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Young Men’s Unions

  • Date: 14 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In New York and other large cities these associations are carried on with the most complete success.

In the Western District of this city they have an organization of the kind which is doing well, and we

jealously any attempt to bring in issues and topics extraneous to the prime objects for which they were

Young America Movement

  • Creator(s): Yannella, Donald
Text:

Duyckinck and Cornelius Mathews, the Young Americans supported the common man, democracy, and reform.

most concerned with encouraging and promoting American writers.

American Literary Magazines: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921.Yannella, Donald. "Cornelius Mathews."

Studies in the American Renaissance: 1978. Ed. Joel Myerson. Boston: Twayne, 1978. 207–258.

You villain, Touch

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

includes ideas and phrases that resemble those used in Unnamed Lands, a poem published first in the 1860

You villain, Touch

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

includes ideas and phrases that resemble those used in "Unnamed Lands," a poem published first in the 1860

Annotations Text:

includes ideas and phrases that resemble those used in "Unnamed Lands," a poem published first in the 1860

you know how

  • Date: 1855 or before
Text:

See Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday

you know how

  • Date: 1855 or before
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—I know if it were the main matter, as under the name of pray Religion the original and main matter.

See Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday

Annotations Text:

See Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday

connections are more conclusive than others, but it is clear that at least some of the ideas and images here were

See Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday

[You bards of ages hence]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

The seventh poem in the sequence Live Oak, with Moss, became section 10 of Calamus in 1860 and was permanently

The lines on the first page correspond to verses 1-3 of the 1860 version, and those on the second page

[You are English]

  • Date: 1856-1860
Text:

partial draft of the poem eventually known as A Broadway Pageant, first published in the June 27, 1860

You and Me and To-Day

  • Date: 14 January 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

This poem later appeared as "Chants Democratic 7," Leaves of Grass (1860) and as "With Antecedents,"

You and I

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

1859poetryhandwritten3 leavesall leaves 21 x 13 cm; Originally numbered 84, this poem appeared in the 1860

of Grass as main section 7 of Enfans d'Adam, and was retitled within the group We Two—How Long We Were

"Yonnondio" (1887)

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

as he was anxious to absorb Native American words into American English, so was he determined to absorb

a Native American presence into American poetry.

self-determination and self-definition even while it reenacts the American usurpation of Native American

frontier history, as "cities, farms, factories fade," and a "misty, strange tableaux" appears, populated

Whitman believed that one job of the poet, then, was to give Native Americans lines in the evolving American

Yonnondio.

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

—unlimn'd they disappear; To-day gives place, and fades—the cities, farms, factories fade; A muffled

[Yet completion were lacking if]

  • Date: between 1850-1860
Text:

A.MS. draft.loc.00037xxx.00053[Yet completion were lacking if]between 1850-1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf26.5

[Yet completion were lacking if]

Yesterday's Visit Over the Water Works

  • Date: 14 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The Canal was viewed, and the points of merit and demerit, as between it and the proposed conduit, were

[Yesterday was dull]

  • Date: 19 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

For further reading on laudanum, see: Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, American Journal

Annotations Text:

For further reading on laudanum, see: Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, American Journal

Yesterday

  • Date: 28 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

See Stephen Mintz Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press

Park, located on the southernmost tip of Manhattan, was formerly an artillery battery to protect the city

We should be better pleased were our city government to have more parks—more open places, where a man

Annotations Text:

See Stephen Mintz Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press

Park, located on the southernmost tip of Manhattan, was formerly an artillery battery to protect the city

Yesterday

  • Date: 27 November 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The holiday passed off quietly and pleasantly, the various offices and stores were closed and business

Services were held, in the morning, at many of the churches and the attendance was very good.

Johnson, City Missionary.

On returning to their school, in North 2d street, they were served with an excellent dinner, furnished

The Yellow Fever At Quarantine

  • Date: 7 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Two of these—the American ship Grotto, of Bath, bound to Scotland, and the British ship Suzanne, bound

to Liverpool—were obliged to make this port on account of having lost portions of their crews.

