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

called him "one of the grandest revelations of my life, a lesson of artistic expression" (Prose Works 2:

as Charles Dickens's Nancy Sykes ("the most intense acting ever felt on the Park boards" [Gathering 2:

performances strongly affected him and "permanently filter'd into [his] whole nature" (Prose Works 2:

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. Actors and Actresses

that the world is a whole made up of dynamic wholes which are more than the sums of their component parts

and tend to absorb more parts, for they obey a creative or emergent evolution inconsistent with bare

was more appropriate, if less euphonious.In a dozen lines, this lyric describes the pain of a final parting

(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.

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

Minor variants for the various editions, mostly of punctuation marks, are noted in the Variorum (2:362

Arthur Golden. 2 vols. New York: New York Public Library, 1968.

sorrow, labor, suffering, I, tallying it, absorb in myself" ("Chanting the Square Deific," section 2)

greatest Poem," he writes in the Preface (5), and the book, similarly, is an aggregate of diverse parts

The text of the Primer is based on 110 manuscript pages that are part of the Feinberg Collection in the

Whitman refers to Noah Webster and makes indirect references to other research that he had done as part

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

StephenRachmanAmerican Whig ReviewAmerican Whig ReviewWhen Whitman contributed his early story "The Boy

PatrickMcGuire"Angel of Tears, The" (1842)"Angel of Tears, The" (1842)This short story appeared first

As a story, "The Angel of Tears" is negligible.

Asselineau detects in this story the influence of Poe.

Also of interest in this story is Whitman's propensity for capitalized epithets.

(This poem is part of his Poeta en Nueva York.)

/ The earth to be spann'd, connected by network" (section 2).Many of Whitman's friends and followers

between the reality of himself and his image in the mind of the potential admirer.The Upanishads, part

Still later, in 1867, the poem became a part of the Drum-Taps annex to Leaves of Grass, in which both

The edited poem became a permanent part of the "Drum-Taps" cluster of Leaves of Grass and appeared in

Miller, Jr., cites this poem along with other short poems in this part of the cluster as being "among

American Mercury 2 (1924): 328–332. ———. With Walt Whitman in Camden. Vol. 1.

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

In the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (2 July 1846) Whitman described a visit to John Plumbe's Manhattan gallery

faces: "Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality" (Gathering 2:

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

Emory Holloway. 2 vols. New York: Peter Smith, 1932. Art and Daguerreotype Galleries

John FRocheArts and Crafts MovementArts and Crafts MovementAlthough Whitman was not part of any arts

Early in the Morning," the first two words of which had not appeared in the 1860 edition (Blue Book 2:

Arthur Golden. 2 vols. New York: New York Public Library, 1968.

Also Death" (1881)"As at Thy Portals Also Death" was written in 1881, specifically for the "Songs of Parting

these songs," by which he may mean this cluster or the whole of Leaves of Grass.As in the "Songs of Parting

opposite, images suggest questions that underlie the poem, questions also posed by the "Songs of Parting

worth of his poems and his existence, although some see Whitman's passive acceptance in the fourth part

placed it in the "Passage to India" annex, where it remained until its 1881 position in "Songs of Parting

The addition of this and other Civil War poems to "Songs of Parting" intensifies this cluster's emphasis

This two-part study was promptly recognized as a major contribution to the effort to demythologize the

Rodgers succeeded, in part, by presenting Whitman as an anticommunist poet, and in 1951 the Birthplace

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

convince members of Congress to exempt dress ruffles from new taxes they were levying.For the most part

eventually became the property of the State Library of Victoria, and O'Dowd's letters to Whitman became part

The brief correspondence was intense and quasi-religious in its Melbourne part, appreciative and avuncular

Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1964. 711–732. "Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads, A" (1888)

John Burroughs (1914), John Burroughs, Boy and Man (1920), The Life and Letters of John Burroughs (2

Binns's story of a romantic love affair in New Orleans.

On 2 June 1860 a review was published in the Saturday Press.

In 1871 the poem was incorporated into the body of Leaves of Grass as part of the "Drum-Taps" cluster

sought only to break the hostile public silence regarding homosexuality, the paranoiac discourse of parts

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

Whitman's earliest works, "Shirval: A Tale of Jerusalem" (1845), is a fictionalized retelling of the story

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.

Lack of evidence, however, did not stop scores of writers from repeating the fantastic story, which has

least two are adolescent or purely romantic biographies, Cameron Rogers's The Magnificent Idler: The Story

Otherwise, Kaplan relies for the most part on information found in Allen and elsewhere between 1955 and

The Evolution of Walt Whitman. 1954. 2 vols.

For Crawley, "Birds" functions as a transitional cluster between the first part of Leaves, which is more

concerned with the physical (the journey motif and the land being unifying principles), and the second part

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.

was first published in Drum-Taps (1865) and incorporated into the body of Leaves of Grass in 1871 as part

Boker is genuine, has quality" (With Walt Whitman 2:476–477).

Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908; Vol. 6. Ed. Gertrude Traubel and William White.

associates of Whitman, meetings which they recounted in a jointly written volume published in 1917.The story

Later the circle of friends became part of the English socialist movement, but while Whitman was alive

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."

The Fugitive Slave Law, enacted as part of the 1850 Compromise, empowered federal marshals to compel

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

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

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