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

Vol. 2. 1908. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961. Wright, Frances.

") memories of "the mightiest armies of earth" (section 1) and his own "perils" and "joys" (section 2)

lines thereafter the persona becomes the ambulatory wound-dresser, moving among "my wounded" (section 2)

"Bearing the bandages, water, and sponge" (section 2), he attends each soldier "with impassive hand,

soldier, he reflects, "I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you" (section 2)

Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1980.____. Memoranda During the War & Death of Abraham Lincoln. Ed.

(Prose Works 2:374–375)Assuming Whitman meant what he said, how did he go about accomplishing his aims

group of laborers seated at noon-time with their open dinner-kettles, and their wives waiting" (section 2)

Vol. 2. 1908. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961.Warren, Joyce W.

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964. Women as a Theme in Whitman's Writing

Not only was this publishing firm a part of Whitman's life in terms of the first two editions of Leaves

in order for procreation to take place.The second stanza develops the idea of "sex" as an integral part

The latter part of the poem collapses Whitman's poetic and political agendas in its use of hyperbolic

States acquiring territory from Mexico, "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude" could exist in any part

Cleveland Rodgers and John Black. 2 vols. New York: Putnam, 1920. Wilmot Proviso (1846)

JohnWilliams, Captain John Captain John Williams, great-grandfather of Walt Whitman, was a Welsh master and part

PatrickMcGuire"Wild Frank's Return" (1841)"Wild Frank's Return" (1841)This short story appeared in November

This story is Whitman's first use of the theme of two brothers going separate ways.

Reynolds, seeing in the story psychological parallels to its author, asks if Whitman, as prodigal son

, projected this story to shock his mother.

Allen sees this story, along with "Bervance: or, Father and Son" (1841), as evidence of Whitman's obsession

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.

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

the poet and his father in the 1840s but was also reflected in Whitman's fiction from that period; stories

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]

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.

(WJ, 2: 62; ellipsis mine).

(WJ, 2: 319).

(PW, 2: 373).

and one part national revival.

Crowell, 1976), 575. 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

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

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."

manchild or womanchild was born it should be suggested that a human being could be born" (Uncollected 2:

Vol. 2. 1908. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961.Whitman, Louisa Van Velsor.

Vols. 1–2. New York: New York UP, 1961.____. The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman. Ed.

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

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)

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

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

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,

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

She impressed the young Walt with her stories of the family's patriotism during the Revolutionary War

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

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.

(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.

: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

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.

Mary Elizabeth appears in several of Walt Whitman's stories, and she often seems to be the subject of

She is an unnamed fourteen-year-old in his story "My Boys and Girls" (1844) and is presented as the sweet

Sister Mary in his children's story "The Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier" (1845).

Hannah Whitman appears in Whitman's story "My Boys and Girls" (1844) as a fair and delicate youth.

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.

By one of those caprices that enter and give tinge to events without being at all a part of them, I find

It never fails" (Prose Works 2:503). 

in the nature of complex symbols, still, it is generally agreed that the star introduced in section 2

The cloud appears early, in section 2, as an image of oppression ("O harsh surrounding cloud that will

refrained from invoking the view taken in section 6 of "Song of Myself," that death is no more than part

Drum-Taps was appended to the main body of Leaves; in 1871, Whitman moved the poem to his "Songs of Parting

in abeyance" (section 1) and leaves the "Houses and rooms" to "go to the bank by the wood" (section 2)

Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1984. Westminster Review, The

From an analysis of Whitman's copy, Golden concludes that the poet first transposed lines 1 and 2, by

For the new line 2, Whitman struck the word "delicious" and switched the position of "swiftly" and "we

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

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)

Leaves of Grass (1860) who was serving as Assistant Army Paymaster during the War, Whitman obtained part-time

There the "poet-chief" (Notebooks 2:881) welcomed visiting delegations of Indian tribes, when not performing

Dismissed on 30 June 1865 by Interior Secretary James Harlan for authoring "that book" (Notebooks 2:799

David Reynolds attributes Whitman's conservative political perspective, in part, to his warm personal

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.

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).

Book was to serve as the revised text of the next (1867) edition of Leaves, but Whitman, for the most part

period of his career.Whitman had termed the third edition of Leaves of Grass his "New Bible" (Blue Book 2:

(Blue Book 2:114) But for the "other" South, the South of the "people," in the 1860 poem "Longings for

(Blue Book 2:160). With a Northern victory, he rejected this revision in 1867.

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964. ____. Walt Whitman's Blue Book. Ed.

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.

,” 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.