The survivors of the crews and passengers were landed and both vessels sent below.

Yellow Fever

  • Date: 27 April 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Ever since the present quarantine laws have been rigidly put in force, the city has been comparatively

But inside of a city, through the houses and streets, are the most important requisites for safety.

should be a regular weekly course of disinfectants applied to the gutters of all the old streets in the city

Yellow Fever

  • Date: 8 July 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— The New York Times pretends that there is yellow fever in this city, because the Captain of the Brig

Years of the Unperform'd

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

European kings removed; I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;) Never were

Years of the Modern.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

kings removed; I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;) —Never were

Years of the Modern.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

European kings removed, I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;) Never were

Years of the Modern.

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

European kings removed, I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;) Never were

"Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Fulton, Joe Boyd
Text:

heights of "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (1865), vividly renders the effect of the American

Year of Meteors (1859-60)

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the scaffold;) I would sing in my copious song your census returns of The States, The tables of population

"Year of Meteors (1859–60)" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Oates, David
Text:

or ill: the election of Lincoln and the execution of abolitionist zealot John Brown; the census of 1860

, with its revelation of American commercial might and its tabulation of immigrants; and public sensations

First and last the poem alludes to the "comets and meteors" of 1860, celestial omens "all mottled with

Whitman was working on "Year of Meteors" in 1860, soon after the third edition was published by Thayer

Walt Whitman and the American Reader. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990.Kaplan, Justin.

Year of Meteors.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the scaffold;) —I would sing in my copious song your census returns of The States, The tables of population

Year of Meteors.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the scaffold;) I would sing in my copious song your census returns of the States, The tables of population

Year of Meteors.

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

the scaffold;) I would sing in my copious song your census returns of the States, The tables of population

Written Impromptu in an album

  • Date: 1883
Text:

The contents of this manuscript were used in Complete Prose (1892), under the title Written Impromptu

[writing letters, by the bed-side]

  • Date: 1863–1864
Text:

Though parts of Our Wounded and Sick Soldiers were partially reprinted in the New York Weekly Graphic

Write A Drunken Song

  • Date: probably between 1860 and 1875
Text:

26tex.00055xxx.00708Write a drunken song…Write A Drunken Songprobably between 1860 and 1875poetry1 leafhandwritten

Wright, James (1927–1980)

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

psychic depths for their imagery, to seek out places of interior solitude where images resided that were

would immediately associate Wright's poetry with Whitman's, his concern with the condition of the American

"Wound-Dresser, The" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
Text:

As his Memoranda During the War and Specimen Days volumes attest, he felt that deaths and agonies were

cleans and dresses amputations and wounds with "putrid gangrene" (section 3) and blood infections that were

infections, the poem's wounded more poignantly represent the agonies of the armies and the wounded American

Worthington, Richard (1834–1894)

  • Creator(s): Miller, David G.
Text:

Worthington was a printer in New York who published unauthorized editions of Leaves of Grass in the 1860s

For two hundred dollars, Worthington purchased the publishers' plates for the 1860 edition of the book

Worth Trying

  • Date: 12 September 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Grundy will say, exerts an influence over American society, among the members of which approbativeness

World Literature: Exclusive Interview with Ken Price and Caterina Bernardini, Scholars of the Works of Whitman, the King of the Poets of Democracy

  • Creator(s): Ken Price
Text:

Whitman strives to create a distinctive poetry suited for an American national tradition: a modern epic

Other American authors had written about democracy before, but they did not imbibe the democratic spirit

devoted a long essay to democracy, Democratic Vistas (1871), which deals with the shortcomings of American

Campion, the editors of Walt Whitman: the Measure of His Song (1998), have shown that almost every American

Some poets, like Ezra Pound or Allen Ginsberg, were more explicit than others such as T.S. Eliot.

