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There was not, apparently, a single book in the room.
In reply to my expression of a desire to see his books, he declared that he had very few.
The books he seemed to love best, were the Bible, Homer, and Shakespeare; these he owned, and probably
Fancy the untamable, untranslatable Walt pottering over rondeaux, or elaborating canzonets, or measuring
and around Boston were startled by the tidings that Emerson—whose incredulity concerning American books
"On his table had been laid one day a queerly shaped book, entitled 'Leaves of Grass.
"The Concord philosopher's feelings on perusing this book were expressed in a private letter to its author
He famously remaked, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American
He famously remaked, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American
finally printed it, but without their name, and without taking any of customary steps to introduce the book
Yet neither the author nor the book have any merit to be compared with Tupper and the Country Parson
We have quoted perhaps the most effective poem in the book; but there are lines or passages in nearly
shown by quotations is the broad effect of his poems as a whole; as he says himself, "The words of my book
Harlan's hymn-book. It will do much, we are confident, to remove the prejudice against Mr.
we neglected to protest, on the very threshold of the subject, against the coarse filthiness of the book
We are not sure that the book is not amenable to the laws against sending obscene literature through
The plea that the book is "literature" does not excuse such unmitigated and indefensible nastiness as
To write such a book and send it forth to the world with a complacent smirk required great courage—or
this volume: I too haughty Shade also sing war, and a longer and greater one than any, Waged in my book
For a detailed description of Whitman's connection to Aldrich, see Ed Folsom, Walt Whitman at Iowa, Books
WHEN I READ THE BOOK.
I see all the menials of the earth, laboring, I see all the prisoners in the prisons, I see the defective
All the hapless silent lovers, All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked, All
The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep, The prisoner sleeps well in the prison, the runaway son
be put in prison—let those that were prisoners take the keys; Let them that distrust birth and death
WHEN I READ THE BOOK.
All the hapless silent lovers, All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked, All
book-words! what are you?
The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep, The prisoner sleeps well in the prison, the runaway son
be put in prison—let those that were prisoners take the keys; Let them that distrust birth and death
WHEN I READ THE BOOK.
Let the prison-keepers be put in prison! Let those that were prisoners take the keys! (Say!
The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep, The prisoner sleeps well in the prison—the run-away son
book-words! what are you?
17 All the hapless silent lovers, All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked,
It is the title of a book that has been challenged by the conservers of public morals as unfit to be
As usual in such cases, the reaction increased the demand for the book to such an extent that several
The book is full of such salt-sea breezes of expression as these: O the joy of a manly selfhood!
And is there nothing in the book to condemn?
A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."