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Search : William White

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Saturday, March 16, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

s letters was one from Gleeson White (England). No one knew him.

A London woman's paper asked White to do the job. It was an article in a series—Writers Oversea.

I said: "I know: William spoke of them: Nelly showed me a pile of them together on his desk: he says

rather think not: he does not read the Greek itself; of course this does not mean that he's ignorant: William

W. asked me to repeat what William had said of him in Washington.

Monday, October 8th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Talcott Williams over today.

be your debtor.Jessie Taylor.The Press yesterday contained some further extracts from Frederick William's

as well as calm: more than once seen him when his whole being was shaken up—when his passion was at white

There's my friend William Swinton, John's brother: I used to be very intimate with him: he has suffered

a good deal of a traveler, wanderer—was in California at the time, I think)—twenty-five years ago William

Review of Poems by Walt Whitman

  • Date: 25 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Marston, John
Text:

Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti (Hotten.)

the stumpy bars of pig-iron, the strong, clean-shaped T-rail for railroads; Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead-works

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

Leaves of Grass, 1860 edition

  • Creator(s): Eiselein, Gregory
Text:

The book's pages were well-printed in a clear ten-point type on heavy white paper and elaborately decorated

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980. ____.

[Hours continuing long]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 9.5 x 9 cm; leaf 2 14.5 x 9 cm pasted to 5 x 9.5 cm; On two pieces of white

Amos T. Akerman to Columbus Delano, 22 November 1871

  • Date: November 22, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

the murderer of the Indian is prosecuted by the same officer who prosecutes for the murder of the white

Amos T. Akerman to Lyman Trumbull, 3 February 1871

  • Date: February 3, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

think that this last exemption is wrong in principle, and it practically operates to the advantage of white

Sail out for good? for aye, O mystic yacht!

  • Date: 1890 or 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

of me Heave the anchor short, Raise main-sail and jib—steer forth, for aye O little white-hull'd sloop

Europe bounded

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—Germany, Bavaria, —Wurtemberg, Baden, —Saxony, 2,000,000 (Greece 22 1,10 0,000 Parma Sicily Seas White

Light and air

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

spring gushing out from under the roots of an old tree barn‑yard, pond, yellow g j agged bank with white

The Play-Ground

  • Date: About 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— Methinks, white‑winged angels, Floating unseen the while, Hover around this village green, And pleasantly

The City Dead-House.

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

Or white-domed capitol with majestic figure surmounted, or all the old high-spired cathedrals, That little

The City Dead-House.

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

Or white-domed capitol with majestic figure surmounted, or all the old high-spired cathedrals, That little

[The Atlantic Monthly for January]

  • Date: 29 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The present number, besides its numerous learned and elaborate papers, such as those on White’s Shakspere

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, 16 March 1885

  • Date: March 16, 1885
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Text:

butcher etc—$149.00— Hard winter: 20 below zero, two nights ago—freezing without intermission—lake a white

Walt Whitman to Horace Traubel, 2 June 1889

  • Date: June 2, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

gilt edged—good job—bound in crepe—thick paper (like my Passage to India, robin-blue-egg color with white

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 16 December 1890

  • Date: December 16, 1890
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

In a letter he received from you he saw (and appropriated) a white hair attached to the mucilage of the

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1890

  • Date: November 2, 1890
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

imagine, dear Walt, how peaceful and dreamy the landscape is this morning—the air is full of great, white

The Herald Editor and the President

  • Date: 14 December 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

writer mentions that when at the capital a few days ago, Bennett dined, by special invitation, at the White

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 16 January 1890

  • Date: January 16, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

a few days but it is not likely it will do you any more harm than that It is wintry today, ground white

Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963)

  • Creator(s): Gutman, Huck
Text:

HuckGutmanWilliams, William Carlos (1883–1963)Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963) The influence of Walt

Whitman's poetic practice on William Carlos Williams was both seminal and immensely rich.

William Carlos Williams: An American Artist. New York: Oxford UP, 1970. Tapscott, Stephen.

American Beauty: William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman. New York: Columbia UP, 1984.

Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963)

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 21 July 1877

  • Date: July 21, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 29 October 1877

  • Date: October 29, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Peter Doyle to Walt Whitman, 20 January 1878

  • Date: January 20, 1878
  • Creator(s): Peter Doyle
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978] 1:79).

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 2 September 1890

  • Date: September 2, 1890
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

Rechel-White, "Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894)," (Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, eds. J.R.

Walt Whitman to James Hunter, 22 June 1888

  • Date: June 22, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1980], 72).

