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Search : William White

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Leaves of Grass, Variorum Edition

  • Creator(s): Golden, Arthur
Text:

After a number of delays, William White and Arthur Golden were brought in to complete the textual variorum

New York: Putnam, 1902. 83–255.White, William. "Editions of Leaves of Grass: How Many?"

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

Taylor, Bayard (1825–1878)

  • Creator(s): Gould, Mitch
Text:

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982. Whitman, Walt.

Boker, George Henry (1823–1890)

  • Creator(s): Gould, Mitch
Text:

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

Love

  • Creator(s): Gould, Mitch
Text:

section 6 he compares this essential commonality with the grass: "Growing among black folks as among white

Chats with Walt Whitman

  • Date: February 1898
  • Creator(s): Grace Gilchrist
Text:

His beard and hair were snow-white, his complexion a fine colour, and unwrinkled.

He was dressed always in a complete suit of grey clothes with a large and spotless white linen collar

, his flowing white beard filling in the gap at his strong sunburnt throat.

twinkle of amusement in his blue eyes, their blueness intensified by their overhanging, bushy, snow-white

year of which I write he stayed at Timber Creek, and dilated on these pleasures:— "The birds at the White

Chase, Richard Volney (1914–1962)

  • Creator(s): Graffin, Walter
Text:

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1955. Chase, Richard Volney (1914–1962)

Collected Writings of Walt Whitman, The (1961–1984)

  • Creator(s): Graham, Rosemary
Text:

White, consists of three volumes.

The third volume edited by White contains the complete text of a diary Whitman kept during a trip to

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White, consists of three volumes.

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978.____. The Early Poems and the Fiction. Ed.

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

Complete Writings of Walt Whitman, The (1902)

  • Creator(s): Graham, Rosemary
Text:

critical essay which rehearses much of the information—and defensive adulation—that had characterized William

Attorney General's Office, United States

  • Creator(s): Graham, Rosemary
Text:

His friends William O'Connor and J.

"The Disenthralled Hosts of Freedom": Party Prophecy in the Antebellum Editions of Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 2021
  • Creator(s): Grant, David
Text:

Mymanuscriptwasrevisedunderverydifficultconditions,andIowea great deal to my siblings—the late Rachel Grant, William

Aslateas1860,withhisnewpartyonthebrinkofnationalvictory,William Sewardcouldshowhisrhetoricaldependenceonthetraditionalrepublican

observingthatthepoemfollowstypicalantislaveryrepresentationsofthe Fugitive Slave Law as jeopardizing “the freedom of Northern white

becausetheygapeandgaze.Thegapingitselfisall thatthebroken-heartedfathershaveleftbehind;theymust“let[their]white

RobertJ.,2 forcollectiveaction,21,27–28, Sedgwick,Theodore,206 119–20,135,138–39,142,147–48, Seward,William

Hunkers

  • Creator(s): Green, Charles B.
Text:

series of editorials written while he served as editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Whitman celebrated white

Baxter, Sylvester (1850–1927)

  • Creator(s): Griffin, Christopher O.
Text:

In 1887, he and William Sloane Kennedy raised $800 to build a cottage for Whitman on Timber Creek, where

"Death of Abraham Lincoln" (1879)

  • Creator(s): Griffin, Larry D.
Text:

Audience member William Dean Howells called the experience "an address of singular quiet, delivered in

time on 15 April 1890, in the Arts Room in Philadelphia (Prose Works 2:684).BibliographyHowells, William

Human Voice

  • Creator(s): Griffin, Larry D.
Text:

Harned, Frank Harris, William Dean Howells, Bertha Johnson, Dr.

John Johnston, Stuart Merrill, William Douglas O'Connor, Sarah Payson (Fanny Fern), Helen Price, Horace

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

Wallace, James William [1853–1926]

  • Creator(s): Griffin, Larry D.
Text:

Larry D.GriffinWallace, James William [1853–1926]Wallace, James William [1853–1926]James William Wallace

Wallace, James William [1853–1926]

Johnston, Dr. John (d. 1918)

  • Creator(s): Griffin, Larry D.
Text:

correspondent, and photographer of Whitman; and coauthor of a book with Bolton College founder James William

Johnston, John, and James William Wallace.

"America [Centre of equal daughters]" (1888)

  • Creator(s): Griffin, Larry D.
Text:

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

American Character

  • Creator(s): Gruesz, Kirsten Silva
Text:

overcome the most pressing social and political problem of the day, the racial division between black and white

Constructing the German Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1995
  • Creator(s): Grünzweig, Walter
Text:

Kennedy, William O'Connor also wrote of personal contacts with Knortz.

-On the white, fleshy chest. . . . From the dark red-blonde flood of hair. . . .

William M. Rossetti (London: John Camden Hot ten, 1868).

William D.

William O'Connor to William Sloan Kennedy, 9 April 1886, Whitman Collec tion, Special Collections, VanPelt

German-speaking Countries, Whitman in the

  • Creator(s): Grünzweig, Walter
Text:

He read William M.

German-American researcher and educator Karl Knortz and the Irish-nationalist philologist Thomas William

Knortz, Karl (1841–1918)

  • Creator(s): Grünzweig, Walter
Text:

Together with Thomas William Hazen Rolleston, Knortz was coauthor of the first book-length translation

Freiligrath, Ferdinand (1810–1876)

  • Creator(s): Grünzweig, Walter
Text:

He translated just ten poems from William M.

