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Search : William White

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Wednesday, December 16, 1891

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

As to William O'Connor's idea of Shakespeare, I don't know.

I don't know how far I was prepared to follow William in this, but it always seemed to me a profound

To William O'Connor that was the spirit which moved the writer of the plays."

Wednesday, December 12, 1888.

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

Talcott Williams over. Did not see W. Gilchrist came later: was in bedroom a few minutes.

But then, where is there anybody like William?

William made short work of the hair splitters.

Chadwick got on the wrong field when he called William a liar and crossed blades with him: William gave

Yes: that 'sthat's William—the undaunted William: the fiery friend and lover."

Wednesday, December 10, 1890

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

William! William O'Connor.

Wednesday, August 27, 1890

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

Frank Williams in to see me today—gratified to learn W. had an idea of new volume.

When I reminded him he thought I had best see to the matter at once tomorrow.Frank Williams much pleased

Also gave me to mail letter for Kennedy, papers for Bucke and others.As to Frank Williams' joy that W

Wednesday, August 26, 1891

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

But one of them, Talcott Williams, I was glad to see. Talcott stayed a full hour."

Wednesday, August 22, 1888.

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

William Winter has been making a speech in England defending America against the negations of Arnold.

belonging to the oldest school of any in England—to the great foundation of the strong priest and ruler, William

Wednesday, August 19, 1891

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

But Baxter must be to the Herald very much what Talcott Williams is to the Press—not head, but of some

Wednesday, August 12, 1891

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

William went to some trouble, I understand, to gather them."

But, "There was another Long Island fellow I knew those early days—William Mount, artist—character-ist

Wednesday, April 8, 1891

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

The only criticism I would pass on it, if I sat here with William over the manuscript, would be this:

And I do not know but this was William's weak point, anyhow, if he had any—that this was the weak spot

Wednesday, April 3, 1889

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

"I'm hungry for news from William," he said: "nothing has come."

One of the best illustrations I know of is William's own case—his department: Kimball, the head there

W. complained of the "almost remissness" of Nelly in not "writing us oftener about William."

Wednesday, April 29, 1891

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

"I read that second part of William's piece with the same care as the first.

Wednesday, April 25, 1888.

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

"Here's something for you to take along—something for your archives: another of William's letters: a

William could not be uninteresting: this is a sort of executive letter, so to speak, yet it is racy,

sparkling—a real flame out of William's irrepressible fire."

The allusion, which is one George William will keenly feel, is to Tennyson's "O irresponsible, indolent

Have you seen Grant White's article in the Atlantic for April on the Bacon-Shakespeare craze?

Wednesday, April 23, 1890

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

account I gave him of a debate over oysters at Boothby's, the night before between Morris, Frank Williams

It is along such a line William O'Connor would have argued.

Wednesday, April 17, 1889

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

I had told Frances Emily White of Conway's Whitman misreports at the Ethical meeting last night, and

Wednesday, April 15, 1891

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

Williams at Club last night. He said, "I am on the track of that piece," but had not found yet.

Williams pretty well—she has always been good to me"—but no more.

He thought it "very likely" that William had written the Illustrated American paragraph.Harry thought

Wednesday, April 1, 1891

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

friend:I have come to know you through your writings and through the warm praises of our dead friend, William

Clay: White Hall, Ky.Jan. 6. 1891Dear Sir,I have just received your "Leaves of Grass etc." 1890—for which

Had I not better see Talcott Williams?

"We Two, How Long We were Fool'd" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Klawitter, George
Text:

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

"We Two Boys Together Clinging" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Smeller, Carl
Text:

activeness also recalls the wrestling apprentices in "I Sing the Body Electric" (1855), the kind of young white

[We proceed this morning to]

  • Date: 5 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

See: Robert Swan, "Prelude and Aftermath of the Doctors' Riot of 1788: A Religious Interpretation of White

Annotations Text:

See: Robert Swan, "Prelude and Aftermath of the Doctors' Riot of 1788: A Religious Interpretation of White

[We have read with attention]

  • Date: 1 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (London: Verso, 2002

William Leete Stone (1793–1844) was described in an 1856 biographical sketch as "the editor and one of

In Whitman's written appeal to the minds of all men (where "all men" refers to native-born white males

Annotations Text:

Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (London: Verso, 2002

In Whitman's written appeal to the minds of all men (where "all men" refers to native-born white males

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

Waterworks editorials in the Brooklyn Daily Times

  • Date: 2024
  • Creator(s): Stephanie M. Blalock | Kevin McMullen | Stefan Schöberlein | Jason Stacy
Text:

William White's 1969 bibliography of Whitman's journalism largely replicates this decision.

