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unknown editor regarding Whitman's ambition to "start a public demand for the general exchange of prisoners
A book of new things.
Note Book Walt Whitman The notes describing "the first after Osiris" were likely derived from information
in it— from himself he reflects his the fashion of his gods and all his religion and politics and books
great authors and schools, / A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books
The few who write the books and preach the sermons and keep the schools— I do not think ther are they
the sun and moon, and men and women—do you think nothing more is to be made of than storekeeping and books
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 work, but because, being a woman, and having read the uncharitable and bitter attacks upon the book
Mashed Fireman,' 'The Sinking Ship,' or any other of the hundreds of pictures scattered throughout the book
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
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
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
Lippincott and Co., 1856) and co-author with his brother Charles of Ye Book of Copperheads (Philadelphia
bed—but sit down to write to you, that I have been here in Boston, to-day is a fortnight, and that my book
They have treated me first rate—have not asked me at all what I was going to put into the book—just took
By the booksellers of the United States generally the book was ignored, but it could be obtained by the
, but for scientific examples, introduced as they might be in any legal, medical, or physiological book
So much for the matter of the book. As to the manner, it is the same as that with which Mr.
It is however, as a printed book, got up in a splendid manner, and is electrotyped for the sake of cheapness
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
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
the same fleet with his clipper, you must first be careened over and scrape off the barnacles of old books
Not a fierce revolution in this world's history but may be regarded as a grand psalm in the Book of Time
Before we condemn the book, let us read it. Before we cry out 'Eccentricity!'
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
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
for stuffed crocodiles, and readers of romance pronounced the "Arabian Nights" the most wonderful of books
But the leading principle of the book, where the sense is intelligible, appears to be the praise of muscle
It would be impossible to transcribe from any part of the book without offending common sense, and it
The very get-up of the book, with its rough bark-like binding, only bears out the author's idea of ruggedness
literature, products, games, juris- prudence jurisprudence , wars, manners, amativeness, crimes, prisons
.— Absorb no more longer, mon ami, from the schools text-books .— or t Go no more not , for some years
Books have generated too long upon themselves books, and religions upon religions, and poems upon poems
alarm and fre- quent frequent advance and retreat, The infidel triumphs—or supposes he triumphs, The prison
By the late 1840s Ticknor and Fields were publishing most of their trade books in a dark brown cloth;
beginning in 1856 with Tennyson's The Poetical Works, Ticknor and Fields began to print books in a distinctive
For discussion of Ticknor and Fields's "blue and gold" books see Michael Winship, American Literary Publishing
situated and the more so that you are having things done to suit you in the way of publishing your book
Mother wants me to be sure and tell you that you must bring her one of those books by the authoress of
I am glad that you are having so good a time and that your book has such a good prospect of success.
Books being a luxury, there was no demand. All book firms were 'shaky.' . . .
Honeybun worked as Thayer and Eldridge's book-keeper.
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
By the late 1840s Ticknor and Fields were publishing most of their trade books in a dark brown cloth;
beginning in 1856 with Tennyson's The Poetical Works, Ticknor and Fields began to print books in a distinctive
For discussion of Ticknor and Fields's "blue and gold" books see Michael Winship, American Literary Publishing
Wilkins Times Tribune Day Book Vanity Fair Momus Illustrated News Herald of Progress Journal Commerce
suggests that Whitman's publishers "should send copies at once to Vanity Fair, Momus, The Albion, The Day Book
New York Weekly Day Book was a Copperhead newspaper founded by Nathaniel R. Stimson in 1849.
The Day Book billed itself as "The White Man's Paper" and changed its name to the Caucasian (August 1861
Beginning in October 1861, the paper was excluded from the mail for fifteen months; the Day Book reappeared
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
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
—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 ).
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!
This is no book, Who touches this, touches a man, (Is it night? Are we here alone?)
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
.— The g books ar 6 I suppose it is plain enough that when you we stop the spread of slavery we do no
but are like a font of brevier type indiferent indifferent whether it be the letters set up a bawdy book
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
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
It is a book of poetry such as may well please twenty-one year old statesmen and philosophers, and people
Walt Whitman really be a poet, and if the contents of this book really be poetry, what Shakespeare and
Well, we have gone to the book itself for a decision.
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
'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.
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 bizarre appearance of the book also indicated a crazy origin.
A misquotation of line 258, Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid , "procul, o procul este, profane."
A misquotation of line 258, Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, "procul, o procul este, profane."
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
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
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
Whitman may be a man of some talent indeed, portions of his book would indicate something of the kind
Whitman mentioned the book in a conversation with Horace Traubel on December 9, 1889 (With Walt Whitman
Whitman mentioned the book in a conversation with Horace Traubel on December 9, 1889 (With Walt Whitman
Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the shelf unopened!
To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, death, face to face! To mount the scaffold!