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Walt Whitman & the World

  • Date: 1995
  • Creator(s): Allen, Gay Wilson | Folsom, Ed
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He is Behemoth, wallowing in primitive jungles, bathing at fountain-heads of mighty rivers, crushing

"Flood-tide ofthe river, flow on!

": "From pent-up aching rivers, I From that ofmyselfwithout which I were nothing" (LG, 91).

Thus he is called by the wind, the birds, and the currents ofthe great rivers ofhis people.

These boundless rivers! You are measureless and boundless like them!"

Abraham Simpson & Co. to Walt Whitman, 1 August 1867

  • Date: August 1, 1867
  • Creator(s): Abraham Simpson & Co.
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Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Arkansas, Missouri, and the Mississippi River

Nashville, and the Mississippi River. II.—SECULAR SONGS. III.—WORDS WITHOUT MUSIC.

Walt Whitman, the American Poet

  • Date: May 1876
  • Creator(s): Adams, Robert Dudley
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energetic sons did, and still do, amidst a newer and far grander variety of wilderness of lake, plain, river

practical labor of farms, factories, foundries, workshops, mines, or on shipboard, or on lakes and rivers—resumes

The infinite oceans where the rivers empty!

"Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?

West, The American

  • Creator(s): Albin, C.D.
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For him the region meant far more than mighty rivers, fertile soil, and apparently limitless natural

Looking out upon the jagged, looming majesty of a mountain peak, or the raw, river-forged scoop of a

suspect it in the future" without viewing the prairies, the states of the Midwest, or the Mississippi River

Alex H. Smith to Walt Whitman, 1 September 1887

  • Date: September 1, 1887
  • Creator(s): Alex H. Smith
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have you also in our assocn association The idea of a great brotherhood—a kingdom, not confined by rivers

Personal Memories of Walt Whitman

  • Date: November 1891
  • Creator(s): Alma Calder Johnston
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I have tried them by stars, rivers.

easy for him), and farther on, to the horizon, where sparsely filled squares stretched to the East River

Walt Whitman: Preface to the Sixth Edition

  • Creator(s): Álvaro Armando Vasseur
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table, against the wall, in the little apartment on Balcarce street whose two windows open onto the River

Poetry ], Ezra Pound's "Cantos"; then Sandburg's "Chicago Poems"; and around 1915 Lee Masters's Spoon River

Walt Whitman: Prólogo para la sexta edición

  • Creator(s): Álvaro Armando Vasseur
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de Erza Ezra Pound; luego los “Poemas de Chicago” de Sandburg; y hacia 1915 la Antología de “Spoon River

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 25 February 1871

  • Date: February 25, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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navigable waters of Lake Michigan, at Chicago, by the deposition of dredged material from Chicago river

Amos T. Akerman to L. P. Poland, 29 March 1871

  • Date: March 29, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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Anderson, the principal surveyor in the District of Ohio, between the Little Miami and Scioto rivers,

Amos T. Akerman to Columbus Delano, 4 April 1871

  • Date: April 4, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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Spear as special agent for the Indians at Cheyenne River Agency, Dakota Territory, which were transmitted

Amos T. Akerman to Hamilton Fish, 11 September 1871

  • Date: September 11, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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As the occurrence appears to have taken place in the river close to the dock at Liverpool, it is probable

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 28 December 1871

  • Date: December 28, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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the injunction suit to restrain the Government from prosecuting its work at Hallett's Point, East River

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 25 January 1871

  • Date: January 25, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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has been directed to appear for the defence of the Engineer Officers having charge of the Potomac River

Amos T. Akerman to Columbus Delano, 13 February 1871

  • Date: February 13, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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Dec. 27, 1870, and is an official bond of Spear as special agent for the Sioux Indians at Cheyenne River

Amos T. Akerman to H. H. Wells, 16 December 1871

  • Date: December 16, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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contract contains a lease from said Ordway to the United States, of his quarries known as the "James River

Anna Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings

  • Date: 1887
  • Creator(s): Herbert Harlakendend Gilchrist | Anna Gilchrist | William Michael Rossetti
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After all, the sunny, fertile, plain for me, with gentle hills around, with a woody deep, calm river

Seven weeks have glided by as swiftly and noiselesslyas a river through sunshine, not through shade.

And how does the River look?

But the New England valley has one advantage over theweald of Sussex in itsbroad and beautiful river,

with Indian name, Connecticut Quon- — nektacut, the long river— which winds through it.

