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Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman [Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1921], 2:

The news from New Orleans and in fact from all parts of the Union keeps us all in good spirits so that

eight rifled guns, so we are about ready to advance, if there is any advanceing to be done in this part

(Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, [New York: Rowan and Littlefield, 1961], 2:201).

(Direct your letters Burnside Expedition Newport News)  part of our forces are still at Newbern.

Infantry while between them and the Town from which we had to advance is an open plain swept on all parts

I drew 2 months pay to day and bought a new suit of clothes and now I feel something like a white man

On our arrival at Richmond I found 2 boxes filled with Clothing and grub for me and the way we went into

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 2 October 1864

Almost the entire Fifty-First New York Regiment was lost: killed (2), wounded (10), and captured or missing

See George's letter to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman from July 2, 1864.

See George Whitman's letter to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman from October 2, 1864.

See George's letter to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman from October 2, 1864.

See George's letter to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman from October 2, 1864.

We are now encamped about 2½ miles from the Villiage and we have everything as nice and comfortable as

See George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, April 2, 1863.

We are about 2½ miles from the town and about ½ a mile above Camp Parole.

in Tenn (two weeks steady car riding aint much fun I tell you) but then we saw considerable of that part

See George Whitman's letter to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman from July 2, 1864.

Whitman George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 2 July 1864

doing duty as an Engineer Regt)  we like the change first rate as we are not expected to take much part

City Veterans," Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman [Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1921], 2:

First Division, and advancing on to Petersburg, the Fourth Division to be followed and suported by parts

Country I ever saw,  the people seem much more inteligent, and every way better, than in any other part

Jeff wrote to Walt Whitman on April 2, 1863, that Andrew was "real sick with his throat.

very quiet, and mind their own business, and we do the same,  I dont see much signs of a move on our part

I rather think the greater part of the fighting for our Regt is over.

We are now encamped on the banks of the river about 2 miles from the city and we have things very comfortable

We have taken quite a number of canon, and to day a part of our force leaves here to take another small

is a small one horse specimen of a southren Villiage, about 32 miles from Lexington, in the central part

Lee's army had retreated to Gordonsville, Virginia, it was easily routed by Jackson's attack of May 2,

Part 2, “Describing Local Lands,” explores how Dickinson and Whit- man treat nearby natural places as

As al lother ele- c h a p t e r   2•  79 ments become “part of” the child, they mainly serve the constitution

It is part of the poem’s achievement that it invokes conflicting stories of how to relate to the land

Part of what makes this scene ideal and common at the same time are its stories of agricultural balance

Part I 1.

He and Whitman often conversed, and Whitman loved to hear Hartshorne tell stories about meeting George

Vol. 2. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1921. Hartshorne, William (1775–1859)

He began to experiment with less conventional metrics and abandoned rhyme altogether.For the most part

"A Hitherto Unknown Whitman Story and a Possible Early Poem."

Emory Holloway. 2 vols. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921. Pre-Leaves Poems

In letters and essays, as well as in "The Sleepers" and "The Centenarian's Story," Whitman recalled George

including Manhattan and Long Island, and consistently presents Brooklyn as a place central to the story

"The Sleepers" briefly remembers the battle of Brooklyn, as does "The Centenarian's Story," in which

Here Whitman presents Brooklyn as a living part of American history, a part perhaps not appreciated enough

in the 1860s ("Centenarian's Story").BibliographyAllen, Gay Wilson.

After several months of convalescence, Whitman returned to work part time in March, but in June he moved

74 Clinton Place New York City Nov 2. 1890 Dear Sir.

Gleeson White to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1890

volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were Poets of America, 2

Faith fully yours Gleeson White see notes Nov. 2 1890 Gleeson White to Walt Whitman, 4 March 1889

In 1881 these poems appeared as an integral part of the Leaves of Grass canon.For the reader to understand

The Walt Whitman Archive: A Facsimile of the Poet's Manuscripts. 3 vols. 6 parts. Ed. Joel Myerson.

Arthur Golden. 2 vols. New York: New York Public Library, 1968.____.

Book was to serve as the revised text of the next (1867) edition of Leaves, but Whitman, for the most part

period of his career.Whitman had termed the third edition of Leaves of Grass his "New Bible" (Blue Book 2:

(Blue Book 2:114) But for the "other" South, the South of the "people," in the 1860 poem "Longings for

(Blue Book 2:160). With a Northern victory, he rejected this revision in 1867.

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964. ____. Walt Whitman's Blue Book. Ed.

He has become part of the canon of general English studies. Two of his poems ("O Captain!

