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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

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).

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.

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

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."

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

-Work of some sort [^Play?] . . . A spiritual novel ?

What other organizing principles might come into play?"

the referential, from vision to action, from romance to comedy to satire to tragedy, from story to play

As Peter Stallybrass notes, however, already "millions of people who cannot or do not want to go to the

by New York University Press from 1961 to 1984 and later supplemented by two additional volumes by Peter

, organized into thirty–seven topics, chronologically arranged (e.g., "Opera Lover," "The 1856 ," "Peter

Peter Lang, 1998–2003; 1 vol. U of Iowa P, 2004. ———. The Walt Whitman Archive . Ed.

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.”

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

Peter Robinson and Hans Walter Gabler have observed that "experiments with the design of electronic textual

Robinson, Peter M. W., and Gabler, Hans Walter (2000).

Putnam’s Sons, 1902) and The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman (New York University Press, Peter Lang

I strongly agree with Peter Shillingsburg that a new term is needed, though I am not enthusiastic about

After New York University Press published twenty-two volumes of , the publishing house of Peter Lang

Peter Shillingsburg, for example, remarks that "the level of critical intervention is miniscule in the

Shillingsburg, Peter. From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts .

Peter Lang eventually published two volumes of the journalism in 1998 and 2003, though these volumes

The Peter Lang volumes are produced so as to replicate the appearance of the New York University Press

Arguably, the Peter Lang volumes constitute volumes 23 and 24 of the , and a 25th volume, treating recently

—Workofsomesort Play?

Play? “Novel?

, but if a play it must straddle the line with poetry, with even the stage directions in some kind of

Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005. ———.

Gloucester ma: Peter Smith, 1972. ———. “Walt Whitman and His Poems.”

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.

political, and other contests surrounding these poems, and the constitutive role these poems have played

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

Calamus  as a cluster of poems focused on the love between men, “live oak, with moss” played a crucial

Brown and other soldiers he met and cared for in the Washington hospitals, as well as with Peter doyle

Coviello, Peter. “Intimatenationality: anonymityand attachment inWhitman.”

Twenty-two volumes of this series were published by New York University Press; Peter Lang published two

The Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays is composed of approximately 250,000 volumes of American

and Canadian poetry, plays, and vocal music dating from 1609 to the present day.

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays

The curtain drew up and the play began.

When the play was over, we went out.

"But it is a dangerous game, and should be played cautiously."

"We have made up a fine party for the play to-night, and you must promise to be one of us."

Whether any suspicions of foul play were as yet aroused in the breasts of other persons, is more than

published/periodical/index.html; The interlibrary loan department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln played

Comprised of 630 Early Modern English plays, pageants, and other 6 entertainments by non-Shakespearean

systematic effort to harness the energy and imagination of undergraduates as editors and explorers of old plays

list—and also larger analytical undertakings including writing an account of the reception history of a play

, reviewing the scholarly literature, comparing different versions of a play if more than one exists,

In ecocriticism, the concept does not yet play a significant role, either.

Bowler, Peter J. The Earth Encompassed: A History of the Environmental Sciences.

Friztell, Peter A. Nature Writing and America: Essays upon a Cultural Type.

Temin, Peter. “The Industrialization of New England, 1830–1880.”

Wenz, Peter S. Environmental Justice. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988.

Rather, in puffing Whitman, the Saturday Press played at and played with repre- sentations of Whitman

, play-goers, and ye general reader, in a state of utter despair. . . .

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

Gloucester, ma: Peter Smith, 1872. Winter,William.

Feminist Conversations: Fuller, Emerson, and the Play of Reading.

Sundquist’s To Wake the Nations (1993) and Toni Morri- son’s Playing in the Dark (1992), among others

Vodou ritu- als played an integral role in fomenting the Haitian revolution. C. L. R.

Peter Coviello discusses racial solidarity in Whitman’s antebellum poetry.

Peter Coviello, introduction to Walt Whitman, Memoranda during theWar, ed.

Peter Coviello (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), xlvi. 14.

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