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before and after his appointment and dismissal from a clerkship at Washington, he sought in his native city
"The Lady of this teeming and turbulent city" calls forth her children as bees are called from the hive
still more so here, where the sentiment is more concentrated by the national crisis in which the poems were
The complaints made of his earlier poems, that they were coarse and immoral in passages, will not apply
Possibly referring to Marion Lumpkin Cobb, wife of Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (1823-1862), an American
John Esten Cooke (1830-1886) was an American novelist noted for his grandiloquent writings centered on
Virginia.; Possibly referring to Marion Lumpkin Cobb, wife of Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (1823-1862), an American
fool'd 114 Native Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Once I Pass'd through a Populous City
ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.
ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architec-
(RECEPTION JAPANESE EMBASSY, JUNE 16, 1860.)
to American persons, pro- gresses progresses , cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?
WALT WHITMAN, THE AMERICAN POET OF DEMOCRACY.
had in his pocket while we were talking.
These were all inarticulate poets, and he interpreted them.
sonorous voice ringing across the continent; Your masculine voice, O year, as, rising amid the great cities
Walt Whitman, The American Poet of Democracy
circles in and around Boston were startled by the tidings that Emerson—whose incredulity concerning
had ever before written or sung, whichever you like to call it, he fancied he saw a pioneer, as it were
of the forms and symbols of life: now funeral, now carnival; or, again, a masquerade of nations, cities
cities, and fit to have for his background and accessories their streaming populations and ample and
The father was a farmer, and afterwards a carpenter and builder, and both the father and mother were
He famously remaked, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American
play, or looks at an American picture or statue?"
wast not granted to sing thou would'st surely die.) 5 Over the breast of the spring, the land, amid cities
day and night with the great cloud darkening the land, With the pomp of the inloop'd flags with the cities
not what kept me from sleep,) As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west how full you were
and there, With ranging hills on the banks, with many a line against the sky, and shadows, And the city
men, I saw them, I saw the debris and debris of all the slain soldiers of the war, But I saw they were
ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.
ONCE I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture
What does it mean to American persons, progresses, cities?
A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude, Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and
what were God?)
rearrangement with reference to the sub-titles and to each other, leave them, we are told, as they were
If all poets were in the habit of using this recitative rhythm as a vehicle for their thoughts, what
than the one which is the caption of this paper, nor one that has attracted more attention in the American
clear up the passages in nature which God has left obscure; the writer does not explain that the poems were
that the book is not amenable to the laws against sending obscene literature through the mails; and were
and there, With ranging hills on the banks, with many a line against the sky, and shadows, And the city
declare that Walt Whitman has not the poet's gift in the slightest measure—that he is only an ignorant American
He could not have been bred anywhere but in a certain part of New York city a generation ago—in any other
And American letters were in a peculiar transition state when he made his first appearance in print,
America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies; I will make inseparable cities
time; privileged to evoke, in a country hitherto still asking for its poet, a fresh, athletic, and American
the English language is spoken—that is to say, in the four corners of the earth; and in his own American
1865 and later included in Sequel to Drum-Taps (1865-66), the corrections on this particular copy were
Y., South District)—renew'd (1883) 14 yrs. 2d ed'n 1856, Brooklyn—renew'd (1884) 14 yrs. 3d ed'n 1860
ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.
ONCE I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture
What does it mean to American persons, progresses, cities?
A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude, Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and
wast not granted to sing thou would'st surely die.) 5 Over the breast of the spring, the land, amid cities
not what kept me from sleep,) As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west how full you were
and there, With ranging hills on the banks, with many a line against the sky, and shadows, And the city
men, I saw them, I saw the debris and debris of all the slain soldiers of the war, But I saw they were
not as was thought, They themselves were fully at rest, they suffer'd not, The living remain'd and suffer'd