Parts 1 and 2. Masa 8 (29 May 1952): 4–5; 9 (12 June 1952): 3, 8, 9, 11.Porat, Zephyra.

seems obvious in the face of a dozen such passages as the famous "Burial Hymn," or the picturesque parts

his prose style may be justly criticised as heavy and disjointed, but the intrinsic interest of the story

It is the old story of Achilles and Patroclus transferred from windy Troy to the banks of the Potomac

alcoholism that Walt acted as a substitute father to his brothers and sisters, as he suggests in an early story

As the adult child of an alcoholic, Whitman's formative experiences of love "became part of him . . .

As a transcendentalist, Whitman believed that this epiphany, "the origin of all poems" (section 2), like

Taylor offered his suspicious Quaker neighbors The Story of Kennett (1866) as an alternative to the fad

The Story of Kennett. New York: Putnam, 1866. Traubel, Horace. With Walt Whitman in Camden. Vol. 2.

Boker is genuine, has quality" (With Walt Whitman 2:476–477).

Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908; Vol. 6. Ed. Gertrude Traubel and William White.

For my part when I meet anyone of erudition I want to get away, it terrifies me.

"I think," said Walt, "I shall have to leave these parts.

We want pretty verbiage, part of a poem or a picture, without reference to the whole."

Then the fine vista of buildings, some four and five stories high.

It has marred that story-telling faculty—the memory.

convince members of Congress to exempt dress ruffles from new taxes they were levying.For the most part

Cleveland Rodgers and John Black. 2 vols. New York: Putnam, 1920.  ____.

Emory Holloway. 2 vols. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921. "City Dead-House, The" (1867)

three literary executors, Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas Harned, and Horace Traubel, who then published parts

Stovall provides "every variant reading of every earlier printed text which Whitman used, in whole or in part

contain the complete text of two "Daybooks" Whitman kept between 1876 and 1889, in which for the most part

Part 2, volumes 4–6, "is arranged according to more sharply defined topics, such as Projected Poems,

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964.

notes of Whitman, as well as some essays by the executors drawing on that material.Volume 1 contains part

of Specimen Days (originally published as Specimen Days & Collect in 1882); volume 2 contains the remainder

of Specimen Days and part of Collect.

The third volume contains the rest of Collect, all of November Boughs (1888), and the first part of Good-Bye

Bucke's introduction to the Complete Writings version explains that the notes that were published as part

Arthur Golden. 2 vols. New York: New York Public Library, 1968.

col.2. 32.

Argus,October31,1840, p.2,col.2. 56.

col.2. 67.

,p.2,col.2;and“TheOldandtheNew,”Chicago(IL)Democrat, May17,1856,p.2,cols.1–2. 21.SeeRobertJ.Cook,BaptismofFire

.2. 62.

Emory Holloway. 2 vols. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1972. Pride

Abraham Lincoln, calling him the "first great Martyr Chief" of the United States of America (Prose Works 2:

Whitman claims that from the Civil War a "great literature will yet arise" (Prose Works 2:502).

the Lincoln lecture for the last time on 15 April 1890, in the Arts Room in Philadelphia (Prose Works 2:

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964.____.

(Prose Works 2:674)Regardless of the voice's association with elocution, drama, or opera, for Whitman

the quality and power of the right voice (timbre the schools call it) that touches the soul, abysms. (2:

For Whitman the "perfect physiological human voice" creates the best philosophy or poetry (2:674).The

, nor take things from me, / You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self" (section 2)

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964.____.

linking together the diverse individuals who make up this young "Nation announcing itself" (section 2)

sexual imagery as well; both creative and procreative energies represent the larger force that unifies part

greatest Poem," he writes in the Preface (5), and the book, similarly, is an aggregate of diverse parts

Pageant": "I chant the new empire grander than any before, as in a vision it comes to me" (section 2)

/ The earth to be spann'd, connected by network" (section 2).

These versions of Whitman explain the strong interest in the poet on the part of German communists (fueled

as 1888, he claimed that his admiration for Heine was "a constantly growing one" (With Walt Whitman 2:

He identified with Heine's unconventional "improprieties" (With Walt Whitman 2:553) (presumably his liberal

bookishness in his works: "always warm, pulsing—his style pure, lofty, sweeping in its wild strength" (2:

Original lyrical property, "a superb fusion of culture and native elemental genius" (With Walt Whitman 2:

Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906; Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908. Heine, Heinrich (1797–1856)

American-German Review 11:2 (1944): 22–26, 38. Freiligrath, Ferdinand (1810–1876)

sought only to break the hostile public silence regarding homosexuality, the paranoiac discourse of parts