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Literature it is certain would be fuller of vigor and sanity if authors were in the habit of composing

W.BarnettLiteratureLiteratureWalt Whitman's conception of literature grew, in part, from his larger theory of American

He was the great savior, come to grant salvation to the American common man: "The priest departs, the

literature is surely to become the justification and reliance, (in some respects the sole reliance,) of American

It seems as if, so far, there were some natural repugnance between a literary and professional life,

And in "American National Literature," he pleaded with the reader to see the simplicity of his argument

The country is not half just to this eloquent writer; an honor and a glory as he is to the American name—and

style, aided by the pictures, afford a certainty of realizing and comprehending what is told, as if it were

allow its lessons of awe to reach the mind, and impress it with the fresh and holy images which they were

book was published by George Virtue (1794–1868), a London publisher with offices in New York, which were

Many of the drawings for the Illustrated Family Bible were contributed by the British engraver William

book was published by George Virtue (1794–1868), a London publisher with offices in New York, which were

Many of the drawings for the Illustrated Family Bible were contributed by the British engraver William

" May 5, 1844, Sunday Times & Noah's Weekly Messenger (New York), The Journalism , 1: 190–91; and "City

Poet's Mound, and a fourth of Ocean Hill As with other rural cemeteries, locations within Greenwood were

at Clarke's grave and expressed sympathy for the poet in both "A Visit to Greenwood Cemetery" and "City

preserved in each of them; the sombre shade of the trees even, and the heavy pall, draping, as it were

The drawings in Greenwood Illustrated were taken on the spot by James Smillie; James Smillie (1807–1885

," May 5, 1844, Sunday Times & Noah's Weekly Messenger (New York), The Journalism, 1: 190–91; and "City

County Democrat, The Journalism, 1: 421–23.; As with other rural cemeteries, locations within Greenwood were

at Clarke's grave and expressed sympathy for the poet in both "A Visit to Greenwood Cemetery" and "City

techniques of the nineteenth century. or Miss Cushman, Most likely Charlotte Cushman (1816–1876), an American

Some of her more notable roles were in Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet , with Cushman even performing at

A bold graphic wood–cut Woodcuts, which are made by carving into a wooden block, were first introduced

In this country, in especial, it is highly necessary that each young American be versed in the lives

His letters were the charm and solace of her life; she cherished them with proud and tender solicitude

.; Most likely Charlotte Cushman (1816–1876), an American stage actress who also lived in Europe and

Some of her more notable roles were in Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, with Cushman even performing at the

children, and over 20 illegitimate children.; Woodcuts, which are made by carving into a wooden block, were

Scenes and Thoughts in Europe: by an American.

The author's remarks on the Water Cure, and his criticisms on the American sculptors in Rome, are ingrained

The author of Scenes and Thoughts in Europe: by an American was George Henry Calvert (1803–1889), editor

prominent focus of his travels and in both Florence and Rome he visits several of the European and American

We recommend every married man, domiciled with his helpmate in a boarding house,—(the Americans are a

.; The author of Scenes and Thoughts in Europe: by an American was George Henry Calvert (1803–1889),

prominent focus of his travels and in both Florence and Rome he visits several of the European and American

York Illustrated Magazine, edited by Lawrence Labree, included engravings after paintings by such American

The AMERICAN REVIEW, a Whig journal of Politics, Literature, and Science. August, 1846. G. H.

Whoever is the writer though, it is disgraceful to him as a man and an American that he should lead and

The American is intended, we believe, as an offset to the Democratic Review.

—We learn from its beginning, the somewhat singular fact, that never, in the history of England, were

, its statistics, population, commerce, &c.

Respecting Mineral Substances mentioned by the Ancients; with occasional Remarks on the Uses to which they were

They were acquainted, however, with a large number of minerals, their uses and properties, and the two

Statues were painted by the ancients with minium, and hence were called miniatures .

Of combustibles, sulphur, bitumen, naptha, amber, gagates or jet, were all well known.

There were also bony stones or fossils of various kinds.

American edition. New York: Leonard Scott & Co., 79 Fulton street.

with great interest, on account of the article which it contains on the “Manifest Destiny of the American

The mistake which this reviewer falls into, in common with nine-tenths of the European writers on American

ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE on the character and merits of the Chinese Potato. By Wm. R.

