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Autobiographical Data

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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of which we know—amid the never enough praised spread of common education and common newspapers and books—amid

—Since the deposition of the king, the prisons had been filled, with suspected persons; on the 2nd of

Caractacus sought to free his country, was taken prisoner and carried to Rome.—"Alas!

Brutish human beings

  • Date: 1857-1859
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fact that Captain Walter Murray Gibson, who had also talked about the "koboo" people (possibly in the book

East Indian Archipelago: a Description of Its Wild Races of Men, published in 1854, and/or in The Prison

Glance at the East Indian Archipelago, published in 1855), had affirmed that all his statements in the book

An English and an American Poet

  • Date: October 1855
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
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inexpressible purposes of nature, and for this haughtiest of writers that has ever yet written and printed a book

Enter into the thoughts of

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
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native of Sumatra," and Andrew Lawson has noted that Whitman apparently picked up the reference from a book

Enter into the thoughts of

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

native of Sumatra," and Andrew Lawson has noted that Whitman apparently picked up the reference from a book

Annotations Text:

native of Sumatra," and Andrew Lawson has noted that Whitman apparently picked up the reference from a book

[Fa]bles, traditions

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he was tried for forgery Fa bles, traditions, and books

A Hoosier's Opinion Of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 11 August 1860
  • Creator(s): Howells, William Dean
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We remember to have seen a brief criticism of the book in dear dead Putnam , by a critic who seemed to

If you attempt to gather the meaning of the whole book, you fail utterly.

Yet there are passages in the book of profound and subtle significance, and of rare beauty; with passages

so gross and revolting, that you might say of them, as the Germans say of bad books— Sie lassen sich

W goes through his book, like one in an ill-conditioned dream, perfectly nude, with his clothes over

How gladly we leave the

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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gladly we leave the best of what is called learned and refined society, or the company of lawyers and book-factors

I am a Student

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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of all vast limitless Library ; it is they are —it is limitless and eternally open to me; It is The books

always perfect, and alive; Those He They are do not own the librar y ies who have bought the buy the books

I know a rich capitalist

  • Date: Between about 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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What stuff passes for poetry in the world What awkward and ill-bouncing riders What is printed in books

second or third hand . . . . nor look through the eyes of the dead . . . . nor feed on the spectres in books

, ornamenters, makers of carpeting, marble mantels, curtains, good soft seats, morocco binding for books

In his presence

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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—The learnedest professors, and the makers authors of the best most renowned books, are becom baffled

In metaphysical points

  • Date: Before or early in 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

A single glance of it mocks all the investigations of man and all the instruments and books of the earth

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 15 March 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Not only does the donor send us the book, but he favours us with hints—pretty broad hints—towards a favourable

I rubbed my eyes a little, to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is

Whitman into literature, talking like a man unaware that there was ever hitherto such a production as a book

After poetry like this, and criticism like this, it seems strange that we cannot recommend the book to

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 10 May 1856
  • Creator(s): Fern, Fanny
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Let him look carefully between the gilded covers of books, backed by high-sounding names, and endorsed

passages which appeal to me: "A morning glory at my window, satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books

the following sentiments; for which, and for all the good things included between the covers of his book

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 13 November 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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On opening the book we first beheld, as a frontispiece, the picture of a man in his shirt sleeves, wearing

From this title page we learned that the book was entitled , and was printed at Brooklyn in the year

Then returning to the fore-part of the book, we found proof slips of certain review articles about the

It is a lie to write a review of one's own book, then extract it from the work in which it appeared and

This doctrine is exemplified in the book by a panorama as it were of pictures, each of which is shared

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 7 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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. ∗ N OT the least surprising thing about this book is its title.

Walt Whitman's book.

with John Lord Campbell on the woolsack, and a certain act of his still unrepealed on the statute-book

Leaves Of Grass

  • Date: 7 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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It is a book evidently intended to lie on the tables of the wealthy.

Such books as this have occasionally been printed in the guise of a scrofulous French novel, On grey

Leaves Of Grass

  • Date: 14 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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The book was immediately pronounced by Ralph Waldo Emerson to be "the most extraordinary piece of wit

Other critics followed suit, and Walt Whitman became as famous as the author of the Book of Mormon.

, for which the publishers "confidently claim recognition as one of the finest specimens of modern book-making

and Mine, We must not leave our readers under the impression that there is nothing in Walt Whitman's book

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 10 October 1874
  • Creator(s): Saintsbury, George
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Altogether the book might seem to a too-fanciful critic to have abandoned, at least in externals, its

But it is still as ever far more easy to argue for or against the book than to convey a clear account

For the answers we must refer the reader to the book that it may give its own reply.