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 12 August 1873

  • Date: August 12, 1873
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
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Even the sluggish little river Colne one cannot find fault with, it nourishes such a luxuriant border

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 2 August 1879

  • Date: August 2, 1879
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
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built soon after the Norman conquest, is in sight, crowning a wooded hill that rises abruptly from the river-side

You would not dignify the Weir with the name of a river in America—it is no bigger than Timber Creek—but

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 5 January 1879

  • Date: January 5, 1879
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
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Have had some beautiful glimpses of the North & East River effects of the shipping at sunset, &c.

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 25 October 1878

  • Date: October 25, 1878
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
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We are rowed on the beautiful river every day that it is warm enough—a very winding river not much broader

They lead an easy-going life here—seem to spend half their time floating about on the river—or meeting

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 8 May 1882

  • Date: May 8, 1882
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
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As for me, my heart is already gone over to the other side of the river, so that sometimes I feel a kind

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 27 February 1885

  • Date: February 27, 1885
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
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hope you have been able to wend to and fro daily on the great ferry boats & enjoy the beautiful broad river

'Leaves of Grass'—An Extraordinary Book

  • Date: 15 September 1855
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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"His spirit responds to his country's spirit; he incarnates its geography and natural life, and rivers

Studies Among the Leaves

  • Date: January 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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sea, the animals, fishes, and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests, mountains, and rivers

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 15 March 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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full-blooded, six feet high, a good feeder, never once using medicine, drinking water only—a swimmer in the river

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 13 November 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

Review of Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: 17 December 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

Leaves Of Grass

  • Date: 7 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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weeper, worker, idler, citizen, countryman, Saunterer of woods, stander upon hills, summer swimmer in rivers

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

Leaves Of Grass

  • Date: 14 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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worker, idler, citizen, countryman, Saunterer of the woods, stander upon hills, summer swimmer in rivers

Drum Taps.—Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 November 1865
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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We primeval forests felling, We the rivers stemming, vexing we, and piercing deep the mines within; We

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 July 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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wharves —the huge crossing at the ferries, The village on the highland, seen from afar at sunset—the river

To think that the rivers will flow, and the snow fall, and the fruits ripen, and act upon others as upon

that separates it from prose of any sort: Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf—posh and ice in the river

Walt Whitman's Claim to Be Considered a Great Poet

  • Date: 26 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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, The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast on the main, the thirty thousand miles of river

The Poetry of the Future

  • Date: 19 January 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

the pale green leaves of the trees prolific, In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white, or white come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

there atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River

All About Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 November 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Then was the time when it was his passion to sail the East River to and fro in the ferry boats, "often

Or again (p. 132): It was a happy thought to build the Hudson river railroad right along the shore.

Walt Whitman's Prose Works

  • Date: 21 July 1883
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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tells us that Grant's life "transcends Plutarch," that "it was a happy thought to build the Hudson River

Walt Whitman's Prose

  • Date: 18 December 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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The whole river is now spread with it—some immense cakes.

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 9 June 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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It is a funeral piece— Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf-posh and ice in the river, half-frozen mud

Walt Whitman's Works

  • Date: 3 March 1867
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Grande—friendly gatherings, the characters and fun, Dwellers up north in Minnesota and by the Yellow Stone River

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 8 June 1867
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Hafiz again, only drunk now with Catawba wine instead of the Saoma, and worshipping the Mississippi river

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 19 February 1876
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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The infinite oceans where the rivers empty!

practical labor of farms, factories, foundries, workshops, mines, or on shipboard, or on lakes and rivers—resumes

New Work by Walt. Whitman

  • Date: 11 March 1876
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

practical labor of farms, factories, foundries, workshops, mines, or on shipboard, or on lakes and rivers—resumes

The infinite oceans where the rivers empty!

Walt Whitman. The Man and His Book—Some New Gems for His Admirers

  • Date: 2 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance

grappling, In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight down- ward downward falling, Till o'er the river

Review of Leaves of Grass (1881–82)

  • Date: 23 December 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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variety of meters suited to every slightest change of sentiment, here lilting like a smooth flowing river

chords left as by vast composers [gap] You formless, tree, religious dan[gap] Orient, You undertone of rivers

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 1882–1883
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

New Poetry of the Rossettis and Others

  • Date: January 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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the pale green leaves of the trees prolific, In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: January 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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primal man—the gigantic and multiplied possibilities of a continent of vast lakes and praries, and rivers

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1 June 1872
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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like beads on my smallest sights and hearings—on the walk in the street, and the passage over the river

couplets of our orthodox English verse, and this wild, free, reckless voice of the fields, and the rivers

Walt Whitman's Poetry

  • Date: 9 October 1886
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

Walt Whitman, The American Poet of Democracy

  • Date: November 1869
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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descending the Alleghanies; Or down from the great lakes, or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river

; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chatta- nooga on the mountain top, Saw

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