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Mother, give my love to Mattie and the little gals. G. W.

to you—to give you any notion of the good you have done me & again I think I speak for hundreds of my

Wonders will never cease, and after all Houghton consented to publish my little work "Hamlet's Note-Book

her out a great deal and it improves her much Jessie is not behind her they both study hard and it is my

In my circle of acquaintances, I know four families, who have lost from two to four children each by

My impression is clearly that Hamblin's insurance will cover his losses—though the papers state the contrary

For me—I stick to my prediction of a month ago, that, as the most probable event, Van Buren will get

(This broad view of editing is one I endorse and underpins my remarks throughout this essay.)

In my view, specialists are less critical in transcription than in project conceptualization, annotation

after his claim to be "untranslatable": "I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, / I sound my

overstaid fraction" "the circle of obis" or, as Whitman says near the end of "Song of Myself": "I effuse my

Jeopardizes Degree by Refusing to Perform Whitman," The Chronicle of Higher Education 25 July 2013. 23 My

He rejoices to feel that he is "not stuck up and is in his [my] place," for "The moth and the fish eggs

How perfect is my soul! How perfect the earth and the minutest thing upon it!

Oh, my soul! If I realize you I have satisfaction. Laws of the earth and air!

Thorne, "it will be the best for Quincy to come with my party.

"Know you aught of this terrible business, my son?"

Boddo went on, "though to tell the fact, he did not know it himself for quite a long while—I, with my

first poem of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass , later called "Song of Myself": "I do not trouble my

The first several lines of the notebook (not including this line) were revised and published as "My Picture-Gallery

just granting his request, with great commiseration, when an old lady from the gallery cries out "O my

Knowing this I never attempted, during my talks with him, to question him or draw him out on any subject

And of course this applies also to my own account of him, as I saw him from day to day at a period very

manner he may have shown in earlier life, or on other occasions, no defects were ever observable in my

"Beginning my studies, the first step pleased me so much, The mere fact, consciousness—these forms—the

pleas'd me so much, I have never gone, and never wish'd to go, any further, But stop and loiter all my

For illustration, he gives utterance to phrases like this: "I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it

He himself says, "Nor will my poems do good only, they will do just as much harm, perhaps more."

I shook my head—Williams exposing me—I arguing, "I don't see the bitterness of it."

and I reported my quotation—he suddenly exclaiming, "Bosh! Bosh!"

And by the side of my dead friend, I could only think how much greater was our actual isolation while

I send you a little box of confections by Adams exp. with my love.

to the President at his levee, / And he says Good day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugarfield

of the poem (not including this line) were revised and published in The American in October 1880 as "My

had on  leaving our trunks here in camp, and two or three times I have went to a pond and took off my

night, and got up at 4 O clock next morning feeling first rate, and I am now as well as ever I was in my

My copy was loaned round, till I fear it is lost. Hope you have a copy.

It was at my invitation that Mr.

more audacious artistic uses of Whitman is the Flash animation " Walt Whitman " by performance artist My

One day in 1995 Charles Green and another graduate student, David Donlon, strolled into my office and

Susan Belasco, my colleague at the University of Nebraska, has made significant strides in presenting

My advice to Whitman scholars would be to hang on to your electronic rights.

This idea also appeals to me because of my academic place , the University of Nebraska.

In 1888, after Alcott's death, Whitman said, "Alcott was always my friend" (With Walt Whitman 1:333)

dog's snout" (section 2), a "milk-nosed maggot" (section 2), and other loathsome visages—that they are "my

In 1888, after Alcott's death, Whitman said, "Alcott was always my friend" (With Walt Whitman 1:333)

stuffed canary which in life had brought him much pleasure and which he made the subject of a poem, "My

Purport" (1891)First published in the last section of Leaves of Grass supervised by the author ("Good-Bye my

implies that the only way the train can join the dialogue of the recitative is through him ("Roll through my

liked it, and on 20 April 1884 he wrote to Anne Gilchrist, "I have moved into a little old shanty of my

But spoke of his outing yesterday and visit at my father's.

