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Search : William White

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Walt Whitman to Horace Tarr, 13 December 1890

  • Date: December 13, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

White & Company, 1904], 7:206).

Tuesday, September 24, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Morris told me today of Tom White's new enthusiasm over L. of G.Leaves of Grass, to him a new book.

Wednesday, December 24, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

W. looked greater than himself—if that could be—for the new white shirt, now much undone for disrobing

Thursday, January 29, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

s "pink-white skin"—making much of it.

Drum-Taps.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

accoutrements—they buckle the straps carefully; Outdoors arming—indoors arming—the flash of the musket-barrels; The white

First O Songs for a Prelude.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

buckle the straps carefully, Outdoors arming, indoors arming, the flash of the musket-barrels, The white

Rise O Days From Your Fathomless Deeps.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

, I was refresh'd by the storm, I watch'd with joy the threatening maws of the waves, I mark'd the white

First O Songs for a Prelude.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

buckle the straps carefully, Outdoors arming, indoors arming, the flash of the musket-barrels, The white

Rise O Days From Your Fathomless Deeps.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

, I was refresh'd by the storm, I watch'd with joy the threatening maws of the waves, I mark'd the white

How to Get Thin

  • Date: 20 April 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Excess of fat causes the human epidermis to crack, mottling the skin with white speckles and streaks;

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 20–21 March 1891

  • Date: March 20–21, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

Morning magnificent—Easterly wind, bright sunshine, & blue sky with white clouds.

Walt Whitman to Karl Knortz, 10 September [1885]

  • Date: September 10, 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A grand looking old man—long white beard, aquiline features, keen eyes—spare, sinewy frame, full of restrained

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 19 June 1891

  • Date: June 19, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

It's strong contrasts of black & white (no half tones) & the peculiar disposition of the lights are very

Walt Whitman to Abraham Paul Leech, 30 July [1840]

  • Date: July 30, [1840]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—Our conversation, too, was a caution to white folks; it consisted principally, as you may imagine, of

Plotting for the Succession

  • Date: December 5, 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

busily engaged in pipe-laying and plotting for the succession to that goal of their ambition, the White

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 20 August 1882

  • Date: August 20, 1882
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

heard a scuffle in the belfry, I turned and saw a big raw country-bumpkin boy hastily donning his white

Wright, Frances (Fanny) (1795–1852)

  • Creator(s): Hynes, Jennifer A.
Text:

New York: Bliss and White, 1825. ———. Life, Letters, and Lectures, 1834–1844. New York: Arno, 1972.

Drum-Taps

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

accoutrements—they buckle the straps carefully; Outdoors arming—indoors arming—the flash of the musket-barrels; The white

Stafford, Harry Lamb [1858-1918]

  • Creator(s): Kantrowitz, Arnie
Text:

of the most intense relationships of the poet's life.Stafford took Whitman to visit his parents at White

Death of William Cullen Bryant

Text:

Death of William Cullen Bryant

Dana Estes to Walt Whitman, 14 January 1890

  • Date: January 14, 1890
  • Creator(s): Dana Estes
Text:

WINTHROP, GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, JOHN G. WHITTIER, GEORGE BANCROFT, NOAH PORTER, JOSEPH H.

PRINCE, WILLIAM W. STORY, PHILLIPS BROOKS, CHARLES W.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 5 May [1867]

  • Date: May 5, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Dear William O'Connor, When I arrived home yesterday I found my brother worse than I had anticipated.

Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 5 May [1867]

Walt Whitman to William D. and Ellen M. O'Connor, 26 March 1865

  • Date: March 26, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

My dear William & Nelly O'Connor, I write a few lines to tell you how I find the folks at home—Both my

Walt Whitman to William D. and Ellen M. O'Connor, 26 March 1865

Hale, Edward Everett (1822–1909)

  • Creator(s): Buckingham, Willis J.
Text:

Edward Everett (1822–1909)Hale, Edward Everett (1822–1909) About Whitman's age and, according to William

James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience. 1902. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1985.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 4 October 1868

  • Date: October 4, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William, I shall send Freiligrath a small package, containing a copy of L. of G. with John's Notes ,

Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 4 October 1868

American Phrenological Journal

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
Text:

William A.PannapackerAmerican Phrenological JournalAmerican Phrenological JournalPublished in New York

their own books: nevertheless, in an unsigned review in the New York Daily Times (13 November 1855) William

Wednesday, February 11, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

You have touched upon the subject nearest & dearest to my heart.This idea of having William's descriptions

will sell too, tremendously, if the right house does the publishing & manages it properly.I told William

put you in possession of the things you will need to know, & a few choice people who worked with William

the best New Year's present that I could have had, as this business of getting these matters of William's

the descriptions, surpass any thing that he ever did, & as someone said, no one but Victor Hugo, or William

Whitman East & West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2002
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

Here are Whitman's words as transcribed by Williams: The Chinese don't progress.

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White, 3 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1980).

Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, D.

William Cookson (New York: New Directions, 1973), 145.

After observing that "the lush white flowers" on the ground beneath a wild azalea "have not begun to

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 4)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

William will have to step down and out for good. ["Good-bye, William!"

Bucke and William and I were face to face. William looked up at us.

Then again: "But William? what of William?

William!"

"About William?"

Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The young men float on their backs, their white bellies swell to the sun . . . . they do not ask who

I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.

I see his white body . . . .

white- blow white-blow and delirious juice, Bridegroom-night of love working surely and softly into the

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morningglories, and white and

Conserving Walt Whitman’s Fame: Selections from Horace Traubel’s Conservator, 1890-1919

  • Date: 2006
  • Creator(s): Schmidgall, Gary
Text:

testimonial by William F.

longtime printer, William T.

