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With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 7)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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She described interestingly visit paid to W. at time Musgrove was nurse—how Musgrove interfered—tried

s nurse etc. etc.

He yet lives in his cottage, with housekeeper and nurse, in Mickle street, Camden, New Jersey, retains

>Discursively discussed nurses.

A man to nurse me, not one I must nurse. Oh! that is very esential.

Walt Whitman & the Irish

  • Date: 2000
  • Creator(s): Krieg, Joann P.
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Marsh finds redemption for his guilty soul by nursing cholera victims in the "dirtiest and wretchedest

Early Roman History

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; April 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
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If Niebuhr, with all his extravagant admiration of the wolf-nursed race, felt himself bound thus to speak

Whitman in Russia

  • Creator(s): Stephen Stepanchev
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This spark of the creatively progressive was one that he fanned and nursed; and if his system the result

Re-Scripting Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2005
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed | Price, Kenneth M.
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in hospitals becoming words, occasionally literally stained by the blood of the young men he was nursing

Cluster: Chants Democratic and Native American. (1860)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcomed and kissed by the aged mulatto nurse

Walt Whitman & the World

  • Date: 1995
  • Creator(s): Allen, Gay Wilson | Folsom, Ed
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Whitman's activi ties as a nurse during the Civil War were described as an apostolate.

Whitman was a rough-hewn giant, but it seems that as a nurse to the sick who were closest to death, he

At the end of the war, it is said, he must have nursed with his own hands more than 100,000 sick and

6os, just after thLeaves had ap peared, he spent the Civil War on the battlefield and worked as a nurse

Walt came to the field hospital and tookpart in the war as nurse or actually more as comforter and, he

The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman: The Life after the Life

  • Date: 1992
  • Creator(s): Martin, Robert K.
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When in 1888 Bucke thought that Whitman, an invalid in New Jersey, needed a new nurse, he sent down a

Whitman did like "Ed," so much that when someone re ferred to him as Whitman's nurse, Whitman corrected

the refer ence to read "Whitman's Canadian friend and nurse."

whowritespubliclyacceptable poems ofAmeri can patriotism so dear to the father's heart, Whitman the male nurse

in Whitman's life and work, foremost among them the con tinued failure of his book, his Civil War nursing

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 5)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Even the nurse remarked the other night when Kemper sat in the parlor with us that "the way Mr.

He had nursed her husband in the hospital at Washington.

They also presented him with a nurse's chair for his use about the house.

Davis & his nurse & we could have a jolly time.

but of necessity that a nurse should be kept and of the grace it would do W.'

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 8)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"All the day I have had simply to nurse myself against this utter deadness that presses me."

The nurse came to carriage—then had Garrison come to second-story window.

Has nurses and all done for him that can be.

What's more, he had no nurse about him—nobody at all.

All it tells is, that when he was in Florence Addington had such a man—a nurse, a Warrie.

“This Mighty Convlusion”: Whitman and Melville Write the Civil War

  • Date: 2019
  • Creator(s): Sten, Christopher | Hoffman, Tyler
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Immediately after, he moved to Washington, where he took on the role of a volunteer day nurse, visiting

The speaker then describes “The women volunteering for nurses—the work begun for, in earnest—no mere

So for the next three years, he volunteered his services as a nurse, swapping out ban dages, comforting

time-space oftherecruitmentpoems(“Drum-Taps,”“FirstOSongsforaPrelude”) and in thevivid memories ofaged nurses

in the structure of historical time, we gaze at the stars.Or wewait, or we march.Or we see Whitman nursing

Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps

  • Date: 1865; 1865–1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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determin'd The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

The Evolution of Walt Whitman: An Expanded Edition

  • Date: 1999
  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
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Let him who can do so shroud the eyes of the nursing babe lest it should see its mother's breast. . .

I called the doctor's atttention to him, shook up the nurses, had him bathed in spirits, gave him lumps

On the way back, he stopped at Sterling, Kansas, to visit a Civil War veteran whom he had nursed in a

His friends came to his aid and furnished the services of a male nurse so that, after a fashion, he was

His first nurse was a medical student, Eddie Wilkins; he was succeeded by Frank Warren Fritzinger, a

Whitman: A Study

  • Date: 1902
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
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The same old rains and the same old sun and nursed dews, soil, it,yet in so many ways how novel and strange

depletion, energies. farm boy, then a school-teacher, then a printer,ed itor,writer, traveler, mechanic, nurse

He did the for them no nurse or doctor things could do, and he seemed to leave a benediction at every

Leaves of Grass (1881–1882)

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

planter's son returning after a long absence, joy- fully joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

cross-cut,) To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting, To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it, I sit quietly by, I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Whitman: The Correspondence, Volume VII

  • Date: 2004
  • Creator(s): Genoways, Ted
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There are two good women nurses, one on each side.