And to my negative, "He is a good fellow—very friendly to me—I have met him—talked, walked with him—an

My heart bleeds for him—he feels terribly his situation; and to save such a man as—,is worth more than

Well, I believe that is all—only to send you my love, mother dear—same to George—write all the domestic

I am on the Free Trade side, in spite of my American upbringing.

to be spent &c  Mattie and the children are very well—I am writing this at the office with Hattie at my

In my youthful ardor, I am rejoiced at the interdiction . It will make the revolution the greater.

the map of Canada toward north east)—then back again to stay awhile in the old city of Quebec—give my

1867 August 1 my dear Walt i will try once more to write A line to say we are all about the same only

If you encourage me to write, and say you will sometimes write to me I will buy me some pens —one of my

: weather— Bad condition with me—"Keep good heart— the worst is to come "—was one of the sayings of my

published in the magazine: "Twilight" (December 1887), "Old Age's Lamben Peaks" (September 1888), "My

LeGendre on the battle field perfectly unable to move  I took the blankets that I have strapped to my

all their Artillery and Baggage, and so ended the great battle of Fredericksburg which was lost in my

Straitened up my receipts  found the money all came out right to a cent, took a walk about the City  

July 12th  My Co was releived at 8 A.M. and were to act as a reserve for the other skirmishers  that

clothes, and took things comfortably as we were all completely tired out, and I made up my mind that

The following note appears at the top of this page in the diary: "[re]ceived my commission as [first

to one of his mystical treatises (De Cœlo et Inferno) he says:— "I was dining very late one day at my

London (this was in seventeen hundred and forty-three)—and was eating heartily.— When I was finishing my

That night the eyes of my inner man were opened, and enabled to look into heaven, the world of spirits

, and hell; and there I saw many persons of my acquaintance, some dead long before, and others recently

Instantly there was presented before my eyes a woman exactly resembling the women in that earth.— She

Doyle recalled, "We were familiar at once—I put my hand on his knee—we understood . . .

soul the clear and unmistakable conviction to disobey all, and pursue my own way" (Whitman 281). 

My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman . Boston: Beacon, 1985. Coffman, Stanley K., Jr.

body as I pass, / Be not afraid of my body."

He examined his own experience in My Days and Dreams (1890).

table, a knock at the door of our room—which served both as dining and sitting room—was answered by my

O'Connor offered to go out on the search with him; but before they started my husband asked me, aside

Walt had left his "carpet bag" with my husband, on his way down, wishing to be burdened with as little

When I expressed my doubts about his coming to us on his return from camp,— my husband's answer was,

My own first impression after reading the quarto edition of Leaves of Grass, recommended by Emerson to

Even these days, at the lapse of many years, I can never turn their tiny leaves, or even take one in my

See my "Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection: What's in a Name?"

thee, And royal feudal Europe sails with thee. 5 Beautiful world of new superber birth that rises to my

(Lo, where arise three peerless stars, To be thy natal stars my country, Ensemble, Evolution, Freedom

thee, And royal feudal Europe sails with thee. 5 Beautiful world of new superber birth that rises to my

(Lo, where arise three peerless stars, To be thy natal stars my country, Ensemble, Evolution, Freedom

“That very night,” says he, “the eyes of my inner man were opened, and I was able to look into heaven

I saw those who were dead here, but they were living there; I saw many persons of my acquaintance, some

I, the Titan, the hard-mouthed mechanic, spending my life in the hurling of words.

It is a joy and a pride to my heart to know that this feeling is truly returned" (qtd. in Evans 115).

[S]he possessed herself of my body and soul" (Traubel 500).

became "Poem of the Poet" in the 1856 edition, "Leaves of Grass" number 3 in 1860, and "Now List to My