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convening of Congress every December, the members duly coming up from all climates and the uttermost parts—the

Whitman, imperfect only from want of development—the poems are alike maimed, but one from loss of parts

, the other from not yet having attained its parts.

We need not repeat the story of Fotis's ill-starred lover and his magical transformation into an ass,

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

A very large part of his poetry is taken up with assertions that he is everything else, and everything

remark that all these things are equally godlike, or are equally dear to the poet, or are equally part

of him, or have an equal claim on him as a part of themselves.

rarely the case) to be neither befouled with filth nor defaced by vulgarity, they are, for the most part

E VERY ONE RECOLLECTS THE STORY of the Scotch dramatic author who, when Garrick assured him his genius

Walt Whitman is to give his readers from time to time inventories of the various component parts of some

Thus (in pages 300-2) we might for a brief moment fancy ourselves poring over a manual of surgery.

Sense, grammar, and metre are but very minor parts in the composition of poetry; but nevertheless, pace

Since all things are divine, Walt Whitman's body, with each several part and function of it, is divine

sending itself ahead of any sane comprehension this side of Jordan. 2.

sun swings itself and its system of planets around us, Its sun, and its again, all swing around us. 2.

Have I forgotten any part? Come to me, whoever and whatever, till I give you recognition. 4.

Has Mine forgotten to grab any part?

It ends with the 'Songs of Parting,' under which the last is 'So Long,' a title that a foreigner and

He has gained a vigorousness of support on the part of his admirers that probably more than outbalances

His rhythm, so much burlesqued, is all of a part with the man and his ideas.

But these are parts of him.

Transcribed in part from an electronic copy, The Walt Whitman Archive Transcribed in part by Todd Stabley

send it forth to the world with a complacent smirk required great courage—or brazen effrontery—on the part

Holmes sings, he yet may have succeeded in uttering but a small part of the music that is in him.

things, One swallow does not make a summer, nor do a few happy turns of phrase make a poet—for our part

is a common saying among publishers that next to very warm praise of a book downright abuse on the part

Osgood & Co. 1881. $2. Simon-pure, short for "the real Simon Pure," means real or genuine.

page: "I believe in the flesh, and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part

As an instance, we quote a part of a death-bed scene, which is as beautifully drawn as it is truthful

The publishers have done their part well.

works which aim at satirising the manners and customs of every-day life are necessarily the first parts

To deal with these seriatim , in the first Whitman takes part in a natural and easily comprehensible

with the addition of a work containing much that has not been before printed, entitled "Songs before Parting

show :— "I believe in the flesh and the appetites; Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part

his antecedents here being a race of farmers and mechanics, silent, good-natured, playing no high part

On his trip to and from that city he made it a point penetrate various parts of the West and South-west

Here we have in epitome the true story of The Creation of Man.

octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the space or make it im- patient impatient They are but parts

, anything is but a part.

As for its sensuality—and it may be less so than it seems—I do not so much wish those parts unwritten

The poet's allusions to death are among the finest passages in his works, and his songs of parting are

In reference to the position which a part of the public has taken towards the book we are reminded of

into account the imagination often informing some one of these rhapsodies as a whole, even when its parts

octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span or make it im- patient impatient ; They are but parts

, any thing is but a part.

They say there is a time to be silent, and though no part or function of man if properly treated is disgraceful

It consists for the most part of hack writers to the press who think it no portion of their duty to know

Veiled obscenity in the shape of a joke, a spicy story, or the reports of criminal cases in the Pall

above all else zealous for the virtue of their womankind, just as if they had never laughed over the story

Gespräche mit Goethe , Leipzig, Band 1 und 2: 1836, Band 3: 1848, S. 743.

Gespräche mit Goethe, Leipzig, Band 1 und 2: 1836, Band 3: 1848, S. 743.; Ernest Rhys, "Introduction"

The old woman's tale of there being but eight wonders in the world has long been an idle story; a brick

It would be impossible to transcribe from any part of the book without offending common sense, and it

Some time ago, so the story goes, he made the unpoetic acquaintance of a New York omnibus driver.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha (1855) told the story of the legendary chief credited as

.; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha (1855) told the story of the legendary chief credited

It was to be the second part of an ultimately never completed three-part poem entitled The Recluse .

