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Search : William White

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Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays

  • Date: 1994
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

DN William White, ed., Daybooks and Notebooks (New York: New York University Press,1978), 3vols.

TV Sculley Bradley, Harold W Blodgett, Arthur Golden, William White, eds.,Leaves of Grass: A Textual

William H.

Eliot, and William Carlos Williams.

William C.

Periodicals Devoted to Whitman

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

White also oversaw the production of several special issues and publications, including Walt Whitman

1982 Wayne State University Press abruptly withdrew its support of the Review, and White and Feinberg

White until it was discontinued after the 1985 issue.

In Japan, William L.

New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 1992.White, William.

Photographs and Photographers

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

and after the battles; he also bathed his war poems in moonlight, reminiscent of the dark black-and-white

Native Americans [Indians]

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

formative years of Leaves of Grass, many of the most explosive Western battles between natives and whites

Tale of the Western Frontier," about a deformed and treacherous amalgam of the worst qualities of the white

the far west, the bride was a red girl" (section 10)—a scene that has been read as suggestive of the white

the present day, have propensities, monstrous and treacherous, that make them unfit to be left in white

Whitman East & West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2002
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

Here are Whitman's words as transcribed by Williams: The Chinese don't progress.

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

Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, D.

William Cookson (New York: New Directions, 1973), 145.

After observing that "the lush white flowers" on the ground beneath a wild azalea "have not begun to

Re-Scripting Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2005
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed | Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White 1980 NUPM Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, ed.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

Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman

  • Date: 2005
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

typesetting at the young age of twelve as an apprentice on the Long Island Patriot under the tutelage of William

By the end of August he had engaged the New York printer William E.

Hotten, meanwhile, advertised the book by associating Whitman with Swinburne and William Blake (whose

Redfield, like William E.

This printing was bound in half cream leather with red, green, black and white marbled paper; the spine

“A sprit of my own seminal wet”: Spermatoid Design in Walt Whitman’s 1860 Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 2010
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

loveflesh swellinganddeliciouslyaching,/Limitlesslimpidjetsoflovehotandenormous.... quiveringjellyoflove...white-blowanddeliriousjuice

seminal and ejaculatory image: page 84—“Limitless limpidjetsoflovehotandenormous,quiveringjellyoflove,white-blowanddelirious

Francis Howard Williams to Walt Whitman, 18 March 1889

  • Date: March 18, 1889
  • Creator(s): Frank H. Williams | Francis Howard Williams
Text:

Williams Francis Howard Williams to Walt Whitman, 18 March 1889

Frank G. Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 17 April 1890

  • Date: April 17, 1890
  • Creator(s): Frank G. Carpenter
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman: A Visit to the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 19 April 1876
  • Creator(s): Frank Sanborn
Text:

. * * * I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world, A white-haired shadow, roaming

Stevens street, near Fifth) is a still, Philadelphia-looking quarter, of long rows of brick houses with white

marble door-steps and white wooden shutters, in one of which, at a street corner, Whitman has taken

The poet now dresses in gray clothes, matching well with his hair and beard, and wears a white scarf

Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your wholly-white and turban'd turbaned head

Franklin B. Sanborn to Walt Whitman, 21 July 1881

  • Date: July 21, 1881
  • Creator(s): Franklin B. Sanborn
Text:

July and October, to be issued in September and October; and orders for these numbers may be sent to WILLIAM

Fred B. Vaughan to Walt Whitman, 30 April 1860

  • Date: April 30, 1860
  • Creator(s): Fred B. Vaughan
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1: 238–239.

Frederick A. Stokes to Walt Whitman, 30 April 1887

  • Date: April 30, 1887
  • Creator(s): Frederick A. Stokes
Text:

STOKES, Successor to WHITE, STOKES, & ALLEN, PUBLISHERS, STATIONERS, AND IMPORTERS, 182 Fifth Avenue,

Annotations Text:

See Whitman's letter to White, Stokes, & Allen of April 29, 1887.

Browne and published by White, Stokes & Allen in 1886.

Frederick York Powell to Walt Whitman, 8 January 1889

  • Date: January 8, 1889
  • Creator(s): Frederick York Powell
Text:

I am going to send you a pamphlet which has in it a sketch of William Grimm by my best friend and fellow-worker

'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd' [1865]

  • Creator(s): French, R.W.
Text:

Betts, William W., Jr., ed. Lincoln and the Poets. n.p.: U of Pittsburgh P, 1965. Erkkila, Betsy.

