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We can play a little, too, and at least simulate a breakdown of the notorious computational barrier between

McGann's most advanced experiments in deformance involve game-playing.

My thanks to Aidan Arrowsmith, Peter Heaney, Laura Peters, and Shaun Richards.

(LG 85) Whitman, the reader of dictionaries, is playing a complicated game here.

Peter G. Buckley, “Culture, Class, and Place in Antebellum New York,” 34. 26.

For a more nuanced reading of Whitman’s class location, see Peter G.

Buckley, Peter G. “Culture, Class, and Place in Antebellum New York.”

The poem, combined with pictures of Buckingham learning to play the guitar, works to connect the musician's

of the cradle endlessly rocking," is flanked by two large photographs: on the left is a young boy playing

a guitar and singing, on the right is the adult Buckingham playing a guitar and singing.

entertainment—listening to a string quartet, going to the Met (Joey mistakenly thinks she means seeing the Mets play

Yours truly, Peter G. Doyle.

This is where Shaw plays trumps.

The “Interview with Peter Doyle” by Dr.

a cat is passing through my poem; See—it plays the fiddle, rapturously: It plays sonatas, fugues, rigodons

aged cow; But most of all it plays nocturnes, and plays them pyrotechnically as befits the night time

But in the last ten years we've brought other tools into play, and we should reflect on the consequences

Undoings': Walt Whitman's Writing of the 1855 ," in Anthony Mortimer, ed., From Wordsworth to Stevens (Peter

Recchia (New York: Peter Lang, 1998-2003 LG Leaves of Grass, Comprehensive Reader's Edition, ed.

While Whitman's parents were not members of any religious denomination, Quaker thought always played

Fenimore Cooper, and other romance novelists), theaters (where he fell in love with Shakespeare's plays

and saw Junius Booth, John Wilkes Booth's father, play the title role in Richard III , always Whitman's

appearance of his book, and his changes reflect his evolving notions of what role his writing would play

The color shift from green to dark red, burnt orange, or purple is one that Whitman would play on for

He prepared the broadside before contracting with the printer Peter Eckler in New York.

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

From Peter Eckler. 1865 April 26. From Peter Eckler. January 4. From Dana F. Wright. Berg. May 1.

From Peter Doyle. Trent. November 25. From Louisa Van Velsor September 23. From Peter Doyle.

Schueller and Peters, 2: 201–3. [September?].

Peters, 2: 374–75. November 7. From Peter Doyle. CT: Shive- June 14. From John M. Rogers.

CT: Schueller and Peters, 3: January 6.

The famous nature writer Peter Matthiessen invoked the war metaphor when he traveled to east Tennessee

What is fascinating about the poems considered in this chapter is the way Whitman plays with closeness

Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep, and Peter MacNicol in Sophie's Choice 14.

Peter Hassrick comments on the aura of Miller's works: "His characters, whether trappers or Indians,

In contrast, in Whitman's lines, the rifle plays a much more threatening role.

Given that Oliver's father, Peter Alden, wants his son to "understand America" and wants to free Oliver

She frequently played the self-sacrificing and self-effacing mother, a role Fullerton encouraged.

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

A photo of the actor playing the Whitman figure in The Carpenter.

In the play, the ad- mirers of Whitman are Agatha, Ginny (Merrill’s daughter), and Dr.

Fay Kanin’s original play makes clear that the college is set in Massachusetts.

Price sode treats the Peter Doyle–Whitman relationship.

Pantheism played an increas- ingly important role in shaping his own thought.

the same role that self-respect plays for individuals.

he seems to say, "encompass worlds, play wherever you wish—just stay out of the house, you're crowding

play that need not be collared by the stiff expectations of correspondence theory.

( 65) Of course, he also restricts the meaning of that divinity by playing with the classic definition

Just as significant is the pivotal part played by emotion in the transaction.

Griffith through Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler and on up to contemporary directors like Peter Weir,

it did not overtly repress or privatize the role that passion, eroticism, sympathy, and love might play

influence to other modernist Chinese writers and discusses Whitman in terms of "the unique role he played

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

[A few days later:] W. told Ed: “Play your violin: play it as much as you choose: I like it: when I am

Ed at first played in the next room. I advised him to play downstairs.

Think of it—the games they play—the travesty!