"You shall," he says at the beginning of his book: "You shall no longer take things at second or third

No Englishman, no one indeed, whether American or Englishman, need be deterred from reading this book

Annotations Text:

The book was published posthumously in 1869 and gained renown as a significant text of urban writing.

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 30 October 1881
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Sylvester Baxter
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best characterizations of "Leaves of Grass" is that of a lady, who said: "It does not read like a book

I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion, but the solid sense of the book is

I did not know, until I last night saw the book advertised in a newspaper, that I could trust the name

That beside its assured hearty reception the book will be much maligned and ridiculed is a matter of

The book teems with the ecstasy of being.

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 26 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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The book will be more readily purchased and read, at any rate; and that is the main point.

We have not discovered that the book has lost anything of its characteristic outspoken independence,

room for our poet's creed of Individualism, and close therewith our quotations from this remarkable book

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 13 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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The book is too radical, too free, too independent and far too true to make its conquest of a popular

To the question, "Will the book and the man ever be popular?"

But let us take a survey of the book. Let us see how far it fits the foregoing remarks.

I, of every rank and re- ligion religion A farmer, mechanic, artist, gentleman, sailor, Quaker, Prisoner

There are two or three pieces in the book which are disagreeable, at least, simply sensual.

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 1882–1883
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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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."

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: September 1887
  • Creator(s): Lewin, Walter
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He visited hospitals, alms-houses and prisons, attended political gatherings, frequented taverns, and

confessed himself as much a felon as those who were: "You felons on trial in courts, You convicts in prison

sentenced assassins chain'd and handcuff'd with iron, Who am I, too, that I am not on trial or in prison

Few if any copies of the book were sold.

he speaks so often, and his ministrations to the outcast men and women in the city streets and the prisons

Annotations Text:

.; American writer (1825–1878) who wrote for newspapers, travel books, novels, poetry, and critical essays

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 15 September 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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the latter kind by any means few; although, undoubtedly, the predominating qualities throughout the book

A better printed book, coming even from Boston, we have not seen in a good while.

seen Walt Whitman to our knowledge; nor do we know anything of him further than we learn from his book

Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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A single glance of it mocks all the investigations of man and all the instruments and books of the earth

season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book

My words are words of a questioning, and to indicate reality; This printed and bound book . . . . but

The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep, The prisoner sleeps well in the prison . . . . the runaway

or man that has been in prison or is likely to be in prison?

Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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I become any presence or truth of humanity here, And see myself in prison shaped like another man, And

I see the menials of the earth, laboring, I see the prisoners in the prisons, I see the defective human

or man that has been in prison, or is likely to be in prison? 15 — Clef Poem.

The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep, The prisoner sleeps well in the prison, the run- away runaway

Let the prison-keepers be put in prison! Let those that were prisoners take the keys! (Say!

Leaves of Grass (1860–1861)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Let the prison-keepers be put in prison! Let those that were prisoners take the keys! (Say!

Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

or man that has been in prison, or is likely to be in prison? 4.

book, It is a man, flushed and full-blooded—it is I—So long!

The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep, The prisoner sleeps well in the prison—the run- away runaway

Leaves of Grass (1867)

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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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,

Leaves of Grass (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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WHEN I READ THE BOOK.

I see the menials of the earth, laboring; I see the prisoners in the prisons; I see the defective human

The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep, The prisoner sleeps well in the prison—the run-away son

17 All the hapless silent lovers, All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked,

let the prison- keepers prison-keepers be put in prison!

Leaves of Grass (1881–1882)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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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

Leaves of Grass (1891–1892)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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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

Leaves of Grass, "I Celebrate Myself,"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

second or third hand . . . . nor look through the eyes of the dead . . . . nor feed on the spectres in books

wandering savage, A farmer, mechanic, or artist . . . . a gentleman, sailor, lover or quaker, A prisoner

great authors and schools, A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books

I become any presence or truth of humanity here, And see myself in prison shaped like another man, And

My words are words of a questioning, and to indicate reality; This printed and bound book . . . . but

'Leaves of Grass'—An Extraordinary Book

  • Date: 15 September 1855
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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"Leaves of Grass"—An Extraordinary Book. Here we have a book which fairly staggers us.

Its author is Walter Whitman, and the book is a reproduction of the author.