But we had nearly forgotten "Brahma," and were only reminded of it by the appearance in the last number

Reader, the Atlantic Monthly, the best of American magazines, publishes two pages and a half of this

and distinguished career he completed several paintings of Venus, goddess of love, several of which were

It was common practice among both American and European artists to copy paintings by Old Masters while

artists in studying the techniques and color harmonies employed by these earlier artists, whose works were

See Carrie Rebora Barratt, "Mapping the Venues: New York City Art Exhibitions," Art and the Empire City

and distinguished career he completed several paintings of Venus, goddess of love, several of which were

It was common practice among both American and European artists to copy paintings by Old Masters while

artists in studying the techniques and color harmonies employed by these earlier artists, whose works were

See Carrie Rebora Barratt, "Mapping the Venues: New York City Art Exhibitions," Art and the Empire City

He still holds his old opinion in reference to our American great men—namely, that Franklin was super-eminent

Gaskell, we perceive by our literary exchanges, English and American, is getting it, right and left,

authority” almost all of the stories concerning the cruel treatment to which Charlotte and her sisters were

latter days will rejoice with us that the author of “A Life Drama” is about to issue a volume of “City

Ticknor & Fields are his American publishers.

he has retired to chere France and is attached to the Presse newspaper in which he expatiates on American

In a paper on “American Suicides” he takes for his text Senator Rusk’s unhappy end.

The peculiarity of American suicides is, he says, that they take place not among social outcasts, but

It is to be called “City Poems,” and is to be enriched by a portrait of the author.

In the “inner circles” it has long been acknowledged that in original genius no American writer can be

To keep Whitman salient while the Pound-Eliot-New Criticism crowd were in control, his apologists set

professors earning tenure by conducting partitive studies of "Song of Myself" to prove his "craftsmanship" were

Darrow's social commitment, and Hamlin Garland's provocative writings were.

Mary Baker Eddy a better writer and less skilled organizer, the places of the two contemporaries in American

1Undated, on the American idiomloc.05211xxx.00952List of serviceable1850-1856prose1 leafhandwritten;

am not writing from an unworthy spirit of self-assertion: but that I should feel shame for myself, were

, (was the answer,) We only know that we drift here with the rest, That we linger'd and lagg'd—but were

Besides, were you willing to devote all your time and energies, you could gain property too: squeeze,

Our intellect would be sullied, were the vulgar to approximate to it, by professing to readily enter

The booming of the city clock sounded forth the hour twelve—high noon. "Ho! Lingave!"

His schemes for gaining wealth were various; he had dipped into almost every branch and channel of business

Transcribed from digital images of an original issue held at the American Antiquarian Society.

"; Transcribed from digital images of an original issue held at the American Antiquarian Society.

and Lincoln, both deeply committed to the Union, remain intertwined in Whitman's writing and in American

Abraham Lincoln" (1879), Whitman depicts the scene of the murder with dramatic immediacy, as if he were

Yet there were political, rhetorical, and biographical similarities that supported an association of

Both opposed the expansion of slavery, but they were not abolitionists.

They shared working-class origins, and each adopted the rhetoric of Jacksonian populism.

Burns; both also tapped the vitality of American vernacular speech, political oratory, and drama.

The American Renaissance Reconsidered. Ed. Walter Benn Michaels and Donald E. Pease.

Portions of this essay were revised and used in Memoranda During the War (1875–1876) before appearing

.00522Like Earth O RiverLike Earth O River, you offer us burial1848poetry1 leafhandwritten; These lines were

published as The Mississippi at Midnight on March 6, 1848, in the New Orleans Daily Crescent, though they were

.— These lines were probably drafted as part of the poem published as "The Mississippi at Midnight" on

March 6, 1848, in the New Orleans Daily Crescent, though they were not included in the published version

These lines were probably drafted as part of the poem published as "The Mississippi at Midnight" on March

6, 1848, in the New Orleans Daily Crescent, though they were not included in the published version of

left for New Orleans in February, 1848, so this manuscript was written after that date.; This lines were

Entertainment, Improvement, and Progress between 1854 and 1861, after which the newspaper merged with the American

"Letters from Paumanok" and the "Sun-Down Papers," perhaps because he seeks to "dissect" New York City

four-page folio printed in New York by Fowler and Wells from 1854 until it merged in 1861 with the American

Phrenological Journal, another Fowler and Wells publication, to become the American Phrenological Journal

A History of American Magazines. 5 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1938–1968.Whitman, Walt.