*William W.

William D.

William M.

The Fourth of April

  • Date: 5 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William Henry Harrison (1773–1841) was the 9th U.S. President.

served as President from March 4, 1841 until his death on April 4, 1841 (Isaac Rand Jackson, General William

When William Henry Harrison was running for presidential office, southern Whigs largely supported Henry

Oratory

  • Creator(s): Mason, John B.
Text:

Whitman might have seen a model in William Andrus Alcott, Bronson Alcott's cousin and the author of nearly

For many writers of the day, like William Alcott and Ralph Waldo Emerson, writing led to a primary career

Speech Monographs 19 (1952): 11–26.Finkel, William L. "Walt Whitman's Manuscript Notes on Oratory."

Society for the Suppression of Vice

  • Creator(s): Andriano, Joseph
Text:

By 1882 his influence and power were so pervasive that several of Whitman's friends (e.g., William Douglas

that Comstock finally "retire[d] with his tail intensely curved inwards" (Correspondence 3:338–339).William

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor.

Friday, March 1, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

exclaimed W.: "Who can say such things like William?

and poor William today knows better than ever how plausible his singular phantasm was!"]

yes: William must have his fling!"]

["Like the Irishman," said W.: "I'm wid you, William!

I remember what poor William says: he says I always like my idiot pictures best!"

Friday, December 21, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

When I was through he said: "William says there: 'It will go hard if I cannot make such a cloud belch

He made it belch many thunders: William had unlimited capacity for raising hell: I don't mean that he

John Hay was a great admirer of William—way back there: he said about the same thing Stedman did—said

I think Stedman was a bit afraid of William—was timid—just a bit, befor his vehemence: just as Gilder

always has been: William gets on Watson's nerves—William is so virile, Watson so feminine (I don't mean

Monday, July 30, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

"They are a part of me—I am a part of them—William, Nellie.

He smiled quietly: "When William gets going he is more exciting than an alarm of fire. Read it."

Did you notice William's fling at Comstock? What a foolish question—of course you noticed it.

W. thought the "Good Morrow" incident in the letter, "most characteristic of William—most beautiful:

just like him in every way," adding: "You know William never stopped to invent, to manufacture, such

Monday, August 20, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

William would call me by a few strong names and then go to work again with his heresy.

John and William are very different men.

John is a placid landscape—William is a landscape in a storm.

William is quite different: he whips me with cords—he makes all my flesh tingle—he is like a soldier

home with either—equally at home—but on the whole William mixes best with my blood."

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 16 February 1891

  • Date: February 16, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 16 February 1891

Monday, December 3, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

"Morse, Kennedy, John, William—all silent!"

It did once stand in front of the President's house—the White House: now I hear it has been removed.

Saturday, March 26, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Williams, a friend, for McAlister and Mr. Harned, and both were now here.

, more lightly, more quickly—the mouth open, now and then twitching—his color all gone and death's white

Opera and Opera Singers

  • Creator(s): Stauffer, Donald Barlow
Text:

,' with Donizetti's 'Lucia' or 'Favorita' or 'Lucrezia,' and Auber's 'Massaniello,' or Rossini's 'William

He had little interest in what the critic Richard Grant White called "the thin, throaty, French way of

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 31 August 1888

  • Date: August 31, 1888
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Text:

As the Indian said to Roger Williams when they landed at Seekonk, "What cheer, brother, what cheer!"

See notes Sept 1 1888 William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 31 August 1888

North American Review, The

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
Text:

William A.PannapackerNorth American Review, TheNorth American Review, TheA miscellany of politics, economics

Rev. of Venetian Life, by William Dean Howells.

Galaxy, The

  • Creator(s): Matteson, John T.
Text:

T.MattesonGalaxy, TheGalaxy, TheThe Galaxy was a New York monthly periodical founded and edited by William

critical essay on Whitman, John Burroughs's "Walt Whitman and His 'Drum-Taps,'" which Whitman's friend William

Freiligrath, Ferdinand (1810–1876)

  • Creator(s): Grünzweig, Walter
Text:

He translated just ten poems from William M.

For the Whitman community and especially William O'Connor, Freiligrath's interest in Whitman was a source

"Half-Breed, The" (1845)

  • Creator(s): McGuire, Patrick
Text:

Arrow-Tip as anticipating Whitman's "friendly and flowing savage" in "Song of Myself " (section 39), and William

New York: Knopf, 1995.Scheik, William J. "Whitman's Grotesque Half-Breed."

Walt Whitman's “Song Of Myself”

  • Date: 1989
  • Creator(s): Miller, Edwin Haviland
Text:

William White. NUPM Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, ed. Edward F. Grier.

William M.

White, William M. "The Dynamics of Whitman's Poetry." The Sewanee Review, 80 (1972):347-60.

William White. New York: New York University Press, 1978. 3 vols. - - .

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White.

Song of the Broad-Axe.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

of the grape, Welcome are lands of sugar and rice, Welcome the cotton-lands, welcome those of the white

, the falling in line, the rise and fall of the arms forcing the water, The slender, spasmic, blue-white

murderer with haggard face and pinion'd arms, The sheriff at hand with his deputies, the silent and white-lipp'd

Song of the Broad-Axe.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

of the grape, Welcome are lands of sugar and rice, Welcome the cotton-lands, welcome those of the white

, the falling in line, the rise and fall of the arms forcing the water, The slender, spasmic, blue-white

murderer with haggard face and pinion'd arms, The sheriff at hand with his deputies, the silent and white-lipp'd

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