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W. had just finished dinner—was reading the American. Frank Williams had sent him a copy.

I should thank Frank Williams for his American note—"Tell him it is just what I could have hoped for—to

I should say, if there were no other copy of that picture, of the one you have in your hands now, your

The original has been bought for that by the Glasgow city corporation.

Alden.W. got talking of Emerson again: "The world does not know what our relations really were—they think

personality and I always felt that he loved me for something I brought him from the rush of the big cities

We were not much for repartee or sallies or what people ordinarily call humor, but we got along together

on Emerson's side and mine: we had no friction—there was no kind of fight in us for each other—we were

was suddenly started up a great racket out of doors: it was just six o'clock: the factory whistles were

as big as the boats of the American line?—the Ohio, the Pennsylvania?"

They started off—were gone several days—probably some hundreds of miles—when a storm—it was said, the

There had been a sort of house built on board—on deck—in which several hundred soldiers were housed.

"No—it was not necessary: papers, everything, were full of it.

I thought I knew the greatest American in my dear friend Henry George, but no!

I took it and read it.1 East 28th St.,New York City, Dec. 29, 1887. Dear Mr.

"That makes me think of some one who once said there were two kinds of jokers—the damned good one and

Speaking of the "strain of American life" W. declared that "every man is trying to outdo every other

How were W.'s own feelings? "Not good—yet I know I am improved.

My changes were very few—and anyhow, the real speech is the speech we entirely lost."

Mapes were dusting and scrubbing W.'s room. He called it "going to the execution."

The two's were brown, indicating that they must have lain lost for several years.

When they cleaned this morning all the books were put back in their box.

"Oh Horace, they were great, great years—tumultuous years!

What were they in politics?

I tried several magazines, but they were already made up for their May numbers.

About half of the poems from the 1867 American edition of Leaves of Grass were removed for the British

Austin's letter to the same paper in which he said "While we talk, he starves"; to defend your American

last loaf with you; and to free you from the charge of getting aid on false pretences of which you were

at one here on the subject, and Rossetti wrote to me that he knew Buchanans Buchanan's statements were

1884, when George and Louisa moved to a farm outside of Camden and Whitman decided to stay in the city

The three volumes, and the photographs were most welcome.

It later described the 1860 Leaves of Grass as "a book evidently intended to lie on the tables of the

possessor to get it into his pocket or to hide it away in a corner" (Saturday Review 10 [ July 7, 1860

However, on September 21, 1867, the Review published a review of American poets, "Some American Verse

," which exempts Whitman from the otherwise "feeble, commonplace, and pretty" school of American poetry

He springs out of that vast American continent full-charged with all that is special and national in

Americans have not granted the English any protection for their works or choice about bringing them out

to the general public will come much more gracefully from an English literary man than from any American

noble pamphlet, and, which is still more important, it can never have so much effect here for an American

to praise American work.

The other day the Saturday Review which once ridiculed Leaves of Grass began a review of some American's

"Calamus" was first published in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

It later described the 1860 Leaves of Grass as "a book evidently intended to lie on the tables of the

possessor to get it into his pocket or to hide it away in a corner" (Saturday Review 10 [ July 7, 1860

However, on September 21, 1867, the Review published a review of American poets, "Some American Verse

," which exempts Whitman from the otherwise "feeble, commonplace, and pretty" school of American poetry

Pray tell O'Connor I shall look to him to send me such things: I can't take all American magazines; but

off their friendship in late 1872 over Reconstruction policies with regard to emancipated African Americans

consistent with your will that the selection from your works made by Rossetti shall be sold in the American

The volume will be out next week; it is very neatly done, and quite as large as your last edition (American

something more to say of your work—which is to me the more I read it (as I do daily) the Genesis of an American

Whitman suggested the page read, "WALT WHITMAN'S POEMS Selected from the American Editions By Wm.

title-page which you propose would of course be adopted by me with thanks & without a moment's debate, were

Dakota" which has always been to me like a saunter through spicy, summer-warm woods, when the brooks were

I have read too your views in the North American Review on The Poetry of the Future.

other European power, seated upon what must one day have been the easternmost projection of the American

Both shrouded as it were from the world, and dedicated to the service of Apollo almost from their very

