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It can hardly be wondered at that the good people of Rutland the other day were excited by the proceedings

In 1860 this title was dropped and the poem was moved to the "Enfans d'Adam" poem cluster as poem number

Although it attempts to transform the constrictions placed upon women by nineteenth-century American

"The Portrayal of Women in American Literature, 1790–1870."

What Manner of Woman: Essays on English and American Life and Literature. Ed. Marlene Springer.

Studies in Classic American Literature. New York: Seltzer, 1923.Mullins, Maire.

A WOMAN waits for me—she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking,

or if the mois- ture moisture of the right man were lacking.

A WOMAN waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking,

or if the moisture of the right man were lacking.

A WOMAN waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking,

or if the moisture of the right man were lacking.

A WOMAN waits for me—she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking,

or if the moisture of the right man were lacking.

Last night every seat was occupied, the aisles were full of benches, not a few were forced to stand,

If only the meanest estimates of life were cherished we should become groveling grovelling grovelling

If time were only looked upon as an opportunity to delve and scheme and get, we should not wonder that

All apparent results were sometimes denied.

Ladd, when friends would dissuade him from the step which inaugurated the American Peace Society, had

Hensley "I dream'd a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth

, I dreamed that was the new city of friends."

American spirit.

Take the Bolton group—how American! How American skies seem to float into them.

I thought you were over to the Club." I was on the way now. Read him Illustrated American.

I wish it were more!

They were only here a few minutes, but they were bright minutes."

Referred to the American generals.

What were these virtues?

They were in the hall below."

Louis and other cities.

Original songs were sung by Dixon & myself & the fun & frolic were kept up till midnight.

Then there were other reasons.

Ingersoll upon Walt Whitman and Freedom—I would see whether the American people (even in Phila.) were

There were white beards, but none were so white as that of the author of "Leaves of Grass."

Had laid out American for me.

You know, they were the poems that went to the Harper's Bazar—were refused there.

, they were inferior.

A typical American.

—"It is a high word: one would wish he were the man even if he were not!"

—"Mary got them for me—they were recommended to her there in the city as policemen's mitts.

I can send him the names of some sixty men (native Americans, necessarily) who were voted for, besides

He affects American.

Cooper, Bryant, and the portrait painter, Chares Elliot, were the great American geniuses fifty years

In Canada I was always astonished to hear people speak of us as Americans—as if they were not as really

American as we were."

Americans he thought "worked like the devil till they were all worked out"—though sometimes he "envied

"At that time I thought the books were selling: a lot of them were consigned, right and left: there were

There were four.

They were favorable.

The stars were all out.

"Were they crazy?"

"You were right, he said: "it was Dana: Dana was city editor of the New York Tribune at the time: the

I was bred in Brooklyn: initiated to all the mysteries of city life—populations, perturbations: knew

Were big men the men?

I described Clifford's attendance at the big Farrar reception of ministers in the city: hundreds were

An American gentleman told me that you were going to England. Is it true?

Asked me who were yet to be heard from in the American symposium.

The two letters that follow were dictated to a stenographer and signed by Redpath.North American Review

Coates were in today? Well, they were.

Now I read the letters.The North American Review, New York City, Oct. 20, 1885. Dear Mr.

My dear Walt—Nine years ago I delivered before a German Society of New York city a lecture on American

Oh, what scenes of human horror were to be found in this city last winter.

"I only said you were misunderstood—that what you meant was that the American people did not sufficiently

so many were against me the few who were for me were extra, extra precious!

W. somehow talked of American poets who were "hardly of international scope."

Davis were witnesses to the will.W. had been reading Charles Morris' screed on himself in The American

was written in August 1865, with the poetic lines likely composed slightly earlier (likely the early 1860s

that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception; I assert that all past days were

what they should have been; And that they could no-how have been better than they were, And that to-day

that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception, I assert that all past days were

what they must have been, And that they could no-how have been better than they were, And that to-day

that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception, I assert that all past days were

what they must have been, And that they could no-how have been better than they were, And that to-day

that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception; I assert that all past days were

what they should have been; And that they could no-how have been better than they were, And that to-day

Between 1827 and 1860 he published six volumes of poetry, nine books of sketches, and six volumes of

His prominence was such that Melville included Willis's name in a list of eight leading American authors

He was a significant advocate of American literary nationalism.

In response to Britain's refusal to offer American authors copyright protection, Willis founded the short-lived

American Literary Criticism, 1800–1860. Boston: Hall, 1979. Stovall, Floyd.

Gross worked were the ship Benares , the schooner Passport , and the brig Abrams .

of these vessels brought contagious diseases into port, nor did they come from sickly places, nor were

accommodation for the people; and if his efforts had been properly seconded by the representatives of the city

Into the demonstration made at this end of the city on the occasion of the water celebration he entered

eventually remunerative as well as successful, to cheapen and improve the means of access to this city

If I were writing sketches of all the good men, I should have to include at least some clergyman; but

And indeed he is popular all over the city, or else he never would have been elected as he was, when

all his associates on the ticket were so utterly overthrown.

