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I took my agn?
My 146 Captain!"
my lands!
My Captain!"
My Captain!
I can't think of the author's name—my memory plays me such shabby tricks these days—(though I should
The overall need for a work such as this became clear to me in 1996 when I was asked by my friend and
To my surprise, I found no definitive published scholarship on which to draw except for studies that
My task has been to interest both groups while filling in, to the best of my ability, gaps that may exist
face is ash-color'd, my sinews gnarl . . . away from me people retreat.
Ken recommended that in preparation for my work I read the chapter of Guidelines for Electronic Text
imagining "gentle" to mean gradual and pleasant, as in "a gentle slope," so I pictured myself easing my
Though I found the "gentle introduction" daunting and more often blunt than gentle, by working my way
My experiences since those first days have only reinforced my initial impressions; as I've worked at
Perhaps a portion of my frustrations (and also insights) are the result of Ken's somewhat fortuitous
When Whitman egged him to comment on “My Captain” (a poem Whitman himself several times ridiculed in
“O Captain! My Captain!”
Whitmanletsfly:“I’mhonestwhenIsay,damn‘MyCaptain’andallthe ‘My Captains’ in my book!
”thatturnedthepoetagainstit:“In some cases, as in Whitman’s ‘O Captain, My Captain,’ the high-water mark
My Captain!
I saw before me, sitting on the counter, a handsome, burly man, heavily built, and not looking, to my
me as more of a man, more of a democratic man, than the tallest of Whitman's roughs; to the eye of my
love had no bounds—all that my natural fastidiousness and cautious reserve kept from others I poured
Whitman might say to him "'od's my life, Saint Thomas, I am Snug the joiner & no lion, in this poem,
I, for my part, am no believer in the sacredness of the marriage ceremony, can imagine a perfect pure
My Captain!”).
to my barestript heart, And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet.
I am running on my nerve, I am running on my spinal cord!
my life.
My Captain!
"My Voice Goes After What My Eyes Cannot Reach": Pragmatic Language and the Making of a Democratic Mythology
My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach, With the twirl of my tongue I encompass worlds and volumes
to balance them at last, My knowledge my live parts....it keeping tally with the meaning of things,
Come my children, Come my boys and girls, and my women and household and intimates, Now the performer
, Depriving me of my best as for a purpose, Unbuttoning my clothes and holding me by the bare waist,
I took my M.A. in 1947 and my Ph.D. in 1949, the year after Lucy took hers.
I want to conclude by describing my encounter with someone my wife and I met when we visited Whitman's
body to meet my lover the sea, I will not touch my flesh to the earth as to other flesh to renew me.
I am grateful to my colleague Jerome Loving for calling my attention to this essay by Allen, an early
I thank my friend and former colleague Kenneth Price, who directed this dissertation, for calling my
My Captain!”
The copy of “O Captain! My Captain!” is dated by WW as March 9, 1887, as is a Gutekunst photograph.
My February 1. From R. Brisbane. Syracuse. Captain!” LC. CT: WWWC 4: 266–67. April(?) 19.
McIlhaney, a Captain! My Captain!”
, My Captain!”
I thank my daughter, Myrth Killingsworth, an ecocritic in her own right, for being my writing companion
On hikes in the Smoky Mountains, one of my regular companions was my friend and major professor F.
Professor Miller directed my dissertation, which ultimately led to my first book, Whitman's Poetry of
just as I was saying good-bye to DeWolfe Miller and my friends in Tennessee and heading west where my
bare-stript heart, And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.
mouth.—— I My eyes are bloodshot, they look down the river, A steamboat carries off paddles away my woman
beard, and reached till you held my feet."
Oh my free, proud, secure soul, where are you?"
'The moment my eyes fell on him I was content.'"
My only dread is lest my love should blind me, & my heart whisper "Tomorrow" when my reason says "Today
more audacious artistic uses of Whitman is the Flash animation " Walt Whitman " by performance artist My
One day in 1995 Charles Green and another graduate student, David Donlon, strolled into my office and
Susan Belasco, my colleague at the University of Nebraska, has made significant strides in presenting
My advice to Whitman scholars would be to hang on to your electronic rights.