For the Whitman community and especially William O'Connor, Freiligrath's interest in Whitman was a source

Rolleston, Thomas William Hazen (1857–1920)

  • Creator(s): Grünzweig, Walter
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WalterGrünzweigRolleston, Thomas William Hazen (1857–1920)Rolleston, Thomas William Hazen (1857–1920)

Thomas William Hazen Rolleston's interest in a German translation of Whitman can be attributed to his

Rolleston, Thomas William Hazen (1857–1920)

Walt Whitman by V.W. Horton(?) of J. Gurney and Son, 1871

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Horton, V.W. | Gurney & Son
Text:

William thought it "a trifle weak", but I don't think so. I can't always be a roaring lion!'"

Walt Whitman by Frederick Gutekunst, 1889

  • Date: 1889
  • Creator(s): Gutekunst, Frederick
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Critic soon after the photo session, described the portrait this way: "From its framework of thin white

Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963)

  • Creator(s): Gutman, Huck
Text:

HuckGutmanWilliams, William Carlos (1883–1963)Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963) The influence of Walt

Whitman's poetic practice on William Carlos Williams was both seminal and immensely rich.

William Carlos Williams: An American Artist. New York: Oxford UP, 1970. Tapscott, Stephen.

American Beauty: William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman. New York: Columbia UP, 1984.

Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963)

A Visit to Walt Whitman

  • Date: 13 January 1886
  • Creator(s): H. R. Haweis | H. R. Haweis, M. A.
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afternoon, just come in from his drive—a rather infirm but fine-looking old man, with a long, venerable white

Harlan, James W.

  • Creator(s): Hammond, Joseph P.
Text:

Hubley Ashton, at the behest of Whitman's fiery, combative supporter, William Douglas O'Connor, held

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor. College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1978. 

Comstock, Anthony (1844–1919)

  • Creator(s): Hammond, Joseph P.
Text:

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor. College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1978.

Stevens, Oliver (b. 1825)

  • Creator(s): Hammond, Joseph P.
Text:

Harvard, but his apparent silence in the face of abusive attacks in the press by Whitman's defender, William

William Douglas O'Connor: Walt Whitman's Chosen Knight. Athens: Ohio UP, 1985. Loving, Jerome.

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor. College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1978.

Lafayette, Marquis de [General] [1757–1834]

  • Creator(s): Harris, Maverick Marvin
Text:

O'Connor, William Douglas. The Good Gray Poet: A Vindication. New York: Bunce and Huntington, 1866. 

Walt Whitman by Samuel Hollyer, engraving of a daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison (original lost), 1854

  • Date: July 1854
  • Creator(s): Hollyer, Samuel | Harrison, Gabriel
Text:

Grass, then again in the 1876 and 1881–1882 (and following) editions, as well as—in a cropped version—William

Some of Whitman's friends did not share his enthusiasm for the image; William Sloane Kennedy, for example

William O'Connor liked it, Whitman said, "because of its portrayal of the proletarian—the carpenter,

Harrison S. Morris to Walt Whitman, 13 December 1889

  • Date: December 13, 1889
  • Creator(s): Harrison S. Morris
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 2:541).

Harry Buxton Forman to Walt Whitman, 8 September 1891

  • Date: September 8, 1891
  • Creator(s): Harry Buxton Forman
Text:

This was William Potter of Philadelphia, who was one of Wanamaker's Delegate's to the Congress—one of

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 21 July 1877

  • Date: July 21, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 24 January 1878

  • Date: January 24, 1878
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 21 November 1877

  • Date: November 21, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 17 November 1877

  • Date: November 17, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1:35.

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 7 November 1877

  • Date: November 7, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:76 n232).

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 26 March 1878

  • Date: March 26, 1878
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Text:

the 'darkey man' is here yet: and George have their fun has been the about drinking it to his skin white

it all in good part: he asked Van other day, wheather whether the first man on earth was black or white

, and Van told him the first man was white, and then John asked him where the black man came from, and

clothes which I am to have like yours: I have had myself all pictured out with a suit of gray, and a white

Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 9 July 1877

  • Date: July 9, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

accompanying this letter Whitman has written a list, as follows: "envelopes at Altemuss | take the white

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1877

  • Date: November 2, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:76 n232).

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 29 October 1877

  • Date: October 29, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 18 January 1878

  • Date: January 18, 1878
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Presidents, United States

  • Creator(s): Hatch, Frederick
Text:

Walt Whitman was further influenced by the writing of William Leggett of the New York Evening Post, who

Grant, who would be Johnson's successor in the White House, and thought him "the noblest Roman of them

New York: Knopf, 1995.Thayer, William Roscoe. "Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman."

Whigs

  • Creator(s): Hatch, Frederick
Text:

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978. Whigs

"Sleepers, The" (1855)

  • Creator(s): Hatlen, Burton
Text:

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1955.Durand, Régis.

Swimming Against the Current

  • Date: 10 June 1860
  • Creator(s): Heenan, Adah Isaacs Menken
Text:

William Seward, Charles Sumner, and Elijah Parish Lovejoy, were all famous anti-slavery advocates.

Helena de Kay Gilder to Walt Whitman, 20 November 1880

  • Date: November 20, 1880
  • Creator(s): Helena de Kay Gilder | Richard Watson Gilder
Text:

Richard talked about you with William M.

Whitman’s “Live Oak with Moss”

  • Date: 1992
  • Creator(s): Helms, Alan
Text:

To take only one example, shortly after Whitman was fired, William D.

hurry in and out, Not the air, delicious and dry, the air of the ripe summer, bears lightly along white

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