The contents of the book form a daguerreotype of his inner being, and the title page bears a representation

All who read it will agree that it is an extraordinary book, full of beauties and blemishes, such as

'Leaves of Grass'—An Extraordinary Book

Lofty sirs

  • Date: Between 1840 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.—) Ay dost th You You are proud of your books, your style, your bland speech and possessed ease in society

med Cophósis

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—But in each one the book was not opened.

following lines: "Through me many long dumb voices, / Voices of the interminable generations of prisoners

Poem or other work —A manly unpretensive philosopher—without any of the old insignia, such as age, books

Can a man be wise without he get wisdom from the books?

New Poetry of the Rossettis and Others

  • Date: January 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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If they can see nothing in this book except indecency and bombastic truisms, the inference must be that

tedious and helpless prose, leaves our vision clear for the occasional glimpses of beauty that the book

much purer than the stained and distorted reflection of its animalism in Leaves of Grass, that the book

The review contains discussions of recent books by D. G.

Annotations Text:

The review contains discussions of recent books by D. G.

The New Poets

  • Date: 19 May 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Leaves , a larger edition appeared, and that again is followed by a third and still more pretentious book

The egotism of the book is amusing. Mr.

Our Book Table

  • Date: 27 February 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Our Book Table. L EAVES OF G RASS .

the straining after at least the appearance of total originality, but to give future readers of this book

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889) wrote Proverbial Philosophy , a book of didactic moral and religious

Our Book Table

Annotations Text:

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889) wrote Proverbial Philosophy, a book of didactic moral and religious

Poem incarnating the mind

  • Date: Before 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A single glance of it mocks all the investigations of man and all the instruments and books of the earth

Vernon, / What sobers the Brooklyn boy as he looks down the shores of the Wallabout and remembers the prison

On the cover of the notebook is a note in an unknown hand that reads: "Note Book Walt Whitman E85."

Annotations Text:

On the cover of the notebook is a note in an unknown hand that reads: "Note Book Walt Whitman E85."

Poem of Walt Whitman, an American.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books

Europe, Asia—a wandering savage, A farmer, mechanic, artist, gentleman, sailor, lover, quaker, A prisoner

Did you read in the sea-books of the old-fashioned frigate-fight?

Vernon, What sobers the Brooklyn boy as he looks down the shores of the Wallabout and remembers the prison

I become any presence or truth of humanity here, And see myself in prison shaped like another man, And

The Poetry of Democracy: Walt Whitman

  • Date: July 1871
  • Creator(s): Dowden, Edward
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our chief chivalric epic, the Faerie Queene , should set before itself as the general end of all the book

of any class of men, disposed to be antagonistic to any, it is to those whose lives are spent among books

But in New York their author saw nothing except "a great place for cheap books, and a big den of small

Annotations Text:

But in New York their author saw nothing except "a great place for cheap books, and a big den of small

The Poetry of the Future

  • Date: 19 January 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

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

The Poetry of the Period

  • Date: October 1869
  • Creator(s): Austin, Alfred
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The pottering little fountain of Hippocrene, now run dry, has been replaced by the tremendous waters

The entire book may be called the pæan of the natural man. . . .

Priests

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

apples and hen's eggs, restrain pull let down your eyebrows a little, ¶ Until your Bibles and prayer-books

The regular old followers

  • Date: Between 1853 and 1855
Text:

The cover of the notebook is labeled "Note Book Walt Whitman" in a hand that is not Whitman's.

The regular old followers

  • Date: Between 1853 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—The more of these he has, the more books to keep, the more he must stay s indoors, the more he demeans

The cover of the notebook is labeled "Note Book Walt Whitman" in a hand that is not Whitman's.

Annotations Text:

The cover of the notebook is labeled "Note Book Walt Whitman" in a hand that is not Whitman's.

Remember if you are dying

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
Text:

Whitman mentioned the book in a conversation with Horace Traubel on December 9, 1889 (With Walt Whitman

Remember if you are dying

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whitman mentioned the book in a conversation with Horace Traubel on December 9, 1889 (With Walt Whitman

Annotations Text:

Whitman mentioned the book in a conversation with Horace Traubel on December 9, 1889 (With Walt Whitman

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: September 1855
  • Creator(s): Norton, Charles Eliot
Text:

without reserve and with perfect indifference to their effect on the reader's mind; and not only is the book

this gross yet elevated, this superficial yet profound, this preposterous yet somehow fascinating book

"Did you read in the books of the old- fashioned old-fashioned frigate fight?

shining , and the leaks on the gain, and five feet of water reported; The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners

As seems very proper in a book of transcendental poetry, the author withholds his name from the title

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