This idea also appeals to me because of my academic place , the University of Nebraska.
his life, he could still recall the excitement of seeing this first article in print: "How it made my
heart double-beat to see my piece on the pretty white paper, in nice type" ( , 1:287).
to the President in the midst of his cabinet, and Good day my brother, to Sambo, among the hoes of the
lesson complete" ("Who Learns My Lesson Complete"), "Clear the way there Jonathan" ("A Boston Ballad
Commenced putting to press for good, at the job printing office of my friends, the brothers Rome, in
I make my way, / I am stern, acrid, large, undissuadable—but I love you, / I do not hurt you more than
edition of 500," he wrote to his friend William O'Connor, adding that "I could sell that number by my
My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd."
And he found particular significance in the cover: "This is my design—I conceived it."
Body, set to them my name," followed by a blank space where Whitman added his signature in each copy
His and Lisa Samuels's notion of deformance has shaped my and many others' approaches to tagging and
My co-editor Rachel Price and I recently edited Álvaro Armando Vasseur's 1912 translation of Whitman's
with the famous stepped indentations of "O Captain! My Captain!"
dur- ing my absence.
I have lost my wits . . . .
I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer grass.
roof, my doors, my hearth and home How sweet again to see the light and thee!
gab and my loitering.”
My Captain!": O Builder! My Builder!
My Captain!" several times (see Mad issues for April 1959, September 1967, and March 1983).
The song's narrator claims "I'd give my left lung to be hers for one night" and "she breaks my heart
'Leaves of Grass,' my ass!"
My Robot Friend (2004). Walt Whitman.
at all my notions.
My crime.
All worlds are my worlds. All advances are my advances.
My Captain!”
My hands, my limbs grow nerveless, My brain feels rack’d, bewilder’d, Let the old timbers part, I will
One of the great pleasures of my time in graduate school was acquiring, piece by piece, the entire 24
for those books—in the years just before the creation of the World Wide Web—gave me a reason to leave my
still had many secondhand bookstores, and sometimes travel to other cities in the hope of completing my
Most of my graduate students are still surprised to find Whitman wrote a novel and published fiction
Years ago, when I used to hit a key on my old typewriter, I could follow and even explain the mechanical
Now, when I hit a key on my computer keyboard, my knowledge of the process that makes a letter appear
on my screen is hazy, to say the least, not to mention the process that transfers it to paper.
How this sentence I'm now writing gets preserved on my USB stick and in what form is a mystery to me.
If my rhetoric is, as Freedman suggests, "utopian," my experience in working on the archive is anything
Whitman in the early 1990s, and it took more than ten years and at least a thousand dollars to complete my
I have sometimes used the while working on scholarly essays when I am away from my home institution.
trousers around my boots, and my cuffs back from my wrists, and go with drivers and boatmen and men
gab and my loitering.
to my barestript heart, And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet. (15)
to my bare-stript heart, And reach’d till you felt my beard, and reach’d till you held my feet.
You my rich blood!
Not my enemies ever invade me—no harm to my pride from them I fear; But the lovers I recklessly love—lo
me, ever open and helpless, bereft of my strength!
Because my enemies clarify my ego by antagonism, while the mastery of my lovers is indistinguishable
from my own recklessness?
My individuality is yours, my thirst yours, my appetites yours,mydifferencesyours.Iamalikeinmydifferences
Whitman said to one of his early German translators: "It has not been for my country alone—ambitious
The final aim of the United States of America is the solidarity of the world One purpose of my chants
texts are becoming fundamentally or solely "literary-encoders" and "literary-librarians," then, despite my
He once said that "arose out of my life in Brooklyn and New York from 1838 to 1853, absorbing a million
ultimately is folded into the or remains a separate, stand-alone collection, it certainly grew out of my
After the publication of the 1881-1882 , Whitman remarked, "All this is not only my obligation to Henry
It should be noted that my view of differs here from that of some commentators.
