With the Story

In chapter 2 the dream continues with the Native American telling George his life story.

The first sentences of chapter 2 establish the duality: "I am white by education and an Indian by birth

BibliographyBergman, Herbert, "A Hitherto Unknown Whitman Story and a Possible Early Poem."

The grim story of Goliad follows: "A youth not seventeen years old seiz'd his assassin till two more

the receipt of important news, the many discussions, the returning wounded, and so on" (Prose Works 2:

that composite American identity of the future, Spanish character will supply some of the most needed parts

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

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964. Mexican War, The

P.KriegBirthplace, Whitman'sBirthplace, Whitman'sWhitman was born in West Hills, Long Island, New York, in a two-story

The dining wing appears to be older than the main part of the house and may have been on the property

Walt Whitman Birthplace Bulletin 2 (1959): 17–19.Krieg, Joann P.

NarayanaChandran"Centenarian's Story, The" (1865)"Centenarian's Story, The" (1865)Included as one of

poems in Drum-Taps (1865) and later incorporated into the "Drum-Taps" cluster, "The Centenarian's Story

Whitman had earlier called this poem "Washington's First Battle," referring to the part played by the

worry or panic.The Centenarian begins to answer the Volunteer by recalling how he himself had taken part

"Centenarian's Story, The" (1865)

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.____.

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).

PatrickMcGuire"Death of Wind-Foot, The" (1842)"Death of Wind-Foot, The" (1842)This short story, as well

as the story "Little Jane" (1842), initially appeared as part of Whitman's novel Franklin Evans (1842

An Indian Story" when the story was reprinted in Crystal Fount and Rechabite Recorder, 18 October 1845

Tribal hatred and revenge are the basic themes of this story about three Native Americans.

This short story has received little critical attention.BibliographyFolsom, Ed.

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).

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(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

PatrickMcGuire"Child and the Profligate, The" (1841)"Child and the Profligate, The" (1841)This important short story

After much revision, the story appeared with its present title in Columbian Magazine, October 1844.

The story's obvious didactic purpose is the reformation of a wastrel in contrast to the dissolution of

The vulnerability of the poor and the greed of Charley's employer are also part of its didacticism.

Moreover, Moon connects "Calamus" number 29 (1857) to elements of the story.

The technique of this story is unusual in Whitman's work in that a first narrator introduces another

Reynolds reads the story as Whitman's attempt to purge his psychological demons, perhaps oedipal in nature

Kaplan sees this story as comparable to the work of Edgar Allan Poe, and Allen sees it as part of Whitman's

The story also relates to another frequent theme of Whitman's fiction: the separating of two brothers.BibliographyAllen

Camden tripled in population between 1828 and 1840, from 1,100 to about 3,300, in part because it continued

George Whitman, Walt's younger brother, worked part-time in Camden for several years while also running

and his brother Edward to live with them in August of 1872 and soon began construction of a three-story

So when an opportunity arose to buy a two-story frame house on Mickle Street for $1,750, he took it,

Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1964. Camden, New Jersey

Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Family. London: Victor Gollancz, 1980.

Rpt. as Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women.

Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1978. Smith, Robert Pearsall (1827–1898)

Whitman directly, but he certainly heard of him through family stories, particularly the stories of his

and homestead in West Hills amounted to nearly five hundred acres of land and became an important part

body: "The love of the body of man or woman balks account, the body itself balks account" (section 2)

In section 2 the "chanter of Adamic songs" provides a random catalogue of men and women engaging in various

strongest of his attractions—Anne Gilchrist, who fell in love with the poet upon reading Leaves of Grass; Kate

In "A Woman Waits for Me" the poet assumes the role of Adam as everyman, contributing his vital part

In the summer of 1862, Whitman records telling Frank Sweezey "the whole story . . . about Ellen Eyre"

(Notebooks 2:488).

Walt Whitman Newsletter 2 (1956): 24–26. Holloway, Emory. "Whitman Pursued."

of the "gigantic swimmer" and the story of the shipwreck serve to dramatize the speaker's encounter

with death, while the Washington episodes and the story of the Native American woman offer examples of

In parts 3 and 4, the sea, still feminine, is still destructive.

Martin suggests, not too plausibly, that the story of the Native American woman and the poet's mother

This "I" is "both overspecified and secondary, both at the center of the story and inconsequential to

Townsend Trowbridge left a deft and important portrait of their relationship in his autobiography, My Own Story

Boston based, Trowbridge was editor, novelist, poet, antislavery reformer and writer of many juvenile stories

In My Own Story Trowbridge relates how he first came across excerpts of Leaves of Grass while staying

Undoubtedly, Trowbridge always found the sexual parts of Leaves of Grass unpleasant and unnecessary and

My Own Story. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. ———. The Poetical Works of John Townsend Trowbridge.

He began to experiment with less conventional metrics and abandoned rhyme altogether.For the most part

"A Hitherto Unknown Whitman Story and a Possible Early Poem."

Emory Holloway. 2 vols. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921. Pre-Leaves Poems

He and Whitman often conversed, and Whitman loved to hear Hartshorne tell stories about meeting George

Vol. 2. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1921. Hartshorne, William (1775–1859)

year published Whitman's third edition of Leaves of Grass and O'Connor's only novel, Harrington: A Story

their first meeting, O'Connor had turned from his artistic pursuits as a daguerreotypist, poet, short-story

Walt Whitman," 16 February 1867); in the New York Times in 1866 and 1867 (for example, "Walt Whitman," 2

In 1868 O'Connor published "The Carpenter," a short story with a Christlike portrayal of Whitman.