Reconstructing Whitman's Desk at the Brooklyn Daily Times Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2015 33 1 21–50 White

, William Walt Whitman's Journalism: A Bibliography Detroit, MI Wayne State University Press 1969 Written

Washington in the Hot Season

  • Date: 16 August 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

L INCOLN never reposes at the White House during the hot season, but has quarters at a healthy location

there, (I think the light is extra-powerful here,) besides a large effect of green, varied with the white

We have put the draft through, have conscribed a goodly lot of whites, blacks and Secessionists; and

some badly wounded—and, perhaps, never to rise thence,) the cots themselves, with their drapery of white

Washington, George (1732–1799)

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
Text:

William A.PannapackerWashington, George (1732–1799)Washington, George (1732–1799) A Virginia planter,

Washington, D.C. [1863–1873]

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

comrades" ("These I Singing in Spring") formed loving friendships with Charles Eldridge, Lewy Brown, William

influence of his friends in the Attorney General's office in the Treasury building, adjacent to the White

He relied on his married friends, William and Ellen O'Connor, and John and Ursula Burroughs, to provide

William O'Connor's advocacy of Negro suffrage and Whitman's indifference bordering on hostility was the

William Douglas O'Connor: Walt Whitman's Chosen Knight.

Washington

  • Date: 12 March 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The "President's closing Levee" was the open inaugural reception at the White House, held the evening

5000 guests, including Frederick Douglass, who had initially been barred by guards from entering the White

Never before was such a compact jam in front of the White House, all the grounds filled, and away out

As the President came out on the capitol portico, a curious little white cloud, the only one in that

Annotations Text:

.; The "President's closing Levee" was the open inaugural reception at the White House, held the evening

5000 guests, including Frederick Douglass, who had initially been barred by guards from entering the White

Walter Whitman Reynolds to Walt Whitman, 13 May 1872

  • Date: May 13, 1872
  • Creator(s): Walter Whitman Reynolds
Text:

William Diggs. Wm. J. Cunningham. Fletcher W. Dickerman. Ezra M. Frost. Harry Coburn.

"walter dear": The Letters from Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Her Son Walt

  • Creator(s): Wesley Raabe
Text:

the publication of the 1860 through his Civil War hospital work, during Reconstruction when first William

Amy Williams was descended from a sea-faring family: Louisa's maternal grandfather John Williams and

Like Walt, she may have "internalized typical white racial attitudes of his time, place, and class,"

She weighed the merits of William D.

Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti (London: Hotten, 1868).

Walt Whitman's Yawp

  • Date: 14 January 1860
  • Creator(s): Umos
Text:

the closed-up sutures in my cranium were opened as widely as if the brains were out, and a pint of white

Walt Whitman's Works

  • Date: 9 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

In the night, in solitude, tears, On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand, Tears

Walt Whitman's Work

  • Date: 6 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

He wears a great cape overcoat of soft gray cloth, which falls below the knees, and a broad-brimmed white

felt hat almost as wide as the strong shoulders, over w hich a wild growth of white hair and beard blown

Walt Whitmans Werk [1922]

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 | Reisiger, Hans, 1884–1968
Text:

Die Gattin des Majors und Mutter Louisas war Naomi Williams.

Sie war ein Kind des großen wallisischen Geschlechts der Williams, das seit alters der Seefahrt verschworen

Ihr Vater, Kapitän John Williams, fand seinen Tod in der See. Ebenso sein einziger Sohn.

Inbrünstiger sicherlich auch als die von alters landsässigen Whitmans hatten diese Williams sich dem

Einsamkeiten des Weltmeers zu einem um so innigeren Besitz geworden sein, wenngleich der Kapitän John Williams

Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus"

  • Date: 2011
  • Creator(s): Erkkila, Betsy
Text:

sea-waves hurry in and out, not the air, delicious and dry, the airof the ripe summer, bears lightlyalong white

heat flames up and consumes,” “the sea-waves hurry in and out,” “the air of the ripe sum- mer” drops “white

by the concluding passage in which he associates thepoeticallymovinganderoticallysuggestiveimageof “white

october 31, 1863 [Saturday] and novem- ber 1, 1863 [Sunday], in which he describes a visit to the White

[new york: new york University Press, 1984], 539). althoughWhitman may not have “slept over at the White

Walt Whitman's Reconstruction: Poetry and Publishing between Memory and History

  • Date: 2011
  • Creator(s): Buinicki, Martin T.
Text:

man should marry the black woman and the white woman the black man. . . .

of the Chicago Tribune, William Cullen Bryant of the New York Evening Post, and Edwin L.

