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Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY

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Leaves of Grass, 1881–82 edition

  • Creator(s): Renner, Dennis K.
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Whitman explains the function of the "Passage to India" cluster in this way: "As in some ancient legend-play

Popular Culture, Whitman and

  • Creator(s): Reynolds, David S.
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turned to the Bowery b'hoy, a figure of urban street culture who had been mythologized in popular plays

Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1972.____. "Walt Whitman and His Poems." In Re Walt Whitman. Ed.

Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle by M.P. Rice, ca. 1869

  • Date: ca. 1869
  • Creator(s): Rice (Firm : Washington, D.C.)
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Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle by M.P.

Rice, ca. 1869 A sitting with Peter Doyle from the same session as another photograph of the couple.For

Rice, see Ed Folsom, "1868 Photograph of Peter Doyle," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 4 (Spring 1987)

And, for an extended look at Whitman's relationship with Peter Doyle, see Martin G.

Murray, "Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle."

Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle by M.P. Rice, ca. 1869

  • Date: ca. 1869
  • Creator(s): Rice (Firm : Washington, D.C.)
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Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle by M.P.

Rice, ca. 1869 This is the first extant photo of Whitman with anyone else, here Peter Doyle, Whitman's

Calamus: A Series of Letters Written During the Years 1868–1880 by Walt Whitman to a Young Friend (Peter

And, for an extended look at Whitman's relationship with Peter Doyle, see Martin G.

Murray, "Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle."

Walt Whitman at Home

  • Date: 14 April 1889
  • Creator(s): Richard Hinton
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years just after the war were the once well-known Count Adam Gurowski and George Wood, author of "Peter

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1883
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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Yes, unhesitatingly; the plays of the great poet are not only the concentration of all that lambently

played in the best fanciesof those times — not only the gathering sunset ofthe stirringdays of feudalism

corner of the room where there was a group ofyoung children, with whom he talked and laughed and played

I play Alphonso neither togenius nor to God.

, and interpret itas a law of Nature interpretsthe complex play of factswhich proceeds Iroiuit.

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 18 September 1890

  • Date: September 18, 1890
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828–1910) was a Russian realist writer of novels, plays, short stories and

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 11 November 1888

  • Date: November 11, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Richard Maurice Bucke
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He published several collections of poetry, and a number of plays and novels.

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 22 September 1888

  • Date: September 22, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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Bucke is referring to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's tragic play, published in 1808.

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 29 August 1888

  • Date: August 29, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 2 June 1889

  • Date: June 2, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Richard Maurice Bucke
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O'Connor attempted to defend Ignatius Loyola Donnelly's Baconian argument—his theory that Shakespeare's plays

idea Donnelly wrote about in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 7 August 1888

  • Date: August 7, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 20 March [188]9

  • Date: March 20, [188]9
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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He /(rather she Charlotte Stopes[)] /believes S. wrote the plays —I expect to find the volume interesting

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As Bucke states here, Stopes believed that Shakespeare had written the plays attributed to him.

The title of her book, however, refers to arguments that Shakespeare's plays had been written by Francis

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 10 November 1891

  • Date: November 10, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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works came under scrutiny during the nineteenth-century because of suspicions that he had written plays

For more on the Baconian theory, see Henry William Smith, Was Lord Bacon The Author of Shakespeare's Plays

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 14 November 1891

  • Date: November 14, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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works came under scrutiny during the nineteenth-century because of suspicions that he had written plays

For more on the Baconian theory, see Henry William Smith, Was Lord Bacon The Author of Shakespeare's Plays

Shakespeare and Francis Bacon here, he is referencing the Baconian theory—the idea that Shakespeare's plays

Baconian theorist, who authored Hamlet's Note-book, in which he argued that Bacon had authored the play

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 29 October 1891

  • Date: October 29, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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works came under scrutiny during the nineteenth-century because of suspicions that he had written plays

For more on the Baconian theory, see Henry William Smith, Was Lord Bacon The Author of Shakespeare's Plays

He was the author of numerous plays (including Richard III and Henry VIII), sonnets, and narrative poems

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 17 October 1891

  • Date: October 17, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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works came under scrutiny during the nineteenth-century because of suspicions that he had written plays

For more on the Baconian theory, see Henry William Smith, Was Lord Bacon The Author of Shakespeare's Plays

He was the author of numerous plays, sonnets, and narrative poems.

