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  • 1891 78
Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY
Year : 1891

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Personal Memories of Walt Whitman

  • Date: November 1891
  • Creator(s): Alma Calder Johnston
Text:

glad I could manage to brew some tea, and equally delighted to make the old, slow, quizzical smile play

"Good-Bye, my Fancy!"

  • Date: 5 September 1891
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) was a popular English actress and author of plays, poems, and memoirs concerning

Annotations Text:

.; Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) was a popular English actress and author of plays, poems, and memoirs concerning

Good-Bye My Fancy

  • Date: 12 September 1891
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

and Fanny Kemble in Fazio, "a rapid-running, yet heavy-timber'd, tremendous, wrenching, passionate play

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 6 May 1891

  • Date: May 6, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

childhood & it was with a swelling heart that I again looked upon the dear old spots where we used to play

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 3 January 1891

  • Date: January 3, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

thousands on the Town Hall Square—the great central open space in the town—to listen to the band which plays

midnight & upon the last stroke of 12 everybody wishes everybody else a "Happy New Year," the band then playing

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 3 June 1891

  • Date: June 3, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

The birds sang & twittered joyously in the swaying & rustling trees overhead & a gentle breeze played

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 24 October 1891

  • Date: October 24, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

The wooden pillow had "the feathers the wrong way up": the tapping & pounding was "playing the piano

Hannah Whitman Heyde to Walt Whitman, 22 September [1891]

  • Date: September 22, [1891]
  • Creator(s): Hannah Whitman Heyde
Annotations Text:

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

Harry Buxton Forman to Walt Whitman, 7 May 1891

  • Date: May 7, 1891
  • Creator(s): Harry Buxton Forman
Annotations Text:

The play was given its first performance on May 7, 1886, in the Grand Theatre, Islington, London, by

Horace L. Traubel to Walt Whitman, 10 June 1891

  • Date: June 10, 1891
  • Creator(s): Horace L. Traubel
Annotations Text:

King Edward VII, Gordon-Cumming was confronted and pressured to sign a document that he would not play

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 3 April 1891

  • Date: April 3, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Annotations Text:

is referencing Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy in Act 3, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's play

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 11 September 1891

  • Date: September 11, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

As we approached along the avenue a band struck up, playing by lamplight, the new moon shining over head

Everyone manifestly glad to see him back—talk & laughter, band playing all the time—now "Home, Sweet

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 21 September 1891

  • Date: September 21, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Annotations Text:

Helena Modjeska (1840–1909) was a well-known Polish actress, particularly famous for playing Shakespearean

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 20 September 1891

  • Date: September 20, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

Outside, the sky perfectly clear & cloudless, the fountain playing, the trees across the open space,

—Evening spent in the house—chiefly in learning & playing "Pedro" with Willie & his friends.

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 4 October 1891

  • Date: October 4, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

—I liked too to get out into the "bush"—chipmunks calling & playing about me—one little fellow descending

a tree in front of me & playing about for fully 5 minutes before running off amid the rustling leaves

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 5 December 1891

  • Date: December 5, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Annotations Text:

He was the author of numerous plays, sonnets, and narrative poems.

John H. Johnston to Walt Whitman, 30 November 1891

  • Date: November 30, 1891
  • Creator(s): John H. Johnston
Text:

Giacosa —the Shakspear of Italy—whose Play on Wed. night at the Standard Theater Sarah Bernhard Bernhardt

Annotations Text:

The French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923) starred in stage productions of popular French plays in

She had roles in plays by Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas and played males roles, including Shakespeare's

Margrave Kenyon to Walt Whitman, 22 February 1891

  • Date: February 22, 1891
  • Creator(s): Margrave Kenyon
Text:

powers far greater than Irving's, if you can see special merit & a new great teaching in the Norse play

As publishers do not care to buy the play, I cannot get into public notice.

Annotations Text:

The full name of this play is Madansema, Slave of Love; re Tolstoi, a counter-song to anti-marriage,

Clara Jecks (1854–1951) was an English actress and singer who often played the roles of either young

Helena Modjeska (1840–1909) was a well-known Polish actress, particularly famous for playing Shakespearean

Mary A. Jordan to Walt Whitman, 8 March 1891

  • Date: March 8, 1891
  • Creator(s): Mary A. Jordan
Text:

Probably you do not, nor that you used to be very good to them, playing "tag" and marbles with them—now

Raymond Blathwayt to Walt Whitman, 17 April 1891

  • Date: April 17, 1891
  • Creator(s): Raymond Blathwayt
Annotations Text:

He was also a very successful dramatist; he wrote numerous plays that became West End and Broadway productions

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 29 October 1891

  • Date: October 29, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

works came under scrutiny during the nineteenth-century because of suspicions that he had written plays

For more on the Baconian theory, see Henry William Smith, Was Lord Bacon The Author of Shakespeare's Plays

He was the author of numerous plays (including Richard III and Henry VIII), sonnets, and narrative poems

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 10 November 1891

  • Date: November 10, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

works came under scrutiny during the nineteenth-century because of suspicions that he had written plays

For more on the Baconian theory, see Henry William Smith, Was Lord Bacon The Author of Shakespeare's Plays

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 14 November 1891

  • Date: November 14, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

works came under scrutiny during the nineteenth-century because of suspicions that he had written plays

For more on the Baconian theory, see Henry William Smith, Was Lord Bacon The Author of Shakespeare's Plays

Shakespeare and Francis Bacon here, he is referencing the Baconian theory—the idea that Shakespeare's plays

Baconian theorist, who authored Hamlet's Note-book, in which he argued that Bacon had authored the play

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 17 October 1891

  • Date: October 17, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

works came under scrutiny during the nineteenth-century because of suspicions that he had written plays

For more on the Baconian theory, see Henry William Smith, Was Lord Bacon The Author of Shakespeare's Plays

He was the author of numerous plays, sonnets, and narrative poems.

