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of these states that they are to hold sway over physical objects, over armies, navies, wealth, population

Hudson's 'Thoughts on Reading,' American Whig Review, 1 (May 1845), 483–496, which he clipped and annotated

Hudson's 'Thoughts on Reading,' American Whig Review, 1 (May 1845), 483–496, which he clipped and annotated

Every great city is a sort of countryman-trap.

It is often better, if you are to visit a city friend, to proceed to his abode by foot or by omnibus,

The city ordinances expressly provide that full explanations shall be posted in plain sight within every

If your errand is in the city, you will probably find no great difficulty in learning your way.

Don't be in haste to make city street acquaintances.

See Louise Pound, "'Peter Funk': The Pedigree of a Westernism," American Speech 4.3 (February 1929),

Butler, of having an affair with the "harlot" Slavery.; Decoy houses, also known as "touch houses," were

has invariably a turbid and sleepy look, while its muscles are so much relaxed as to make it, as it were

duk.00035xxx.00610MS 13The American people ever1856prose2 leaveshandwritten; A manuscript about the California

The American people ever

settlements, log houses, hunters, Its ships, fisheries, whaling, gold‑digging are you and me, paved cities

The lines "It's ships, whaling, gold-digging are you and me, / Its paved cities, wharves, wealth, avenues

, dwellings, are you and me," and "The north, south, east, west, are you and me" were used, greatly altered

Another series of draft lines on the back of this leaf were published as part of "Poem of Many in One

.; Another series of draft lines on the back of this leaf were published as part of "Poem of Many in

Tattler in summer of '42 Statesman in Spring of '43 Democrat in Summer of 44 Wrote for Dem Review, American

Subjects for articles Rapid and temporary mann of American changes of popula for eminent statesmen.

—They would be days for all live all Americans to get on their killing clothes I should advise all living

—Romans left, after being masters for 400 years.— After Romans abdicated, the British were so annoyed

400 years after the arrival of Saxons, they having founded different kingdoms, and, quarrelled—all were

Black Presence in Whitman's Manuscripts," in Whitman Noir: Black America and the Good Gray Poet (Iowa City

The original notebook is one of several that were lost during World War II, and its current whereabouts

with other text supplied from Emory Holloway, Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City

been suggested that this is Nathaniel Bloom, a member of [Whitman]'s circle of friends in the early 1860s

Bloom, carman,' as listed in the [New York City] directories for 1854–1855" (Notebooks and Unpublished

been suggested that this is Nathaniel Bloom, a member of [Whitman]'s circle of friends in the early 1860s

Bloom, carman,' as listed in the [New York City] directories for 1854–1855" (Notebooks and Unpublished

the greatest city in the whole world.

Where the city stands with the brawniest breed of orators and bards, Where the city stands that is beloved

city of the healthiest fathers stands, Where the city of the best-bodied mothers stands, There the greatest

city stands.

Were those your vast and solid?

that men and women were flexible, real, alive! that every thing was alive!

To think of all these wonders of city and country, and others taking great interest in them—and we taking

Do you enjoy yourself in the city? or engaged in business?

It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your mother and father—it is to identify you, 15 It is

The threads that were spun are gathered, the weft crosses the warp, the pattern is systematic.

This letter is addressed: Walt Whitman | Care Fowlers & Wells | New York City.

his time, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was both a highly popular and highly respected American

When Whitman met Longfellow in June 1876, he was unimpressed: "His manners were stately, conventional—all

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American poet, fiction writer, and literary critic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was an American poet, essayist, and leader among the Transcendentalists

& Divides Austria from Italy Tiber, Papal states Arno, Tuscany —Dnieper —Volga —Ural inland lakes Cities

Dresden 85,000 Saxony, Hanover, 40,000 Many of the items from this list of European rivers, lakes, and cities

were included in "Poem of Salutation" in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass, suggesting that this manuscript

Many of the items from this list of European rivers, lakes, and cities were included in "Poem of Salutation

Whitman's cultural geography scrapbook.; Many of the items from this list of European rivers, lakes, and cities

were included in "Poem of Salutation" in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass.