Her first attempts at verse were given to the Athenaeum without any signature, or indeed even initial

word, and call Browningesque; for we question if, till Miss Barrett wrote, so singular a position were

As if it were anything to analyze fluids and call certain parts oxygen or hydrogen, or to map out stars

As if it were anything to analyze fluids and call certain parts oxygen or hydrogen, or to map out stars

As if it were anything to analyze fluids and call certain parts oxygen or hydrogen, or to map out stars

Heard the Learn'd Astronomer," first published in Drum-Taps in 1865: "When the proofs, the figures, were

They Were Giants. 1934. Essay Index Reprint Series.

elected Governor, Rollins, may have gone by, it is plain that he was not elected upon the issue of Americanism

His centiments sentiments in regard to the probably extinction of slavery in the State, were such that

The existence of large cities like St.

Such cities can be built up, and their prosperity created, only by free labor. St.

Louis would never have been the enterprising growing city that it is, but for the constant steams steams

waiting for Jack to do his errands, blacken his boots, harness his horses and drive them after they were

they might have embraced and enjoyed their precious delusion of property in human flesh till they were

oftener in autumn, perfectly clear weather, in plain sight, Camps far or near, the crowded streets of cities

Arguments about their actuality were beside the point, since to him the natural was more interesting

City of Utica N. York Dec. 11, 1873 Mr W.

his time, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was both a highly popular and highly respected American

When Whitman met Longfellow in June 1876, he was unimpressed: "His manners were stately, conventional—all

William Wilfred Campbell (1860–1918) was a Canadian poet and a clergyman, who served as rector for several

to understand the violence of the French Revolution, caused by the "abject poverty" to which they were

Although Miller and Whitman were personally acquainted, read each other's works, and briefly corresponded

, they were both on the peripheries of the other's circle.

Whitman's subject matter, his romantic idealism, and his personal example of standing out as an individual were

Eliot and the American New Critics, Miller, assisted by Bernice Slote and Karl Shapiro, challenged the

At a time when good and ample collections of Whitman's writings were relatively scarce, Miller put together

Following his auspicious debut, Miller went on to publish other important works on Whitman, notably The American

He also published studies of other American authors, including Herman Melville, F.

a writer best known for works that explore sexuality and personal freedom through an innovative American

Miller frequently referred to Whitman as one of the few American writers whose work had a discernible

understood . . . or accepted" by America and rejecting the notion that Whitman's "outlook" (116) is American

American Quarterly 23 (1971): 221–235. Martin, Jay.

to spadework that resulted in five volumes of The Correspondence of Walt Whitman (1961–1969), which were

I was in Washington the 2nd and I went to No 34 4 ½ Street and pawned my Watch a good American Lever,

to a good round old age. for you deserve it well and you also deserve well of your country. for you were

life affords a profitable lesson of the course, influences, and tendencies of the vortex of New York city

recently retired and moved his family to a farm 12 miles outside of Camden, but Walt had come to like the city

Louis on George's death, and Jessie sold it to the city of Camden for restoration as a memorial to the

the "voice of the people" appears to have had some impact on Whitman's own attempt to invent an American

, is the need to rethink the tendency of past critics to emphasize the national and specifically American

need for a more transnational and ultimately global approach both to Whitman and to the study of American

When Mexico reasserted abolition in 1829, North American slave owners in the United States and in Texas

A youth not seventeen years old seiz'd his assassin till two more came to release him, / The three were

The city was the gateway to Mexico; Whitman recalled "the crowds of soldiers, the gay young officers,

American identity must include Spanish as well as "our aboriginal or Indian population—the Aztec in the

Mexico City: Málaga, 1971.Whitman, Walt. The Gathering of the Forces. Ed.

with obstacles from all quarters, hardly yet surmounted; above all, they have had to deal—in this city

We think our representatives, and all who desire that the city should have an efficient police force,

We must have a force, of some sort or other; and if the present system were altogether demolished the

expense of maintaining the costly array of bureaucrats in New York, beside the police offices in our City

We were pleased to find Mayor Powell present. Our fellow citizen, Mr.

we noticed—was doing the agreeable—that is to say he was receiving applicants for appointments, who were

S. remarked that the duties of a policeman were very severe.

While we were present ex-Health officer West entered and presented his application. Mr.