"The Carpenter: A Christmas Story." Putnam's Monthly Magazine ns 1 (1868): 55–90. ____.

something in the world—something I tried to make clear in another way in Calamus" (With Walt Whitman 2:

that its citizenry must be thoroughly infused with an "all penetrating Religiousness" (Prose Works 2:

of living, pulsating love and friendship, directly from them to myself, now and ever" (Prose Works 2:

Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906; Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908; Vol. 3.

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

by Whitman—books, pamphlets, collected editions, separately published poems, articles and essays, stories

English and other languages during his lifetime but also those published in English through 1991; (2)

The Walt Whitman Archive: A Facsimile of the Poet's Manuscripts. 3 vols. 6 parts.

"Walt Whitman's Short Stories: Some Comments and a Bibliography."

Vol. 2. New York: Macmillan, 1974. 759–768, 997–1001, 1310–1313.Killingsworth, M. Jimmie.

1975) Esther Shephard, scholar, poet, and folklorist (she compiled a popular edition of Paul Bunyan stories

Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale Research, 1978. Shephard, Esther. Walt Whitman's Pose.

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

The first issue of the Crescent contained Whitman's feature story entitled "Crossing the Alleghenies.

Whitman later characterized his situation with the Crescent as "a rather pleasant one" (Prose Works 2:

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

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

if he were to move from Long Island, "Wisconsin would be the proper place to come to" (Prose Works 2:

Bucke, Whitman believed that the New Orleans trip helped him gather "the main part" of the "physiology

There Whitman parted with his friends, who returned East, and began an extended visit with Jeff which

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

Emory Holloway. 2 vols. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1972. Travels, Whitman's

In order to assist and to speed up the writing of the novel, Whitman included some stories that he had

Probably the stories of the Indian in chapter two; "Little Jane," in chapter 14; and possibly the allegorical

For example, Gay Wilson Allen calls Franklin Evans a "melodramatic maudlin story" (59).

As the novel continues, Franklin Evans, as first person narrator, relates the story in which strong drink

Vol. 2. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921.  Winwar, Frances.

, "is wholly without plan: the first thing at hand, that is the thing I take up" (With Walt Whitman 2:

sets me free," Whitman proclaimed in 1888, "in a flood of light—of life, of vista" (With Walt Whitman 2:

Democratic Vistas about the "shreds of Hebrews, Romans, Greeks" that dominated attention (Prose Works 2:

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

Emory Holloway. 2 vols. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1972. Reading, Whitman's

the dramas, the plays, the poems: least accessible, yet greatest of all—greater than the novels, stories

Vol. 2. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961. Hugo, Victor (1802–1885)

Taylor offered his suspicious Quaker neighbors The Story of Kennett (1866) as an alternative to the fad

The Story of Kennett. New York: Putnam, 1866. Traubel, Horace. With Walt Whitman in Camden. Vol. 2.

He spent the first part of his professional life as a lawyer, until he became the editor of the New York

Voss. 2 vols. New York: Fordham UP, 1975. ———. The Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant. Ed.

Parke Godwin. 2 vols. New York: Appleton, 1883. ———. The Prose Writings of William Cullen Bryant.

Parke Godwin. 2 vols. New York: Appleton, 1884. McLean, Albert F. William Cullen Bryant.

Boston University Studies in English 2 (1956): 85–94. Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878)

It was annexed to Leaves of Grass as one of the Songs Before Parting in 1867 and later under the cluster

"Songs of Parting" in 1871.

what Whitman in Democratic Vistas has termed "the devout ecstasy, the soaring flight" (Prose Works 2:

familiar strain of what Whitman calls the "noiseless operation of one's isolated Self" (Prose Works 2:

Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1980.____. Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. 2 vols.

under O'Sullivan's leadership as being "of a profounder quality of talent than any since" (Uncollected 2:

The Tomb Blossoms" (January 1842); "The Last of the Sacred Army" (March 1842); "The Child-Ghost; a Story

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

Sections 35 and 36 of "Song of Myself" (1855), for instance, incorporate the story of John Paul Jones's

James Miller suggests that both stories depict the spiritual affection binding democratic men, and in

The poem describes the interchange between a revolutionary war veteran and a "Volunteer of 1861–2."

veteran recalls the general's confidence even in retreat, and the volunteer pledges to spread the story

"The Centenarian's Story" is typical of Whitman's treatment of the American Revolution in emphasizing

What became in 1881 the first part of "Song of the Answerer" originated as an untitled section of the

The eventual second part of "Song of the Answerer" originated in some phrases in the Preface to the 1855

the 1860 edition, and appeared as "The Indications" in the 1867 and later editions, until it became part

In section 2 the tone shifts somewhat, as Whitman develops an elaborate distinction between the poet

In the last two stanzas of section 2, however, Whitman returns to the larger themes of the first section

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

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

presented in its final version in 1881.Sidney Krause divides the poem's six numbered sections into three parts

: I, section 1; II, sections 2 through 5; III, section 6.

Otherwise, sleep is mentioned only once, toward the beginning of section 2.

In section 2 music from human activities, human music-making, and nature blend into one orchestra which

Section 3 divides into two parts.

Jorge Luis (1899–1986) Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentinian essayist, poet, and master of the short story

Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1969. xiii–xvii, 2–3. ———. "Note on Walt Whitman."

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).

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5I7;NUP, 6: 2,I71.

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.