Henry VIII is one of Shakespeare's history plays, based on the life of Henry VIII, who was the King of

Shakepeare's play was published in the First Folio of 1623.

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 27 October 1891

  • Date: October 27, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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works came under scrutiny during the nineteenth-century because of suspicions that he had written plays

For more on the Baconian theory, see Henry William Smith, Was Lord Bacon The Author of Shakespeare's Plays

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 11 September 1891

  • Date: September 11, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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The Asylum band was out in front of the house and they played quite a while to welcome me home.

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 21 November 1891

  • Date: November 21, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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works came under scrutiny during the nineteenth-century because of suspicions that he had written plays

For more on the Baconian theory, see Henry William Smith, Was Lord Bacon The Author of Shakespeare's Plays

Smuts, Jan Christian (1870–1950)

  • Creator(s): Richardson, D. Neil
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Christian (1870–1950) Jan Christian Smuts was an influential South African leader and prime minister who played

Gilder, Jeannette L. (1849–1916)

  • Creator(s): Roberson, Susan L.
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newspapers; edited several books, including Authors at Home (1888); and wrote a novel, a couple of plays

Robert M. Sillard to Walt Whitman, 9 September 1890

  • Date: September 9, 1890
  • Creator(s): Robert M. Sillard
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I should very much wish to know from you what stage play and what actor and actress you you remember

Which of Shakesperes Shakespeare's great plays do you find the most entertaing entertaining reading?

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He was the author of numerous plays, sonnets, and narrative poems.

Robert Pearsall Smith to Walt Whitman, 13 August 1889

  • Date: August 13, 1889
  • Creator(s): Robert Pearsall Smith
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He writes very bright plays for us & then acts them for us with his sisters.

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

  • Creator(s): Roche, John F.
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Sadakichi (ca. 1867–1944) Like the character he played in the 1924 film The Thief of Bagdad, Whitman

Sadakichi Hartmann played court magician to successive bohemian circles.

Rodney R. Worster to Walt Whitman, 28 March 1864

  • Date: March 28, 1864
  • Creator(s): Rodney R. Worster
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merchants all mixed together & on the most friendly terms with each other we have all sorts of sports Ball play

Walt Whitman Again

  • Date: 25 October 1888
  • Creator(s): Rogers, George
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and feelings and ideas that they have taken at second-hand from some one else; custom and convention play

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749–1832)

  • Creator(s): Round, Phillip H.
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.: Peter Smith, 1972. 139–141. ———. Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts. Ed. Edward F.

"O Hymen! O Hymenee!" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Round, Phillip H.
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root word of hymn, the holy songs of the Christian tradition—an etymological source Whitman may be playing

Conversations with Walt Whitman: My First Visit

  • Date: 1895
  • Creator(s): Sadakichi Hartmann
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contemplated a special study of Shakespeare's fools (though I was rather too tall for them, they should be played

He spoke of a German street band that now and then played in the neighborhood, "very well."

Later during the afternoon his little son asked me to play with him: we rambled over the ground, climbed

Samuel R. Wells to Walt Whitman, 7 June 1856

  • Date: June 7, 1856
  • Creator(s): Samuel R. Wells
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novels Ruth Hall (1855) and Rose Clark (1856), as well as her collection of stories for children The Play-Day

Review of Drum-Taps

  • Date: 24 February 1866
  • Creator(s): Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin
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John Esten Cooke is a Virginian, who early joined the rebellion, in which his State played so prominent

Italy, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): Sanfilip, Thomas
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Peter Mitilineos. Washington, D.C.: NCR Microcard Editions, 1973.McCain, Rea.

Walt Whitman: A Dialogue

  • Date: 1890
  • Creator(s): Santayana, George
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Ah, but Whitman is nothing if not a spectator, a cosmic poet to whom the whole world is a play.

Except play his harp and wear his crown.