Were we disposed to be fanciful, we might divide the body's life from the mind's life, and compare them

philosophy—sending our glance through the cool and verdant lanes, by the sides of the blue rivers, over the crowded city

When the American edition of Liebig's Chemistry in its Application to Agriculture and Physiology appeared

In this process, whatever diseases the body had were destroyed.

breadth, the democratic kindliness, and homespun sense that marks the very soul and gait of our American

Charles B.GreenLibraries (New York)Libraries (New York)The earliest libraries in New York City existed

books in Trinity Church, recorded in 1698 and considered the first known nonprofit library, there were

Many of its first directors were also involved in the founding of King's College in 1754, which would

Whitman, of course, left New York City in the early 1860s and so would not have used the libraries that

Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven: Yale UP, 1995.Keep, Austin Baxter.

in the Ward each give him $5.00 per week to stay & dress their wounds for them I Board down in the city

Adrian Bartlett was a friend of Joseph Harris and Lewis Brown; all three met Whitman while they were

According to this letter, the three young men were living in a Washington boardinghouse; Harris was not

am about old fassion. my leg mends slowly (about as it was when you wer hear) I have bin out in the city

nice shirts thear. 1 told them that they wer just the kind that I wanted—but they told me that they were

layed out for distributation amongst the diferant camps through the city. so I got non of them, & I

you must rest & begin again They first maid their appearence on Sunday night some few miles from the City

On Monday there was great excitement in the City, the citizens armed them selves & went out to hold the

Dept & some in the War Dept wer armed and hurried out to the front 3 miles from the City limits.

Adrian Bartlett was a friend of Joseph Harris and Lewis Brown; all three met Whitman while they were

According to Brown's letter of September 5, 1864, the three young men were living in a Washington boardinghouse

—Two of the Colonels and all of the rest of the commissioned officers that were able to be transfered

: were transfered to the Hospital at Georgetown, so we aint got so many shoulder strapes hear, but we

many a life for thear was a great many of our men killed & wounded The rebs that was in this ward were

Draper read it—they were all verry much pleased with it)— All of the old patients are a getting along

has bin so much talk about, this morning but if they are as long about getting it finished as they were

Donchin reminds us that Russian Symbolists "'greedily drank at all the new sources of Western art that were

available,' they were typically 'men of the renaissance,' they felt bound to know foreign languages,

they were 'humanists in the sense of erudition'" (Donchin, 9; Aničkov, 51-52).

For his prose limning of the giant bolder of cities, Balʹmont has borrowed from this poem the "city of

that his own creative powers as translator were even more impressively enlivened by the American bard's

bluff overlooking Brooklyn Village (Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City

It seemed as if all that the eye could bear, were unequal to the fierce voracity of my soul for intense

And yet there were the most choice and fervid fires of the sunset, in their brilliancy and richness almost

After travelling through the fifteen years' display in this city, of musical celebrities, from Mrs.

His feelings were not returned. with all her blandishments, never touched my heart in the least.

Whitman as the author of the "Letters from Paumanok" series in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose (Garden City

bluff overlooking Brooklyn Village (Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City

the United States throughout the mid-nineteenth century, traveling as far west as Wisconsin in the 1860s

His feelings were not returned.; A limner is an artisan who illuminates manuscripts.; Our transcription

They were close upon the Sound, and had an unusually bare and dismal and lonesome appearance.

There were hundreds of graves, all of generations long before our own; but from some reason or other,

Several of the tomb-stones were large flat ones, even with the ground, and quite covered with moss and

Some were crumbled away, some just poked out a few inches of their tops, above the surface.