Samuel Butler (1612-1680) published a three-part satirical poem on Puritanism entitled Hudibras (1663

page: "I believe in the flesh, and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part

As an instance, we quote a part of a death-bed scene, which is as beautifully drawn as it is truthful

The publishers have done their part well.

Let us then come to that; for, after all, that is the most wonderful as it is the most important part

His fundamental notions of poetry are, we must confess, for the most part correct.

I become a part of that, whatever it is!

A story is told of a countryman of Mr. Walt Whitman, who, after reading Mr.

how superb and how divine is your body, or any part of it!" With him this is a rooted conviction.

If I worship one thing more than another it shall be the spread of my own body or any part of it."

Parting track'd by arriving—perpetual payment of perpetual loan, Rich, showering rain, and recompense

Here is part of a birds-eye view with which he favours us of sailors and their doings throughout the

more truly human not to speak of, than to speak of (such speech producing self-consciousness, whereas part

Had Whitman ventured upon the hundredth part of his grossness in the camp of the Greeks, he would have

T HE grossest abuse on the part of the majority, and the wildest panegyric on the part of a minority,

He believes hugely in himself, and in the part he is destined to take in American affairs.

properly so called; and that this grossness, offensive in itself, is highly significant—an essential part

The second part of the volume, "Drum-Taps," is a series of poetic soliloquies on the war.

with reference to a day, but with reference to all days, And I will not make a poem, nor the least part

Let others ignore what they may, I make the poem of evil also—I commemorate that part also, I am myself

believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, and feeling are miracles, and each tag and part

He was a good fellow, free-mouthed, quick-tempered, not bad-looking, able to take his own part, witty

Bothwell: A Poem in six parts By W. Edmonstoune Aytoun, D. C.

"Great is life…and real and mystical…wherever and whoever, Great is death…sure as life holds all parts

together, death holds all parts together; Sure as the stars return again after they merge in the light

Leaves of Grass Washington, D.C. 1871. 2. Passage to India Washington , D.C. 1871. 3.

His critics have, for the most part, confined their attention to the personality of the man; they have

studied him, for the most part, as a phenomenon isolated from the surrounding society, the environment

If a human being is to be honoured as such, then every part of a human being is to be honoured.

His pupil must part from him as soon as possible, and go upon his own way.

Buchanan Reade ∗ —a gracefully rhymed, imaginative story; or of another American production which, according

Here, it is occupied for the most part with dreams of the middle ages, of the old knightly and religious

The dots do not indicate any abbreviation by us, but are part of the author's singular system of punctuation

I wish I had room to quote all of Chainey's lecture, but a part must suffice.

Whoever you are, how superb and how divine is your body or any part of it!

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

"In his sight, no part or passion of the body is to be slighted or regarded as vulgar.

respect for women, and hold in low esteem their own manhood through learning to take delight in vulgar stories

Yet consider the forces that make the flower, the elements that are parts of it, the intricacy of its

eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span, or make it impatient, They are but parts

, anything is but a part.

Here is the story of the gallant seaman who rescued the passengers on the San Francisco:— "I understand

When Walt Whitman, as the story goes, drove an omnibus along Broadway to oblige the regular driver, who

Many persons have written down the story of their lives, so far as, in their old age, they could recollect

For his part, nothing being improper, nothing shall be suppressed. Mr.

Since then several editions have appeared with varying but for the most part small fortune.

