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guess June 6 —Fine weather—sun shining—bad spell resumed—got out in the wheel chair last sunset to river

caving in feeling generally)—this is the third day—Still I get out in the wheel chair —was out to the river

everything to interest me—the constantly changing but ever-beautiful panorama on both sides of the river

all the way, (nearly 100 miles up here)—the magnificent north river bay part of the city—the high straight

succession of handsome villages & cities—the prevailing green—the great rocky mountains, gray & brown—the river

itself, now expanding, now narrowing—the glistening river with continual sloops, yachts, &c. their white

New York— June 26 p m Dear friend— Here I am back again in N Y—Came down the river Monday night, & shall

present, I expect to stay on as usual— It is now about one o'clock—a cool breeze is blowing in from the river—Mother

comfortable hours by it, I shall be sorry enough when I leave it—I never get tired looking out, there is river

before Asselineau and Allen were written by a renowned man of American letters and the author of Spoon River

and Fulton streets.In the early 1830s Whitman began spending more of his free time across the East River

Whitman celebrated Brooklyn's growth, especially as opposed to what he called the "Gomorra" across the river

Lawrence, heading north on the Saguenay River to Chicoutimi, Quebec.Although Whitman kept a diary of

Whitman described the Saguenay as less appealing, referring to the "dark-water'd river" and its environs

Malcolm Cowley saw the poet's ideas as pell-mell driftwood in a flooding river. D.H.

Nathan C.FariesHudson RiverHudson RiverDespite its modest 315-mile length, the Hudson River is famous

In 1848 he traveled to and from a short-lived newspaper job in New Orleans via the Hudson River, the

In these the river is listed alongside the Mississippi, Paumanok Sound, and the alien Thames.

The Hudson River and Its Painters. New York: Viking, 1972.Whitman, Walt.

Hudson River

through regenerative participation in the comradeship of the twenty-eight young men afloat in the rivers

Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997.Fineberg, Gail.

Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997. Internet, Whitman on the

their trips to Sarnia, Toronto, and the Thousand Islands in Ontario, and to Montreal and the Saguenay River

of my friend for perhaps an hour, and when I found him again he was sitting in a quiet nook by the river

Burleigh used the words from "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors" on his collection of spirituals entitled Deep River

In Specimen Days he calls the river "the most important stream on the globe" (Complete 865).In 1848,

During their stay, from 25 February until 27 May, Whitman made daily visits to the river to observe the

While there he visited the river as frequently as his health would allow, "every night lately" (Complete

Mississippi River

instance, in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" Whitman's images of the gulls, the waves, and the flow of the river—contrasted

dropped personal references to prostitutes in several other poems, including "From Pent-up Aching Rivers

as one of three "delirium" poems in "Children of Adam," the other two being "From Pent-up Aching Rivers

ideal locale for a newspaper, for the city flourished with trade going up and down the Mississippi River

StephenRachmanNiagara FallsNiagara FallsWalt Whitman twice visited the famous falls on the Niagara River

Scheduled ferries traveled from Manhattan to the west bank of the Hudson and to the cities across the East River

MaireMullins"From Pent-up Aching Rivers" (1860)"From Pent-up Aching Rivers" (1860)This poem was initially

"From Pent-up Aching Rivers" (1860)

borrowed from Whitman's line in "Song of Myself," "Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river

homage to Whitman in novels of artistic development such as The Custom of the Country (1912), Hudson River

midwestern lawyer who took on literature as an avocation, Masters gained fast fame for his popular Spoon River

Beyond Spoon River: The Legacy of Edgar Lee Masters. Austin: U of Texas P, 1981.

Across Spoon River: An Autobiography. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1936. ———. Whitman.

" "frankness and expansion," and "abundant opportunity to develope a genius, wide and full as our rivers

you, all welcomed—As I write I hear the great steam whistle (for noon) of a huge factory down by the river—looks

mysteries of identity in "Song of Myself," of childhood in "There Was a Child Went Forth," of the rivers

in this mode.Late in life Whitman commented, "My own favorite loafing places have always been the rivers

I have never lived away from a big river" (Traubel 71).

