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Search : William White

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Leaves of Grass, "The Bodies of Men and Women Engirth"

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

beauty of person; The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white

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

Examine these limbs, red black or white . . . . they are very cunning in tendon and nerve; They shall

Leaves of Grass. The Poems of Walt Whitman [Selected]

  • Date: 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Visiting him now in his quiet home in Camden, New Jersey, one would find a white-haired venerable man

spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves, Chant on, sail on, bear o'er the

pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and

Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays

  • Date: 2007
  • Creator(s): Belasco, Susan | Folsom, Ed | Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

William White, 3 vols. [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:263). 28.

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 3:676. 15.

White, William. “More about the ‘Publication’ of the First Leaves of Grass.”

White, William. “The First (1855) Leaves of Grass: How Many Cop- ies?”

White, William. “An Unknown Whitman ms on the 1855 Leaves.”

Leaves of Grass, "There Was a Child Went Forth Every"

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

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

sunset . . . . the river between, Shadows . . aureola and mist . . light falling on roofs and gables of white

Leaves of Grass, Variorum Edition

  • Creator(s): Golden, Arthur
Text:

After a number of delays, William White and Arthur Golden were brought in to complete the textual variorum

New York: Putnam, 1902. 83–255.White, William. "Editions of Leaves of Grass: How Many?"

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

"Leaves of Grass"—Smut in Them

  • Date: 16 June 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

William Dorrel who, seventy-five years ago, proclaimed himself the Messiah up in Franklin county, counseled

William Dorrell (1752–1846) was born in England but came to America with the British Army to fight in

"Leaving it to you to prove and define": "Poets to Come" and Whitman's German Translators

  • Creator(s): Walter Grünzweig | Vanessa Steinroetter
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educator, scholar, and philologist Karl Knortz (1841–1918) and the politicized man of letters Thomas William

Legacy, Whitman's

  • Creator(s): Renner, Dennis K.
Text:

Eliot, nativist versions in William Carlos Williams and Hart Crane, and refractions from abroad in poetry

closest inheritors of Whitman's poetic stance toward his country and compatriots, Hart Crane and William

In Paterson Williams's analogue for the poet—the figure of a dog sniffing local trees and digging in

Williams, looking for resources to oppose Puritanism, embraced Whitman's image as a poet of immediate

American Beauty: William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman.

Leggett, William L. (1801–1839)

  • Creator(s): Widmer, Ted
Text:

TedWidmerLeggett, William L. (1801–1839)Leggett, William L. (1801–1839) William Leggett, poet and journalist

"William Leggett." United States Magazine and Democratic Review 6 (1839): 17–28. Leggett, William.

A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett. Ed. Theodore Sedgwick, Jr.

White. Indianapolis: Liberty, 1984. Meyers, Marvin.

Leggett, William L. (1801–1839)

Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824–1903)

  • Creator(s): Schroeder, Steven
Text:

London: William Heinemann, 1893. Pennell, Elizabeth Robins.

Leland, Henry Perry (1828–1868)

  • Creator(s): Tyrer, Patricia J.
Text:

London: William Heinemann, 1893. Stovall, Floyd. The Foreground of "Leaves of Grass".

Letter From George Alfred Townsend

  • Date: 23 September 1868
  • Creator(s): George Alfred Townsend
Text:

As an orator Vallandigham is the superior, having a fine complexion, large mouth and jaws, white laughing

He is feeling away for that giant steadily, walking in the White House Grounds under the tress, searching

Letter from Washington

  • Date: 4 October 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I shall always identify Washington with that huge and delicate towering bulge of pure white, where it

Then other varieties; there will be a procession of wagons, bright-painted and white-topped, marked "

Washington being full of great white architecture, takes through the Summer a prevailing color-effect

of white and green.

White canvas coverings arch them over, and each wagon has its six-mule team.

Letter IX

  • Date: 16 December 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It was a small, white shell. —by modern folks Turtle-hill.

colors, and stones of every conceivable shape, hue, and density, with shells, large boulders or a pure white

reception of Le Dieu et la Bayadere and other European ballet/pantomime performances circa 1840–1860, see William

We hove in sight of the steeples and white-paint of home, and soon after, the spirits we had served deserted

Annotations Text:

It was a small, white shell.; Montauk Point Light, finished in in 1797 and not 1795, as Whitman writes

Letter. Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

only in the circle of themselves, modest and pretty, desperately scratching for rhymes, pallid with white

worlds and new, who accept evil as well as good, ignorance as well as erudition, black as soon as white

Letters from a Travelling Bachelor–No. II

  • Date: 21 October 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

See Peter Ross and William Smith Pelletreau, A History of Long Island: From Its Earliest Settlement to

As you travel along the roads you see the white tomb-stones, group after group, some far, and some near

Actor and manager William ("Billy") Mitchell (1798-1856) popularized the burlesque theater (also known

Leviathan, Yggdrasil, Earth Titan, Eagle: Balʹmont's Reimagining of Walt Whitman

  • Creator(s): Martin Bidney
Text:

" ("Pevec ličnosti i žizni") and "The Poetry of Struggle" ("Poèzija borʹby"), appear in the volume White

which has in effect powerfully recreated: Me and mine, loose windrows, little corpses, Froth, snowy white

Life Illustrated

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

William A.PannapackerLife IllustratedLife IllustratedA miscellany of literature, agriculture, photography

Life Illustrated

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Jason Stacy
Text:

Bibliography Jerome Loving Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself Berkeley University of California Press 1999 William

Light and air

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

spring gushing out from under the roots of an old tree barn‑yard, pond, yellow g j agged bank with white

Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865)

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

William A.PannapackerLincoln, Abraham (1809–1865)Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865) Abraham Lincoln was the

William Barton, in his study of the two men, shows that these events are probably fabrications.

