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Our Old Feuillage.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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where men have not yet sail'd, the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes, White

tree tops, Below, the red cedar festoon'd with tylandria, the pines and cypresses growing out of the white

wind, The camp of Georgia wagoners just after dark, the supper-fires and the cooking and eating by whites

Walt Whitman: The Athletic Bard Paralyzed and in a Rocking Chair

  • Date: 21 May 1876
  • Creator(s): J. B. S.
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Long white hair, a long white beard and moustache, a florid face with spirited blue eyes, a gigantic

On a distant sofa lay the broad-brimmed white hat which he has worn for nearly a quarter of a century

Sweet flag

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

of delight" and "tooth prong") probably contributed to the following passage in the same poem: "The white

Saturday, October 5, 1889

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

I see he has cut the leaves out of Bucke's black-bound annual report, pasted a sheet of white paper over

Scythia (as Used by the Greeks)

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

Kashmir , or a country farther east, is not easily determined—but it seems that, accordingly, the white

Mannahatta.

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

sea-currents, the little islands, larger adjoining islands, the heights, the villas, The countless masts, the white

Camps of Green.

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

NOT alone those camps of white, old comrades of the wars, When as order'd forward, after a long march

Mannahatta.

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

sea-currents, the little islands, larger adjoining islands, the heights, the villas, The countless masts, the white

Camps of Green.

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

NOT alone those camps of white, old comrades of the wars, When as order'd forward, after a long march

Walt Whitman to Louisa Orr Whitman, 18 September 1881

  • Date: September 18, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

bride groom—I think him a lucky man— Well I must close at once, for here comes a fine lively team of white

[party, a night of]

  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

looked a moment at the blaze of the great wood fire, ran his forefinger and left through the heavy white

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. O'Connor, 5 August [1874]

  • Date: August 5, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Johnson's picture by mail—(It is intended to be put in a square gray or white mat with oval top , & then

Walt Whitman to Harry Stafford, 14 July 1881

  • Date: July 14, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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been staying alone here in the house, as the folks have gone off on summer trip—My sister is at the White

Camps of Green

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

NOT alone our camps of white, O soldiers, When, as order'd forward, after a long march, Footsore and

The Sleepers.

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

The wretched features of ennuyés, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick

sweet eating and drinking, Laps life-swelling yolks—laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripen'd; The white

to his head—he strikes out with courageous arms—he urges him- self himself with his legs, I see his white

his arms with measureless love, and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love, The white

hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter, The breath of the boy goes with the breath

Sleep-Chasings

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

The wretched features of ennuyés, the white fea- tures features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards

sweet eating and drinking, Laps life-swelling yolks—laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripen'd; The white

and even to his head—he strikes out with courageous arms—he urges himself with his legs, I see his white

his arms with measureless love, and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love, The white

hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter, The breath of the boy goes with the breath

Re-Scripting Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2005
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed | Price, Kenneth M.
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William White 1978 D-T Drum-Taps (New York: 1865 ) and Sequel to Drum-Taps (Washington: 1865-6 ).

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White 1980 NUPM Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, ed.

From Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams to Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg; from Langston

Whitman's grandmother Amy Williams Van Velsor was especially committed to her Quaker beliefs, and her

He sometimes dreaded slave labor as a "black tide" that could overwhelm white working men.

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 21–28 February 1891

  • Date: February 21–28 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

Sol has struggled to pierce—with a touch of frost at nights covering every thing with its beautiful white

a big old ship's cabin" with its literary chaos —really kosmos to you—its stove its "bed with snow white

The Lounger

  • Date: 29 November 1891
  • Creator(s): Jeannette Gilder
Text:

At the curbstone is a block of white marble with the initials 'W.

His body was thinner than I had ever seen it, but the fine head crowned with its white hair was unaltered

Brooklyn Daily Times

  • Creator(s): Renner, Dennis K.
Text:

after he began editing the Times, Whitman wrote the editorials "Kansas and the Political Future" and "White

If this is so, Whitman observes, then slaves are as capable as white Americans and deserve the rights

Monday, October 20, 1890

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

Talcott Williams and wife still away in Adirondacks.