Peter Doyle no writer In October 1891 Whitman was surprised to learn that Peter Doyle was thenbasedinBaltimore

Greeks versus Shakespeare The Shakespeare plays are essentially the plays of an aristocracy: they are

crudities were offensive to [Voltaire]: there was something crude, powerful, drastic, in the Shake-speare plays

another occasion many years later, in 1888, Whitman was deep in memories of his dearest companion Peter

I can't think of the author's name—my memory plays me such shabby tricks these days—(though I should

We do not know if Whitman was aware that the author was born in Limerick, birthplace of his friend Peter

Peter Barr Sweeny, one of the original Ring organizers, was a Tammany sachem and city chamberlain, and

He wrote to Peter Doyle: The N.

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.

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

"The Play-Ground," a poem about children at play, appears in theEagle. LATE JUNE.

Peter Doyle's brother, police officer Fran cis M.

Whitman sends a postcard greeting to Peter Doyle.

Peter Doyle visits Whitman (DN,2:325). g DECEMBER.

"'Pete the Great': A Biography of Peter Doyle."

performed the smallest of tasks—writing a letter home, feeding a sweet tooth, passing the time by playing

A carpenter from Elmira, New York, Haskell played the fife for the 141st New York Infantry band.

His close friend, streetcar conductor Peter Doyle, is to his right. Courtesy of Frank Wright.

Painting of the Grand Review showing Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle.

him to leave Washington for his brother George's home in Camden, where the great hospital visitor played

address to a new man whom he visits: "Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing

Whitman played an interesting role in this endeavor.

Peter Boie read Walt Whitman's "Song ofMyself." ... Peter liked what he read about the animals.

child of nature, who feels equal to Peter and who tells him so.

Social Democrats' interest in Whitman comes into play here).

Hermann Peter Piwit and Peter Rtihmkorf (Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1976), p.l36.

Dan Lewis played a major role in the complex job ofgathering and editing the materials for this volume

Hermann Peter Piwit and Peter Rtihmkorf, eds.Literaturmagazins.Das Vergehen von Horen und Sehen.

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

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

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

The night before, in Washington, Peter Doyle, who liked the theater and was attracted by celebrities,

had gone to see the play, the President, and his wife.

The vexed question ofreference comes into play here.

Jiirgen Wellbrock, "Dein Selbst kann ich nicht singen," in Hermann Peter Piwit and Peter Riihmkorf, eds

in Peter C.

Peter Doyle, Sr. was a blacksmith (Bucke, 22).

Francis was nearly ten years older than Peter.

It remains unclear what happened to Peter's father.

Peter's Roman Catholic Church on Capitol Hill.

Peter's Catholic Church ( ., 2: 113).

The song plays variations on its principal themes, "I am a reaper" and "I hunger."

is based on a photo of Peter pulling himself up on the hood of a car.

The viewer is located within the room from which Peter apparently wants to escape.

He told her that the next issue of his newspaper was to be about Peter Doyle.

Outrageously elusive play is its essence.

Granted, other influences played their part in the sea-change that took place in Whitman's life and work

remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing

We played ball, but I don't think Walt ever took part in it.

He asso ciated more with the younger scholars, frolicing rather than playing games.

Were the Shakespeare plays the best acting plays? W. said: "That's a superstition-an exaggeration."

In his later publications, I find many passages that were dis played to me in embryo.

Some where in your play or novel let the sunlight in."

Well, Tom, it looks as though secesh was nearly played o u t-if they lose Charleston, as I believe they

Late in 1865 Whitman met a veteran of the Confederate Army, Peter Doyle, now a streetcar conductor in

Instead ofthat, the Book is the product ofthe largest universal law & play of things, & of that sense

The truth is, Peter, that I am here at present times mainly in the midst of female women, some of them

I also read the Peter Bayne article. 30(It was copied in full here at once, & circulated quite largely

I play not a march for victors only .... I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

Miller (1968, 21): The scene is played out in regressive sexual imagery.

What part do I have to play?

What will he, she, or they do in this or that event, what role am I to play?

Press, 1981. 168 BIBLIOGRAPHY Peters, Robert L.

Peters and David G. Halliburton (Lafayette: English Literature in Transition: 1880-1920, 1966), 8.

Croce saw all of history as a playing out of the human spirit into a multitude of individual acts.

It is an insistent, a loud work, like a long piece of music played continuously con brio.

