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ed.EdwinH.CadyandLouisJ.Budd(Durham,N.C.,1987),273–89at273,283. 2.LeavesofGrass(Boston:ThayerandEldridge,1860
andoneofhisstu- dentsbecamethefirsttoobservespermatozoain1677.Leeuwenhoek’sfamousdraw- ings of sperm were
Emersonwasmusinginhisjournalabout the ways reading and sexual union were intricately and figuratively
“Every hour,”Whitmanknew, was “the semen of centuries” (LG 1860, 226), and America’s hour was now at
“A sprit of my own seminal wet”: Spermatoid Design in Walt Whitman’s 1860 Leaves of Grass
(among them were Whitman, Lincoln, the naturalist John Burroughs and the remarkable African American
erected to house the city's swelling population.
of determining those areas of the city where African Americans built some of their own institutions,
While bridges were defended and a ring of forts encircled the city, Washington fostered vibrant life.
What portions of the city were disproportionately affected by disease and crime?
Were you thinking that those were the words—those upright lines? those curves, angles, dots?
Both were responding to the same problem, even if their reactions were contradictory —or even, arguably
Do you term that perpetual, pistareen, paste-pot work, American art, American drama, taste, verse?
“American History/American Memory: Reevaluating Walt Whitman’s Relationship with the Brooklyn Bridge.
“Poet at Work: Walt Whitman Notebooks 1850s–1860s.” American Memory.
oneofthelastpartsofthebooktobeprepared, thisadvancecopyprobablydidnotreachWhitmanuntilthemonthofpublication,May 1860
Arguably,then,WhitmancouldhavebegunhisannotationsontheBlueBook even before the publication of the 1860
By the 1860 edition, pensive had become a much more prominent word for Whitman, especially in contexts
sdictionaryincludestheItalianpensierosowhentracingtheetymology ofpensive.)Both“L’Allegro”and“IlPenseroso”were
His scholarship focuses on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature, American periodicals