My thinking on a set of interrelated issues—what is it we should be editing?
He once said that "arose out of my life in Brooklyn and New York from 1838 to 1853, absorbing a million
Based on my experience with this project, it is a responsibility not quickly or easily met. developed
(I wouldn't be surprised, conversely, if my historian friends regard the as a long footnote on war-time
My own contribution will be an analysis of the Armory Square Hospital Gazette .
At the bottom of the recto of the first leaf we find this passage: My Lesson my Have you learned the
to my bare-stript heart, And reach’d till you felt my beard, and reach’d till you held my feet.
Part of my purpose in this coda to my exploration of the poet’s creative pro- cess is to take advantage
or “To the Leaven’d Soil they Trod,” Or “Captain! My Captain!”
Le Baron), mystical experience, 9, 36 165, 265n9 “Oh Captain! My Captain!”
withthelatestincrease.Iamto-day,(May31,1861,)justforty-twoyears old—for I write this introduction on my
To the best of my knowledge, pensive has not received any consideration in Whitman criticism, and yet
whoexplainedthemysteriesoftheuniverse—because“Themost they offer for mankind and eternity [is] less than a spirt of my
“A sprit of my own seminal wet”: Spermatoid Design in Walt Whitman’s 1860 Leaves of Grass
First, I am grateful to my colleagues at Valparaiso University, who encouraged me throughout my work,
lack of the poet’s gift so acutely as when I turn to write of my family.
We closed with him . . . . the yards entangled . . . . the cannon touched, My captain lashed fast with
(For 1863 and ’64, see my Memoranda fol- lowing)” (quoted in Myerson, 191).
regularly performed there, bya substitute, during my illness.
friend, my lover, was coming, then o I was happy; each breath tasted sweeter—and all that day my food
The poet’s fluid movement between the singular “my friend, my lover” and the more indefinite “a friend
“I know my words are weapons, full of danger, full of death,” the poet declares in “as I lay with my
“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, / Be not afraid of my body,” says the naked
legs and his tongue was in my bellybutton. and then when he was tickling my fundament just behind the
Even these days, at the lapse of many years, I can never turn their tiny leaves, or even take one in my
See my "Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection: What's in a Name?"
[Out from Behind This Mask]Reprinted as "Out from Behind This Mask: To confront My Portrait, illustrating
[Come, said my Soul]According to the Comprehensive Reader's Edition of Leaves of Grass, this poem appeared
Two Rivulets" section of Two Rivulets (1876).; Reprinted as "Out from Behind This Mask: To confront My
.; Reprinted as "Interpolation Sounds" in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).
.; This poem later appeared as "Calamus No. 40," Leaves of Grass (1860); as "That Shadow My Likeness,
.; Reprinted under the new title "To the Pending Year" in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Reprinted in Good-Bye
My Fancy (1891).
"Come, Said My Soul" was reprinted in the New York Daily Tribune, 19 February 1876, and on the title
.; Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Published with the subtitle "For unknown buried soldiers,
Revised and reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).
.; An earlier version of this poem entitled "My Departure" appeared in the Long Island Democrat, 23 October
.; Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) under the title "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher."
.; Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).
.; Reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).
It was included without the note in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).
.; Reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891). Transcription not currently available.
Whitman Archive has not yet verified publication information for this poem.; Reprinted in Good-bye My
.; Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).
.; Reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891). Transcription not currently available.
.; Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).
My Boys and Girls MY BOYS AND GIRLS.
Yet such is the case, as I aver upon my word.
Several times has the immortal Washington sat on my shoulders, his legs dangling down upon my breast,
Right well do I love many more of my children. H. is my "summer child."
But shall I forget to mention one other of my children?
Because issues of The Rover do not include a publication date, there is some disagreement about when "My
suggests March or April 1844—between March 27 and April 20, 1844—as the likely date of publication of "My
For more information on the autobiographical aspects of the story and its publication, see "About 'My
I threw my valise upon a bench, and my over-coat upon it.
My employer, Mr.
my duties during the day.
knowledge and my memory.
My country relations were not forgotten by me in my good fortune.