In his younger adult years and again in old age, his river experiences were especially connected with

Crossing" says nothing about the poet's reason for crossing the river; the focus is not on a purpose

The river, the ebb and flow of tides, the boat, the shuttling from one shore to the other—some of the

"From Pent-up Aching Rivers," second in the cluster, has the tone of a defiant proclamation ("what I

The rhythmic urgency of the poem, beginning with the "pent-up aching rivers" seemingly at flood-tide,

In brief, Whitman's poem portrays the sex drive as a "pent-up aching river" or a "hungry gnaw" present

It dominates the "Children of Adam" cluster by its sheer length and, like "From Pent-up Aching Rivers

As the poet drains his "pent-up rivers" into the "woman who waits" for him, "warm-blooded and sufficient

Between 1681 and 1700, they settled on the eastern shore of the Delaware River across from Philadelphia

Several ferry companies provided transit across the river, William Cooper's giving the town its early

Many of these essays, such as "Scenes on Ferry and River—Last Winter's Nights," eloquently express the

in downtown Camden, finished in 1925, was named for Whitman, and a new bridge across the Delaware River

man writing for a party paper, defending the Democrats against the powerful Whig papers across the river

employing their words, so that every time Americans spoke the names of the country's towns and states and rivers

Located in the hollow of a three-sided bend of the Mississippi River as it reaches the Gulf of Mexico—hence

The immensity of the mountains and rivers themselves match, for Whitman, the immensity of the democratic

In addition to Walden (1854), Thoreau's major works include A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

In Philadelphia on professional business, Bucke crossed the river to Camden and looked the poet up.

Lawrence River, and the following year, in preparation for the biography, they visited places important

He disapproves of borrowed, European names for American cities, states, rivers, or mountains, and he

I have never lived away from a big river" (Traubel 71).

In his younger adult years and again in old age, his river experiences were especially connected with

"Crossing" says nothing about the poet's reason for crossing the river; the focus is not on a purpose

The river, the ebb and flow of tides, the boat, the shuttling from one shore to the other—some of the

"From Pent-up Aching Rivers," second in the cluster, has the tone of a defiant proclamation ("what I

Evenings were reserved for moonlit walks along the Potomac River that had Whitman reciting Shakespeare's

During August 1881, Whitman stayed with the Johnstons at their summer home at Mott Haven on the Harlem River

in Kings County, which gave Whitman responsibility for leadership in political communication only a river

journey—every thing to interest me—the constantly changing but ever beautiful panorama on both sides of the river

all the way for nearly 100 miles here—the magnificent north river bay part of the shores of —the high

handsome villages & cities—the prevailing green—the great mountain sides of brown & blue rocks—the river

: "His spirit responds to his country's spirit … he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers

growing industrialization and expansion, promoting the building of roads, railroads, and canal and river

naturalist, writer, and friend of Walt Whitman, built a house with a spectacular view of the Hudson River

He purchased the land in September 1873 and called the home "Riverby" (meaning "by the river" and pronounced

"river bee").

Louis in 1764 to be a focal point for French trade on the Mississippi River.

Along with historical summaries and sky-view grids of railroads and rivers, he records the Cossack's

thematic center of a larger pattern of aquatic symbolism in Leaves which includes the rain, sea-breezes, rivers

unknown, the spiritual, the only permanently real, which as the ocean waits for and receives the rivers

Philadelphia was the third most populous city in the United States when Whitman resided across the Delaware River

which lasted until 1919.A century after the first publication of Leaves of Grass in 1855, the Delaware River

Authority decided to name a new bridge after the poet so closely associated with both banks of the river

strengthen it, conjuring and multiplying "the act-poems of eyes, hands, hips and bosoms" ("Pent-up Aching Rivers

Others, like "Scenes on Ferry and River," celebrate the heavens.