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Whitman explains the function of the "Passage to India" cluster in this way: "As in some ancient legend-play

He was also a very successful dramatist; he wrote numerous plays that became West End and Broadway productions

silent") and the abiding quality of his commitment to that struggle in spite of setback ("the powerful play

At the same time he plays on the multiple meanings of the verb "exponserse," which can mean both to risk

arrive with powerful musics, between the thundering of my trumpets and of my drums, I do not only play

marches for sacred victors, I also play them for the vanquished and the victims.

doing so irradiated it with an unearthly glory, so bright and genial was the good-natured smile that played

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

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.”

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

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

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.

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

Eckler Peter Eckler to Walt Whitman, 26 April 1865

Eckler Peter Eckler to Walt Whitman, 4 May 1865

Peter Eckler to Walt Whitman, 1 May 1865

.) $14.85 due Peter Eckler to Walt Whitman, 22 April 1865

Peter Doyle to Walt Whitman, 20 January 1878

There was a very exciting game of Base Ball Baseball Played here to day, between the Nationals, & the

opera troupe Playes here next week but i see by the bills there is no new Pieces the same old Playes Plays

write more but i am afraid you tired of this already no more at Present but Remain Yours Forever Pete Peter

meet you at the Depot  the train gets to Wash 4:10 PM i will Say no more until i see you So Long Pete Peter

I hear that the Rickings opera troupe is playing to very good Houses have not been to see them yet Gen

Price Ashley Lawson Janel Cayer Elizabeth Lorang Peter Doyle to Walt Whitman, 1 October [1868]

Price Elizabeth Lorang Janel Cayer Peter Doyle to Walt Whitman, 14 October [1868]

home this morning have to cut this short as write a part of it while the car is in motion farewell Peter

Price Ashley Lawson Elizabeth Lorang Janel Cayer Peter Doyle to Walt Whiman, 18 September [1868]

Price Elizabeth Lorang Ashley Lawson Janel Cayer Peter Doyle to Walt Whitman, 23 September 1868

put this in the mail good bye My Dear friend Pete i will write a long one next Sunday as i am off Peter

pleased with it  it came too late for the sunday cronicle, so he will put it in some of the Daily Peter

Price Elizabeth Lorang Ashley Lawson Janel Cayer Peter Doyle to Walt Whitman, [27 September 1868]

robin, lark, and thrush, singing their songs—the flitting bluebird; For such the scenes the annual play

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

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

more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce, With war's flame flames , and the lambent lightnings playing

Of course we do not select those which are the most transcendental or the most bold:— "I play not a march

for victors only…I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

Terry (1847–1928) was a member of Henry Irving's company, famous for her appearances in Shakespeare plays

and destruction, the roles Whitman's writing and the books he helped to produce have continued to play

Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005. - - -.

Riley, Peter J. L. " and Real Estate." 28 (Spring 2011): 163–87.

Stallybrass, Peter.

Nonetheless, in a letter to Peter Doyle remarking on the commencement, Whitman seemed to feel his poem

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

1873, became a favorite retreat for the poet for several years in the late 1870s and into the 1880s, playing

Crossing" is a very visual poem, conveying a strong sense of particular detail, the play of light, and

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."

friendships with Charles Eldridge, Lewy Brown, William and Ellen O'Connor, John and Ursula Burroughs, and Peter

critical biography, Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (1867).Whitman found friendship with Peter

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).

Martin G.MurrayDoyle, Peter (1843–1907)Doyle, Peter (1843–1907)The romantic friendship that Walt Whitman

shared with Peter Doyle embodied the "love of comrades" celebrated in Whitman's "Calamus" poems.

Peter Doyle is buried in Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.Martin G.

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

Doyle, Peter (1843–1907)

.: Peter Smith, 1972. lviii–lix n15. Kaplan, Justin. Walt Whitman: A Life.

After supper talk or play cards until bed time.

Hugo's plays were also enjoying successful performances on the New York stage.

Whitman told Horace Traubel that "Hugo's immortal works were the dramas, the plays, the poems: least

echoes and phrases from "Song of Myself": "I have heard the melodious harp / On the streets of Cork playing

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

He was the author of numerous plays, sonnets, and narrative poems.

poetry and historical fiction, and he coined the phrase "The pen is mightier than the sword" in his play

August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (1761–1819) was a German author who wrote sentimental plays and

—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.”

In the first he is walking with Eve, content, taking delight in the "quivering fire that ever plays"

Kaplan's point is borne out by a brief and informative biography of Peter Doyle, Martin G.

Murray's "'Pete the Great': A Biography of Peter Doyle" (1994), which sketches Whitman's relationship

"'Pete the Great': A Biography of Peter Doyle." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 12 (1994): 1-51. 

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