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I had been teaching country school for two or three years in various parts of Suffolk and Queens counties

Our transcription is based on Walt Whitman, Autobiographia: or the Story of a Life (New York: Charles

Our transcription is based on Walt Whitman, Autobiographia: or the Story of a Life (New York: Charles

Every Day Talk: Walt Whitman's Story of the Purpose of His Writings—Odds and Ends EVERY DAY TALK.

Walt Whitman's Story of the Purpose of His Writings—Odds and Ends.

"I had to deal with the physical, corporeal and amative—that part which is developed between the ages

It is that part of my endeavor which has caused the harshest criticism and prevented candid examination

The story of his career has been written at by many hands, and material for a complete biography has

diffused clews and indirections," covering an acquaintanceship of about twenty years, during the greater part

His theme was himself and his book, and he told the story not at all to me, as it seemed, but as though

I have seen a manuscript, a part of "November Boughs," a single page of which was composed of at least

, others on the blue paper that had once formed a part of the cover of a pamphlet, and each piece of

writing, I had for, between two and three years, been occupying rooms on Tenth street, in the lower part

Frequently, also, chairs were placed upon the grass in the front part of the garden facing the street

Evidently he was disinclined to take part in any discussion which would be likely to arouse feelings

This story, if my recollection serves me not amiss, was written by the same friend of Mr.

His habit was to be absent from the house for the whole or the greater part of the evening.

I found the poet living in a two-story frame house, suggesting outwardly the comforts without the pretensions

lightened by a mild gray eye, but made forbidding, with a suit of pure white hair which fringed every part

is respected, wearing a gray or white flannel shirt with Byronic collar, cut low, exposing a goodly part

in the morning sunlight, which streamed upon a carpet of waste paper—letters, journals, pamphlets, story

Whack away at everything pertaining to literary life—mechanical part as well as the rest.

to be a line or two in the "Light of Asia" especially that was available for use in a variety of stories

The heads at the windows were drawn in and the group of little ones parted and went their way.

Whitman enjoyed it no less on his part. In the afternoon he was faint after the excitement.

We re-tell retell the story, as it illustrates the Sabbatarianism that existed in Boston a few years

I always think of supercilious people as acting a part.'

'No, it is part of the fun.'

The story is melancholy. 'Ah, when the Greeks treated of tragedy, how differently it was done.

"Well, honour honor is the subject of my story," —was the commencement of a favourite speech with him

This royalty was fixed at twenty-five cents for every $2 copy sold.

But the author, feeling that he could not remove a part of the work of his life without endangering its

The House, a narrow three-storied one, stood in one of those broad tree-planted streets which are common

hat he sallied forth with evident pleasure, and taking my arm as a support walked slowly the best part

But for the most part his words were few.

and doubtless one of the chief attractions of this favourite resort, to go down and spend a large part

The masses in every part of the globe are dominated by the necessities of Nature.

A dingy two-story frame cottage, it nestles modestly between its more modern brick neighbors.

dishabille, by the window of the second room of the two humble apartments where he passes the greater part

He was still suffering slightly from his recent prostration by the heat and when the wanton breeze parted

for all time, I think their absorption into the future as elements and standards will be the best part

—tangled and many- vein'd and hard has been thy part, To admiration has it been enacted!

His story bore the appropriate title "As It Was Written."

Stockton, who is just now in the zenith of his popularity as a story writer.

African, his slender figure clad in evening dress, a low cut collar encircling his neck, and his hair parted

Bishop doesn't look a day older than 25, but he has written several successful stories, one of which

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:417–421;.

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:417–421;.

street after an inquiry or two, and finally arrived at number 328, which designates a modest, two story

By 2 o'clock I was all through with my part of the work and adjourned.

"I helped set part of the type myself.

politely invite everybody who happened to be sitting in the cave he had under the sidewalk to some other part

For my part when I meet anyone of erudition I want to get away, it terrifies me.

"I think," said Walt, "I shall have to leave these parts.

We want pretty verbiage, part of a poem or a picture, without reference to the whole."

Then the fine vista of buildings, some four and five stories high.