British Romantic Poets

  • Creator(s): French, R.W.
Text:

well acquainted with the works of the British Romantic poets, none of them mattered to him as did William

probably dating from 1855 or 1856 specifically rebuked Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William

Swinburne's William Blake, which concluded with a laudatory comparison of Whitman and Blake.

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.

Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855 Edition

  • Creator(s): French, R.W.
Text:

ultimate transformation of the Preface into poetry was not, however, Whitman's; it came in 1982 when William

this summary may suggest, Whitman's 1855 Preface deserves comparison with the works of Robert Burns, William

Blake, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and, of course, Emerson.In 1855, the Preface

Walt Whitman Review 10 (1964): 51–60.Everson, William. American Bard.

Reading, Whitman's

  • Creator(s): French, R.W.
Text:

what he called his "daily food" (4:67).Of other British writers, three were particularly important: William

for whom Whitman had high regard, despite his differences from them in style and substance, were William

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.

Personae

  • Creator(s): French, R.W.
Text:

Aging prematurely, he now became the Good Gray Poet of William O'Connor's polemical pamphlet published

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1955.Kaplan, Justin. Walt Whitman: A Life.

Boston: Twayne, 1990.O'Connor, William. The Good Gray Poet: A Vindication.

Leaves of Grass, 1891–92 edition

  • Creator(s): French, R.W.
Text:

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

Whitman, Poet and Seer

  • Date: 22 January 1882
  • Creator(s): G. E. M.
Text:

Sidgwick and William Clifford were both members of "The Apostles," the famous elite literary society

Walt Whitman by Alexander Gardner, 1863

  • Date: 1863
  • Creator(s): Gardner, Alexander
Text:

Whitman by Alexander Gardner, 1863 Whitman referred to this as "one of the several portraits which William

Whitman's "November Boughs"

  • Date: 15 November 1888
  • Creator(s): Garland, Hamlin
Text:

In calculating the decision of the world upon his book, he says William O'Connor and Dr.

Pennell, Joseph (1857–1926), and Elizabeth Robins (1855–1936)

  • Creator(s): Garrett, Paula K.
Text:

Pennell did illustrations for many well-known writers, including George Washington Cable, William Dean

Whitman (Van Nostrand), Mary Elizabeth (b. 1821)

  • Creator(s): Garrett, Paula K.
Text:

Their home, a small white house in a small town, represented for Whitman idyllic hearth-and-home living

Douglas, Stephen Arnold (1813–1861)

  • Creator(s): Garvey, T. Gregory
Text:

Douglas's bill was perceived as a threat by Northern abolitionists and working class whites because it

Whitman: The Correspondence, Volume VII

  • Date: 2004
  • Creator(s): Genoways, Ted
Text:

Facsimile: WWR 24 (1978), [134], 133, ed. by William White. 1.

Facsimile: WWR 25 (1979), [182], ed. by William White. 1.

Facsimile: WWR 26 (1980), [40], with notes by William White. 1.

Facsimile: WWR 28 (1982), 108, ed. by William White; and Miller, 33.

White, WW’s February 28. From William H. Millis, Jr. landlady. Berg.

George A. White to Walt Whitman, 28 November 1873

  • Date: November 28, 1873
  • Creator(s): George A. White
Text:

Whitman, Mrs White Today—Nov 28th 73—acknowledges the receipt of twenty five dollars on account from

White George A. White to Walt Whitman, 28 November 1873

Letter From George Alfred Townsend

  • Date: 23 September 1868
  • Creator(s): George Alfred Townsend
Text:

As an orator Vallandigham is the superior, having a fine complexion, large mouth and jaws, white laughing

He is feeling away for that giant steadily, walking in the White House Grounds under the tress, searching

George E. Dodge to Walt Whitman, 4 November 1880

  • Date: November 4, 1880
  • Creator(s): George E. Dodge
Text:

WHITE PINE TIMBER AND LUMBER TO ORDER. OFFICE, NO. 72 WALL STREET, NEW-YORK. GE, MEIGS & CO.