In the 1860 edition of Leaves, and in all subsequent editions, the poem was titled "Salut Au Monde!"

doubt that shallowness, meanness, malig- nance malignance , are provided for; I do not doubt that cities

James Parton (1822–1891) was a journalist and, according to the Dictionary of American Biography, "the

the scrap (particularly the final portion of the second leaf) found their way into Whitman's essay American

National Literature, which appeared in the North American Review in March 1891, under the title Have

It was later reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), under the title American National Literature before

Ontario's Shore," was retained through subsequent editions of Leaves, although the line was dropped after 1860

operas— and first tenor of and of all tenors—and first of all violins and first violins,—for they were

manuscript is almost certainly from much earlier, however, based on the lines on the back of the leaf that were

manuscript is almost certainly from much earlier, however, based on the lines on the back of the leaf that were

The interior American republic shall also be declared free and independent. . . .

Where is the vehement growth of our cities?

Where is the spirit of the strong rich life of the American mechanic, farmer, sailor, hunter, and miner

The chief street of a great city is a curious epitome of the life of the city; and when that street,

See Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788–1850

Now the street may be said to be at high tide, and from eleven until three the full sea of the city,

One of the few exceptions where cross-class socialization took place were city theaters.

See Timothy Gilfoyle, City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790

highly influential figure whom Whitman admired even though their opinions on issues such as democracy were

See Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788–1850

1815̵1837 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1978).; By the mid-nineteenth century, America's urban centers were

One of the few exceptions where cross-class socialization took place were city theaters.

See Timothy Gilfoyle, City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790

He has pasted in the first page a number of notices extracted with the scissors from American newspapers

and therefore we shall confine ourselves to laying before our readers, first, the opinions of the American

The relation of the two classes of extracts is curiously illustrative of contemporary American criticism

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

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

Walt Whitman, the world needed a "Native American" of thorough, out and out breed—enamored of women ladies

It were a spectacle worth seeing, this glorious Native American, who, when the daily labor of chisel

Were I an artist I would like no more suggestive subjects for my easel than Walt Whitman's pen has furnished

seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves I close the extracts from these "Leaves," which it were

Almost at the first page we opened we lighted upon the confession that the author was "W , an American

These were accompanied by a printed copy of an extravagant letter of praise addressed by Mr.

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

If I were to suspect death I should die now.

by death…They were taught and exalted.

Anacreon (582 BC-485 BC) was an ancient Green lyric poet whose most popular poems were celebrations of

city stands.

to American persons, pro- gresses progresses , cities? Chicago, Canada, Arkansas?

I loved well those cities, I loved well the stately and rapid river, The men and women I saw were all

They were purified by death—they were taught and exalted.

From the American Phrenological Journal. AN ENGLISH AND AN AMERICAN POET. LEAVES OF GRASS.

seemed the sterile and stingy nature, as if too much handiwork, or too much lymph in the temperament, were

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

have set for myself to do, to meet people and The States face to face, to confront them with an American

Their shadows are projected in employments, in books, in the cities, in trade; their feet are on the

The instincts of the American people are all perfect, and tend to make heroes.

First-rate American persons are to be supplied.

There are Thirty-Two States sketched—the population thirty millions.

revised draft of a poem first published as Longings For Home in Southern Literary Messenger (July 1860

) and Leaves of Grass (1860–61).

.— This manuscript consists of draft lines that were published first under the title "Poem of Many in

This manuscript consists of draft lines that were published first under the title "Poem of Many in One

"; This manuscript contains draft lines that were published first under the title "Poem of Many in One

Those who left the city.

call them both unwise and unhappy—speaking generally, for these were exceptions. 4.

, and the second from 1860 to 1862.

an independent city state.

Out into the street again; up and down the city.

and depicted the triumphant moment on November 25, 1783, when Washington and his army reentered the city

It was installed on June 5, 1856, and formally given to the city of New York on July 4.

, served two non-consecutive terms from 1855 to 1857, and the second from 1860 to 1862.

an independent city state.