Seas and Lands, Chapter VI: Men and Cities

  • Date: 1891
  • Creator(s): Edwin Arnold | Sir Edwin Arnold, M. A., K. C. I. E., C. S. I.
Text:

From time to time sanguinary collisions between blacks and whites occur, and the diminishing number of

the sons of Ham are seriously multiplying in the South, where in some districts they quite swamp the white

Nor have we anywhere in England a Town Hall nearly as magnificent as the huge pile of white marble, reared

Girard College is another magnificent building of white marble, in the Corinthian style, imitating the

Leaves of Grass, "The Bodies of Men and Women Engirth"

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

beauty of person; The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white

white- blow white-blow and delirious juice, Bridegroom-night of love working surely and softly into the

Examine these limbs, red black or white . . . . they are very cunning in tendon and nerve; They shall

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1871)

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

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

at sunset— the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white

The cactus, guarded with thorns—the laurel-tree, with large white flowers; The range afar—the richness

"Song of the Open Road" (1856)

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

Introduction to the 1855 Leaves of Grass Variorum

  • Creator(s): Nicole Gray
Text:

Based on the binder's records, William White argues that the total edition consisted of 795 copies, an

Williams & Co. to Mr. B. E. Perry.

Blodgett, Harold, Sculley Bradley, Arthur Golden, and William White, eds.

White, William. "The First (1855) 'Leaves of Grass': How Many Copies?"

White, William, ed. . 3 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1978. Whitman, Walt.

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

  • Date: 2019
  • Creator(s): Sten, Christopher | Hoffman, Tyler
Text:

Whitman, letter to William D.

See William H.

William Wordsworth,The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, 394; also at Melville’s Marginalia

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1980. ———.

Williams, Megan Rowley.

Cluster: Debris. (1860)

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

ONE sweeps by, old, with black eyes, and profuse white hair, He has the simple magnificence of health

shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them, You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white

Our Book Table

  • Date: 27 February 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers.

Then he is "Pleased with primitive tunes of the choir of the white- washed white-washed church," And

Wednesday, September 4, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

It was curious—in those times—whenever the Count went to the White House he took his hat questioned—in

a sample proof first & tell me how much price for 100 " " " " 150 " " " " 200make large envelopes White

printed on —must be pretty strong paper—Some will go in the European or California mail)" inside a white

Personal: Whitman

  • Date: 16 August 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

We are glad to find the old poet in good health, and although his hair is white his heart seems to be

Sunday, August 4, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

*(print 200 copies each card)—size of this white paper this sized card— card not very thick,—you are

Waves in the Vessel's wake

  • Date: About 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

hastening waves from afar, smaller on larger, And the far billows reaching up, with their prying looks and white

The City Dead-House.

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

Or white-domed Capitol itself, with majestic figure sur- mounted surmounted —or all the old high-spired

With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!

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

thy varied strange suggestions, (I see and plainly list thy talk and conference here,) Thy troops of white-maned

The City Dead-House

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

Or white-domed Capitol itself, with magestic majestic figure sur- mounted surmounted —or all the old

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 10 May 1878

  • Date: May 10, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

attack—it still keeps its hold—my knees, & indeed whole joint & muscular power are affected—Was down at White

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 21 February 1888

  • Date: February 21, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

THE "MAPLEWOOD," MAPLEWOOD, WHITE MOUNTAINS, N.H. MAGNOLIA HOTEL AND SPRINGS. MAGNOLIA, ST.

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, 29 July [1891]

  • Date: July 29, [1891]
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Text:

How dreadfull she looks— wan and allmost entirely help less her thin gray—allmost white hair.

Rudolf Schmidt to Walt Whitman, 28 July 1874

  • Date: July 28, 1874
  • Creator(s): Rudolf Schmidt
Text:

Sometimes it is white and reeking with foam as an injured ghost and for two weeks ago it took ago a new

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 2 December 1888

  • Date: December 2, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

London, Ont., 2 Dec 188 8 It is a stupid, dull, dark, sulky day—ground white with snow but nothing approaching

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 13–14 November 1889

  • Date: November 13–14, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

all-color'd chrysanthemums this season hereabout—you must have a splendid show of them—the yellow (canary) & white

Henry Clapp, Jr. to Walt Whitman, 12 May 1860

  • Date: May 12, 1860
  • Creator(s): Henry Clapp, Jr. | Horace Traubel
Text:

fearful road to that great castle "success" which looms up in the dim religious distance, and from which white-winged

Walt Whitman to James W. Wallace, 19–20 July 1891

  • Date: July 19–20, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

: of me period f'm '60 to '70 (the war time) & was the favorite of Wm & Mrs: O'Connor —the head on white

Incidents of Last Night

  • Date: 13 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The English Language: Exhibiting The Origin, Orthography, Pronunciation, And Definitions Of Words [White

The English Language: Exhibiting The Origin, Orthography, Pronunciation, And Definitions Of Words [White

Annotations Text:

The English Language: Exhibiting The Origin, Orthography, Pronunciation, And Definitions Of Words [White

The English Language: Exhibiting The Origin, Orthography, Pronunciation, And Definitions Of Words [White

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