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  • 1887 13
Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY
Year : 1887

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Excerpt from Chapter 19 of Anne Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings

  • Date: 1887
  • Creator(s): Herbert Harlakenden Gilchrist
Text:

; for unless it be the faithful servant in As You Like It, there is not a single character, in his plays

Walt Whitman to Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe, 6 March 1887

  • Date: March 6, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

He played the lead role in Clito, a new blank-verse drama set in ancient Greece, written by the English

Walt Whitman to Alma Calder Johnston, 6 March 1887

  • Date: March 6, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

yesterday afternoon—Wilson Barrett sent over a carriage for me & I had just a good ride, & liked the play

Annotations Text:

He played the lead role in Clito, a new blank-verse drama set in ancient Greece, written by the English

Greece, written by the English dramatist Sydney Grundy (1848–1914) in collaboration with Barrett, who played

Walt Whitman to Jessie Louisa Whitman, 6 March [1887]

  • Date: March 6, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

He played the lead role in Clito, a new blank-verse drama set in ancient Greece, written by the English

Walt Whitman to Hannah Whitman Heyde, [13 April 1887]

  • Date: [April 13, 1887]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Walt's favorite brother, Jeff played the piano and had a lively sense of humor.

An Old Poet's Reception

  • Date: 15 April 1887
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

He was born in Havana, where his father used to play the fiddle for home amusement.

The lad began playing when he was but little taller than his father's fiddle.

Walt was mightily pleased with the music, and the Chevalier played some more. Meantime, W. H.

Walt Whitman to Susan Stafford, 3 May 1887

  • Date: May 3, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

bird is singing—the cars are puffing & rattling, & the children of the neighborhood are all outdoors playing—So

Walt Whitman to Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe, 13 June [1887]

  • Date: June 13, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

thing is so beautiful & peaceful in the nearly declined but dazzling sun—The little children are playing

mostly strawberries) I see glimpses of a fine sunset in the west & the boys out in Mickle Street are playing

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, John Burroughs, and Richard Maurice Bucke, 30 August 1887

  • Date: August 30, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Davidson's review of Ignatius Donnelly's The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

, which argued that Shakespeare's plays had been written by Francis Bacon.

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: September 1887
  • Creator(s): Lewin, Walter
Text:

Bucke, his intimate friend and truly able biographer, who plays Boswell to Whitman's Johnson, reports

Peter Bayne. Among Whitman's personal friends were Bryant and Longfellow.

Walt Whitman to Mr. and Mrs. Harned, 7 November [1887?]

  • Date: November 7, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

A Chat with the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: December 1887
  • Creator(s): Cyrus Field Willard
Text:

stores, Customs, costumes, churches, theatres, looks And lingoes all are vanished, are Gone, are played

Knock Out the resonant, brassy Notes, and prattle along like A lad at play, while ever and Anon sweet

Anna Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings

  • Date: 1887
  • Creator(s): Herbert Harlakendend Gilchrist | Anna Gilchrist | William Michael Rossetti
Text:

Age 48— 51. new country — Description of Philadelphia— Edward The Carpenter — Walt Whitman at the play

Round the Priory we findart and nature playing into each other's hands.

A fondness for music was soon to show itself;an announcement ,that her mistress would play asonata of

Tennyson is all that he said. having men- tioned that they had just come over from Peters- field, and

His play ought to be worth reading and seeing.

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