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a passage remarkable for its nobility: "With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play

not marches for accepted victors only, I play Marches for conquer'd and slain persons.

Grundy, a term for an extremely conventional or priggish person, refers to a character in the play Speed

This quotation is from a collection of conversations between Goethe and Johann Peter Eckermann.

Grundy, a term for an extremely conventional or priggish person, refers to a character in the play Speed

, after several more short essays, including "The Bible as Poetry," "What Lurks Behind Shakspere's Plays

new world receives with joy the poems of the antique, with European feudalism's rich fund of epics, plays

Nature plays "for Seasons, not Eternities," as must "All those whose stake is nothing more than dust;

arising out of a life of depression and enervation, as their result; or else that class of poetry, plays

Have the old forces played their parts? Are the acts suitable to them closed?"

famously remaked, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play

famously remaked, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play

Jourdain, in the play of Racine, was surprised to learn from his erudite master in philosophy that for

The character Monsieur Jourdain appears in a play by Molière (1622 - 1673) Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme .

.; The character Monsieur Jourdain appears in a play by Molière (1622 - 1673) Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

"That you are here—that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute

Tennyson;" "Slang in America;" "Father Taylor and Oratory;" "What lurks behind Shakespeare's Historical Plays

"Be seated, I will sit here where I can see the children at play beneath the green leaves," and the poet

Outside the sun shone, the birds sang, and the boys played.

yesterday and turned into the unpretentious thoroughfare called Mickle Street, a freckle faced urchin playing

soldier who traversed camp and field as the conquering head of the army while the Camden poet was playing

sonnet I wrote originally for Harper's: " As one by one withdraw the lofty actors From that great play

He was born in Havana, where his father used to play the fiddle for home amusement.

The lad began playing when he was but little taller than his father's fiddle.

Walt was mightily pleased with the music, and the Chevalier played some more. Meantime, W. H.

should be observed toward President Arthur, who has in some respects, the most perplexing part to play

Ingersoll's facial play here was superb.

Press About six weeks ago the children on Mickle street, below Fifth street, in Camden, were asked to play

Among the guests present were: Peter V. Voorhees, W. N. Bannard, Isaac C. Martindale, Howard M.

The famous white hat sat on the top of his thick snowy hair, and the flickering gaslights played in unromantic

as it is now; It could as easily have unfolded to him, the counsel of God, as to bid him send for Peter

ordained the use of instrumental means, was it any reason, why Cornelius should reject the teaching of Peter

If when Peter came, Cornelius had said to him, I have the Light in myself–this is all-sufficient for

Coleridge was to himself throughout his life, what the Spectre was to the hero of one of Calderon's plays

Peter the Great, (1689-1725,) founding the Russian Empire by his genius, had chalked out for his successors

in which all the characters have perished, without leaving a seed behind;—while on its surface is played

had no niche with its holy image; and because the naked Dryads of Paganism were permitted there to play

Nay, often he plays on the poetic strings with so rich and jewel-loaded a hand, that the sparkling mass

disturbs, if not the playing, yet our hearing of it."

Bazalgette translated The Wound-Dresser ( Le Panseur de Plaies ) (1917).

In eight hundred finely written pages, she methodically and exhaustively followed the role played by

We shall see later the part played by this same spectacle in the growth of the poem.

We think every great artist is a conscious one and that in every great work of art the part played by

not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.

86 He evidently wanted this play on words.

The passionate teeming plays this curtain hid!).

Letter to Peter Doyle, September 6, I87o, SPL, p. 993· 3x.

See also "The Mystic Trum peter,"Inc. Ed., p. 39I, §6, II.

But in a letter to Peter Doyle June 27, I872 (SPL, pp.

That, like all the rest, plays about the surface,andneverintroducesmeintothereality,forcontactwithwhich

Fromthecinder-strew’dthresholdIfollowtheir movements, Thelithesheer of their waists plays evenwith their

;heis,ofcourse,thesolesubjectoftheconcluding book 4, and, as I have argued elsewhere, his writings play

the nation made him less willing to delegate political action to politicians and more inclined to play

Peter Lang, 2012), 383–92.

arising out of a life of depression and enervation as their result; or else that class of poetry, plays

cooped up and paralytic in his Camden, New Jersey, home, Whitman's isolation and winter loneliness play

In the historical plays, Shakespeare undermines, perhaps unconsciously, the feudal system.