Barnum's American Museum, which opened in 1842 and continued to operate until its destruction from fire

my clothes were stolen while I was abed, Now I am thrust forth, where shall I run?

from east to west as they lie unclothed, The Asiatic and African are hand in hand, the European and American

believe, of the famous Whitman's poems, which made such a flutter among the "gray goose quills" of this city

But the author reasoning that the spirit of the American people, nay, of any people is chiefly represented

His own picture: "Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a Kosmos, Disorderly, fleshy, sensual

They live in other young men, O kings, They live in brothers, again ready to defy you: They were purified

by death…They were taught and exalted.

Louis, Indianapolis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Iowa City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Raleigh, Savannah, Charleston

, Mobile, New Orleans, Galveston, Brownsville, San Francisco, Havana, and a thousand equal cities, present

I saw the rich ladies in full dress at the soiree, I heard what the singers were singing so long, Heard

incomparable love, Plunging his semitic muscle into its merits and demerits, Making its geography, cities

, The superior marine, free commerce, fisheries, whaling, gold-digging, Wharf-hemm'd cities, railroad

to American persons, pro- gresses progresses , cities? Chicago, Canada, Arkansas?

Men, women, cities, nations, are only beautiful from nativity.

I will make cities and civilizations defer to me! I will confront these shows of the day and night!

Part of "Pictures" was published as "My Picture-Gallery" in The American in October 1880 and later incorporated

A WOMAN waits for me—she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking,

or if the moisture of the right man were lacking.

see the tracks of the rail-roads of the earth, I see them welding state to state, county to county, city

to city, through North America, I see them in Great Britain, I see them in Eu- rope Europe , I see them

I see the cities of the earth, and make myself a part of them, I am a real Londoner, Parisian, Viennese

ward northward in Christiana or Stockholm—or in some street in Iceland, I descend upon all those cities

What cities the light or warmth penetrates, I penetrate those cities myself, All islands to which birds

And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

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

from head to foot, It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction, I am drawn by its breath as if I were

and the tidy and fresh-cheeked girls, and the bare-foot negro boy and girl, And all the changes of city

Were all educations practical and ornamental well displayed out of me, what would it amount to?

6 Were I as the head teacher, charitable proprietor, wise statesman, what would it amount to?

Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?

, the bins, mangers, mows, racks, Manufactures, commerce, engineering, the build- ing building of cities

, the trottoirs of a city when thousands of well-dressed people walk up and down, The cotton, woolen,

They were purified by death—they were taught and exalted.

For I think I have reason to be the proudest son alive—for I am the son of the brawny and tall-topt city

ALL day I have walked the city and talked with my friends, and thought of prudence, Of time, space, reality—of

ment atonement , Knows that the young man who composedly periled his life and lost it, has done exceeding

The best farms, others toiling and planting, and he unavoidably reaps, The noblest and costliest cities

things in their attitudes, He puts today out of himself, with plasticity and love, He places his own city

Let those that were prisoners take the keys! (Say!

Let the Asiatic, the African, the European, the American and the Australian, go armed against the murderous

Let there be immense cities—but through any of them, not a single poet, saviour, knower, lover!

You flagged walks of the cities! you strong curbs at the edges! You ferries!

I think heroic deeds were all conceived in the open air, I think I could stop here myself, and do miracles

Now if a thousand perfect men were to appear, it would not amaze me, Now if a thousand beautiful forms

to which you were destined—you hardly settle yourself to satis- faction satisfaction , before you are

To take to your use out of the compact cities as you pass through!

Were you thinking that those were the words — those upright lines? those curves, angles, dots?

Were you thinking that those were the words — those delicious sounds out of your friends' mouths?

with them—my qualities interpenetrate with theirs—my name is noth- ing nothing to them, Though it were

echo the tones of souls, and the phrases of souls; If they did not echo the phrases of souls, what were

If they had not reference to you in especial, what were they then?

Poem of Walt Whitman, an American. 1 — Poem of Walt Whitman, an American.

I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk

If nothing lay more developed, the quahaug in its callous shell were enough.

if our colors were struck and the fighting done?

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

edition of Leaves of Grass this and another poem, which had been included in every edition since 1855, were

appear in section 6 of the final version ofStarting from Paumanok, first published as Proto-Leaf in the 1860

WE have before us one of the most extraordinary specimens of Yankee intelligence and American eccentricity