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Thursday, September 29th, 1888.

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

It is almost a part of Philadelphia where I live on the opposite side of the Delaware river.

Thursday, October 11th, 1888.

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

I mailed it over the river later on.

Sunday, January 13, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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family has to expect things of me: we are simply what we are: we do not always run together like two rivers

Saturday, January 19, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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came crushed, low spirited, despondent—thinking to go into the War—like a fellow jumping into the river

Sunday, January 20, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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We talked of the river: how the river is on days like this: W. interrogating.

Tuesday, April 9, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"And the way down and down—and then the river, too!" His manner rather pensive, if not sad.

I used to count him one of my best friends on the river."

Contradiction

  • Creator(s): Zapata-Whelan, Carol M.
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Malcolm Cowley saw the poet's ideas as pell-mell driftwood in a flooding river. D.H.

Ferries and Omnibuses

  • Creator(s): Dougherty, James
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Scheduled ferries traveled from Manhattan to the west bank of the Hudson and to the cities across the East River

"From Pent-up Aching Rivers" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Mullins, Maire
Text:

MaireMullins"From Pent-up Aching Rivers" (1860)"From Pent-up Aching Rivers" (1860)This poem was initially

"From Pent-up Aching Rivers" (1860)

Hudson River

  • Creator(s): Faries, Nathan C.
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Nathan C.FariesHudson RiverHudson RiverDespite its modest 315-mile length, the Hudson River is famous

In 1848 he traveled to and from a short-lived newspaper job in New Orleans via the Hudson River, the

In these the river is listed alongside the Mississippi, Paumanok Sound, and the alien Thames.

The Hudson River and Its Painters. New York: Viking, 1972.Whitman, Walt.

Hudson River

Individualism

  • Creator(s): Duggar, Margaret H.
Text:

through regenerative participation in the comradeship of the twenty-eight young men afloat in the rivers

Specimen Days [1882]

  • Creator(s): Hutchinson, George and David Drews
Text:

The immensity of the mountains and rivers themselves match, for Whitman, the immensity of the democratic

Thoreau, Henry David [1817–1862]

  • Creator(s): Roberson, Susan L.
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In addition to Walden (1854), Thoreau's major works include A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Bucke, Richard Maurice

  • Creator(s): Nelson, Howard
Text:

In Philadelphia on professional business, Bucke crossed the river to Camden and looked the poet up.

Lawrence River, and the following year, in preparation for the biography, they visited places important

Johnston, John H. (1837–1919) and Alma Calder

  • Creator(s): Roberson, Susan L.
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During August 1881, Whitman stayed with the Johnstons at their summer home at Mott Haven on the Harlem River

Biographies

  • Creator(s): Loving, Jerome
Text:

before Asselineau and Allen were written by a renowned man of American letters and the author of Spoon River

Brooklyn, New York

  • Creator(s): Gill, Jonathan
Text:

and Fulton streets.In the early 1830s Whitman began spending more of his free time across the East River

Whitman celebrated Brooklyn's growth, especially as opposed to what he called the "Gomorra" across the river

Canada, Whitman's Reception in

  • Creator(s): Cederstrom, Lorelei
Text:

Lawrence, heading north on the Saguenay River to Chicoutimi, Quebec.Although Whitman kept a diary of

Whitman described the Saguenay as less appealing, referring to the "dark-water'd river" and its environs

American Primer, An (1904)

  • Creator(s): Dressman, Michael R.
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He disapproves of borrowed, European names for American cities, states, rivers, or mountains, and he

Fuller, Margaret (1810–1850)

  • Creator(s): Mason, Julian
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" "frankness and expansion," and "abundant opportunity to develope a genius, wide and full as our rivers

Wharton, Edith (1862–1937)

  • Creator(s): Singley, Carol J.
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homage to Whitman in novels of artistic development such as The Custom of the Country (1912), Hudson River

Masters, Edgar Lee (1868?-1950)

  • Creator(s): Britton, Wesley A.
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midwestern lawyer who took on literature as an avocation, Masters gained fast fame for his popular Spoon River

Beyond Spoon River: The Legacy of Edgar Lee Masters. Austin: U of Texas P, 1981.

Across Spoon River: An Autobiography. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1936. ———. Whitman.

Joyce, James (1882–1941)

  • Creator(s): Moore, Andy J.
Text:

borrowed from Whitman's line in "Song of Myself," "Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

  • Creator(s): Renner, Dennis K.
Text:

in Kings County, which gave Whitman responsibility for leadership in political communication only a river

Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855 Edition

  • Creator(s): French, R.W.
Text:

: "His spirit responds to his country's spirit … he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers

Republican Party

  • Creator(s): Hatch, Frederick
Text:

growing industrialization and expansion, promoting the building of roads, railroads, and canal and river

Riverby

  • Creator(s): Sarracino, Carmine
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naturalist, writer, and friend of Walt Whitman, built a house with a spectacular view of the Hudson River

He purchased the land in September 1873 and called the home "Riverby" (meaning "by the river" and pronounced

"river bee").