He was the most faithful and industrious legal officer that the city has had—he filled the office of

any number of other renewals of the same trust from the same constituency—for I can assure him they were

kinsmen, my subject is engaged just now in developing the resources and augmenting the prosperity and population

with a purse as light as when he went in, but at the same time rich in the universal sentiment of the city

progenitor and namesake falling upon him, have played no small part in the affairs of the village and the city

As it is, the consolidation of the two cities, and the erection of a seperate separate ward out of the

21 I turn now to another part of the district, and select for portraiture a man of whom, though I were

He dissents from his dominie in theology, from his political party in their local policy, from the city

in general questions, but attending strictly to the concerns of his own particular portion of the city

one of the leading men in the city councils.

does for the public gratuitously more work than almost any man who receives a large salary from the city

Though not a native American, he possesses in a high degree the best qualities which are “to the manor

A short, stout, dark-haired man, who formerly sat in the City Councils with the two above mentioned.

aught I know, what Fernando Wood was in New York about the same time, vis, the best abused man in the city

Dunstan and other holy men painted him, and I must confess, for my part, that I know in this city very

Henry Ward Beecher is tremendously popular in the city of ours.

former portraits have not been high colored and flattering enough to suit the people for whom they were

He is best known to the public from his services in the Common Council, where high expectations were

His impulsiveness—rashness I had almost said—has often offended, for the time being, those who were the

I hope at no distant day to see him again in our city councils, or in some more extended sphere of public

And there is no more hard-working man in the city than my subject, who labors unceasingly for the good

I am rather gratified to find that my first sketches were generally recognized, and their fidelity admitted

He is not deficient in public spirit, but until laterally has hardly shown that interest in city matters

Some of our hard, matter-of-fact people, who never talk or think of anything but dollars and city lots

enterprise which, if carried out, will confer untold benefits on the north eastern portion of the city

Many men who are now well to do in business, were started by him; his was the capital—though he is not

end, as they have not heard from me for several weeks; but the fact is that a brief absence from the city

In the county towns as well as in the city, everyone concurs in speaking well of him.

When last elected he was solitary and alone of his party—the rest were all left far behind—but even the

bitter animosity is a partisanship, engendered by presidential elections, were assuaged by the general

He holds an important position under the city government—one which requires, almost beyond any other,

anxiety greater than that which he would bestow on his own property, the progress of works which the city

through a mile of his own property—once an old hilly farm, but soon to possess incalculable value as city

For the days are passed when high social standing advances a man politically, in our large cities.

The financial condition of those wards of the city of Brooklyn comprised in the late city of Williamsburgh

under a load of debt accumulated by the extravagance and misgovernment of the officials of the late city

is anything but consolatory, and one which should induce us to labor strenuously to free the late city

arranged to be chosen from a class of men who were unfitted to accomplish the designed end, and who

would render it impossible for parties to recover judgments and accumulate costs against the late city

After Whitman, Williams is the great revolutionary in American prosody.

language, was the founding impetus for American poetry.

language demanded a new and "free" verse were the true origin of modernism (22).

city and modern consciousness.

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

Williams, Talcott (1849–1928) Talcott Williams was born in Beirut en route to Turkey where his parents were

He learned journalism in New York City at the World and at the Sun.

Among Williams's friends were the Shakespeare scholar Horace Howard Furness, the artist Thomas Eakins

The Encyclopedia of American Journalism. New York: Facts on File, 1983. Traubel, Horace.

Thayer Thayer & Eldridge | June 11 1860 William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 5 June 1860

Eldridge, the Boston publishing firm responsible for the third edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1860

Thayer & Eldridge had reprinted his novel Amy Lee early in 1860.

The review Thayer and Eldridge sent to Whitman appeared in the Boston Banner of Light (2 June 1860).

The review of Leaves of Grass that appeared in the New-York Saturday Press on June 2, 1860, was signed

For Calvin Beach's review of the 1860 Leaves of Grass see "Leaves of Grass."

Eldridge, the Boston publishing firm responsible for the third edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1860

At the time, Thayer and Eldridge were already advertising a new volume of Whitman's poetry entitled The

Banks were distrustful. No one knew how the war would end.

All book firms were 'shaky.' . . .

Anti-slavery people were interested in keeping [Thayer and Eldridge] up, but they were forced to call

These plates were included in a lot of plates sometime ago mortgaged to Isaac Tower for money we raised

Eldridge, the Boston publishing firm responsible for the third edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1860

New York Tribune to say you were in Canada (not Camden) and intended to remain North some time: then

Even in his younger days, there is the best of evidence that his habits were correct, and his conversation

The "Amens" were uttered by a person immediately to the left of Mr.

Another: Not long since the Inquirer of this city published a lengthy article on cremation, giving interviews

elderly, full-bearded, gray haired artist has for years been frequenting the barrooms and hotels of this city

Honered Honored Friend— Was beginning to fear you were ill.

I am anxious to put in the second number a similar series of letters from the Leading Americans and I

American Edition 5 (1891), 11.

the REVIEW OF REVIEWS —a copy of which I send you herewith —without any extract from the "North American

The parcel of "North Americans" which ought to have reached London, was lost between Liverpool and London

Whitman's essay "Old Poets" was first published in the November 1890 issue of The North American Review

The North American Review was the first literary magazine in the United States.

Brooks, Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

Gents: Enclosed I send you Nine, (9) dollars, for subscription to the "Daily American" from Jan'y 28,

Walter Whitman Washington City, D.C. William Stansberry to Walt Whitman, 9 December 1873

Joseph Edgar Chamberlin (1851–1935) was an American journalist for the Boston Transcript and the Youth's

The Booths were an illustrious nineteenth-century English American acting family.

Among the best-known Booths were actor Junius Brutus Booth (1796–1852) and his actor-sons Edwin Thomas

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

Traubel left behind enough manuscripts for six more volumes of the series, the final two of which were

his time, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was both a highly popular and highly respected American

When Whitman met Longfellow in June 1876, he was unimpressed: "His manners were stately, conventional—all