Henry VIII is one of Shakespeare's history plays, based on the life of Henry VIII, who was the King of

Shakepeare's play was published in the First Folio of 1623.

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 27 October 1891

  • Date: October 27, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

works came under scrutiny during the nineteenth-century because of suspicions that he had written plays

For more on the Baconian theory, see Henry William Smith, Was Lord Bacon The Author of Shakespeare's Plays

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 11 September 1891

  • Date: September 11, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

The Asylum band was out in front of the house and they played quite a while to welcome me home.

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 21 November 1891

  • Date: November 21, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

works came under scrutiny during the nineteenth-century because of suspicions that he had written plays

For more on the Baconian theory, see Henry William Smith, Was Lord Bacon The Author of Shakespeare's Plays

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 12–14 November 1891

  • Date: November 12–14, 1891; November 13, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

Ignatius Donnelly will lecture on "The Authorship of Shakespeare's Plays" at the Academy of Music, on

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 7–8 November 1891

  • Date: November 7–8, 1891; November 6, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Annotations Text:

works came under scrutiny during the nineteenth-century because of suspicions that he had written plays

For more on the Baconian theory, see Henry William Smith, Was Lord Bacon The Author of Shakespeare's Plays

Walt Whitman to Hannah Whitman Heyde, 26 October 1891

  • Date: October 26, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

see me, bro't brought a big bunch of fall wild flowers—the big stout Dutch woman is out in front playing

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 23 May 1891

  • Date: May 23, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Whitman is referring to King Lear, the titular character of William Shakespeare's play King Lear (1606

In the play, Lear abdicates his throne and loses his former glory, becoming insane and impoverished.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 18 November 1891

  • Date: November 18, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

works came under scrutiny during the nineteenth-century because of suspicions that he had written plays

For more on the Baconian theory, see Henry William Smith, Was Lord Bacon The Author of Shakespeare's Plays

Note-book (Boston: Houghton & Mifflin, 1886), which argued that Sir Francis Bacon had written the plays

writer, pseudo-scientist and Shakespeare critic, who argued that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays

A favorite theory was that Francis Bacon, the English philosopher, actually wrote the plays and left

Leaves of Grass (1891–1892)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

- ing playing within me.

play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!

To go to battle—to hear the bugles play and the drums beat!

The passionate teeming plays this curtain hid!)

I am a dance—play up there! the fit is whirling me fast!

Essay. Leaves of Grass (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

New World receives with joy the poems of the antique, with European feudalism's rich fund of epics, plays

Cluster: Inscriptions. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Around the idea of thee the war revolving, With all its angry and vehement play of causes, (With vast

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

again, Amorous, mature, all beautiful to me, all wondrous, My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays

hair rumpled over and blind- ing blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play

what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed, Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate, he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done, I will play

Cluster: Calamus. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is play

- ing playing within me.

Cluster: Sea-Drift. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

leaving his bed wander'd alone, bareheaded, barefoot, Down from the shower'd halo, Up from the mystic play

tangle, openings, and pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold, the play

Cluster: By the Roadside. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I love to look on the Stars and Stripes, I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute

Cluster: Drum-Taps. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

up here, soul, soul, Come up here, dear little child, To fly in the clouds and winds with me, and play

defiles through the woods, gain'd at night, The British advancing, rounding in from the east, fiercely playing

march'd forth to inter- cept intercept the enemy, They are cut off, murderous artillery from the hills plays

Cluster: Autumn Rivulets. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The passionate teeming plays this curtain hid!)

Cluster: Whispers of Heavenly Death. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

limitless, in vain I try to think how limitless, I do not doubt that the orbs and the systems of orbs play

AS I sit with others at a great feast, suddenly while the music is playing, To my mind, (whence it comes

Starting From Paumanok.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

step they wend, they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions, One generation playing

its part and passing on, Another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn, With faces

Song of Myself.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

loos'd to the eddies of the wind, A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms, The play

From the cinder-strew'd threshold I follow their movements, The lithe sheer of their waists plays even

I believe in those wing'd purposes, And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me, And consider

the common air that bathes the globe. 18 With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play

not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.

To the Garden the World

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

again, Amorous, mature, all beautiful to me, all wondrous, My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays

I Sing the Body Electric.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

hair rumpled over and blind- ing blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play

what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed, Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

Native Moments.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate, he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done, I will play

O You Whom I Often and Silently Come.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is play

- ing playing within me.

Salut Au Monde!

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Who are the infants, some playing, some slumbering? Who are the girls? who are the married women?

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!

Play the old role, the role that is great or small according as one makes it!

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