It has marred that story-telling faculty—the memory.

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

U NION L EAGUE , P HILADELPHIA , August 2, 1885.

The house, or rather, cottage, is only two stories high and less than fie paces wide.

What you call evil is all part of it. If you have a hill, you've got to have a hollow.

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

However, after much fruitless search, I succeeded in finding the abode in which the poet dwells—a two-storied

For my part, I said, I thought Mr.

It was with regret that I parted from him—his talk was so eloquent, so free, and so flowing, and there

—Walt Whitman sat in the dining room of his modest two-story frame cottage in Camden to-day and looked

The corner groceryman pointed out a low two-story frame house.

A large part of "Leaves of Grass" consists of war poems on a variety of subjects, fierce tussels tussles

One White House story comes to me of his leaving Lincoln in wrath, "slamming the doors behind him" because

I think also that he was the hero of the famous whisky story of Lincoln, now an undying part of the literature

Of the noisy, frothy world he never seemed to be a part, was more at home with the chestnut tress and

listened in benevolent, complacent wonder to argument, heard my speech as if it were by no means a new story

Nor does the freedman appear in any part of the poet's noble vision of the restored Union.

In the little frame house on Mickle street, Camden, confined to his second story front room, with a cheerless

although he is gifted with frosty locks, has not yet come to sixty years, has been heard to tell this story

The houses are, for the most part, timbered structures, painted different, low-toned colours, and of

Number 328—which, by the way, is duplicated next door—is an unpretentious, two-storied building, with

card, and was shown into a room on the left side of the lobby—a sort of parlour—with the blinds three-parts

To which I replied, and he continued, "You find it very warm in these parts, don't you?

(See "Leaves of Grass," p. 56.) 2.

not merely the words of the interviewed or the informational substance of those words but the entire story

From them emerge, I believe, an ineffable but potent sense of a man that, for the most part, accords

—Spent several hours of January 2 with Whitman (on my way home from New Orleans).

, a complimentary benefit on the part of friends and disciples,—Mr.

The corner grocery-man pointed out a low, two-story frame house...

"As he told the story slowly and clearly, the effect was peculiar.

The latter part of May appeared the last booklet issued by Walt Whitman,—"Good-bye my Fancy."

White curtains were drawn part way down.

For years it was my wish to live long enough to round out my life's story in my little book, 'The Leaves

There are stories of unrequited love, of war and of deeds of chivalry.

When we parted I gave him a copy of my poems. I trust we shall meet again.

Let others ignore what they may, I make the poem of evil also—I commemorate that part also, I am myself

upon and received with wonder, pity, love or dread, that object he became, And that object became part

of him for the day, or a certain part of the day, or for many years, or stretching cycles of years.

The early lilacs became part of this child; And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

, The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt-marsh and shore-mud— These became part

The dingy little two-storied domicile is so disappointingly different from what we were expecting to

A moment later we are in his presence, in the spacious second-story room which is his sleeping apartment

his rolling and ample shirt-collar, worn without a tie, is open at the throat and exposes the upper part

Whitman is at once interested, and questions until he has drawn out the pathetic story of her struggles

echoed the old man, with a smile, "why Lord bless you, any one in these parts could do that; only 'taint

The corner groceryman pointed out a low two-story frame house, which looked like a cube with faces eighteen

A large part of "Leaves of Grass" consists of war poems and a variety of subjects, occurences on the

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

Traubel .— But meantime, Donaldson, what's become of your Oscar Wilde story?

Whitman, that my story didn't even get started. Whitman .— I own it, Tom. Go on.

Whitman .— No doubt, Harrison, that is part of the story—but there's a deal more beyond—a deal more!

For me the democracy of your verse is only the lesser and smaller part of it.

Walt Whitman, the old poet, was sitting in what he calls his "den," the north room, second story, of

magazines covering the floor, the accumulation of the ten years he has had his "den" in the second story

and of the Pacific, the Mississippi, the great lakes, the Gulf of Mexico, cities and towns in all parts—the

Born almost in its outskirts, he passed the greater part of his life in and about the vast city, which

Last comes Philadelphia,—for Camden, though in New Jersey, is essentially a part of that city.