Humane persons in different parts of the country sent him money and stores to carry on his work, and

Goethe, Gespräche mit Goethe , Leipzig, Band 1 und 2: 1836, Band 3: 1848, S. 743; Spinoza, Ethics, Part

.; Goethe, Gespräche mit Goethe, Leipzig, Band 1 und 2: 1836, Band 3: 1848, S. 743; Spinoza, Ethics,

that if the new edition is a triumph for the poet, it has been achieved without any concession on his part

The additional verses are not so important in themselves as in the relation of parts to a completed whole

The poet has compared his work to one of those ambitious old architectural edifices, built part by part

A considerable part of his contemporaries hold him to be beneath criticism; a small circle of ardent

It is not from any lack of conscientious intention that the poet fails in part of his purpose, and instead

It is all a part of him.

and beauty of a spiritual or poetical vision; the glimpsing of that which, after all, for the most part

`We have just begun our part of the fighting.' Only three guns were in use.

These changes are for the most part, as it appears to us, decided improvements, and the whole work posses

But there is another poem almost equally beautiful, which forms part of "President Lincoln's Burial Hymn

Maurice Bucke printed a transcription of this manuscript, he added the following words to the end of leaf 2,

Maurice Bucke printed a transcription of this manuscript, he added the following words to the end of leaf 2,

The last part of the manuscript recalls what ultimately became section 32, in which Whitman describes

immortal —that the processes of the refinement and perfection of the earth are in steps, It the least part

to the second poem in the 1855 edition of Leaves, ultimately titled "A Song for Occupations," and part

, the seat of sensation, doubtless the brain Liaison (lē-a-zohn), a binding or fastening together Part

and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became, / And that object became part

of him for the day or a certain part of the day . . . . or for many years or stretching cycles of years

The "voices" described in the last part of this section may relate to the following lines: "Through me

come to puzzle him—some come from curiosity—some from ironical contempt—his answers—his opinions ¶ 2

.— As small pipes from the aqueduct main The rest are par beautiful parts that flow out of it.

I want that tenor large and fresh as the creation parting of whose dark orbed mouth shall for me lift

Paradise the delight in the universe . that is I want that tenor, large and fresh as the creation, the parting

Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

and published in The American in October 1880 as "My Picture-Gallery," a poem later included in as part

At some point Whitman clipped out portions of several pages in this notebook, including leaf 2 as represented

what text was added when, we have not included images or transcriptions of the clipped-out page as part

.; At some point Whitman clipped out portions of several pages in this notebook, including leaf 2 as

Watch Quartier Au Loete Swisse No. 51,575 1 3 0 00 50 A Ap 14 " 17 19 2 5 37 80 75 25 M Ju " s to 2n

since you were born, and did not know, / Perhaps it is everywhere on water and on land." (1855, pp. 51-2)

w ill you sting me most even at parting?

Myself: Walt Whitman and the Making of Leaves of Grass (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010), 2–

the Composition of Leaves of Grass: The 'Talbot Wilson' Notebook," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 20:2

Myself: Walt Whitman and the Making of Leaves of Grass (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010), 2–

the Composition of Leaves of Grass: The 'Talbot Wilson' Notebook," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 20:2

See particularly the following lines (from the 1891–2 edition): "O the old manhood of me, my noblest

For more about the revisions of this passage, see Ed Folsom, "Walt Whitman's 'The Sleepers,'" part of

....any thing is but a part." (1855, p. 51).

starve his body.— What minutes of damnation What heightless dread, falls in the click of a moment story

can never tell , for there is something that underlies and overtops me, of whom I am an effusion a part

without one single exception, in any part of any of These States!

resemblance to a passage in the poem "Proto-Leaf," published in the 1860–1861 edition of which reads, in part

Draper's Physiology (Harper last 2 no's Harper) Brownlow's Map of the Stars 184 Cherry st. A.

It is of course possible, however, that parts of the notebook were inscribed before and/or after the

eaves of a deserted house or barn—pleasing note— "Redstart"—beautiful small bird arrives here latter part

we ha'n't got time Ens l —a being, existence, essence, that recondite part of a substance from which

—wild mirthful processions in honor of the god Dionysus (Bacchus) —in Athens, and other parts of Greece—unbounded

Does any one tell me that it is the part of a man to obey such enactments as these?

The poem was later published in as part of the "Autumn Rivulets" cluster (1881, p. 310).

Whitman's reference to the sinking of the San Francisco indicates that this notebook, "or at least part