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Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY

1584 results

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 5 January 1889

  • Date: January 5, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Annotations Text:

Fabians played a key role in founding the Labour party in 1990 and have a commitment to non-violent political

Monday, September 14, 1891

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

of our life in America is indescribably grand, splendid—the life of the people—the masses—the real play

As we approached along the Avenue a band struck up, playing by lamplight, the new moon shining overhead

Everyone manifestly glad to see him back—talk & laughter, band playing all the time—now "Home, Sweet

'Leaves of Grass'—An Extraordinary Book

  • Date: 15 September 1855
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

In his philosophy justice attains its proper dimensions: "I play not a march for victors only: I play

'I Sing the Body Electric' [1855]

  • Creator(s): Gutman, Huck
Text:

naked in the swimming-bath," the "embrace of love and resistance" of two young boy wrestlers, the "play

presents women as exceedingly sexual, for "mad filaments, ungovernable shoots" of erotic attraction play

Our Old Feuillage.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

rest standing, they are too tired, Afar on arctic ice the she-walrus lying drowsily while her cubs play

evening, the musket-muz- zles musket-muzzles all bear bunches of flowers presented by women; Children at play

Our Old Feuillage.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

rest standing, they are too tired, Afar on arctic ice the she-walrus lying drowsily while her cubs play

evening, the musket-muz- zles musket-muzzles all bear bunches of flowers presented by women; Children at play

Williamsburgh Word Portraits, No. 7

  • Date: 10 June 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the shadow of the mantle of his late distinguished progenitor and namesake falling upon him, have played

and as he has in all probability a long career yet to run, I look forward with confidence to his playing

Williamsburgh Word Portraits, No. 5

  • Date: 2 June 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Yet he found time in early youth to mingle in the toilsome “play” of the firemen.

where his natural abilities, sharpened as they have been by the struggles of partisanship, have full play

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 13 July 1889

  • Date: July 13, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: February 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

is a rational animal, and not like the beasts, which have no sense; and all effort on his part to play

Introduction to Horace Traubel

  • Creator(s): Matt Cohen
Text:

As Whitman's health failed, he needed more help with daily tasks, and from the mid-1880s, Traubel played

Walt Whitman's Advice to the State Scholars

  • Date: February 1888
  • Creator(s): Cessator
Text:

characters are individualistic; they let out what they have in them; they give themselves full sweep and play

Wednesday, April 10, 1889

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

They had played Raff's "Lenore" Symphony among other things.Evening, 8:00.

"I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ" (1861)

  • Creator(s): Dacey, Philip
Text:

Appropriate for a poem about music, the sound effects are multiple, striking, and subtle (e.g., the play

Friday, January 3, 1890

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

He admitted "Francesca da Rimini" was "much of a play"—adding—"I knew Boker—met him: he had the look

Sunday, April 1, 1888.

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

But this quiet play of pros with cons enters more or less into all his conversation.

Monday, October 12, 1891

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

It was a holy peace—a quiet passing understanding—my memory meanwhile drowsily playing with all the events

Wednesday, July 30, 1890

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

Thought Symonds' "Democratic Art" was "somewhat like the play 'Our American Cousin'—in which the only

Thursday, September 4, 1890

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

And as to Ingersoll's contention that Shakespeare's plays were impersonal—non-personal—more absolutely

Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe to Walt Whitman, 3 February 1890

  • Date: February 3, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe
Text:

Karin is babbling on the floor, playing with blocks, & both nurses are adding a not insignificant share

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 24 October 1891

  • Date: October 24, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

The wooden pillow had "the feathers the wrong way up": the tapping & pounding was "playing the piano

A Thought out of the Grand Topic of the Day

  • Date: 18 August 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We shall find a play of mental, moral and social power interacting between them.