Afterward we gave his ticket to Thomas Earle White.

From Washington

  • Date: 22 September 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

From late June through the middle of October 1863, forces under Union General William S.

trees, through all the streets and in the well-kept public grounds, and through this green, the milky white

[Italian Opera in New Orleans]

  • Date: 15 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Featuring white performers in "blackface," these shows reinforced racial stereotypes of African Americans

In the 1840s, he was known for his rivalry with William Macready, a British actor, which partially instigated

Annotations Text:

Featuring white performers in "blackface," these shows reinforced racial stereotypes of African Americans

Epic Structure

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
Text:

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982.Walker, Jeffrey.

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 9, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"The path," said the new comer, "will be dark, and the white man's taunts hot, for the last hour of a

We will laugh in the very faces of the whites. Arrow-Tip smiled, quietly.

Tell them of the customs of those white people—our own are the same—which require of him who destroys

to grounds where they never would be annoyed, in their generation at least, by the presence of the white

James, William (1842–1910)

  • Creator(s): Tanner, James T.F.
Text:

James T.F.TannerJames, William (1842–1910)James, William (1842–1910)It is certain that William James,

William James: A Biography. New York: Viking, 1967.Bucke, Richard Maurice, ed.

Philadelphia: Innes, 1901.James, William. Pragmatism and Other Essays. 1907.

"Walt Whitman and William James." Calamus: Walt Whitman Quarterly International 2 (1970): 6–23.

James, William (1842–1910)

Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878)

  • Creator(s): Higgins, Andrew C.
Text:

Andrew C.HigginsBryant, William Cullen (1794–1878)Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878) William Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant. New York: Scribner's, 1971. Bryant, William Cullen.

The Letters of William Cullen Bryant. Ed. William Cullen Bryant II and Thomas G. Voss. 2 vols.

The Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant. Ed. Parke Godwin. 2 vols.

Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878)

Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle

  • Date: 1994
  • Creator(s): Murray, Martin G.
Text:

Their names can be found on the passenger list for the vessel William Patten .

They had two sons, Edward, a bricklayer, and William, a carpenter.

William R.

Whites ( ., 2: 308).

McLaughlin's mother); Katherine; William E.; and Henrietta.

Of all the western stars

  • Date: After December 1885; December 8, 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Alfred Lord Tennyson | Unknown
Text:

White, Ex-President of Cornell University wrote: "I have long believed that such schools are among the

The Ox-Tamer.

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

some are such beautiful animals, so lofty looking; Some are buff-color'd, some mottled, one has a white

The Ox-Tamer.

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

some are such beautiful animals, so lofty looking; Some are buff-color'd, some mottled, one has a white

Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 10 May 1878

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

—I was down at White Horse Monday & Tuesday last—expect to go down again Sunday—Just as I left your letter

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 13 January 1888

  • Date: January 13, 1888
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

A steady snow fall here to-day, the river a white plain.

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 24 February 1865

  • Date: February 24, 1865
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

I drew 2 months pay to day and bought a new suit of clothes and now I feel something like a white man

"'Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete, The'" (1891)

  • Creator(s): Altman, Matthew C.
Text:

the "Calamus" (1860) poems, and the narrator of "Song of Myself" (1855) empathizes with blacks and whites

Hartmann, C. Sadakichi (ca. 1867–1944)

  • Creator(s): Roche, John F.
Text:

White Chrysanthemums: Literary Fragments and Pronouncements. Ed. George Knox and Harry Lawton.

American Feuillage.

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

have not yet sail'd—the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, be- yond beyond the floes; White

tree tops, Below, the red cedar, festoon'd with tylandria—the pines and cypresses, growing out of the white

wind; The camp of Georgia wagoners, just after dark—the supper-fires, and the cooking and eating by whites

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking.

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

Winds blowsouth, or winds blow north, Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

shadows, Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts, The white

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

Chants Democratic

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

where men have not yet sailed— the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes; White

tree-tops, Below, the red cedar, festooned with tylandria—the pines and cypresses, growing out of the white

wind; The camp of Georgia wagoners, just after dark—the supper-fires, and the cooking and eating by whites

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking.