St. Louis, Missouri

  • Creator(s): McWilliams, Jim
Text:

Louis in 1764 to be a focal point for French trade on the Mississippi River.

"Salut au Monde!"(1856)

  • Creator(s): Zapata-Whelan, Carol M.
Text:

Along with historical summaries and sky-view grids of railroads and rivers, he records the Cossack's

Sea, The

  • Creator(s): Kuebrich, David
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thematic center of a larger pattern of aquatic symbolism in Leaves which includes the rain, sea-breezes, rivers

unknown, the spiritual, the only permanently real, which as the ocean waits for and receives the rivers

Space

  • Creator(s): Olson, Steven
Text:

Others, like "Scenes on Ferry and River," celebrate the heavens.

Technology

  • Creator(s): Mulcaire, Terry
Text:

masterpiece, in this regard, is "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (1856), where a ride on the ferry across the East River

Internet, Whitman on the

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
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Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997.Fineberg, Gail.

Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997. Internet, Whitman on the

London, Ontario, Canada

  • Creator(s): Cederstrom, Lorelei
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their trips to Sarnia, Toronto, and the Thousand Islands in Ontario, and to Montreal and the Saguenay River

of my friend for perhaps an hour, and when I found him again he was sitting in a quiet nook by the river

Media Interpretations of Whitman's Life and Works

  • Creator(s): Britton, Wesley A.
Text:

Burleigh used the words from "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors" on his collection of spirituals entitled Deep River

Mississippi River

  • Creator(s): Field, Jack
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In Specimen Days he calls the river "the most important stream on the globe" (Complete 865).In 1848,

During their stay, from 25 February until 27 May, Whitman made daily visits to the river to observe the

While there he visited the river as frequently as his health would allow, "every night lately" (Complete

Mississippi River

Music, Whitman's Influence on

  • Creator(s): Leathers, Lyman L.
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instance, in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" Whitman's images of the gulls, the waves, and the flow of the river—contrasted

"Native Moments" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Klawitter, George
Text:

dropped personal references to prostitutes in several other poems, including "From Pent-up Aching Rivers

as one of three "delirium" poems in "Children of Adam," the other two being "From Pent-up Aching Rivers

New Orleans Picayune

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

ideal locale for a newspaper, for the city flourished with trade going up and down the Mississippi River

Niagara Falls

  • Creator(s): Rachman, Stephen
Text:

StephenRachmanNiagara FallsNiagara FallsWalt Whitman twice visited the famous falls on the Niagara River

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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Philadelphia was the third most populous city in the United States when Whitman resided across the Delaware River

which lasted until 1919.A century after the first publication of Leaves of Grass in 1855, the Delaware River

Authority decided to name a new bridge after the poet so closely associated with both banks of the river

Poetic Theory

  • Creator(s): Johnstone, Robert
Text:

strengthen it, conjuring and multiplying "the act-poems of eyes, hands, hips and bosoms" ("Pent-up Aching Rivers

Timber Creek

  • Creator(s): Nelson, Howard
Text:

HowardNelsonTimber CreekTimber CreekTimber Creek, a tributary of the Delaware River, runs through southern

Time

  • Creator(s): Matteson, John T.
Text:

that, therefore, there is a constancy to human experience that transcends time:To think that the rivers

"To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod" (1865–1866)

  • Creator(s): Olson, Steven
Text:

references to North and South and the key references to the Allegheny Mountains and the Mississippi River

"To Think of Time" (1855)

  • Creator(s): Kahn, Sholom J.
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has many realistic and symbolic links to other early poems: the "old stagedriver" to "Occupations," river

Transcendentalism

  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
Text:

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; Walden, or, Life in the Woods; The Maine Woods; Cape Cod.

Travels, Whitman's

  • Creator(s): Field, Jack
Text:

Cloud and traveled down the Ohio River.

Another train took them to Albany, and from there they traveled by boat down the Hudson River to New

Clair River and on the Canada-Michigan border fifty-five miles northeast of Detroit.

proceeded to Quebec, and the next day continued 134 miles to Tadoussac, at the mouth of the Saguenay River

A steamboat took them up that river to Chicoutimi and Ha Ha Bay, then back again to Quebec on the eighth

West, The American

  • Creator(s): Albin, C.D.
Text:

For him the region meant far more than mighty rivers, fertile soil, and apparently limitless natural

Looking out upon the jagged, looming majesty of a mountain peak, or the raw, river-forged scoop of a

suspect it in the future" without viewing the prairies, the states of the Midwest, or the Mississippi River

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 6)

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

The sky, the river, the sun—they are my curatives."

it is good to be with the river—good: the river mends us: is good for many things more than one thing

Had read "Concord River" and "Saturday" sketches.

"We sat by the river for a long time.

Had been down to the river.

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