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includes ideas and phrases that resemble those used in Unnamed Lands, a poem published first in the 1860

includes ideas and phrases that resemble those used in "Unnamed Lands," a poem published first in the 1860

includes ideas and phrases that resemble those used in "Unnamed Lands," a poem published first in the 1860

See Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday

—I know if it were the main matter, as under the name of pray Religion the original and main matter.

See Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday

See Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday

connections are more conclusive than others, but it is clear that at least some of the ideas and images here were

See Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday

Grass, in addition to a few images and phrasings that Whitman used in the second (1856) and third (1860

A brief passage on surface 12 possibly contributed to the poem first published in 1860 as the fourth

Two passages on surface 21 were used in the tenth poem of the 1855 Leaves of Grass, later titled There

Two of the draft lines of poetry on surface 31 were used in the untitled third poem of the Debris cluster

in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

"If the general" and "If you are happy" in the untitled third poem of the "Debris" cluster in the 1860

—What real Americans can be made out of slaves?

not equally interested in the preservation of those states or cities—or that portion was degraded form

first printed in the second (1856) and third (1860–1861) editions.

Whitman revised the text on leaf 23 verso to include a rather long passage that exceeded the space available

edition of Leaves of Grass but that the notebook also contains material clearly related to things that were

first printed in the second (1856) and third (1860–1861) editions.

Whitman revised the text on leaf 23 verso to include a rather long passage that exceeded the space available

The sternest enemy of the American philosopher and of the great fog-bank school to which he, in some

These dreary pieces of laboured humour are not as popular now as they were twenty years ago, but Walt

J OHN H OLLINGSHEAD . ∗ Leaves of Grass Boston (U.S.): Thayer and Eldridge. 1860–61. J. T. S.

These are slightly misquoted lines from the 1860 , pp. 46-47.

.; These are slightly misquoted lines from the 1860 Leaves of Grass, pp. 46-47.

Songs of Parting,' under which the last is 'So Long,' a title that a foreigner and perhaps many an American

There were plenty of criticisms to make, even after one had finished crying Oh!

A cardinal sin in the eyes of most critics is the use of French, Spanish, and American-Spanish words

He shows crudely the American way of incorporating into the language a handy or a high-sounding word

and his mode of expression is immense, often flat, very often monotonous, like our great sprawling cities

So much for his Americanism, which has an inherent meaning and a power, in spite of all that is said

There is certainly a thing which may be called Americanism.

The following verses were admiringly quoted by Prof.

country, and they were often in the habit of displaying their pugilistic accomplishments."

Quoted in Dictionary of Americanisms (1848).

Sidgwick and William Clifford were both members of "The Apostles," the famous elite literary society

gives this account of the origin of the term "Hoosier": "Throughout all the early Western settlements were

The boatmen of Indiana were formerly as rude and as primitive a set as could well belong to a civilized

country, and they were often in the habit of displaying their pugilistic accomplishments."

Quoted in Dictionary of Americanisms (1848).

He has not omitted, as some editors might have done, In a City Dead House and The Flight of the Eagles

Whatever I say of myself, you shall apply to yourself If you do not, it is were time lost listening to

eventually titled "Song of Myself": "All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own, / Else it were

The first several lines of Pictures (not including this line) were revised and published as My Picture-Gallery

in The American in October 1880.

This manuscript may relate to the poem titled A Song of Joys, which first appeared in the 1860 Leaves

(1860, p. 259).

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81. were paid for with a steamship s or , or would come cheap.— I am not stuck up for these reasons;

Additional poetic lines are drafted on the back of this manuscript leaf. were paid for with steamships

An Englishman might have written ninety-nine hundredths of American poetry.

The spirit that pervades is essentially American. It is more.

The philosophy and theology are decidedly American, the ethics are altogether of New York.

full of truly American exaggeration.

Everything American is the subject of his praises:— "These states are the amplest poem.

of Walt Whitman, who, some will have it, is by preeminence of art and nature our representative American

deepest ethical instincts of a great multitude—we should certainly hope the vast majority of those American

Would it were as clean! In form he reminds us of Martin Farquhar Tupper.

American he is, of the ruder and more barbaric type, a prairie cow boy in a buffalo robe, with a voice

and were not.