Peter Bondanella and Julia Conaway Bondanella (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996)143; Antonio Gramsci

AAminta: a lyric, pastoral play first performed in 1573; considered Torquato Tasso’s most important and

That is, while he composed the national epic in which the figures and forces creating the nation play

s letterto his mother and to Peter Doyle.

J., I give to my friend,Peter Doyle, my silverwatch. I give to H.

Bayne, Peter, 28, 29. Answerer, the. See Song.

Doyle, Peter, 261. Finta, Alexander, 118, 119.

Herald, 260; Letters to Peter sirs ^ , a.

One day, for instance, he talked about Shakespeare's historical plays, which, he said, showed that Shakespeare

was at heart a democrat, and that he had written the plays in order to discredit monarchy and kings

individual, not that he might enjoy himself for himself, but that he might be the better fitted to play

obligations to Emerson; but I did recognize in him a poseur of truly colossal proportions, one to whom playing

acclaim; he could not have doubted seriously, for habit, if nothing else, would have enabled him to play

Then the band the National Anthem and we went played into the house.

The great poems Homer's Iliad,' Shakespeare's plays, etc. discuss great themes and are long poems.

His assistants had told me that Peter Peppercorn had been in the day before. "Do you know Peter?"

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satisfied to deal with him on the ordinary surface level of everyday affairs, and to leave him to the free play

for a full hour, facing the golden sunset, in the cool evening breeze, with the summer lightning playing

than all, the sweetness of his voice, the loving sympathy, the touches of humour, the smile that played

I told him I had got an autograph copy of "Peter Peppercorn's" poems, and he said he was glad I had,

because he knew "Peter" very well, and liked him for his genuine goodness of heart and his sharpness

The great poems—Homer's 'Illiad,' Shakespeare's plays, etc.

Not, as in Homer's 'Iliad,' to depict great personalities, or, as in Shakespeare's plays, to describe

I think Bulwer Lytton has made his title clear in three plays: 'Richelieu,' 'The Lady of Lyons,' and

After tea we went into the front room where Warry played his violin for a little time, after which I

His assistants had told me that Peter Peppercorn had been in the day before. "Do you know Peter?"

He made no grand-stand play, nor did we. We just "visited", like "lovers and friends".

Among the plays of Shakespeare, King Richard the Second was a great favorite of Whitman's, and he had

A half-dozen of us, playing the game frequently together, became able to easily to discover the thing

Canal, and he told us that he watched for hours a negro at work, who was naked to the waist, and the play

would quite enjoy, on a rainy after- noon, having a game of twenty questions such as he had "often played

far, far reaching, giving weight and permanent value to what would other- wise have been only two plays

The truth is, Peter, here at the present time mainly that I am in the midst of female women, some of

Isay the matter isnot very important because itis obvious that whatever part Emerson's teaching played

In his heart of hearts— though doubtless he thought Whitman had played him unfair, and 173 Days with

Walt talked about Shakespeare, the Bacon theory, the greatness of the historical plays, the "dragon-rancours

"I will not be positive about Bacon's connection with the plays, but I am satisfied that behind the historical

and far, far reaching, giving weight and permanent value to what would otherwise have been only two plays

would quite enjoy, on a rainy afternoon, having a game of twenty questions such as he had "often played

his rank aftera time familiar, contemporaneity; you willsurely see the lambent spiritualflames that play

"Oncere I to charge you give play your self.

He presents you the elements of good and evil in himself in vitalfusion and play; your part to how the

Sin, repentance, fear,Satan, hell, Creation had resulted play important parts. in a tragedy in which

Death is the right hand of God, and evil a also. plays necessary part Nothing is discriminated against

was a sort of triangular combat,—O'Connor maintaining the Baconian theory of the authorship of the plays

O'Connor in his estimate of Lear and Hamlet and Othello, which Walt belittled, preferring the historical plays

, and placing Richard II. foremost; although he thought all the plays preposterously overrated.

letters, they would have afforded a better argument than any we now have against his authorship of the plays

Art, as exemplified by such poets as Longfellow and Tennyson, he has little or none; but in the free play

A company of strolling musicians stopped and played some pieces for us.

enjoyment in the free exercise of his lungs than from mere intellectual appreciation of the poem or play

chaffing, or nay form of "smart" talk—remaining always perfectly grave and silent amid that kind of by-play

I always compare Shakespeare's plays to large, rich, splendid tapestry—like Raphael's historical cartoons