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His elastic, eclectic "I" inviting conflicts and embracing inconsistencies "gives up" to the reader "my
and let one line of my poems contradict another!"
1904–1973), telluric and epic poet of America and of the people, declares, "I hold [Whitman] to be my
Forest Hill April 19/61 My Dear Walt.
True I might not prove strong enough for much hard work but I could fire my gun once and die, for my
My dear Walt I am not yet conquered .
I have everything external to crush me and stinging poverty to freeze my heart, but my day is coming
God bless you my dear man.
"Song of Myself" the persona's freeing himself of "ties and ballasts" and "skirt[ing] the sierras, my
—They retard my book . . ."
As late as 1888 he said of phrenology to Horace Traubel: "I guess most of my friends distrust it—but
In "Song of Myself" the poet asserts: "Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me, / My
statement near the beginning that describes it as dialectical: "I feel the parts harmoniously blended in my
KarenWolfe"Good-Bye my Fancy!" (1891)"Good-Bye my Fancy!"
1891)The concluding poem of the Second Annex to the "authorized" 1891–1892 Leaves of Grass, "Good-Bye my
"Good-Bye my Fancy!"
"Good-Bye my Fancy!"
"Good-Bye my Fancy!" (1891)
his remarks to others of how it was to live with Louisa and George: "[I] have for three years, during my
as at an inn—and the whole affair in precisely the same business spirit" (Correspondence 3:47), and "My
the morning, & keeps me a good bed and room—all of which is very acceptable—(then, for a fellow of my
10 th 89 O Good Gray Poet, When I read the notes on your life made by Ernest Rhys the tears came to my
feeling of the boundlessness of the universe, of the greatness of a man—perhaps, only perhaps, it may be my
glory to help others to "justify" your work; it surely is my heart's desire.
My excuse for writing you is the sending of a book; a first utterance, called "Voices & Undertones"—it
Ferry, I dashed off the enclosed Sonnet, which I take the liberty of send to you, the rather to gratify my
and other customs of the ancient Egyptians, in whose country I have passed the last twenty years of my
My fit is mastering me!”
I put on my coat and hat.”
And I kept writing my own poetry.
My brothers and my sisters of this New World, we remember that, as Whitman said, “I do not trouble my
“You know,” she said, “I didn’t know anything about him at that time.We had read ‘O Captain, My Captain
My wife was indignant , and I should not wonder if she wrote a reply to it. W. W.
Sunday Night Aug 31/62 My Dear Walt, I feel just like writing to you.
I together with my dear wife have had lots of hard experiences—ill health, sickness of children and my
is my last night at home.
My friends told me my chance for a berth in the P.O. was one in a thousand.
My heart is in the war & I ache to do something. But I can't.
My wife has arranged to go among her folks on Tuesday, so that day we will probably be out of town.
As Monday is my press day (getting the Register printed & mailed) could not get to meet you that day
My copy was loaned round, till I fear it is lost. Hope you have a copy.
It was at my invitation that Mr.
I went first of all from Brooklyn to Washington to nurse some of my friends.
Well, I went just like that: I went 'on my own hook.'
"From Long Island I went with my parents and settled at Brooklyn.
For my part, I said, I thought Mr.
Gladstone's policy; and my wish, my desire, my animus, would certainly be on the side of the just, wise
Walter Whitman— Sir i take my pen in hand to let you know that i am well and i hope that these few lines
may find you the same i have not got a way yet from this hospittle but i think that my papers will be
home. i am sorry that i did not think to tell you to not mind what he told you Well i must [close] My
Walter Whitman My Dear Friend: After the laps lapse of over 8 years, & to let you know that your memory
is yet fresh in my mind; I am mooved moved to write you this letter—I Came to this state after being
My health is not good & has not been since I was in the army—My family is well, & children going to school
minnesota Wright Co Howard Lake may 12 1874 Walt Whitman my dear friend I received yours dated April
be good for your the there are some comming coming from the different Stats states for their health. my
friend Whitman I love you when I think of the kindness you shew show to me my heart is swelled with
gratitude to you may the lord preserve you and giv give you a home in heaven my friend i have bin been
in a bad stat state of health for 10 months I have the dropsy of the heart I am getting better & my
Howard Lake June 28, 1874 My Dear Friend I Receivied received your kind & Most Welcome Letter A Short
Well My Health I But Verry Very little Better But If I Had Stayed In W Va West Virginia dont don't Suppose
when I went In the army I had a Com fortable Home Was a good Lover My Mother Leives Lives In My Father
Not Seen Her For 8 year My Brothers & Sisters Lives too I Will Close My letter By Saying I Hope you
kindness And Care to me My Children Sends their Love to you Now My Dear Friend I Hope you will write
Howard Lake, Minn Minnesota July 21, 1875 My Dear Friend Walt I was glad to hear from you But Sory Sorry
to know that your Health was not Improving But glad that you remember me My health's Failig Failing
I am trying for an Envelid Invalid Pentian Pension I have Now only the Need of to two witnesses of my
M D Halans is my agent St.
