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

—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

The review Thayer and Eldridge sent to Whitman appeared in the Boston Banner of Light (2 June 1860).

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

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

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

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

Judson (1823–1886), the first of the dime novelists and the originator of the "Buffalo Bill" stories.

In 1860 its circulation was 400,000; see Mott, A History of American Magazines, 2:356–363.

stopping at a lodging house, have a very nice room, gas, water, good American folks keep it—I pay $2—

About 12 I take a walk, and at 2, a good dinner.

Friday morning, March 2, '60.

Walt Whitman to the Editor of the Atlantic Monthly, 2 March 1860

life"; see Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Charles Godfrey Leland (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1906), 2:

Beach's husband which appeared in the New-York Saturday Press on June 2; see Gay Wilson Allen, The Solitary

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

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

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

I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag

The sentries desert every other part of me, They have left me helpless to a red marauder, They all come

Parting, tracked by arriving—perpetual payment of perpetual loan, Rich showering rain, and recompense

I take part—I see and hear the whole, The cries, curses, roar—the plaudits for well-aimed shots, The

is but a part.

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

pert apparel, the deformed attitude, drunken- ness drunkenness , greed, premature death, all these I part

vouchsafe to me what has yet been vouchsafed to none—Tell me the whole story, Tell me what you would

of words, In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part

faults and derelictions, 38* The light touches, on my lips, of the lips of my com- rades comrades , at parting

matter who they are, And when all life, and all the Souls of men and women are discharged from any part

of the earth, Then shall the instinct of liberty be discharged from that part of the earth, Then shall

However, no lines from this manuscript can be directly linked to any part of Inscriptions.

Thoughts 2 2.

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

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

The verso contains part of a cancelled letter about the steamer Georgia between Charles Francis Adams

" 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

When America does what was promised, When each part is peopled with free people, When there is no city

inland and seaboard, When through These States walk a hundred millions of superb persons, When the rest part

that loves unrequited, the money- maker moneymaker , The actor and actress, those through with their parts

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

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

I SAY whatever tastes sweet to the most perfect per- son person , that is finally right. 2.

factories, palaces, hovels, huts of barbarians, tents of nomads, upon the surface, I see the shaded part

on one side, where the sleepers are sleeping—and the sun-lit part on the other side, I see the curious

I see the cities of the earth, and make myself at ran- dom random a part of them, I am a real Parisian

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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)

wend—they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions, One generation playing its part

and passing on, And another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn, With faces turned

Let others ignore what they may, I make the poem of evil also—I commemorate that part also, I am myself

how superb and how divine is your body, or any part of it. Whoever you are!

2* Lands where the northwest Columbia winds, and where the southwest Colorado winds!

The earth expanding right hand and left hand, The picture alive, every part in its best light, The music

behind you, What beckonings of love you receive, you shall only answer with passionate kisses of parting

, The body does not travel as much as the Soul, The body has just as great a work as the Soul, and parts

All parts away for the progress of Souls, All religion, all solid things, arts, governments—all that

returning in the afternoon—my brood of tough boys accom- panying accompanying me, My brood of grown and part-grown

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

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

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

2[1860], Boston notebookloc.04605xxx.00981Note Book1860prosepoetry34 leaveshandwritten; A notebook from