Ruskin insists that there are errors and blemishes of such exceeding and immedicable vileness that, if

Having got at his secret, you soon learn to take stock of the American bard.

When we reflect that, among the American poets thus slightingly waived aside, were, to mention no others

In his ideal city "the men and women think lightly of the laws."

Tammany Hall is famous as the democratic machine in New York city politics.

Both painters were denounced by John Ruskin in similar terms in Modern Painters, The Complete Works of

1813–1873) was a Scottish explorer of Africa, and Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1835—1903) was a French-American

Fiske," was a leading American actress of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Tammany Hall is famous as the democratic machine in New York city politics.

one can hope to understand from his book, or in any way except to go off tramping with him through cities

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's (1712-1778) (1782) were probably regarded as "coarse" because of Rousseau's candor

.; Jean-Jacques Rousseau's (1712-1778) Confessions (1782) were probably regarded as "coarse" because

neat form, Walt Whitman's ridiculous rigmarole, by an extreme stretch of critical courtesy called " American

If it were only decent prose we might stand it; but it does not rise to the dignity of a dessertation

While the words "Walt Whitman's American Institute Poem" appear on both the volume's cover and one of

Whitman wrote the poem following a request by the Committee on Invitations of the American Institute

While the words "Walt Whitman's American Institute Poem" appear on both the volume's cover and one of

Whitman wrote the poem following a request by the Committee on Invitations of the American Institute

Hugo's protest against the disapprobation of those French critics whose conventional imaginations were

very much disturbed by the astonishing leaps through time and space that were made by this untrammelled

"I assert that all fast days were what they must have been, And that they could no-how have been better

than what they were, And that to-day is what it must be, and that America is, And that to-day and America

In his volume all the objectionable passages which were the cause of so much complaint at the time of

range and diversity—always the continent of Democracy; Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities

Their eulogies, however, were rather on the thoughts and sentiments of the author than praise of his

Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly poets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at

Phidias and Raphael and Beethoven were judged in accordance with the merits of what they produced.

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

A N American bard at last!

Where is the vehement growth of our cities?

If health were not his distinguishing attribute, this poet would be the very harlot of persons.

Walt Whitman was born on Long-Island, on the hills about thirty miles from the greatest American city

not be put off unanswered, spring continually through the perusal of these Leaves of Grass: If there were

city, and brought up in Brooklyn and in New York.

They are certainly filled with an American spirit, breathe the American air, and assert the fullest American

Year 85 of the States (1860—61). London: Trübner & Co.

The first three cantos of his epic poem, The Messiah ( Der Messias ), were published in 1749; the final

cantos were published in 1773.

The first three cantos of his epic poem, The Messiah (Der Messias), were published in 1749; the final

cantos were published in 1773.

contemporary lands, I will trail the whole geography of the globe, and salute cour- teously courteously every city

oceans and inland seas, over the continents of the world, over mountains, forests, rivers, plains, and cities

Consequently, Walt Whitman, who presents himself as the Poet of the American Republic in the Present

Meantime we submit, as appropriate in this connection, the following critical remarks from the North American

Year 85 of the States (1860—61). Walt Whitman

his way from city to city, and to have consorted liberally with the draff of men on bold and equal conditions

He pictures the pageant of life in the country and in cities; all is a fine panorama, wherein mountains

gleams of sunlight, babes on the breast and dead men in shrouds, pyramids and brothels, deserts and populated

All I mark as my own, you shall offset it with your own, Else it were time lost listening to me.

All the stuff which offended American virtue is to be found here.

the Orientalism of the book is manifestly unconscious, it is really meant to be, and is, intensely American

He dreams a dream of "a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth," which

We many notice here that among the young Americans whom this strange poet or prophet has inspired, one

To a small job printing-office in that city belongs the honour, if such, of bringing it to light.

If he will but learn to tame a little, America will at last have a genuine American poet.

Trippers and askers surround me; People I meet—the effect upon me of my early life, or the ward and city

them; In walls of adobie, in canvas tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport; The city

of the human voice; I hear all sounds running together, combined, fused or following; Sounds of the city

; The blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe.)

Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you, my brother, my sister?

Trippers and askers surround me, People I meet—the effect upon me of my early life, or the ward and city

Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos, Disorderly, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking

, The blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe.

If our colors were struck, and the fighting done?

Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you, my brother, my sister?

Trippers and askers surround me; People I meet—the effect upon me of my early life, or the ward and city

In walls of adobie adobe , in canvas tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport; The city

of the human voice; I hear all sounds running together, combined, fused or following; Sounds of the city

; The blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe.)

Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you, my brother, my sister?

Nature had given him a strong constitution, and his features were those of a dreamy sensualist.

to American persons, progresses, cities?—Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?

Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a Kosmos, Disorderly, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking

vulgar inditings of an uneducated man, free from any Old World philosophy, or Old World religion, were

springing from all trades and employments, and effusing them and from sailors and landsmen, and from the city

Here, our latter-day poets are apt to whine over the times, as if Heaven were perpetually betraying the

the most amazing, one of the most startling, one of the most perplexing, creations of the modern American

with which Walt can paint the unhackneyed scenery of his native land, we subjoin a panorama:— By the city's

On the reverse are lines that were possibly also written as part of the process for the creation of that

/ If nothing lay more developed the quahaug and its callous shell were enough. / Mine is no callous shell

Both poems were first published in the 1855 first edition of Leaves of Grass.; duk.00883 To be at all

I think if there were nothing more developed, the clam in its callous shell in the sand, were august

/ If nothing lay more developed the quahaug and its callous shell were enough. / Mine is no callous shell

Transcribed from digital images of the original that were posted to Sotheby's website.

.; ✓; Transcribed from digital images of the original that were posted to Sotheby's website.; On the

The notes on American character relate to ideas expressed in "Song of Myself," most directly to the line

True noble expanded American character is raised on a far more lasting and universal basis than that

Every American young man should carry himself with the finished and haughty bearing of the greatest ruler

Perhaps it is everywhere on water and on land." (1855, pp. 51-2). whose sides are crowded with the rich cities

till I point the road along which leads to all the learning knowledge and truth and pleasure are the cities

These lines were removed from the final versioen of the poem.

These lines were removed from the final version of the poem.; On the back of this manuscript is a poetry

the source of Bucke's transcription have not been found and there is no evidence that the sentences were

However, those portions of the manuscript have not been found and there is no evidence that they were

However, those portions of the manuscript have not been found and there is no evidence that they were

Drakeloc.00158xxx.00048"Summer Duck"Between 1852 and 1855poetryprosehandwritten2 leaves; These pages were

The lines at the end of this manuscript were also reworked and used for a different section of the same

—Do you suppose because the American government has been formed, and public schools established, we have

—The prisoners were allowed no light at night.— No physicians were allowed provided.— Sophocles, Eschylus

—Great as their remains are, they were transcended by other works that have not come down to us.

Virtue and about Vice These pages were written by Whitman in the early to mid-1850s.

The lines at the end of this manuscript were also reworked and used for a different section of the same

These pages were written by Whitman in the early to mid-1850s.

The lines at the end of this manuscript were also reworked and used for a different section of the same

If I were to suspect death, I should die now.

I knew a man…he was a common farmer… he was the father of five sons…and in them were the fathers of sons

…and in them were the fathers of sons.

and visit him to see…He was wise also, He was six feet tall…he was over eighty years old…his sons were

Lines from the manuscript were included in the first poem in that edition, eventually titled Song of

; He complains with sarcastic voice of my lagging I feel apt to clip it, and go; I am W W— — the American

Lines from the manuscript were included in the first poem in that edition, eventually titled "Song of

Lines from the manuscript were included in the first poem in that edition, eventually titled "Song of

, which appeared in the poem that eventually would be titled "Song of Myself": "Walt Whitman, an American

Trippers and askers surround me, People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward and city

them, In walls of adobie, in canvas tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport, The city

By the city's quadrangular houses—in log huts, camping with lumbermen, Along the ruts of the turnpike

, The blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe.

Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you, my brother, my sister?

Trippers and askers surround me, People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward and city

them, In walls of adobie, in canvas tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport, The city

By the city's quadrangular houses—in log huts, camping with lumbermen, Along the ruts of the turnpike

, The blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe.

Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you, my brother, my sister?

auditor's smile or half sneer at the author's sometimes forced rhymes or prosy lines; as though that were

uniting the whole" may be lost "just in moving this trifle or that," and so you "Take away, as it were