We can't play at life without getting some knocks and bruises, and without running some chance of defeat

Sarah Tyndale to Walt Whitman, 24 June 1857

  • Date: June 24, 1857
  • Creator(s): Sarah Tyndale
Annotations Text:

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

Sarah Tyndale to Walt Whitman, 1 July 1857

  • Date: July 1, 1857
  • Creator(s): Sarah Tyndale
Annotations Text:

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

Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman’s Conversations with Horace Traubel 1888-1892

  • Date: 2001
  • Creator(s): Schmidgall, Gary
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[A few days later:] W. told Ed: “Play your violin: play it as much as you choose: I like it: when I am

Ed at first played in the next room. I advised him to play downstairs.

Think of it—the games they play—the travesty!

Peter Doyle no writer In October 1891 Whitman was surprised to learn that Peter Doyle was thenbasedinBaltimore

Greeks versus Shakespeare The Shakespeare plays are essentially the plays of an aristocracy: they are

Conserving Walt Whitman’s Fame: Selections from Horace Traubel’s Conservator, 1890-1919

  • Date: 2006
  • Creator(s): Schmidgall, Gary
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Yours truly, Peter G. Doyle.

This is where Shaw plays trumps.

The “Interview with Peter Doyle” by Dr.

a cat is passing through my poem; See—it plays the fiddle, rapturously: It plays sonatas, fugues, rigodons

aged cow; But most of all it plays nocturnes, and plays them pyrotechnically as befits the night time

Simpson, Louis (1923–2012)

  • Creator(s): Schneider, Steven P.
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In his poetry and prose, Simpson has played an influential role in the ongoing "dialogue" between post-World

Lawrence, Kansas

  • Creator(s): Schroeder, Steven
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Its history from 1854 to the time of Whitman's visit was a crucible for the struggle that played such

"Cavalry Crossing a Ford" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Schwiebert, John E.
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democracy.Some critical interest (e.g., Howard Waskow, John Schwiebert) has focused on the roles readers play

Vaughan, Frederick B. [ca. 1837-1893]

  • Creator(s): Shively, Charley
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Bemoaning lover problems, Whitman in 1870 compared Vaughan with Peter Doyle, admonishing himself: "Remember

Sidney H. Morse to Walt Whitman, 14 March 1888

  • Date: March 14, 1888
  • Creator(s): Sidney H. Morse
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See Jonathan Mitchel Sewall (1748–1808), Epilogue to Joseph Addison's 1713 play Cato, written for a 1778

production of the play in Portsmouth, New Hampshire: "No pent-up Utica contracts your powers, / But

Smith & Starr to Walt Whitman, 12 April 1886

  • Date: April 12, 1886
  • Creator(s): Smith & Starr
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. ☞ The best Companies played here last season to good business.

Sophia Williams to Walt Whitman, 24 November 1890

  • Date: November 24, 1890
  • Creator(s): Sophia Williams
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He played numerous parts during his career, including taking on a number of Shakespearean roles, sometimes

November 1890, Booth and Barrett, as part of their acclaimed 1889–1890 tour, performed in several plays

there; the plays included Francesca da Rimini, George Henry Boker's 1855 tragedy based on Dante, as

well as Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1839 historical play Richelieu, along with Shakespeare's Hamlet, Othello

Sophia Williams to Walt Whitman, 16 February 1888

  • Date: February 16, 1888
  • Creator(s): Sophia Williams
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Orchestra, a popular touring ensemble conducted by the renowned conductor Theodore Thomas (1835–1905), played

Menken, Adah Isaacs (ca. 1835–1868)

  • Creator(s): Stansell, Christine
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Menken played a deposed prince.

Opera and Opera Singers

  • Creator(s): Stauffer, Donald Barlow
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The moods awakened in him by music played and sung in the streets, in the theater and in private shaped

About "Death in the School-Room. A Fact."

  • Date: 2015
  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock
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In addition to publishing articles on national policy and playing an important role as an organ of the

About "Wild Frank's Return"

  • Date: 2015
  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock
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In addition to publishing articles on national policy and playing an important role as an organ of the

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