George E. Sears to Walt Whitman, 1 February 1890

  • Date: February 1, 1890
  • Creator(s): George E. Sears
Annotations Text:

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

George H. Williams to Walt Whitman, 10 March 1873

  • Date: March 10, 1873
  • Creator(s): George H. Williams | Horace Traubel
Text:

Williams, Attorney General. George H. Williams to Walt Whitman, 10 March 1873

George Henry Williams to Walt Whitman, 30 June 1874

  • Date: June 30, 1874
  • Creator(s): George Henry Williams
Text:

Williams Attorney General. letter of dismissal from Attorny Gen's Office— Dismissal July 1, 1874 George

Henry Williams to Walt Whitman, 30 June 1874

Walt Whitman at Home

  • Date: 23 January 1886
  • Creator(s): George Johnston | Quilp [George Johnston?]
Text:

back with feelings of reverence and respect for the destiny which threw him in contact with the good white-haired

His hair and beard, both of which were white as the driven snow and of great length, blended beautifully

George Parsons Lathrop to Walt Whitman, 31 March 1885

  • Date: March 31, 1885
  • Creator(s): George Parsons Lathrop
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to George Routledge & Sons, 19 February 1868

  • Date: February 19, 1868
  • Creator(s): George Routledge | Whitman, Walt
Text:

William Inglis Morse Washington, February 19, 1868. Messrs. Routledge, Publishers Broadway .

His earliest printed plays

  • Date: 1844 or later; date unknown; after 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | George Walter Thornbury | unknown author
Text:

resided in Stratford in 1612—and before & afterward His sister Joan, (5 years younger than he) married William

Hart, hatter,—they called their first child "William."

John Ward's Diary. made a final effort with firmness on the final si g nature "By me William Shakespeare

Oct. 25, 1856 a paper read by William Henry Smith, author of "Was Lord Bacon the author of Shakespeare's

These notes drew from Collier's Works of William Shakespeare, first published in 1844.

Diary of George Washington Whitman, September 1861 to 6 September 1863

  • Date: September 1861; September 6, 1863
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

Just about daylight a white flag was hoisted on the rebel breastworks (as we afterwards found by the

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 9 February 1862

  • Date: February 9, 1862
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

gun  another lay badly wounded  a few feet further in the bushes lay an old man with beard perfectly white

just dying  the top of his head being shot off  a little way from these we met a dozen rebels with a white

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 23 July 1863

  • Date: July 23, 1863
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

The skirmish was kept up untill about daylight on the morning of the 17th when a white flag was run up

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

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 30 August 1864

  • Date: August 30, 1864
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

Walt has asked several times if Williams (who was with Fred McCready ) was captured when the ambulance

train was attacted,  Williams is here with his Company,  he says when the guerillas ordered the train

George William Foote to Walt Whitman, [February or March 1878]

  • Date: February or March 1878
  • Creator(s): George William Foote
Text:

Foote George William Foote to Walt Whitman, [February or March 1878]

A Place for Humility: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Gerhardt, Christine
Text:

And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird

Charles Reagan Wilson and William R. Ferris.

William Cronon. Washington, DC: Library of America, 1997. Mulder, William.

Charles Reagan Wilson and William R. Ferris.

Charles Reagan Wilson and William R. Ferris.

Hartshorne, William (1775–1859)

  • Creator(s): Gibson, Brent L.
Text:

Brent L.GibsonHartshorne, William (1775–1859)Hartshorne, William (1775–1859) William Hartshorne grew

White, William. "A Tribute to William Hartshorne: Unrecorded Whitman."

Hartshorne, William (1775–1859)

Pre-Leaves Poems

  • Creator(s): Gibson, Brent L.
Text:

1842 issue of The New World.Whitman's earliest poetry was sentimental in nature and imitative of William

Brooklyn, New York

  • Creator(s): Gill, Jonathan
Text:

the Whitmans lived, near the port and ferry terminals, was chaotic and dirty, densely populated with white

Gleeson White to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1890

  • Date: November 2, 1890
  • Creator(s): Gleeson White
Text:

purpose, and to thank you as one who has already found a friend in your works faithfully yours Gleeson White

Gleeson White to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1890

Gleeson White to Walt Whitman, 4 March 1889

  • Date: March 4, 1889
  • Creator(s): Gleeson White
Text:

Gleeson White Christchurch. Hants England. Mar 4. 1889 My dear Sir.

Faith fully yours Gleeson White see notes Nov. 2 1890 Gleeson White to Walt Whitman, 4 March 1889

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