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YOU felons on trial in courts; You convicts in prison-cells—you sentenced assassins, chain'd and hand-cuff'd
with iron; Who am I, too, that I am not on trial, or in prison?
As I flit through you hastily, soon to fall and be gone, what is this book, What am I myself but one
In 1888, Whitman observed to Traubel: "Dowden is a book-man: but he is also and more particularly a man-man
references included two prefatory quotations from Whitman, even though according to Rossetti, the book
Whitman, I was extremely obliged to you for the present of your photograph & books; the vol. volume of
In 1888, Whitman observed to Traubel: "Dowden is a book-man: but he is also and more particularly a man-man
Burroughs would write several books involving or devoted to Whitman's work: Notes on Walt Whitman, as
For it is not for what I have put into it that I have written this book, Nor is it by reading it you
When I Read the Book. WHEN I READ THE BOOK.
WHEN I read the book, the biography famous, And is this, then, (said I,) what the author calls a man's
William Michael Rossetti noted receipt of the books on October 8, 1871.
headed " The Poetry of Democracy: Walt Whitman and capped with the names of the three last issued books—rather
of democratic art & poetic literature, as discriminated from aristocratic—quotes freely from all my books—will
The firm was advertised as Whitman's Boston agent in books published in 1871 and 1872.
I also enclose several articles & criticisms written about my books in England & America within the last
Pray let me hear from you—and if the books & papers reach you safely.
They always have book stands at them. It ought to be put in hand immediately, & out soon.
street—five-sixths of the city went on with its business just the same as any other day—I saw a big squad of prisoners
—they reminded me of the squads of rebel prisoners brought in Washington, six years ago— —The police
should like first rate to just drop in on you all— I continue to get letters &c from abroad about my book—I
I read this afternoon in the book. I read its first division which I never before read.
It is more to me than all other books and poetry."
According to date entries in an address book (Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of Walt Whitman, The Library
According to date entries in an address book (Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of Walt Whitman, The Library
poems before the British public, but more because I am annoyed at the horrible dismemberment of my book
Should my proposal suit you, go right on with the book.
My book is my best letter, my response, my truest explanation of all.
My dear sir, You can get any or all my Books at J. S. Redfield, 140 Fulton street, upstairs, N. Y.
two facts: Walt Whitman was in Brooklyn at this time, and Redfield was now the distributor of his books
Redfield, a publisher at 140 Fulton Street, New York, was a distributor of Whitman's books in the early
Free, and 500 copies of Democratic Vistas (The Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University Rare Book
Marston, Low, and Searle, who, on March 28, 1873, transferred Redfield's account for the remaining books
He printed Ada Clare's 1866 book Only a Woman's Heart.
He noted, however, that most book dealers were unwilling to sell Whitman's books, either because of inadequate
things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books
— the sign-painter is lettering with red and gold; The canal-boy trots on the tow-path—the book-keeper
of every rank and reli- gion religion ; A farmer, mechanic, artist, gentleman, sailor, quaker; A prisoner
to consider if it really be; A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books
I embody all presences outlaw'd or suffering; See myself in prison shaped like another man, And feel
me; Of their languages, governments, marriage, literature, products, games, wars, manners, crimes, prisons
Delano, Secretary of the Interior. see Ex. press book p 134.
Blue Books rec'd.
yet unknown results to come, for thrice a thou- sand thousand years,) These recitatives for thee—my Book
Merged in its spirit I and mine—as the contest hinged on thee, As a wheel on its axis turns, this Book
loud alarm, and frequent advance and retreat, The infidel triumphs—or supposes he triumphs, Then the prison
Well over and above all I often have been wondering how the Books I sent you turned out as you read them
, how did the curious Book on Indian Philosophy?
How did Mazzinis small but yet great Book tally with your own teachings of your own people.
There was so much representative ideas in these small Books that I yearn to know how it all appeared
Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the shelf unopen'd!
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
book-words! what are you?
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 son
slave is one with the master's call, and the master salutes the slave, The felon steps forth from the prison—the
I see the menials of the earth, laboring; I see the prisoners in the prisons; I see the defective human
let the prison- keepers prison-keepers be put in prison!
let those that were prisoners take the keys! (Say! why might they not just as well be transposed?)
Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!
our chief chivalric epic, the Faerie Queene , should set before itself as the general end of all the book
of any class of men, disposed to be antagonistic to any, it is to those whose lives are spent among books
But in New York their author saw nothing except "a great place for cheap books, and a big den of small
But in New York their author saw nothing except "a great place for cheap books, and a big den of small
17 All the hapless silent lovers, All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked,
Books, friendships, philosophers, priests, action, plea- sure pleasure , pride, beat up and down, seeking
library, Nor reminiscence of any deed of courage, for America, Nor literary success, nor intellect—nor book
for the book-shelf; Only a few carols, vibrating through the air, I leave, For comrades and lovers.
This is possibly Reverend William Sharman, whose address was listed in Whitman's address book (Notebooks
February 28, 1876, and Whitman sent her a copy of Leaves of Grass on July 27, 1876 (Whitman's Commonplace Book
It later described the 1860 Leaves of Grass as "a book evidently intended to lie on the tables of the
He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the
i must send you a line to tell you i have got all the letters and the order came very good and the book
Walt a decade earlier: "Mother wants me to be sure and tell you that you must bring her one of those books
He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the
See Ed Folsom, Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman: A Catalog and Commentary (University of Iowa
He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the
He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the
york New York after i put it in he wanted me to send him a line of the amount invested as the bank book
He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the
He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the
these hours supreme, No poem proud, I, chanting, bring to thee—nor mastery's rapturous verse; But a book
Your convictions founded no doubt in great measure upon your private knowledge of the prisoner, and good
WHEN I READ THE BOOK.
The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep, The prisoner sleeps well in the prison—the run-away son
17 All the hapless silent lovers, All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked,
let the prison- keepers prison-keepers be put in prison!
book-words! what are you?
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
In 1888, Whitman observed to Traubel: "Dowden is a book-man: but he is also and more particularly a man-man
I am tired of books too and take but one with me; one Rossetti gave me, a "Walt Whitman"—Grand old man
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871