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a grave offence for an author to thrust his personality between the reader and the truth which the book

We have been drawn irresistibly to the book, again and again, for there is a simple-minded and strong

This opinion will doubtless astonish many who have read the book.

have any appreciation of the essential dignity of man and the grandeur of his destiny, to buy the book

the Liberator," WWQR 24.4 (2007): 201-207. http://www.uiowa.edu/~wwqr/greenspan_article_Spring%202007.pdf

the Liberator," WWQR 24.4 (2007): 201-207. http://www.uiowa.edu/~wwqr/greenspan_article_Spring%202007.pdf

Books, friendships, philosophers, priests, action, pleas- ure pleasure , pride, beat up and down, seeking

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

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!

unknown editor regarding Whitman's ambition to "start a public demand for the general exchange of prisoners

You felons on trials in courts, You convicts in prison cells—you sentenced assas- sins assassins , chained

and handcuffed with iron, Who am I, that I am not on trial, or in prison?

when it became the pleasing duty of that model judge to administer the last rites of the law to a prisoner

of the roughs, a kosmos, Disorderly, fleshy, sensual, &c. was the "poet of pantheism," and that the book

of Spinoza, perfectly indifferent with regard to the matter that enters into the composition of his book

drops, Candid, from me falling—drip, bleeding drops, From wounds made to free you whence you were prisoned

see these sights on the earth, I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny—I see martyrs and prisoners

Otto of the Department of the Interior about the finding of the Blue Book in Whitman's desk; images of

these items are unavailable.The book itself is heavily corrected and revised throughout in Whitman's

This will help you to see how the book grew, if that is anything.

But I guess you would know how it grew if you never possessed the book.

The book is a milepost . . . This gives a glimpse into the work shop . . .'" The Blue Book

alarm and fre- quent frequent advance and retreat, The infidel triumphs—or supposes he triumphs, The prison

literature, products, games, juris- prudence jurisprudence , wars, manners, amativeness, crimes, prisons

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

and handcuffed with iron, Who am I, that I am not on trial, or in prison?

SO far, and so far, and on toward the end, Singing what is sung in this book, from the irresisti- ble

LIFT me close to your face till I whisper, What you are holding is in reality no book, nor part of a

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

slave is one with the master's call, and the master salutes the slave, The felon steps forth from the prison—the

Portions of this manuscript were used in Emerson's Books, (The Shadows of them), which first appeared

The essay finally appeared in Complete Prose (1892) as Emerson's Books, (The Shadows of them).

The printing notes refer to possible ornamentations for specific pages of Leaves and reference other books

Edward Grier provides information about the specific books that Whitman mentions, noting similarities

Note Book

—When the book was first issued we were clerks in the establishment we now own.

We read the book with profit and pleasure. It is a true poem and writ by a true man.

Whitman's books, and put our name as such under his, on title pages.

—If you will allow it we can and will put your books into good form, and style attractive to the eye;

We can dispose of more books than most publishing houses (we do not "puff" here but speak truth ).

neck, the hands folded across the breast. 22 I see the menials of the earth, laboring, I see the prisoners

in the prisons, I see the defective human bodies of the earth, I see the blind, the deaf and dumb, idiots

NEW BOOKS.

Look here, Walt Whitman, what made you write this book, these Leaves of Grass, full of good thoughts,

You’ve made a book, it can’t be rubbed out for it is a fact.

New Books

the soft heads, on the shoulders of men and women indiscriminately, have conceived that it is a pure book

A professedly obscene book carries with it its own condemnation among decent people, and finds its own

for the Atlantic Monthly—"for sale everywhere" on respectable book-shelves—in very respectable type

The dangers of the book lie in its claiming to be a respectable book—in its claiming to be a pure book

We are inclined to think that the author considers the book a pure one.

'Sensation books,' or what are so called, are now the rage, and each successive production of this kind

Their authors for the most part belong to the foggy or to the flippant schools of book-makers; for the

And now we have another 'sensation' book—an anti-slavery affair—one of the brood spawned by 'Uncle Tom

As a work of art it will be as ephemeral as most books of its class.