Their literary styles were both influenced by the Bible, William Shakespeare, Thomas Paine, and Robert

With the aid of supporters like William D.

Coyle, William, ed. The Poet and the President: Whitman's Lincoln Poems. New York: Odyssey, 1962.

Lionel Johnson to Walt Whitman, 20 October 1885

  • Date: October 20, 1885
  • Creator(s): Lionel Johnson
Text:

belonging to the oldest school of any in England—to the great foundation of the strong priest and ruler, William

Literariness

  • Creator(s): Jellicorse, John Lee
Text:

Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1971. 4–11.Thayer, William Roscoe.

Literary Notices

  • Date: 15 August 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

cemeteries, attracted important civic backers, including Whitman's friend, the poet and newspaperman, William

Literary Notices

  • Date: 10 August 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

As full and fine scenery and properties are to the acting of Macready William Charles Macready (1793–

of which the Pictorial England is among the neatest......No. 6 opens with the drowning of Prince William

Prince William Adelin (1103–1120), only legitimate son of King Henry I, Duke of Normandy, drowned in

the White Ship tragedy (November 25th, 1120) trying to save his half–sister. and his sister Matilda

(1103–1120), Countess of Perche, illegitimate daughter of King Henry I and half–sister to Prince William

Annotations Text:

William Adelin (1103–1120), only legitimate son of King Henry I, Duke of Normandy, drowned in the White

Literary Notices

  • Date: 19 May 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Magazine, edited by Lawrence Labree, included engravings after paintings by such American artists as William

Literary Notices

  • Date: 26 August 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

This book is to be finished in about twenty numbers, Illustrated London was written by William I.

Literary Notices

  • Date: 25 June 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White copper, and alloy with arsenic, was made at Herculaneum.

The Literary World

  • Date: 12 October 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Many of the drawings for the Illustrated Family Bible were contributed by the British engraver William

The Little Sleighers. A Sketch of a Winter Morning on the Battery

  • Date: September 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

This huge, white sheet, glancing back a kind of impudent defiance to the sun, which shone sharply the

"Lo, Victress on the Peaks" (1865–1866)

  • Creator(s): Ignoffo, Matthew
Text:

Granada: Universidad de Granada, 1992. 33–43.Burrison, William.

Local Intelligence: &c.

  • Date: 18 November 1847
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William Stairko yesterday gave $100 sureties for his appearance at the next general sessions to answer

William Logue was committed for trial before the same tribunal, in default of $200 bail, on a charge

Local Intelligence: &c.

  • Date: 6 November 1847
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Mason, passed assistant surgeon; John O’Means, acting purser; William F.

Sharp was called to the chair and William Gascoyne appointed secretary.

The following officers were then unanimously elected for the ensuing year: Captain —WILLIAM H.

William Gascoyne , secretary. Brooklyn, Nov. 4th, 1847. HATS.

London, Ontario, Canada

  • Creator(s): Cederstrom, Lorelei
Text:

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978.____. Specimen Days. Vol. 1 of Prose Works 1892.

[Long I thought that knowledge]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

1857-1859poetryhandwritten3 leavesleaves 1 and 2 15 x 9.5 cm; leaf 3 6.5 x 9.5 cm; On three pieces of white

Long Island Democrat

  • Creator(s): Karbiener, Karen
Text:

University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1973.White, William.

Long Island, New York

  • Creator(s): Krieg, Joann P.
Text:

Three Voices from Paumanok: The Influence of Long Island on James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant

Long Island Patriot

  • Creator(s): Karbiener, Karen
Text:

charisma and powerful position, Whitman was more deeply impressed by the Patriot's foreman printer, William

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980.White, William.

"A Tribute to William Hartshorne: Unrecorded Whitman."

Long Island Star

  • Creator(s): Karbiener, Karen
Text:

University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1973.White, William.

Long Islander

  • Creator(s): Karbiener, Karen
Text:

White, William. Walt Whitman's Journalism: A Bibliography. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1969. 

"Long, Too Long America" (1865)

  • Creator(s): King, Jerry F.
Text:

poem gained popularity and was read or recited at many anti-Vietnam war meetings.BibliographyCoyle, William

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807–1882)

  • Creator(s): Rechel-White, Julie A.
Text:

Rechel-White, Julie A. "Longfellow's Influence on Whitman's 'Rise' from Manhattan Island."

Longfellow's Poets and Poetry of Europe

  • Date: After December 1, 1846; December 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
Text:

high: Gently she clasped it to her snowy breast, While I, in rapture lost, stood musing by: Then her white

Longings for Home.

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

The cactus, guarded with thorns—the laurel-tree, with large white flowers; The range afar—the richness

Longings for Home

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The cactus, guarded with thorns—the laurel-tree, with large white flowers, The range afar—the richness

Longings for Home

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

The cactus, guarded with thorns—the laurel-tree, with large white flowers; The range afar—the richness

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, 10 November [1868]

  • Date: November 10, 1868
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

poor little fellow i miss him very much they had the funeral last he was put in a casket lined with white

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [16 or 23 October 1867?]

  • Date: October 16 or 23, 1867?
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

sick so marthe had A doctor she was quite bad for two or three days she was as yellow as gold the white

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [2 May 1867]

  • Date: May 2, 1867
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Annotations Text:

Eunice White Beecher was the wife of Henry Ward Beecher, the Congregational clergyman who accepted the

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [20 June 1867]

  • Date: June 20, 1867
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Annotations Text:

Beecher is Eunice White Beecher, the wife of Henry Ward Beecher, a Congregational clergyman who accepted

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