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arising out of a life of depression and enervation, as their result; or else that class of poetry, plays

You might hear his voice, half in sport, declaiming some passage from a poem or play; and his song or

will our ordinary verse-making, our system of forcing thought into all sorts of received forms, our playing

It is by taking advantage of this blot that good Peter Bayne has been able to find so many readers for

should be observed toward President Arthur, who has in some respects, the most perplexing part to play

"Be seated, I will sit here where I can see the children at play beneath the green leaves," and the poet

day I went into the country and naked, bathed in sunshine, lived with the birds and squirrels and played

A canary sang with all his might, and a kitten played to and fro.

country, found a secluded Creek, and naked bathed in sunshine, lived with the birds and squirrels and played

yesterday and turned into the unpretentious thoroughfare called Mickle Street, a freckle faced urchin playing

soldier who traversed camp and field as the conquering head of the army while the Camden poet was playing

sonnet I wrote originally for Harper's: " As one by one withdraw the lofty actors From that great play

The famous white hat sat on the top of his thick snowy hair, and the flickering gaslights played in unromantic

doing so irradiated it with an unearthly glory, so bright and genial was the good-natured smile that played

Back of that, in still earlier and lower forms of life, sensation or consciousness played its part in

; for unless it be the faithful servant in As You Like It, there is not a single character, in his plays

He was born in Havana, where his father used to play the fiddle for home amusement.

The lad began playing when he was but little taller than his father's fiddle.

Walt was mightily pleased with the music, and the Chevalier played some more. Meantime, W. H.

stores, Customs, costumes, churches, theatres, looks And lingoes all are vanished, are Gone, are played

Knock Out the resonant, brassy Notes, and prattle along like A lad at play, while ever and Anon sweet

characters are individualistic; they let out what they have in them; they give themselves full sweep and play

Press About six weeks ago the children on Mickle street, below Fifth street, in Camden, were asked to play

years just after the war were the once well-known Count Adam Gurowski and George Wood, author of "Peter

Among the guests present were: Peter V. Voorhees, W. N. Bannard, Isaac C. Martindale, Howard M.

Outside the sun shone, the birds sang, and the boys played.

Ingersoll's facial play here was superb.

glad I could manage to brew some tea, and equally delighted to make the old, slow, quizzical smile play

having one of the young men of the Herald counting-room, who lived in the house, come to his room and play

The piece was "Romeo and Juliet," and Rossi played his part with much ardor, as well as delicacy.

I believe Joaquin Miller's play, "The Danites," was having a run in Boston at the time, and that was

Boyle O'Reilly spoke of the play which he had in mind, part of whose scenes were to be in Australia.

expansive life—a life which, while careless of sub- tleties, has turned unfailing reverence upon the play

rivulets and bigger streams of literature—there is a splendid lesson that such notes as there is in the play

At the end of that interesting play, which I have seen, a great fellow who is in pursuit of it comes

Who will play his part for him? And Hawthorne—wasn't he expected?

How strange that Shelley and "Leaves of Grass" should play upon him together!

Whitman .—[ To Traubel ].— Did he suppose we intended that he should be left out of the play?

to receive merely a friendly nod, for he stops to speak with none save the children who leave their play

contemplated a special study of Shakespeare's fools (though I was rather too tall for them, they should be played

He spoke of a German street band that now and then played in the neighborhood, "very well."

Later during the afternoon his little son asked me to play with him: we rambled over the ground, climbed

A canary sang with all his might, and a kitten played to and fro.

young friend Horace Traubel and another, we all fell to discussing the authorship of the Shakspere plays

them the force of a projectile), had not only shaken his belief in the Shaksperean authorship of the plays

When the committee handed him the bag, he said: "Why, this is like a play.

facing the golden sunset, with the cool evening breeze blowing around us, and the summer lightning playing

A company of strolling musicians stopped and played some pieces for us.

enjoyment in the free exercise of his lungs than from mere intellectual appreciation of the poem or play

chaffing, or nay form of "smart" talk—remaining always perfectly grave and silent amid that kind of by-play

I always compare Shakespeare's plays to large, rich, splendid tapestry—like Raphael's historical cartoons

was a sort of triangular combat,—O'Connor maintaining the Baconian theory of the authorship of the plays

O'Connor in his estimate of Lear and Hamlet and Othello, which Walt belittled, preferring the historical plays

, and placing Richard II. foremost; although he thought all the plays preposterously overrated.

letters, they would have afforded a better argument than any we now have against his authorship of the plays

Art, as exemplified by such poets as Longfellow and Tennyson, he has little or none; but in the free play

Walt talked about Shakespeare, the Bacon theory, the greatness of the historical plays, the "dragon-rancours

"I will not be positive about Bacon's connection with the plays, but I am satisfied that behind the historical

and far, far reaching, giving weight and permanent value to what would otherwise have been only two plays

would quite enjoy, on a rainy afternoon, having a game of twenty questions such as he had "often played

Among the plays of Shakespeare, King Richard the Second was a great favorite of Whitman's, and he had

A half-dozen of us, playing the game frequently together, became able to easily to discover the thing

Canal, and he told us that he watched for hours a negro at work, who was naked to the waist, and the play

He made no grand-stand play, nor did we. We just "visited", like "lovers and friends".

satisfied to deal with him on the ordinary surface level of everyday affairs, and to leave him to the free play

for a full hour, facing the golden sunset, in the cool evening breeze, with the summer lightning playing

than all, the sweetness of his voice, the loving sympathy, the touches of humour, the smile that played

I told him I had got an autograph copy of "Peter Peppercorn's" poems, and he said he was glad I had,

because he knew "Peter" very well, and liked him for his genuine goodness of heart and his sharpness

The great poems—Homer's 'Illiad,' Shakespeare's plays, etc.

Not, as in Homer's 'Iliad,' to depict great personalities, or, as in Shakespeare's plays, to describe

I think Bulwer Lytton has made his title clear in three plays: 'Richelieu,' 'The Lady of Lyons,' and

After tea we went into the front room where Warry played his violin for a little time, after which I

His assistants had told me that Peter Peppercorn had been in the day before. "Do you know Peter?"

One day, for instance, he talked about Shakespeare's historical plays, which, he said, showed that Shakespeare

was at heart a democrat, and that he had written the plays in order to discredit monarchy and kings

individual, not that he might enjoy himself for himself, but that he might be the better fitted to play

obligations to Emerson; but I did recognize in him a poseur of truly colossal proportions, one to whom playing

acclaim; he could not have doubted seriously, for habit, if nothing else, would have enabled him to play

Peters and David G. Halliburton (Lafayette: English Literature in Transition: 1880-1920, 1966), 8.

Interviews of the poet have, historically, played a minor role in Whitman scholarship, and as far as