Blue Book Copy of Leaves of Grass Blue Book Copy of Leaves of Grass a machine readable transcription

Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass Boston Thayer and Eldridge 1860–61 The New York Public Library, Rare Book

My dear Walt, The books are duly delivered.

It is written all over the book. There is an aroma about it that goes right to the soul.

other paper in the land, and as your poems are not new to me, I can say it will all be used for the book—in

library, Nor reminiscence of any deed of courage, for America, Nor literary success, nor intellect—nor book

for the book-shelf; Only these carols, vibrating through the air, I leave, For comrades and lovers.

LIFT me close to your face till I whisper, What you are holding is in reality no book, nor part of a

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

beastiality we remember ever to have seen in print; a beastiality which is the most prominent feature of the book

The book is, in many respects abominable; in many respects the maddest folly and the merest balderdash

Stimson, the New York Day Book had a distinct proslavery agenda and billed itself as the "White Man's

publishers of the 1860–61 edition of Leaves of Grass , account at least in part for the tone of the Day Book

Stimson, the New York Day Book had a distinct proslavery agenda and billed itself as the "White Man's

publishers of the 1860–61 edition of Leaves of Grass, account at least in part for the tone of the Day Book's

If you will look in the next number of Frank Leslie, an advertisement headed "a Good Book given away"

There is considerable opposition among the trade to the book.

Mercury with the allusion of Ada Isaacs Menken Heenan, and think it a good indication that the book is

We sent the books to England a long while ago.—a day or two after you left Boston.

For a discussion of the significance of this color change see Ed Folsom, Whitman Making Books / Books

For a description of Imprints see Ed Folsom, Whitman Making Books / Books Making Whitman (University

published a small advertisement in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper under the heading "A Good Book

Free" which reads: "One of the most interesting and spicy Books ever published, containing 64 pages

address as above, and you will receive by return of mail, without expense, a handsome and well–printed book

—which he has not learned in any school, at second hand, or gathered from books—or torn from parchment

And here, after so long a lapse of time,—hundreds and thousands of highly bepraised books, in the mean

day by day, and will still continue to follow them until men cease to be fools—here we say is this book

We find many things new and old in this book; the old, welcome as the familiar faces of the old Gods

And for the claims of this book to be called a book of poems, we will venture to say that there is more

At any rate, the book is bound to sell, if money enough is spent circulating the Reprints and advertising

You should send copies at once to Vanity Fair, Momus, The Albion, The Day Book, The Journal of Commerce

I want to do great things for you with the book, and as soon as I get over my immediate troubles will

favorable response, the editor of the Saturday Press, Henry Clapp, Jr., had forwarded a copy of Whitman's book

Her husband, however, angered that Clapp had sent the book to his wife, appropriated it and wrote a scathing

The book now in the market, the third issue, containing, large and small, one hundred and fifty-four

Such is the book to which this curious collection of "criticisms" refers.

Thus the book is a gospel of self-assertion and self-reliance for every American reader—which is the

majority, will be perplexed and baffled by it at first; but in frequent cases those who liked the book

critics,” (carefully minding never to state the foregoing fact, thought it is stamped all over the book

But somebody whispers, open your book!

What care I for books now (though loved companions ever before).

I have that which is better than books. The book opens itself. What do I behold! oh! blessed eyes!

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

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

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

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

title "City of Walks and Joys," the name Whitman originally assigned to "Calamus" 18 in his "Blue Book

This title was changed in the "Blue Book" to "City of orgies, walks and joys" and finally became "City

title "City of Walks and Joys," the name Whitman originally assigned to "Calamus" 18 in his "Blue Book

This title was changed in the "Blue Book" to "City of orgies, walks and joys" and finally became "City

title "City of Walks and Joys," the name Whitman originally assigned to "Calamus" 18 in his "Blue Book

This title was changed in the "Blue Book" to "City of orgies, walks and joys" and finally became "City

Whitman's Dirty Book. The Westminster Review, in a survey of Contemporary Literature, says: If Mr.

Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" had been printed on paper as dirty as his favourite topics,—if the book

only addresses, but has found a public of a much wider class, and it becomes a question how such a book

Whitman's Dirty Book

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

Which is the theory or book that, for our purposes, is not diseased?

Who are you, that wanted only a book to join you in your nonsense?

What are your theology, tuition, society, traditions, statute-books now?

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!

SO far, and so far, and on toward the end, Singing what is sung in this book, from the irresisti- ble

irresistible impulses of me; But whether I continue beyond this book, to ma- turity maturity , Whether

We cannot however stereotype your little book now, as we have so much already underway.

Business will be stagnant with us till after the Presidential election when with our new books we shall

a full-page announcement of his proposed new volume of poetry,The Banner At Day-Break (though the book

The praise in regard to the mechanical execution of the book is great, from that source.

If you make a book too good for the money—you ask for it, you degrade it at once.

Let us hear from you further on this point—we do not think favorably of paper covers for a dollar book—nor

The Saturday Review described the 1860 Leaves of Grass as "a book evidently intended to lie on the tables

Books, as now produced, have reached their twentieth remove from verities.

Books, as now produced

The proof of his greatness is in his book; and there is proof enough.

"This is no book," it says; "whoever touches this, touches a man."

No book exists anywhere more beautifully in earnest than this.

Of the defects in this book something also may properly be said.

Whitman puts into the book one or two lines which he would not address to a woman nor to a company of

What are your theology, tuition, society, traditions, statute-books now?

The shape of the prisoner's place in the court-room, and of him or her seated in the place, The shape

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

the last number of the I The "Leaves of Grass" is published by Thayer & Eldridge, of Boston, and the book—take

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

He is the author of a book of poetry called "Leaves of Grass," which, whatever else you may think, is

Ralph Waldo Emerson pronounced it the representative book of the poetry of our age.

Since the publication of his book, Walt Whitman has driven hack in New York, and employed the hours of

Do write and let me know about when the book is to be ready. I can do a great deal for it.

Or if they dont don't , to let me act for them here as a kind of N.Y. agent to push the book, and advance

The book is finished in all that makes the reading part, and is all through the press complete—It is

The typographical appearance of the book has been just as I directed it, in every respect.

afterwards—I do not know for certain whether it is a good portrait or not—The probability is that the book

I make Thayer & Eldridge crack on the elegant workmanship of the book, its material, &c. but I won't

Published as a serial in 1851-1852, and as a book in 1852.

:42–44), who "behaved very friendly indeed" (Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University Rare Books

Whitman's "Leaves of Grass ∗ " had been printed on paper as dirty as his favourite topics,—if the book

only addresses, but has found a public of a much wider class, and it becomes a question how such a book

essay entitled Belles Lettres that includes reviews on Ethica; or Characteristics of Men, Manners, and Books

essay entitled Belles Lettres that includes reviews on Ethica; or Characteristics of Men, Manners, and Books

written, and almost all in type, before we were aware that any similar notice had been taken of the book

Whitman's book, there is some poetry—a little—of an exquisite and peculiar cast, which flecks the surface

in Shakspeare's 'Venus and Adonis,' which is an enumeration of points better suited to Tattersall's books

Yet for the one-tenth that we have excepted we shall keep the book, and read it, not without a strange

Thayer & Eldridge have printed the book in very handsome style.

The book will be a very handsome specimen of typography, paper, binding, &c.

go-ahead fellows, and don't seem to have the least doubt they are bound to make a good spec. out of my book

received his mother's letter of March 30, 1861 (Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University Rare Books

I opened the book at random, as one does a new book when leisure is wanting, and read what the pages

Expecting a favorable response, the editor of the , Henry Clapp, Jr., had forwarded a copy of Whitman's book

Her husband, however, angered that Clapp had sent the book to his wife, appropriated it and wrote a scathing

favorable response, the editor of the Saturday Press, Henry Clapp, Jr., had forwarded a copy of Whitman's book

Her husband, however, angered that Clapp had sent the book to his wife, appropriated it and wrote a scathing