Search Results

but a little humor, his poetry would have been less immoral; and we prefer to think that it is but a part

The poet's allusions to death are among the finest passages in his works, and his songs of parting are

In reference to the position which a part of the public has taken towards the book we are reminded of

into account the imagination often informing some one of these rhapsodies as a whole, even when its parts

but the overlying grace of the poet and the underlying spirit of the philanthropist animate every part

promised, When through these States walk a hund- red hundred millions of superb persons, When the rest part

This is the edition to which Whitman refers in his postcard of December 2, 1881.

just rec'd received —I will be happy to see you Saturday next—Will be in from 9 to 10½ forenoon—& from 2

Kirkwood amid the pouring rain—nothing like a ducking I say to make a fellow appreciate sunshine, the old story

431 Stevens Street Camden Jan: 18 Walt Whitman will be in from 2 till 3½ this afternoon, & will be most

his noblest works" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1915], 2:

The quotation was from a letter written by Swinburne to Wilde on February 2 (Feinberg).

send it forth to the world with a complacent smirk required great courage—or brazen effrontery—on the part

Holmes sings, he yet may have succeeded in uttering but a small part of the music that is in him.

things, One swallow does not make a summer, nor do a few happy turns of phrase make a poet—for our part

is a common saying among publishers that next to very warm praise of a book downright abuse on the part

Osgood & Co. 1881. $2. Simon-pure, short for "the real Simon Pure," means real or genuine.

While answering freely, Walt wound up this part of the conversation by saying that those were problems

Not the least part of his visit, it may be noted, is the intertwining, which is becoming closer and closer

But as for Tennyson, he has not allowed himself to be a part of the living world, and of the great currents

Yet consider the forces that make the flower, the elements that are parts of it, the intricacy of its

eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span, or make it impatient, They are but parts

, anything is but a part.

Times—2½ columns headed "Whitman Poet and Seer" if you have not I will send you one.

But man is a rational animal, and not like the beasts, which have no sense; and all effort on his part

And the story ran that Mr.

Parts of it remind one of the "Manuscript Symphony of Dolon," but the most of it is an echo of Emerson

He had never gone farther than the first part; so digusted was he that he threw the book across the room

It is not essentially altered in the main part, nor is what coarseness was once there in the least softened

I am sure as I can be all of those elaborated and lengthy parts from Man's Moral Nature should be ruled

My dear Madam — Yours of 9th rec'd received —I should be pleased to send you the book—the price is $2—

Pearsall; see frontispiece to The Correspondence (New York: New York University Press, 1961–69), vol. 2;

Rolleston's poem "Calvin Harlowe" appeared in Kottabos, 4.1 (1882), 1–2.

Feb: 18—Evn'g— Yours of 15th rec'd received , with the $10 for Centennial Edition—2 vols volumes —Sincere

him of in my name, that I have by no manner of means relaxed my admiration of his noblest works—such parts

We are given to understand that if certain parts of the book should be withdrawn its further circulation

He tells us that he loves us and proves it by narrating as parts of his own being our inmost thoughts

Medea's cauldron is a reference to the story of Greek myth, Medea and Aeson, in which Jason (Aeson's

Medea's cauldron is a reference to the story of Greek myth, Medea and Aeson, in which Jason (Aeson's

Boston, March 21 188 2 Walt Whitman Esq Dear Sir: Since our letter of yesterday we have received a memorandum

The seven lines entitled "To a Common Prostitute" beginning on page 299 and ending on page 300 303. 2-

article on April 2; evidently he returned the galleys of the "Notes" on April 9 (Whitman's Commonplace

–22); "To a Common Prostitute" (pp. 299–300, in entirety); "Unfolded Out of the Folds" (p. 303, ll. 2–

Boston, Mch March 29 188 2 Walt Whitman Esq Dear Sir: We do not think the official mind will be satisfied

March 31 '82 U S A Down here again spending a few days—nothing very different—pretty much the same story

Camden New Jersey April 2 '82 My dear Dana Yes I am willing you should make extracts—Enclosed (suggestions

Dana, 2 April 1882

Boston, April 10 188 2 Walt Whitman Esq Dear Sir: We have laid before the District Attorney the alterations

your letter seems to imply that this possible change is the result of a "settled decision" on our part

Croly to Walt Whitman, 2 May 1882

Boston, May 4 188 2 Walt Whitman Esq.

I intend to excoriate them for their shameful part in this shameful transaction.

very bad piece of luck has happened to me in my new Boston book—but it would be quite a complicated story

It is postmarked: Camden | May | 17 | 2 PM | N.J.; Washington, D.C. | May | (?) | 1882 | Recd.

It is all right for you to take such an attitude as you do toward them—for you personally; but my part

, and the part of all your friends, is to whale them.

This royalty was fixed at twenty-five cents for every $2 copy sold.

But the author, feeling that he could not remove a part of the work of his life without endangering its

under—of which I the slightest idea though—but I feel sure the book will gather added, perhaps a main part

The Herald supported Whitman against the Boston censors on May 24 and 28, and on June 2 it quoted Oscar

The Herald, Boston, May 26 188 2 Dear Walt Whitman: I thank you heartily for the "little picture."

that the "Children of Adam" pieces were inevitable and consistent—and in that sense, at least, proper—parts

I wish the article I wrote for Bucke could appear, because a part of it was devoted to the recent critiques

Camden N J June 2 '82 Dear Baxter My friend John Sands, a veteran magazine & newspaper writer, has just

Guernsey — Walt Whitman If printed send me three or four copies— Walt Whitman to Sylvester Baxter, 2

Next thing we shall have to meet, will be the stories of what Emerson said to this man or that man.

REES WELSH & CO., BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS. 23 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, 6.5 188 2 Walt Whitman

that Ed was up here in Camden in a store—(I have not seen Ed yet)—Van I send you a paper—read that story

REES WELSH & CO., BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS, 23 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, 6. 16 188 2 Walt Whitman

belief in this truth since it burst upon me a veritable sunrise in reading your poems in 1869—each part

wish you would let me know the price, as I have enquiries on this point, and can only suppose it is $2,

Leaves of Grass, (in a style as good as the Osgood issue) from W W's electrotype plates to retail at $2—

Leaves of Grass, to be of about the same size & in equally good type, paper & style & to retail at $2—

WW a Study to retail at $2—will call soon W W Walt Whitman to Rees Welsh & Company, 20 June 1882

REES WELSH & CO., BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS. 23 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, June 21 188 2 Walt

favor of 20th, The terms regarding "Leaves of Grass" are satisfactory, we publishing the books for two (2)

REES WELSH & CO., BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS. 23 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, 6, 26 188 2 Walt Whitman