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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?

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

2. Some punkins, perhaps.

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

Nebuchadnezzar" in a list of Henry Clapp's bon mots in the New-York Saturday Press , May 26, 1860, p. 2.

Nebuchadnezzar" in a list of Henry Clapp's bon mots in the New-York Saturday Press, May 26, 1860, p. 2.

Of course those who assert the doctrine of total depravity must find some part of the person too vile

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.

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.

of Thayer & Eldrige, the publishers of the 1860–61 edition of Leaves of Grass , account at least in part

The stanza that follows this exhibition of the most extraordinary and unjustifiable conduct on the part

Mannahatta in itself, Singing the song of These, my ever united lands—my body no more inevitably united, part

to part, and made one identity, any more than my lands are inevitably united, and made one identity,

The review of Leaves of Grass that appeared in the New York Saturday Press on June 2, 1860, was signed

The review of Leaves of Grass that appeared in the New York Saturday Press on June 2, 1860, was signed

I am not shocked when I read the stories of the Old Testament: I see behind the apparently gross form

Kennedy; Scarsdale; or, Lancashire and Yorkshire Borders Thirty Years Ago; Elkerton Rectory, being Part

Of course those who assert the doctrine of total depravity must find some part of the person too vile

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

upon and received with wonder, pity, 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 early lilacs became part of this child; And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

, and the beautiful curious liquid, And the water-plants with their graceful flat-heads—all became part

, The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt-marsh and shore-mud— These became part

"He sold the two-story house [on Cumberland Street] to Lazarus Wineburgh on 15 March 1854" (68).

The review of Leaves of Grass that appeared in the New–York Saturday Press on June 2, 1860, was signed

Now, if I do not understand them, or any parts of them, what good will it do to say so—silence, it seems

The novel involves a courtesan who becomes part of the fashionable world of Paris.

office (Edwin Haviland Miller, ed., The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

He takes the loftiest views of man, reverences all his parts, and will not have any thing omitted.

" and asserting "I love the poem" ("Thoughts and Things" New-York Saturday Press, January 14, 1860, 2)

Boston March 2, 1860 Walt Whitman Dear Sir, Your favor is at hand. Our Mr.

discussing the whole thing thoroughly Yours Truly Thayer & Eldridge Thayer & Eldridge to Walt Whitman, 2

The Mr Brown who has rented the lower part of the house has sent a number of things to the house, carpets

Mother has taken the house and rented the lower part to a Mr "John Brown" @ $14 per month Mat and I keeping

I remembered the story of Miller at Lundy's Lane, of Bruce (was it?)

Sculpture —then sculpture was necessary—it was an eminent part of religion it gave grand and beautiful

—It and was the true needed expression of the people, the times, and their aspirations.— It was a part

distinction whatever, is neither more or less than another, and the debatable points to be settled 2

countrymen ours in several sections of the Republic who profess their readiness to pick out certain parts

of that half part of the compact as either not necessary or not right just.— .

—For myself however I am free to say with a candid heart I know not of any such parts.

— 20 References to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 indicate that parts of this manuscript were likely

.; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; Transcribed from digital images

It is doubtless the case The The most immense share part of a A ncient History is altogether unknown

—The best and most important part of History cannot be written told.

dates and reliable information,— being It is surer and more reliable; because by far the It greatest part

The manuscript was therefore probably written between 1855 and 1860, and at one time likely formed part

The most immense part of

A work of a great poet is not remembered for its parts—but remembered as you remember the complete person

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

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

—the vocal performer to make far more of his song, or solo part, by by-play, attitudes, expressions,

It may also relate to the following segment in the preface: "when those in all parts of these states

let them accompany (at times exclusively,) the songs of the baritone or tenor— Let a considerable part

and libretto as now are generally of no account.— In the American Opera the story and libretto must

I am an old artillerist I tell of some On South Fifth st (Monroe place) 2 doors above the river from

.; At some point Whitman clipped out portions of two pages in this notebook (leaves 2 and 3 as represented

6 2 3 — 25 00 cxnm 4 Thoughts Of o O wnership—As if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter

West a hundred years from now— th two hundred years—five hundred years— (This ought to be a splendid part

Transcribed from Joel Myerson's The Walt Whitman Archive: A Facsimile of the Poet's Manuscripts, vol. 1, part

2, Garland Publishing, 1993; Primary Source Media's Major American Authors on CD-Rom: Walt Whitman,

Transcribed from Joel Myerson's The Walt Whitman Archive: A Facsimile of the Poet's Manuscripts, vol. 1, part 2,

Whitman transcribed part of William Collins's "Ode on the Passions" on the back of this leaf. of these

At some point, this manuscript formed part of Whitman's cultural geography scrapbook.

wholesome, clear-eyed, Six feet ten inches high— tall— of noble head and bearded face, Every limb, every part

A City Walk: 2 V Just a list of all that is seen in a walk through the streets of Brooklyn & New York

.; 2; V; Transcribed from digital images of the original.

The lines eventually became part of the independent poem "Poets to Come."

book in a conversation with Horace Traubel on December 9, 1889 (With Walt Whitman in Camden, 6:180–2)

book in a conversation with Horace Traubel on December 9, 1889 (With Walt Whitman in Camden, 6:180–2)

2 (+) As to you, if you have never not yet learned to think, enter upon it now, Think at once with directness

Beneath them can be discerned the ink number 2.

Beneath them can be discerned the ink number 2.

Though the subject matter is similar, the manuscripts do not appear to be continuous.; 2; Transcribed

At one point, this manuscript likely formed part of Whitman's cultural geography scrapbook.

.— At one point, this manuscript likely formed part of Whitman's cultural geography scrapbook.