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When played by the regimental band in the western wilderness, rather than in a city opera house, the

another occasion many years later, in 1888, Whitman was deep in memories of his dearest companion Peter

I can't think of the author's name—my memory plays me such shabby tricks these days—(though I should

We do not know if Whitman was aware that the author was born in Limerick, birthplace of his friend Peter

Peter Barr Sweeny, one of the original Ring organizers, was a Tammany sachem and city chamberlain, and

He wrote to Peter Doyle: The N.

own personal reflections in his notebooks around 1870 in which he anguishes over his affection for Peter

The extensive body of letters Whitman wrote to Civil War soldiers, and especially Peter Doyle, usually

example, see "To Thee Old Cause" and "To a Certain Cantatrice"), and he envisioned the United States as playing

DavidKuebrichSoul, TheSoul, TheWhitman's understanding of the soul is extremely complex, and it plays

My thanks to Aidan Arrowsmith, Peter Heaney, Laura Peters, and Shaun Richards.

(LG 85) Whitman, the reader of dictionaries, is playing a complicated game here.

Peter G. Buckley, “Culture, Class, and Place in Antebellum New York,” 34. 26.

For a more nuanced reading of Whitman’s class location, see Peter G.

Buckley, Peter G. “Culture, Class, and Place in Antebellum New York.”

Rather, in puffing Whitman, the Saturday Press played at and played with repre- sentations of Whitman

, play-goers, and ye general reader, in a state of utter despair. . . .

“‘Pete the Great’: A Biography of Peter Doyle.”

Gloucester, ma: Peter Smith, 1872. Winter,William.

Feminist Conversations: Fuller, Emerson, and the Play of Reading.

Bucke, his intimate friend and truly able biographer, who plays Boswell to Whitman's Johnson, reports

Peter Bayne. Among Whitman's personal friends were Bryant and Longfellow.

After the exile's turkey & plum pudding—we had to do without the pumpkin pie of course—we gave a play

The play was really very funny, especially as it was a take off on some of our friends, whom Mariechen

We half expected, as the play went on that the socialists, politicians, & aesthetics in the audience

Then fortunately it cleared up and we began driving & playing tennis, I went fishing with our vicar's

Mariechen and Frank Costelloe & I however have been reading one of Sophocles' plays to-gether.

1868, the correspondence concerning William Michael Rossetti's expurgated London edition may have played

During the Civil War, he played a significant role at the Battle of Antietam and rose to the rank of

and i was lame and he said if i would get a pint of the best whiskey and put 2 teaspoonfuls of salt peter

confined in your room and unable to walk but i am glad to hear your friends is so kind i thought of peter

here the cold weather dont don't affect me so very much) good bie walter Walter dear remember me to peter

letters but doo do write as often as you can give my love to mrs Mrs. oconor O'Connor and remember me to peter

Peter Doyl Doyle we saw the news of the modoc massacre last sunday Sunday but thought maybee maybe it

O'Connor played an active role in the publication of "A Woman's Estimate of Walt Whitman," Radical 7

Velsor Whitman reported on March 7, 1865 that "sis is much better she has been down stairs to day and plays

i have just got your letter i write to say sis is much better she has been down stairs to day and plays

Buffalo he is very much attached to George he said when the Captain was sick he was A great mind to play

can't be quite as free to talk when any one is present as if we were alone) but if the visit done peter

had to be paid for) and i have got A cheap carpet or cheap for these times the old carpet is all played

In 1865 Whitman engaged Peter Eckler to print the first issue of Drum-Taps but after Abraham Lincoln's

Peters, "Edmund Gosse's Two Whitmans," 11 (1965): 19–21.

the first time, since it was not only England but each of the countries in the British Isles that played

deepest influence on Irish literature was, however, transmitted by different means, through figures who played

Whitman finds himself, and other men and women, to be a compound of soul and body; he finds that body plays

3 To play more steadily than a pendulum; neither hurrying nor delaying, but marking the right moment

the same role that self-respect plays for individuals.

he seems to say, "encompass worlds, play wherever you wish—just stay out of the house, you're crowding

play that need not be collared by the stiff expectations of correspondence theory.

( 65) Of course, he also restricts the meaning of that divinity by playing with the classic definition

Just as significant is the pivotal part played by emotion in the transaction.

100,000 veterans from all corners of the United States.Whitman widened his circle of friends, meeting Peter

powers far greater than Irving's, if you can see special merit & a new great teaching in the Norse play

As publishers do not care to buy the play, I cannot get into public notice.