"World Below the Brine, The" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Wohlpart, A. James
Text:

JamesWohlpart"World Below the Brine, The" (1860)"World Below the Brine, The" (1860)Receiving its present

World Below the Brine" was originally published in the "Leaves of Grass" cluster as number 16 in the 1860

American Transcendental Quarterly 53 (1982): 49–66.Freedman, William A.

"World Below the Brine, The" (1860)

A Word to the Ladies

  • Date: 28 May 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

as to the comparative philo-progenitiveness—to use a Phrenologic term—of the native and emigrant population

The total population of the State is given as 1,132,369, of whom about one-sixth are foreign born.

The total number of marriages which took place during that year are stated at 12,829, of which 6,918 were

The native five-sixths of the population have only 15,947 children during the year, while the foreign-born

A Word Out of the Sea

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

, Down from the showered halo, Up from the mystic play of shadows, twining and twisting as if they were

A Word Out of the Sea

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

, Down from the shower'd halo, Up from the mystic play of shadows, twining and twisting as if they were

wooding at night

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—Our two were on the way to Philadelphia?

Women’s Rights—Free Love with A Vengeance

  • Date: 14 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The officers were about two-thirds women, the remainder men.

He knew there were persons present, both ladies and gentlemen, who agree with him in these views, and

they wished to know whether such question as he wished to be broached and discussed, were in order on

These doctrines were received by the audience with considerable applause!

The hisses were only a few. The only objection made to Mr.

Women’s Rights in the New Library

  • Date: 8 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A whole course of lectures has been delivered, the current spring, in New York city, boldly advocating

Women as a Theme in Whitman's Writing

  • Creator(s): Ceniza, Sherry
Text:

Whitman and Leaves, three women wrote, in Henry Clapp's Saturday Press, defending Whitman's third (1860

Adah Menken also lauded Whitman's thinking and writing in 1860, and Eliza Farnham quoted Whitman in her

A bedrock tenet in Whitman's concept of American democracy was his belief in each person's having the

In the 1856 and 1860 editions of Leaves, the public images become more pronounced.

City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789–1860. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1987.Traubel, Horace.

women

  • Date: Between about 1854 and 1860
Text:

Grass, in addition to a few images and phrasings that Whitman used in the second (1856) and third (1860

A brief passage on surface 12 possibly contributed to the poem first published in 1860 as the fourth

Two passages on surface 21 were used in the tenth poem of the 1855 Leaves of Grass, later titled There

Two of the draft lines of poetry on surface 31 were used in the untitled third poem of the Debris cluster

in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

women

  • Date: Between about 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Note Book Walt Whitman The notes describing "the first after Osiris" were likely derived from information

—What real Americans can be made out of slaves?

What real Americans can be made out of the masters of slaves?

The questions are such as these Has his life shown the true American character?

first printed in the second (1856) and third (1860–1861) editions.

Annotations Text:

edition of Leaves of Grass but that the notebook also contains material clearly related to things that were

first printed in the second (1856) and third (1860–1861) editions.

Whitman revised the text on leaf 23 verso to include a rather long passage that exceeded the space available

Woman's Rights Movement and Whitman, The

  • Creator(s): Ceniza, Sherry
Text:

For the next ten years, until the Civil War began, national meetings were held yearly, as well as numerous

These conventions were going on in the exact period of Whitman's most creative breakthroughs.

They focused on the issue of consuming importance to Whitman—the analysis of just what American democracy

Rose.What were the issues?

Equally important to these activists were the issues of work, education, and dress.

A Woman's Estimate of Walt Whitman

  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist [unsigned in original]
Text:

what this lady had written should be published for the benefit of English, and more especially of American

course, that all the pieces are equal in power and beauty, but that all are vital; they grew—they were

to concentrate within himself her life, and, when she kindled with anger against her children who were

And, if he were not bold and true to the utmost, and did not own in himself the threads of darkness mixed

of all, he were not the one we have waited for so long.

Annotations Text:

approximately half the poems found in the 1867 Leaves of Grass (poems that might have offended English readers were

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