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to the belief that no "detail of the army or navy [. . .] can long elude the [. . .] instinct of American
Literature1850s or 1860sprosehandwritten1 leaf; Whitman's heading indicates that these brief notes were
oratory and goal of becoming a lecturer in the 1850s, though he also maintained these interests in the 1860s
June 9, 1863: "I think something of commencing a series of lectures & readings &c. through different cities
[To What You Said] bears a strong relationship to the Calamus poems that were composed between 1857-1860
nyp.00514xxx.00524[The best of the two Introductions]1860–1865prose8 leaveshandwritten; One of a series
of draft introductions Whitman prepared for Leaves of Grass, but which were never printed during Whitman's
until collected by Clifton Joseph Furness in Walt Whitman's Workshop (1928), portions of this draft were
nyp.00513xxx.00524[Dec 23, 1864 good—& must be used]1860–1864prose8 leaveshandwritten; One of a series
of draft introductions Whitman prepared for Leaves of Grass, but which were never printed during Whitman's
until collected by Clifton Joseph Furness in Walt Whitman's Workshop (1928), portions of this draft were
This long essay was originally organized as a series of three shorter pieces, The first two of which were
However, the thoughts it contains were echoed in an article that appeared in the St.
1Undated, on the American Idiomloc.05224xxx.005241st DemocracyBetween December 1867 and May 1868prose2
to form part of the same sheet of paper, and form an outline for the three essays—only two of which were
.02308xxx.00524[Draw a picture of a model]about 1868prose1 leafhandwritten; The description of "a model American
We were aware of this, and expected in an American poet some one who would sing for us gently, in a minor
And to explain it evident and sufficient causes were producible, and were produced.
The splendour, picturesqueness, and oceanic amplitude and rush of these great cities, the unsurpassed
but such a picture only represents the worst side of the life of great cities.
Only I will establish in the Mannahatta, and in every city of These States, inland and seaboard, And
the woman of the Indian tribes, are represented in the "Songs of the Sierras" as never before in American
of countless squads of vagabond children, the hideousness and squalor of certain quarters of the cities
Revenue department at Washington, who is led by the course of his employment to regularly visit the cities
The great cities reek with respectable as much as non-respectable robbery and scoundrelism.
He found the average American in the United States' armies, under pressure of want, disease, danger,
If a motto were to be chosen for "The Two Rivulets," and for Walt Whitman generally, it should be that
severe eyes, using the moral microscope upon humanity, a sort of dry and flat Sahara appears, these cities
The first writings of Carlyle and Emerson were despised and rejected; and yet these very writings have
had so profound an influence in forming the thought of our period, that it were impossible to imagine
A large part of the volume is occupied by Whitman's diary during the American War.
Some of the sketches were written as letters to friends during the war and afterwards.
My father's side—probably the fifth generation from the first English arrivals in New England—were at
The theatre, too, he delighted in, and saw all the great actors and singers, American or European, in
native Americans.
Second, there were in the Northern army men from every State in the Union, without exception.
Garfield said, "Do gentlemen know that (leaving out all the border States) there were fifty regiments
The popular American humorist Artemus Ward (1834-1867) (pseudonym of Charles Farrar Browne) influenced
Wilson and McCormick is apparently printed from the same plates as the American edition, but upon better
at any rate, a very familiar idea to be found; but we have to confess that after careful reading we were
ye were, in your atmospheres, grown not for America, but rather for her foes, the feudal and the old—while
Unless, too, the reader possesses considerable familiarity with American slang, he will frequently be
rubbing oneself scarlet with a flesh-brush—a process of which this volume contains a detailed account—were