Paul Howard Lake is Improving Fast I wished you would come and visit this place My wife sends her Best
I made a call upon Captain Green, one of the vice-presidents of the Penn.
calmly: As at thy portals also, death, Entering thy sovereign, dim, illimitable grounds, To memories of my
The deeplyfeltemotionwith which "My Captain" is readinvariablybringstears ttheeyes ofhearers.] 14 MEMORIES
, My Captain," a of "Bravo, " (encouraged by gentle-kindly ejaculation bravo !
he " I do then with friends as I do your says, my with my books.
My lifend my wealth,yea, allthatismine, be ransom againstTime's wrong forthose who showed true my forecast
Not that tinkling rhymes Captain my Captain this, too, isnot beautiful and pathetic ; but it jars slightly
Oh Captain, Weave in My Hardy Life and We Two Together have been set to music by Edgar Stillman Kelley
In stanza three the last three lines once read, "But I with silenttread Walk the spot my Captain lies
Must I pass from my song for thee, From my gaze on thee inthe west?" etc.
Answerer) 134 1856 Now Precedent Songs Farewell 403 1888 O Captain, My Captain 262 1865 Offerings 218
J., I give to my friend,Peter Doyle, my silverwatch. I give to H.
"Publish my name and hang up my picture as that of the tenderest lover." — Leaves of Grass .
To my reminiscences of the poet in his later years, and my description of his homes and haunts, let me
The deeply felt emotion with which "My Captain" is read invariably brings tears to the eyes of hearers
My health is reasonably good."
, My Captain," (encouraged by a gentle-kindly ejaculation of "Bravo, bravo!"
I for my part will advise him to collect and send on the whole amount as soon as he possibly can.
I am sure we shall all be quite satisfied with yr plans, for my part I am pleased that you are going
arranged that my contribution be my expenses to Camden & board bills there helping you get domicilled
(I built my own study out in Ohio when a lad).
But I shan't impart my surmise to any one else.
My Dear Whitman— I return the J. Burroughs Book. & the pamphlet with thanks.
The Burroughs book fed me on my journey home, so that I had to buy no other reading.
I shall cherish the memory of that blessed January 2nd '85 to the end of my days.
I must send you my N. Orleans articles. My Creole article in Lit.
it be the means of my being able to publish it. Dr.
It tickles my diaphragm to see you run huge subsoil prairie plough so deep down under the feet of the
My heart, at least, swells with gladness & pride on account of honors this winter.
I can't for my poor self at any rate.
I send you by this mail my paper—"The New Ars Poetica" I want you to read it, &, if you think best, ask
strange feeling of the educative and epoch-making nature of your style (poetical); & I am confident that my
What do you think of my performance? I wish the libret might even be bound.
He asked what had become of my article. Paper (Camden) Thanks aff affectionately W.S. Kennedy.
Belmont Mass Aug '85 My Dear Friend: You are very kind to remember Kennedy— yr your son by adoption &
My indebtedness to you—estimating values by all that makes life high & noble—is simply boundless.
Your confidential item abt about royalties also makes me glad & wrings my heart at the same time.
The $13. is a pure business debt. $5000. represents my soul indebtedness to Walt Whitman, who is the
the Universe as a whole I can sympathize as to copyrights; I have not rec'd received a cent yet for my
volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My
Belmont Mass Dec 2 '85 My Dear Whitman— Maugre yr your wholesome advice, (exc. that I put in a page on
you & Hugo—parallelism of poetic-technique en-avant freshness &c) I have done gone & published my essay
I set up every stick of it mesilf indade , & corrected my proofs ( wh. which I'll have you know) were
Well, I have learned just enough to set up this & my poems (Heaven bless the mark—"poems" quotha,—I wd'nt
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
Eve (I free from the gnarring of the finite at my heels).