The full name of this play is Madansema, Slave of Love; re Tolstoi, a counter-song to anti-marriage,

Clara Jecks (1854–1951) was an English actress and singer who often played the roles of either young

Helena Modjeska (1840–1909) was a well-known Polish actress, particularly famous for playing Shakespearean

Responding to different cultural and ideological needs, they played important and well-differentiated

Across the Atlantic , edited by Marina Camboni, Andrea Carosso, Sonia Di Loreto, and Marco Mariano (Peter

ideological construction of society, tells of the new role writers and intellectuals were expected to play

One year later, in 1989, the film Dead Poets Society , directed by Peter Weir, made Whitman popular again

played a large role in that film, of course) and the book's appeal to a larger, and possibly younger,

exuberance and excitement do not allow the speaker to advance a carefully reasoned argument; the poem plays

thematically combines music and marine imagery as he explains the crucial role that the Leviathanic Whitman plays

mighty dweller on the earth, in love with Earth in an earthly way, this face of a giant who, as if playing

. . .( , 84)] Whitman's famous imagined cities of amativeness and adhesiveness here arise as if in play

The song plays variations on its principal themes, "I am a reaper" and "I hunger."

is based on a photo of Peter pulling himself up on the hood of a car.

The viewer is located within the room from which Peter apparently wants to escape.

He told her that the next issue of his newspaper was to be about Peter Doyle.

Outrageously elusive play is its essence.

rejection of false identity ("the sham that was proposed to me" in 1860, originally "the costume, the play

Underlying Whitman's play is a sense of the opacity and elusiveness of language.

Probably you do not, nor that you used to be very good to them, playing "tag" and marbles with them—now

Fabians played a key role in founding the Labour party in 1990 and have a commitment to non-violent political

Karin is babbling on the floor, playing with blocks, & both nurses are adding a not insignificant share

Logan & Frank & I are also reading a little Greek together, & our spare time we give to play— Mary Whitall

We can play a little, too, and at least simulate a breakdown of the notorious computational barrier between

McGann's most advanced experiments in deformance involve game-playing.

As Whitman's health failed, he needed more help with daily tasks, and from the mid-1880s, Traubel played

At the same time he plays on the multiple meanings of the verb "exponserse," which can mean both to risk

arrive with powerful musics, between the thundering of my trumpets and of my drums, I do not only play

marches for sacred victors, I also play them for the vanquished and the victims.

contours of linguistic choices made by translators of the poem and offers a glimpse into the role it has played

Van Egmond, Peter. "Bryn Mawr College Library Holdings of Whitman Books." 20 (June 1974): 41-50.

news and the Shakespeare controversy, agreeing that the Stratford actor was not the author of the plays

Peter Van Egmond. Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1972. Traubel, Horace.

Connolly, &c. "    "   Peter Ernest Brulatoure, & Hypolite Nores, & Francis Laforde.

Peters, House of Representatives.

Pleasants to John Peters, 9 December 1867

General ad interim directs me to say that your letter of the 10th instant, relative to a claim of Peter

the culture and literature it so thoroughly permeated, had become enervated, that it had at last played

New World receives with joy the poems of the antique, with European feudalism's rich fund of epics, plays

of Lucrece (1594), and 154 sonnets, this Renaissance poet and playwright remains best known for his plays

, which include histories, comedies, tragicomedies (the so-called problem plays), tragedies (most notably

While he recognized and acknowledged Shakespeare's poems and plays as masterpieces, he at the same time

Shakespeare's works, reading and rereading them and even carrying a copy of the Sonnets or one of the plays

Indeed, Whitman memorized long passages from Shakespeare's plays (especially from Richard II), then "

rush generally upon it, at least the strong men do—the actors and actresses are all there in their play

you sons of———. " Such the wild scene, or a suggestion of it rather, inside the play-house that night

most flagrant, the idle and unnecessary dislike of the poet to "old romance," to "novels, plots, and plays

Allen sees the grandfather in this story as a variation on the cruel father theme that plays through

There is some humorous play in the sketch.

dry and flat Sahara appears, these cities, crowded with petty grotesques, malformations, phantoms, playing

religion, and the democratic adjustments, all these swarms of poems, literary magazines, dramatic plays

He could no more have written the idylls of the King , or a play of Shakespeare than he could have written