Indeed, we were told that Mr.

Joe BoydFultonMetaphysicsMetaphysicsIn "Starting from Paumanok" (1860), Walt Whitman proclaimed his intention

James Warren sees the change even earlier, with the appearance of the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass

Minor Prophecy: Walt Whitman's New American Religion. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1989.Moon, Michael.

.00045Merely What I tell isBetween 1850 and 1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf4 x 15 cm; These manuscript lines were

resemblance to ideas expressed in the opening lines of poem #14 of Chants Democratic and Native American

, which first appeared in the 1860 Leaves of Grass.

.— These manuscript lines were probably written in the 1850s.

resemblance to ideas expressed in the opening lines of poem #14 of "Chants Democratic and Native American

," which first appeared in the 1860 Leaves of Grass.

These manuscript lines were probably written in the 1850s.

resemblance to ideas expressed in the opening lines of poem #14 of "Chants Democratic and Native American

," which first appeared in the 1860 Leaves of Grass.

to ideas expressed in the opening lines of section 14 of the poem "Chants Democratic and Native American

," which first appeared in the 1860 Leaves of Grass: "Not to-day is to justify me, and Democracy, and

In 1860 and 1867, it appeared as "Leaves of Grass" No. 11 and No. 3, respectively.

of the various editions, it is most likely that Brookfield quotes from the third edition of Leaves (1860

Attendants were present to preserve order and minister to their wants.

were under restraint of limb.

Of the rest some were amusing themselves like children, others were lost in apparently profound meditation

, and some were afflicted by a cacoethes loquendi ; but none were dangerous and hardly any were even

Hardly any of the patients were colored people.

In 1860 she created what was to become an international sensation in the melodrama Mazeppa.

Menken took up residence in Europe in the 1860s, befriending literary notables in Paris and London, including

We were a long time coming to this recognition.

There were potions to be mixed, and wrappings to be released and bound again.

I saw, as Emerson wrote, that in his book were incomparable things incomparably said.

And even the improprieties which barred it from the bazaars, the leaves, which were not fig leaves, were

Other editions were among the current literature of the railway stall and the shop.

Latin quite late in life—never made much progress Lectured in Rome— So Lectures , it seems, there were

reputation at Rome.— —some say he was preceptor to the Emperor Trajan Notes , in the time of Plutarch, were

Their positions on slavery and disunion were alike.

To emphasize a symbolic representation of the American people, Whitman did not use Lincoln's name in

Unlike most materials about "the great proletarian writer," these books were empty of all ideological

("Hey, Mitya, beat the American imperialists, beat them!")

Seuss, the American writer of poetry for children.

And his criticism of American life did not stop at poetic rhythm.

He appreciated the parts of Whitman's poetry that were critical of American society, or could at least

A great deal is said by American writers and orators about the duty and mission of America, to the future

One of them is to preserve the Memory of the Red Men, the North American 'Indians,' as they are miscalled

like many of his contemporaries following the Indian Removal Act of 1830, believed that the Indians were

Whitman shared Catlin's belief that the Indians were a dying race, and late in his career, in the poem

Today Catlin's paintings are housed in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

.; George Catlin (1796–1872) was an American painter, author, collector and entrepreneur who, like many

of his contemporaries following the Indian Removal Act of 1830, believed that the Indians were a doomed

and Therese Thau Heyman, eds., George Catlin and His Indian Gallery (Washington, DC: Smithsonian American

Whitman shared Catlin's belief that the Indians were a dying race, and late in his career, in the poem

Indians (1841) and Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio, Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky

two years after the "salary grab" of 1873, and in the midst of the worst economic depression in American

possibilities of popular democracy, even less interested in the destiny of the common people than American

There he finds the latent character of the American people—in a Massachusetts soldier returning from

The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War. 1973.

Some of the men were dying.

Many wounded were with us on the cars and boat. The cars were just common platform ones.

His parents were living, but were very old. There were four sons, and all had enlisted.

Many were entire strangers.

Quite all Americans. (The Americans are the handsomest race that ever trod the earth.)