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Year : 1855

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'Leaves of Grass'—An Extraordinary Book

  • Date: 15 September 1855
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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In his philosophy justice attains its proper dimensions: "I play not a march for victors only: I play

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 23 July 1855
  • Creator(s): Dana, Charles A.
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He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement…he sees eternity in men and women…he

The most renowned poems would be ashes…orations and plays would be vacuums.

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: September 1855
  • Creator(s): Norton, Charles Eliot
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Of course we do not select those which are the most transcendental or the most bold:— "I play not a march

for victors only…I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

Poem incarnating the mind

  • Date: Before 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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isolated, perfect and sound, is isolated all all things and all other beings as an audience at the play-house

fire. / From the cinder-strew'd threshold I follow their movements, / The lithe sheer of their waists plays

"Summer Duck"

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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. / And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me, / And consider the green and violet and

identical with the

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

anticipating the description in the following lines: "The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play

Sweet flag

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

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast" (p. 71).

halt in the shade

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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.— wood-duck on my distan le around. purposes, nd white playing within me the tufted crown intentional

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I believe in those winged purposes, / And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me, / And

Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men and

I play not a march for victors only . . . . I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

The most renowned poems would be ashes . . . . orations and plays would be vacuums.

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.

I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

Preface. Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men and

rapport with in the sight of the daybreak or a scene of the winter woods or the presence of children playing

Leaves of Grass, "I Celebrate Myself,"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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eddies of the wind, A few light kisses . . . . a few embraces . . . . a reaching around of arms, The play

stand open and ready, The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon, The clear light plays

From the cinder-strewed threshold I follow their movements, The lithe sheer of their waists plays even

I play not a march for victors only . . . . I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

lights, The steam-whistle . . . . the solid roll of the train of approaching cars; The slow-march played

Leaves of Grass, "Come Closer to Me,"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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The most renowned poems would be ashes . . . . orations and plays would be vacuums.

Leaves of Grass, "To Think of Time . . . . To Think Through"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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own part, Witty, sensitive to a slight, ready with life or death for a friend, Fond of women, . . played

Leaves of Grass, "I Wander All Night in My Vision,"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.

Leaves of Grass, "The Bodies of Men and Women Engirth"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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underhold—the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play

what was expected of heaven or feared of hell are now consumed, Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

Leaves of Grass, "Clear the Way There Jonathan!"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

An English and an American Poet

  • Date: October 1855
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
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What play of Shakspeare, represented in America, is not an insult to America, to the marrow in its bones

Walt Whitman and His Poems

  • Date: September 1855
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
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Every move of him has the free play of the muscle of one who never knew what it was to feel that he stood

wound cuts, First rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song, or play

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