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

Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

shadows, Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts, The white

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

American Feuillage

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

where men have not yet sail'd—the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes; White

tree tops, Below, the red cedar, festoon'd with tylandria—the pines and cypresses, growing out of the white

wind; The camp of Georgia wagoners, just after dark—the supper-fires, and the cooking and eating by whites

Walt Whitman & the Class Struggle

  • Date: 2006
  • Creator(s): Lawson, Andrew
Text:

Reprinted in William White, “A Tribute to William Hartshorne: Unrecorded Whitman” (Brooklyn Printer,

John O’Sullivan, “White Slavery,” 260. 85. O’Sullivan, “White Slavery,” 261. 86.

Shane White and Graham White, Stylin’, 74. 43.

White, Shane, and Graham White.

In “A Tribute to William Hartshorne: Unrecorded Whitman.” William White.

Whitman in His Own Time

  • Date: 1991
  • Creator(s): Myerson, Joel
Text:

Gilder], The Lounger 66 William H.

Gertrude Traubel and William White; Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982), 7July 1890

Garrison William H.

William T.

His hair was perfectly white.

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 17 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Kent, William Charles Mark
Text:

Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti One Vol., pp. 406. J.C. Hotten.

To William Michael Rossetti, as the selecter of these poems, we are not simply, in old-fashioned phrase

That immortal house, more than all the rows of dwellings ever built, Or white domed white-domed Capitol

William Wordsworth was reputedly fond of the lesser celandine and it inspired him to write three poems

William Cowper (1731-1800) was a popular English poet of his time.

Walt Whitman in Boston

  • Date: August 1892
  • Creator(s): Sylvester Baxter
Text:

and beloved among actors; for many of the famous figures of the American stage have known it, and William

William T.

Passing under some arc-lights in the street, on our way back from the theatre, he remarked: "This white

A most scathing letter from William Douglas O'Connor was published, consigning Mr.

Probably the most intimate and devoted of Whitman's younger friends in Boston was William Sloane Kennedy

Kennedy, William Sloane (1850–1929)

  • Creator(s): Reagan, Katherine
Text:

KatherineReaganKennedy, William Sloane (1850–1929)Kennedy, William Sloane (1850–1929) Biographer, editor

, and critic, William Sloane Kennedy was one of Whitman's most devoted friends and admirers.

William Sloane Kennedy and the daughter of a minister, Sarah Eliza Woodruff, Kennedy attended Yale, graduating

in Lewis Bay near his home in West Yarmouth, Massachusetts, on 4 August 1929.Bibliography Kennedy, William

William Sloane Kennedy. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1904. Kennedy, William Sloane (1850–1929)

Thursday, February 21, 1889

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

I said: "William calls Comstock an unmitigated ass." W. laughed most heartily.

"Not a suspicion of a word: I sit here seeing William thousands-wise: he presents himself to me persistently

"I'm afraid I was: William said to me more than once: 'Walt, you're as fast as frozen molasses!'"

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

Sumner said to William once: 'Whitman would have been all right if he'd only written Democratic Vistas

Williams, Captain John

  • Creator(s): Cooper, Stephen A.
Text:

Stephen A.CooperWilliams, Captain JohnWilliams, Captain John Captain John Williams, great-grandfather

As a young man Williams served under John Paul Jones on the Bon Homme Richard; notably, he fought in

Williams's daughter, Naomi ("Amy") Williams Van Velsor, told Whitman of his great-grandfather's sea adventures

Williams, Captain John

Swinton, William (1833–1892)

  • Creator(s): Southard, Sherry and Sharron Sims
Text:

Sherry and Sharron SimsSouthardSwinton, William (1833–1892)Swinton, William (1833–1892) Although William

William and his older brother, John, became intimates of Whitman in the mid-1850s.

"Whitman and William Swinton: A Cooperative Friendship." American Literature 30 (1959): 425–449.

"Swinton, William." Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. 18. New York: Scribner's, 1936. 252–253.

Swinton, William (1833–1892)

Priests!

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

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

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