One of the nurses constantly fanshim,foritisfearfullyhot.Heaskstoberais’dup,andtheyputhiminahalf- sitting

Warren Fritzinger, WW’s male nurse. 2.

butwithnormalmentalityandgoodright-armpower.Heyetlivesinhiscottage,withhousekeeper 108 T H E C O L L E C T E D W R I T I N G S O F WA L T W H I T M A N and nurse

Leaves of Grass. The Poems of Walt Whitman [Selected]

  • Date: 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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a heroic opportunity indeed, and he used it like a hero, serving with passionate devotedness as a nurse

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

Leaves of Grass (1891–1892)

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

planter's son returning after a long absence, joy- fully joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

cross-cut,) To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting, To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it, I sit quietly by, I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Days with Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1906
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

Exclusiveness and war were the nurses of growing humanity's powers— of com- radeship,organised life,community

Walt Whitman's “Song Of Myself”

  • Date: 1989
  • Creator(s): Miller, Edwin Haviland
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alone in the wilds, a marriage that is consummated in a hostile environment, and the lonely I who nurses

as it would have remained otherwise. . . . the physiological Leaves of Grass-the Leaves of Grass nursed

swallowing soul" is metonymic rather than metaphoric, related to our first "experiential knowledge" of nursing

Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays

  • Date: 2007
  • Creator(s): Belasco, Susan | Folsom, Ed | Price, Kenneth M.
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aged black woman is “hardly human” and is desexualized like other aged black women he approved of as nurses

definite plans at that time, or for long afterwards; but attention to the Brooklyn friends led to nursing

(ww, 35) Bucke’s account depicts a family crisis as instigating Whitman’s wartime nursing.

Burroughs’s account of Whitman’s Civil War nursing is even more extravagant.

247, 249 movement, 307; and Calhoun, Civil War, 261, 364 76; and democracy, 42–46; and Civil War nursing

Leaves of Grass (1867)

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

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

head close, and half- envelop half-envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

; The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

Walt Whitman's Reconstruction: Poetry and Publishing between Memory and History

  • Date: 2011
  • Creator(s): Buinicki, Martin T.
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journalist, and, most significantly, as onewho had seen so much of the misery of the war while serving as a nurse

Mr.Gilder’s request I write to ask if you would not write us a short, comprehensive paper on Hospital Nursing

Leaves of Grass (1855)

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

Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic?

Whitman Noir: Black America & the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Wilson, Ivy G.
Text:

was seen being embraced by “the negro cook,” who had come out to greet the poet because Whitman had nursed

surprising, since Whitman witnessed the effects of mangled and brutalized bodies firsthand when he nursed

"The Disenthralled Hosts of Freedom": Party Prophecy in the Antebellum Editions of Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 2021
  • Creator(s): Grant, David
Text:

In the conservatives’ most extreme warnings, the benighted citizen nurses his parochial and selfish hatreds

Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic?

Conserving Walt Whitman’s Fame: Selections from Horace Traubel’s Conservator, 1890-1919

  • Date: 2006
  • Creator(s): Schmidgall, Gary
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His devotion as a volunteer nurse in the Civil War needsnorepetition,andhispoetryofthatperiodisanenduringpartofourpa

Let dead hearts tarry, and trade and marry, And trembling nurse their dreams of mirth, While we, the

During the War Whitman gave his strength and the health of his future years to nursing his wounded brothers

Leaves of Grass (1871)

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

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

; The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

Leaves of Grass (1860–1861)

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

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcomed and kissed by the aged mulatto nurse

argue—I bend my head close, and half- envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Walt Whitman, Where the Future Becomes Present

  • Date: 2008
  • Creator(s): Blake, David Haven | Robertson, Michael
Text:

lastbreathsothattheirdeadwillcontinuetobehuman—notjustchunksofmeat, but bodies that are cherished, nursed

Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays

  • Date: 1994
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfullywelcomed and kissed by the aged mulatto nurse

Miss But ton [Whitman's next-door neighbor] told an anecdote ofWhitman, when an army nurse in Washington

Interpretation of the Poetry of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1930
  • Creator(s): Pavese, Cesare
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W. man of the woods, nurse, friend, journalist, paralytic…..Poet?

Transnational Modernity and the Italian Reinvention of Walt Whitman, 1870-1945

  • Date: 2021
  • Creator(s): Bernardini, Caterina
Text:

thesearticlessupportedasocialist-humanitarianand pacifistreadingofWhitman,andtheyshowedacontinuingadmirationfor the poet’s nursing

Whitman & Dickinson: A Colloquy

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Athenot, Éric | Miller, Cristanne
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On Whitman’s years in Washington and his role as a “nurse,” see, for example, Peter Coviello’s introduction

Whitman East & West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2002
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

heregardedfarmersin the rural areas and workers in the coal pits, respectively, as the nurses of humanity

Whitman’s Drift

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Cohen, Matt
Text:

Later, on a day trip with Douglas, Paschal, her son, and the slave Sophy who was his nurse, Douglas presented

Whitman among the Bohemians

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Levin, Joanna | Whitley, Edward
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Indeed, it is difficult to imagine the war nurse who moved to Washington and threw himself into his work

The Whitman Revolution: Sex, Poetry, and Politics

  • Date: 2020
  • Creator(s): Erkkila, Betsy
Text:

Whitman on the Camden wharf with Warren Fritzinger, who was his nurse and companion during the last three

A Place for Humility: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Gerhardt, Christine
Text:

the violet: / Humility is the fair-haired maid, that calleth Worth her brother, / the gentle silent nurse

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