Biography of Richard Maurice Bucke

  • Date: 1998
  • Creator(s): Howard Nelson
Text:

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

Drum-Taps (1865)

  • Creator(s): Eiselein, Gregory
Text:

his book published, Whitman made his own arrangements and, on 1 April 1865, signed a contract with Peter

Bucke, Richard Maurice

  • Creator(s): Nelson, Howard
Text:

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

Lincoln's Death [1865]

  • Creator(s): Eiselein, Gregory
Text:

Although Whitman was not an eyewitness, his close companion, Peter Doyle, was at Ford's Theater, and

Saturday, August 15, 1891

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

best part of it all is Arnold's tribute, and our best feather, too—genuine this time, I guess—for Peter

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 1]

  • Date: 29 February 1840
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Volume I: 1834–1846 (New York: Peter Lang, 1998).

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 7]

  • Date: 29 September 1840
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Volume I: 1834–1846 (New York: Peter Lang, 1998).

The Literary World

  • Date: 12 October 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Volume I: 1834–1846 (New York: Peter Lang, 1998).

Memorials of the Red Men

  • Date: 9 July 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Volume I: 1834–1846 (New York: Peter Lang, 1998).

An Extraordinary Document

  • Date: 18 August 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Hunt up such places as the (Moses) Taylor and (Peter) Cooper, to aid in the construction of this beautiful

identical with the

  • Date: Before or early in 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

anticipating the description in the following lines: "The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 11–12 May 1889

  • Date: May 11–12, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

figures of speech in Bacon to Shakespeare, argued for Bacon as the author behind Shakespeare's famous plays

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 3 December 1863

  • Date: December 3, 1863
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Annotations Text:

For much of 1863 Jesse enjoyed good relations with the Jefferson Whitman family: he played amicably with

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

Walt Whitman to Ernest Rhys, 22 January 1890

  • Date: January 22, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

theatre as an actor and director (she directed and acted in the production of one of Ernest Rhys's plays

Walt. Whitman's New Poem

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

wandered alone, bare- headed, barefoot, Down from the showered halo and the moonbeams, Up from the mystic play

Picaninies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with a little round button at the top; and they all fell to playing

Saturday, August 3, 1889

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

I interposed— "How O'Connor would play with Edward Emerson's 'or words to that effect' if he were here

W. responding laughingly— "Yes he would: it would be a sight to dwell upon: he would play Edward sick

American Feuillage.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

rest standing—they are too tired; Afar on arctic ice, the she-walrus lying drowsily, while her cubs play

returning home at evening—the musket-muzzles all bear bunches of flowers presented by women; Children at play—or

Proud Music of the Storm.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

and strength, all hues we know, Green blades of grass and warbling birds, children that gambol and play

all the rest, maternity of all the rest, And with it every instrument in multitudes, The players playing

Chants Democratic

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

rest standing—they are too tired; Afar on arctic ice, the she-walrus lying drowsily, while her cubs play

returning home at evening—the musket-muzzles all bear bunches of flowers presented by women; Children at play—or

Proud Music of the Storm.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

and strength, all hues we know, Green blades of grass and warbling birds, children that gambol and play

all the rest, maternity of all the rest, And with it every instrument in multitudes, The players playing

American Feuillage

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

rest standing—they are too tired; Afar on arctic ice, the she-walrus lying drowsily, while her cubs play

returning home at evening—the musket-muzzles all bear bunches of flowers presented by women; Children at play—or

Saturday, July 28, 1888.

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

importance in a day—amputations, blood, death are nothing to him—you will see a group absorbed in playing

He often plays with his penknife, opening and shutting as he talks.

my first tries with the lute—in that book I am just like a man tuning up his instrument before the play

Walt Whitman: A Dialogue

  • Date: 1890
  • Creator(s): Santayana, George
Text:

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

Good-Bye My Fancy

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

and Fanny Kemble in Fazio, "a rapid-running, yet heavy-timber'd, tremendous, wrenching, passionate play

"Song of the Answerer" (1881)

  • Creator(s): Hatlen, Burton
Text:

Traces of this same paradox also play through "Song of the Answerer."

"Song of the Banner at Daybreak" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Hatlen, Burton
Text:

"Song of the Banner" plays a similar role in what eventually became the "Drum-Taps" cluster.

Friday, July 6, 1888.

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

for me: never doubted or gone off—that I can count on him in all exigencies: and I think affection plays

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