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The contents are brief essays or sketches, mostly fragmentary, many of them dated as if they were leaves

The several prefaces to , 1855, 1872, 1876, succeed; then the North American Review paper on "Poetry

Daniel Webster (1782-1852), the American orator and politician.

William Walker (1824-1860) was an American adventurer and soldier who attempted to conquer several Latin

American countries.

.; Daniel Webster (1782-1852), the American orator and politician.; Henry Clay (1777-1852) was an American

He was also Secretary of State from 1861-1869.; William Walker (1824-1860) was an American adventurer

and soldier who attempted to conquer several Latin American countries.

president of the Republic of Nicaragua from 1856-1857 and was executed by the government of Honduras in 1860

political reformer Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894)led Hungary's struggle for independence from Austria.; The American

I am very glad you have written these clear strong words for the North American.

She, like my mother's sister, are to me fine, lovable samples of American women—in whom, I mean, I detect

, like the distinctive aroma of a flower, something special—that is American—a decisive new quality to

seldom now, for indeed to be near you, even in that way would do me good—often & often do I wish we were

A carpenter near us has a sky-lark in a cage which sings as jubilantly as if it were mounting into the

however, Thompson's letters figure in the essay Robert Burns as Poet and Person published in The North American

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leaveshandwritten; A draft of Whitman's essay Carlyle from American Points of View, first published

the draft, Whitman indicates that the piece was originally submitted for publication in the North American

Carlyle from American points of View

the list, not merely because of my esteem for you personally, but because of your importance in American

reviews & magazines, &c, &c, & will doubtless embrace a number of the working men of letters in other cities

We were conquered and taken as captives, to work on the slowly raised tumuli.

To the mines at the north were we driven in summer; There, scourged every day, we toiled side by side

fires were kindled atop the alter-topped mound; You and I, captives and slaves, were the off'rings;

To the flames were we given, we youths who had suffered together.

We looked at each other, we two who were suffering together.

I hear from Percy that you are in better health than you were during the summer.

We were never before separated. It is a trial.

Until I came to Michigan, thirty years ago, all my surroundings were among Friends, twelve years at Roslyn

Two of these neighbors were the poet William Cullen Bryant and his wife (Krieg, 227).

BOX 370 IOWA CITY, IOWA. Iowa City, Ia. 4/23, 1882.

I had a jolly game of tennis on their lawn,—a lawn such as you Americans dont don't dream of!!

Portions of this manuscript were revised and used in A Memorandum at a Venture, first published in the

June 1882 issue of the North American Review.

does not appear in the essay Robert Burns as Poet and Person until its publication in The North American

Hanscom | Police Inspector | City Hall."

I spoke to your North American Review man about it on Friday, but he did not bite; said it was not in

The "Carlyls" as the Scotch call them were a numerous race in this section.

They were a stern savage set, not to be trifled with. One old Scotchman said they were "bullies."

You would have a good time if you were to come.

We had a fine voyage over, such the American sun & climate in mid-ocean—clean, bright, hot, a sea of

He has the American vice of smartness & flippancy. I do not think you would care for the piece.

The Puritans, at home, denounced superstition & persecution yet at Salem these very elements were the

We were to celebrate the occasion on the 31 st of this month, but college harness held some of us too

Willson, Box Dep't Gen'l P.O., New York City. John G. Willson to Walt Whitman, 29 May 1882

Aug 12 188 2 My dear Walt— Nine years ago, I delivered before a German Society of New York City a lecture

on American literature, in which a great deal was said about you.

I have been staying here for a week, and shall leave in two or three days: but back in the city about

which have no sense; and all effort on his part to play the irrational beast would be ridiculous, were

literary folk will be glad that Walt Whitman has found his publisher, and that the interests of American

This book is an American classic. [Leaves of Grass By Walt Whitman. Philadelphia, Rees, Welsh & Co.

than the one which is the caption of this paper, nor one that has attracted more attention in the American

clear up the passages in nature which God has left obscure; the writer does not explain that the poems were

Further publication of Walt Whitman's collected poems having been interdicted in Boston, the plates were

Rees Welsh & Co., of Philadelphia, whose advance orders exceeded their first edition, a copy of which

Whitman's book on the ground that it was obscene literature, unless a long list of passages and poems were

Whitman is an American Naturalist, quite as reckless as Zola or Maupassant, but withal infinitely less

The chief difference between the American Naturalist and his ultra-Atlantic brethren, is that he does

Whitman has fully equalled, if not exceeded the extant writers of antiquity, and has used phraseology

WHAT HE HAS TO SAY—ESTHETIC TAFFY FOR THE AMERICANS—THEY LOVE THE TRUE AND THE BEAUTIFUL—MR.