The scenes of homely peasant life told him the full story of what went before, and necessitated, the

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

up," the same yielding, with reservations by each of us, the same apprehensive watchfulness on his part

In Miriam's Heritage , a story written by me before my marriage and published by Harper Brothers, a headline

troubled himself little about its politics, or, indeed, the politics of any party; they were each but a part

the applause that greeted it drove him into his shell again, and he made no allusion to the social part

with me, and then, seated on one of the benches beneath a gnarled old apple-tree, we told each other stories

"Yes, you have the historical part of it all right.

"Yes; I look upon that as the best part of my life, those four or five years that I spent in the war,

He only told about one-tenth of the story. In conclusion it may be said that Mr.

there was a vacant hall bedroom on the floor where we were keeping house—in two rooms of the upper story

for him; the Capitol, too, was a never-ending source of please; and with him I explored the older part

Evans, him of the "meteor beard," go past to his office, it was suggested that O'Connor write a story

Some fresh cold water must be brought in, in a little kettle,—for a very important part of the proceeding

This was in the early part of the conflict, as early perhaps as the spring of 1863.

after part, perhaps at quite wide intervals.

Seven different times have parts of the edifice been constructed, sometimes in Brooklyn, sometimes in

The book has been printed partially in every part of the United States.

They had no reason to know that it was part of a very complete and elaborate design, and for a great

But during the twenty years that had passed since the first part appeared, the other portions of the

being in want of the necessaries of life, I will state that I make it a rule never to affirm or deny stories

Stayed till 2. Back to hotel with Barrett. He very tired with 9 performances.

Why should he have deemed it his part to submit to the axe?

He had a way of spending at least a part of his Sundays with the Harneds—(Mr.

Yet he is occupied the larger part of every day.

I have already alluded to it: a second-story room, about twenty feet square, facing north.

He delights to tell and to hear stories. His sense of the humorous is strong.

But I let the greater part of my letter go without answering them. I can't ."

This is, in part, the influence I wish 'Leaves of Grass' to have.

Well, I'll not go back on my promise, thought it seems almost too precious to part with.

I ought not to take the money from you, but I have spent part of it to-day for another purpose."

Horace told W. a story—but I don't remember in what connection—about an American lady, Mrs.

It is two stories high, without a basement, and the poet's bedchamber is on the second story, and does

the "Leaves," and in you are reverence and affection; despondency and despair are as truly component parts

(For a little of the first part of that time in printing a daily and weekly paper.) 1855.

I am not sure but it is the source of the highest poetry—as in parts of the Bible.

Of my own life and writings I estimate the giving thanks part, with what it infers, as essentially the

A two-story-and-a half frame building, painted a dark brown, with the upper shutters closed and the edges

bank of the Delaware river opposite Philadelphia, and for purposes of classification may be called a part

The only part of New Jersey that seems to be in accord with the spirit of the times are those sections

It is about the most unattractive city in this part of the country so far as external surroundings are

The dwellings on it are unpretentious and for the most part old.

Alone with his housekeeper he reigns undisturbed in the two-story frame house, editing his random verses

To write the life of a human being takes many a book, and after all the story is not told.

He began several stories that he had to leave unfinished—he was sure to forget the salient point.

The owner was but a few inches above his worldly possessions; he seemed a part of them, and the picture

Whitman in conversation, for in this he seldom took the leading part; and as it was wished above all

We hoped that it might be a permanent improvement, but it was the same old story: extra exertion and

He could always take his own part, and fortunately was capable of doing so still; had it been otherwise

Whitman leaves this week for Philadelphia, where he spends a part of his time with some English friends

biography of William Blake was completed by his wife, who wrote a preface, which is said to be the best part

While answering freely, Walt wound up this part of the conversation by saying that those were problems

Not the least part of his visit, it may be noted, is the intertwining, which is becoming closer and closer

But as for Tennyson, he has not allowed himself to be a part of the living world, and of the great currents

Walt Whitman, who was 71 years old on May 31, was found yesterday sitting at the window of his two-story