In English, slang functions like the clowns in Shakespeare's plays.

Whitman plays with the conventional meaning of the word "prudence" by employing the vocabulary of finance—good

He also reviewed plays and opera and occasional ballet presented in New York theater houses.

In January 1865, in his capacity as Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Ashton played a

Buchanan, who have praised his performances, appear to me to be playing off on the public a well-intentioned

, arising out of a life of depression and enervation as their result—or else that class of poetry, plays

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast” (71).

Miller Jr., Colleen Lamos, Wayne Koestenbaum, and John Peter.

See also Peter, “Postscript (1969),” 165–66; and James E.

Peter also discusses canto 26 (“Postscript [1969],” 170).

Bellis, Peter J. “Whitman in 1855: Against Representation.”

Military land at Point Peter, Georgia, I have the honor to enclose the certified copy of a deed from

Peter lands. Geo.

Sir: I enclose herewith the account of Peter R. Carll, Esq.

He was a minor but colorful poet whose romantic verse, plays, and prose mainly glorified the West.

sponded,infact,toaninitialbreakupofregularItalianmetrics:itallowed a certain degree of freedom, of play

Carducci’s experience, in which Whitman played, as we have seen, a relevantrole,comesparticularlyclosetothatofRussian

had hardly ever been used in Italian poetry before, and it is highly probable that Whitman’s poetry played

of Whitman’sLeavesofGrass(1855), diSanPietro”(“AnEveningofSaint 210;and2017translationof Whitman’s Peter

Schyberg concluded that Whitman remained identified with his mother throughout his life, and often played

complete French edition of the 1891–92 Leaves of Grass under the title Feuilles d'herbe in 1909, played

intimacy and imaginative coupling between reader and poet usually found in Whitman's poems—and at play

acts unto themselves, which bring new life to the original by transforming and enriching its lexical play

Dissolving a national literature in the fluid play of genres,lyricandepicmergehereintoasea-bornetradition

1990),296,280. 5.Walcott’sfascinationwiththeOdysseyisevidentnotonlyinOmerosbutevenmoreclearlyin his play

newgreatmasters”—or,moreprecisely,this call for a call—so much as to situate his poetry within the play

its part and passing on, Another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn, With faces

{ kirsten silva gruesz } “dim” of the bus station; the fierce current of economic opportunity they play

of twenty-two volumes published by New York University Press, two additional volumes published by Peter

, only in the last few years have the first two volumes appeared, issued by a different publisher, Peter

quickly clarify for any non-specialists in attendance, we'll gloss some of the acronyms that are in play

these various encoding choices we've inherited—even though they were most likely based on a desire to play

Interviews of the poet have, historically, played a minor role in Whitman scholarship, and as far as

His initial success was followed by a prolific series of poems, novels, and plays.

In a 1946 essay Hughes expressed his belief that, since Whitman had played with slave children in his

Peter Buffett's musical score merges various voices, emphasizing the film's themes of hope, joy, compassion

(Available on video.)Whitman is frequently quoted in director Peter Weir's Dead Poets Society (1989),

produced Song of Myself (first broadcast 9 March 1976), starring Rip Torn as Whitman and Brad Davis as Peter

which set Whitman's verse to original synthesizer music.In 1995 playwright Alan Brody and composer Peter

between Whitman's last breath of inspiration and his last exhalation, with dialogues between Whitman and Peter

All, he says, is sweet—smell, taste, thought, the play of his limbs, the fantasies of his mind; every

1921), nature writer, literary critic, and author of Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (1867); Peter

Peter Coviello. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. PW ProseWorks 1892. 2 vols. Ed.

Peter Coviello (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 3. Hereafter MDW.

In his biographyof Peter Doyle, Martin G.

“Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle.”

Edited by Peter Coviello. NewYork: Oxford University Press, 2004. ———. ProseWorks.

muscular build—his antecedents here being a race of farmers and mechanics, silent, good-natured, playing

of trifles and dallyings, tires even of wit and smartness, dislikes garrulity and fiction and all play

This view seems to play out Werner's notion that this "feudal element" was so important that Whitman

And if, as Miller suggests, the muse plays a different tune to the older poet, Whitman never loses sight