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William White 1978 D-T Drum-Taps (New York: 1865 ) and Sequel to Drum-Taps (Washington: 1865-6 ).
Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White 1980 NUPM Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, ed.
From Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams to Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg; from Langston
Whitman's grandmother Amy Williams Van Velsor was especially committed to her Quaker beliefs, and her
He sometimes dreaded slave labor as a "black tide" that could overwhelm white working men.
typesetting at the young age of twelve as an apprentice on the Long Island Patriot under the tutelage of William
By the end of August he had engaged the New York printer William E.
Hotten, meanwhile, advertised the book by associating Whitman with Swinburne and William Blake (whose
Redfield, like William E.
This printing was bound in half cream leather with red, green, black and white marbled paper; the spine
None of our musings took concrete form, however, until after I had moved to the College of William &
Some of you may know that the brown site featured William Michael Rossetti's Poems by Walt Whitman and
biographical sketches of three of the most important figures—Horace Traubel, John Burroughs, and William
William Thomas, formerly the director of the Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia
All we know for certain about such projects as the The William Blake Archive The Complete Writings and
then again in the 1876 and 1881-1882 (and following) editions, as well as—in a cropped version—in William
William Reeder, Philadelphia. Courtesy Library of Congress.