I wont weary you by saying more than to express my heartfelt sympathy & thankfulness & good wishes .
My dear father-confessor, I feel a strong desire to be clasped closer to yr your breast, to know my friend
—Well, there, my eye lights on my memorandum of it.
I have not time to copy out my translation. affec. as always W.S.
I offer my congratulations in advance.
that item about my reading proofs) before I give him the MS.
But my chief reliance is on my pen at present.
In the mean time, calmly, toilingly, ohne hast, ohne rast, working away on my literary chef-d-oeuvre,
"Whitman, the Poet of Humanity,"—here in my idyllic, noiseless home-cottage.
Wish I cd could send you some of the pinks, accept my love instead in return for yours, as something
You renovate & cheerify my ethical nature every time I visit you. WS Kennedy.
Belmont Mass April 19. '86 My Dear Poet: Your postal rec'd. received I have completed (rough finish)
my seven chapters on you.
It is the most scholarly, fiery, and heavy-artillery piece of work I have yet done; took all my strength
I have got in my cellar, Walt, about 50 bottles of elderberry cordial—fine, smacky, made by myself last
My grand poet, my friend Yours as ever W.S. Kennedy How's the pony? Paper also!! good!
have been 2 weeks in a fever of parturition & have gone over all the notes writings, & literature of my
past life in relentless search for material to enrich the book on my hero.
Please don't tell anyone of my project yet— wd would you?
But my chief object is to propagandize.
My Puritan training as a Calvinistic ministers son hindered it for a long time.
My Dear Whitman,— Don't you thik think it would be well for you to give me a line to Prof.
Dowden, telling him that you have read the bibliography of my forthcoming book, and that you think you
I am afraid they will be but dilatory in taking hold of the matter on my request alone,.
For my part, I dislike to ask anyone for to serve as go-between, but you seemed to think it would be
My roses are superb; have pitched a tent in my yard. Aff. Affectionately W. S. Kennedy.
By coming on I could bring my MS with me, & stay three days at least.
I have already made out a long one—going over all my scraps & records for the purpose Our brilliant young
Will send you my Herald article on him when it appears.
I gave it draining regards that fixed it in my mind.
I regard it as a noble work, & am very glad of this rich honor done to my poet, & I want to congratulate
It is a fine, nay a great, work, in my opinion.
Fairchild & her husband are going to drive out & see my Cox photo, some time.
might insure the publication of the book; for purchasers of L. of G. are of all most likely to buy my
This will excuse my dilatoriness as a correspondent) Rhys & I go up to lunch with Sanborn Friday—Rhys
Nothing delights me more & my limitations are so many.
Return at my expense by ditto. Take yr your time. I am dissatisfied with the thing.
But in this case I feel particularly blue—after all my rooster-crowing—for anything put beside writing
As I sit here looking up Brattle Square Cambridge from my proof-room window, the gay elastic children
It took me several days to absorb it and make my extracts &c.
(I fear my digestion must be poor to-night judging from the tone of the foregoing!)
I keep toiling away kicking my MS into shape, adding touches &c &c W S Kennedy William Sloane Kennedy
That wonderful title page I look at & look at, & can't seem to get dovetailed into my mind.
My day had a sad ending.
Please give my very special congratulations to Traubel anent this big volume (for I suppose he helped
And give my regards to your Canadian nurse-friend.
Belmont Mass Oct 20 '88 My dear W.W.
Mrs K. is in Boston at a Symphony Concert and a precious ½ hour for my soul being at my disposal I feel
We are rolling out 90–100 books at once, & every page must pass under my eye twice & receive my fecit
before it goes out,—my guarantee.
I must stop & copy a page or so (my daily stint) of my Whitman bibliography (sawdusty job rather, but
You dear (young) old F'ellow: — I was just feeling to-day a lack in my soul—a gap—an idea that you had
I continue at my typographical business Hope I hear from Paisley in a fortnight goodnight & love—gloomy
Robert Browning (1812–1889), known for his dramatic monologues, including "Porphyria's Lover" and "My
30, 1868, Whitman informed Ralph Waldo Emerson that "Proud Music of the Storm" was "put in type for my