It contains the graves of many of the "oldest inhabitants," some of whom were buried as early as 1620

The theatrical burlesques were usually humorous parodies of classical literary works, often in musical

well-known comedian and burlesque actor (Robert Clyde Allen, Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American

Sheridan.; Whitman alludes to the California Gold Rush of 1849, where the discovery of gold in the American

initiated a mass migration to California, which had been recently acquired from Mexico in the Mexican-American

The highly bred Irishman, and the educated American seem to me the pinks of travellers.

by some statistician that there are eleven millions of Advertisements published annually in the American

The first charge was never made against the American people before—and will not be relied on by any body

, is, that men have placed a blind faith in one another , and in institutions that, results prove, were

NEW AMERICAN AUTHORESS.—Mrs. Emma D. M.

We suggest an inquiry that way to some antiquarian, and solemnly believe that if he were to burrow out

surmounting this was a cupola, over 125 feet from the street, from which one of the best views of the city

Ah, these city clerks are a peculiar race; on all occasions, you can tell them with as much certainty

To the left of the Heights, the open mouth of Fulton street, the great entrance to the city—up whose

surmounting this was a cupola, over 125 feet from the street, from which one of the best views of the city

much good in the United States, he calls for new great masters to comprehend new arts, and urges Americans

, and the some twelve thousand shops for dispensing books and newspapers.Echoing Emerson in "The American

printed; they suggest instead that very few copies of the first edition were sold, and that the rarity

Emerson, Whitman, and the American Muse. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1982.Price, Kenneth M.

American Literature 56 (1984): 83–87.Whitman, Walt. Complete Poetry and Collected Prose. Ed.

I might further say that the irritation which I may have manifested when you were last in the office

If I were to bes tow upon all matters that come before me, the time and attention which I had already

seemed the sterile and stingy nature, as if too much handiwork, or too much lymph in the temperament, were

I rubbed my eyes a little, to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is

have set for myself to do, to meet people and The States face to face, to confront them with an American

Their shadows are projected in employments, in books, in the cities, in trade; their feet are on the

The instincts of the American people are all perfect, and tend to make heroes.

First-rate American persons are to be supplied.

There are Thirty-Two States sketched—the population thirty millions.

green and plentiful; and the best patches of Indian corn and garden vegetables I saw last autumn, were

For a discussion of American involvement in the opium trade, see Thomas N.

performances circa 1840–1860, see William A.

Moreover, were there not the freshest and finest fish to be bought within stone-throw?

Truly those were wonderful hours!

Hector St John de Crevecoeur (1735–1813) claimed, in Letters from an American Farmer, that Nantucket

For a discussion of American involvement in the opium trade, see Thomas N.

For a discussion on the American reception of Le Dieu et la Bayadere and other European ballet/pantomime

performances circa 1840–1860, see William A.

Some are in the spot, soil, air and the magnificent amplitude of the laying out of the City.

The city that launches the direct laws, the imperial laws of American Union and Democracy, to be henceforth

The city of wounded and sick, city of hospitals, full of the sweetest, bravest children of time or lands

Washington may be described as the city of army wagons also.

A SUNSET VIEW OF THE CITY.

first identified Whitman as the author in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City

sculpted by Luigi Persico, the sculpture depicts the female figures of America, Justice, and Hope; they were

This postal card is addressed: J H Johnston | Diamond Merchant | 150 Bowery cor: Broome St:| New York City

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907) was an American abolitionist, minister, and frequent correspondent

It is inexplicable that they cannot be exposed like the doors after which they were modeled upon the

The city of Dayton divides with Cleveland the reputation of being the most beautiful city in Ohio.

Mobs were frequent, news papers were torn out, Vallandigham's door was beaten in with muskets, his friends

went armed and people were shot dead.

Breakfast brought florid faced cockneys; at dinner there were Americans—ladies and men—making haste to

to the belief that no "detail of the army or navy [. . .] can long elude the [. . .] instinct of American

the arrow ; and these moments are all so closely connected, and yet so distinct one from another, were

uncorrupted frame, Such as the heavens produce; and round the gold Two brazen rings of work divine were

Th' embroidered sandals on his feet were tied; The starry falchion glitter'd at his side; And last his

That the writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were ignorant of the true principles of

In the correspondence between Goethe and Schiller, of which there is a translated American edition, we