AMERICANS SHOULD NOT COPY. "Would the standard be the same for all countries?" "By no means.

The Americans should not copy the decorations of England.

American decoration should be entirely different from that of England r any other country.

power—pulse of the continent," offer the finest embodiment of the grandeur of applied mechanics which American

thought, and writing; and from this effort, whatever the mistakes or limitations of its method, American

writings—and we do not hesitate to say that it is a volume admirably calculated to convince those who were

that the book is not amenable to the laws against sending obscene literature through the mails; and were

and there, With ranging hills on the banks, with many a line against the sky, and shadows, And the city

He could not have been bred anywhere but in a certain part of New York city a generation ago—in any other

And American letters were in a peculiar transition state when he made his first appearance in print,

Julia Ann Moore (1847-1920), an American poet, was dubbed the "Sweet Singer of Michigan" by James F.

.; Julia Ann Moore (1847-1920), an American poet, was dubbed the "Sweet Singer of Michigan" by James

Bryant, Lowell, and a host of others, but it must be admitted that little or nothing distinctively American

Each though is, as it were, a leaf or blade therof which he offers to the reader.

Far from looking upon this immeasurable universe as the stakes, as it were, of an eternal game of Whist

I DREAMED IN A DREAM I dreamed in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the

It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city And in all their looks and words.

stoppage and never can be stoppage, If I, you, and the worlds, and all beneath or upon their surfaces, Were

from the modern Athens he now appears undimmed and, it is to be hoped, victorious in the neighbor city

Half-Paralytic"—these and other titles for his bundle of jottings, made during and after the war, were

Whitman's liking; and in his criticism of modern society, although at bottom he believes that the American

—these, with a few inevitable reserves, were all acceptable to, and accepted by, the author of Leaves

There were two or three I shall probably never forget.

Elsewhere there is eloquent recognition of the work done for American literature by Longfellow, Bryant

The first writings of Carlyle and Emerson were despised and rejected; and yet these very writings have

had so profound an influence in forming the thought of our period, that it were impossible to imagine

It seems as if, so far, there were some natural repugnance between a literary and professional life,

A large part of the volume is occupied by Whitman's diary during the American War.

Some of the sketches were written as letters to friends during the war and afterwards.

The great cities reek with respectable as much as non-respectable robbery and scoundrelism.

the spirit of civilized communism and socialism is not far enough removed from the minds of our American

But his greatest grievance is that there is no American literature, as such.

But Artemus Ward is as redolent of the American soil as Walt Whitman, and while he is not, in any sense

But granted that we have no distinctive American literature, with the exception of Walt Whitman himself

London] 9 th May [18]82 Dear Walt I have the file of Osgood correspondence from O'Connor —so this is American

No American paper (judging from past experience) would print any thing I might write on the subject.

the Falls without change so that there would not be any difficulty in coming that far alone if you were

these are all here as we had heard them sweetly sung or said by the Orphic seer himself, only they were

Here were scorn of the conventions of society by one who never knew them, and who was as ignorant of

It would be a thousand pities were the author judged by the few passages, perhaps not two pages in all

He is neither a true American nor a Greek.

Were he the former, he would have a sense of humor; were he the latter, he would have a sense of art.

We were all glad to know that the statement was wrong although as the time passed and I had an opportunity

affection & interest—only I saw such obstacles in the way, & foresaw such dangers to liberty if it were

See Walter Grünzweig, Constructing the German Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995

Bagenal, in his book The American Irish (London, 1882), 220–221, discusses the schism among the various

As we were all roped together—two guides and ourselves, he was extricated without much damage.

and come thundering down into the valley, hurling huge fragments & splinters into the air as if they were

I have come across two charming American girls, with their mother, who are living here now.

They are the first Americans I have met who seemed to me at all native growths, and not spoiled Europeans

See Walter Grünzweig, Constructing the German Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995

confirmed by seeing that a perceptible 'disillusionment' has already made its appearance among many who were

See Walter Grünzweig, Constructing the German Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995

despised—or if it happens to escape that fate is overtaken by a still worse one, in being lauded as if it were

See Walter Grünzweig, Constructing the German Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995

See Walter Grünzweig, Constructing the German Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995

It is time, however, that an attempt were made to arrive at a sober estimate of his real value; and to

Nor does it mean that the merit of the author was quite unrecognized: on the contrary, by some who were

But the mass of his countrymen were not and are not strong enough to accept him; they have perhaps too

If we were asked for justification of the high estimate of this poet, which has been implied, if not

They themselves were fully at rest, they suffered not; The living remained and suffer'd.