Gilette,William. Retreat from Reconstruction, 1869–1879.

Hesseltine,William B.Ulysses S.Grant, Politician. NewYork: Frederick Ungar, 1957.

Interracialism: Black‑White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law.

Walt Whitman's Reading: A Bibliographical Handlist

  • Date: 1921; 1906–1996; 1959
Text:

White 1825 1, 5, 7-9, 11, 23-25, 37, 41, 45, 47-48, 76-77 loc.03449 Thompson, Benjamin F.

Whitman appends this clipping on William Cowper's poetry to a commentary on British poets.

Campbell, William W.

Bohn Cowper, William The poetical works of William Cowper, with a biographical notice by H.F.

Shaw Consuelo William H.

Walt Whitman's Poetry

  • Date: 9 October 1886
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

new edition of the "Poems of Walt Whitman" (published by Chatto and Windus), selected and edited by William

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's Poems

  • Date: 2 May 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti London: John Camden Hotten. 1868.

Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901) was a British poet, novelist and dramatist.

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: December 1875
  • Creator(s): Bayne, Peter
Text:

exceptions whose appreciation distinguishes the thinker from the dogmatist: intense black and glaring white

and all hearts thrill at the thought of murdered Naboth and his sons, and of Lear hanging over the white

women, or from offspring taken out of their mother's laps, This grass is very dark to be from the white

Here goes:— "Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead works, the sugar-house, steam-saws, the grist-mills, and

Scottish poet (1777–1844), writer of the long narrative poem Gertrude of Wyoming William Morris, "The

Walt Whitman's New Volume

  • Date: 30 October 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

malachite green, and floating—flying over and among them in all directions, myriads of these same white

Walt. Whitman's New Poem

  • Date: 28 December 1859
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Henry Clapp
Text:

his vulgar and profane hoofs among the delicate flowers which bloom there, and soiling the spotless white

Walt Whitman's New Book

  • Date: 10 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your woolly-white and turbaned head, and bare

Walt Whitman's New Book

  • Date: 11 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Shepard, Charles E.
Text:

and pealing, Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing, Out in the shadows there, milk-white

wending, Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting, Along the midnight edge, by those milk-white

Walt Whitman's Needs

  • Date: 16 December 1886
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Tipping back in his chair in an easy manner, while he pushed his white locks back from his brow, the

Walt Whitman's Latest Work

  • Date: 9 February 1889
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

This is actually William Michael Rossetti, not Dante Gabriel Rossetti as identified by the reviewer.

Walt Whitman's Ipmressions of Denver and the West

  • Date: 21 September 1879
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

public reception room, a large, tall, strongly-built man, with a tanned and scarlet face, plenteous white

Walt Whitman's Good-Bye

  • Date: 12 December 1891
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

On another side is the bed with white coverlid and woollen blankets.

Walt Whitman's Dying Hours

  • Date: 13 February 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

transparent haze of the warm after- afternoon noon sun; The aspiring lilac bushes with profuse purple or white

Indeed, his face seems almost ruddy in contrast with the snowy whiteness of his hair and beard.

Williams— It has become almost fashion to say that Walt Whitman lacks form, and that his method of expressing

Walt Whitman's Claim to Be Considered a Great Poet

  • Date: 26 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

William Hurrell Mallock (1849-1923) was an English author.

Walt Whitman's Book

  • Date: 16 March 1889
  • Creator(s): Payne, W. M.
Text:

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) succeeded William Wordsworth as poet laureate of Great Britain in 1850

At the conclusion of William Blake: A Critical Essay (1868), 300–303, Swinburne pointed out similarities

William Michael Rossetti (1829–1915), brother of Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti, was an English

For more on Whitman's relationship with Rossetti, see Sherwood Smith, " Rossetti, William Michael (1829

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