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Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY

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Poem incarnating the mind

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

isolated, perfect and sound, is isolated all all things and all other beings as an audience at the play-house

fire. / From the cinder-strew'd threshold I follow their movements, / The lithe sheer of their waists plays

[New York Atlas, 3 October 1858]

  • Date: 3 October 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

life involves a fine and robust condition of manhood, with every faculty of body and mind in full play

Much of it is to be looked for through a diffusion of more general information upon the subtle play of

A Chat with the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: December 1887
  • Creator(s): Cyrus Field Willard
Text:

stores, Customs, costumes, churches, theatres, looks And lingoes all are vanished, are Gone, are played

Knock Out the resonant, brassy Notes, and prattle along like A lad at play, while ever and Anon sweet

Chats with Walt Whitman

  • Date: February 1898
  • Creator(s): Grace Gilchrist
Text:

enjoyment in the free exercise of his lungs than from mere intellectual appreciation of the poem or play

chaffing, or nay form of "smart" talk—remaining always perfectly grave and silent amid that kind of by-play

I always compare Shakespeare's plays to large, rich, splendid tapestry—like Raphael's historical cartoons

Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman

  • Date: June 1919
  • Creator(s): William Roscoe Thayer
Text:

One day, for instance, he talked about Shakespeare's historical plays, which, he said, showed that Shakespeare

was at heart a democrat, and that he had written the plays in order to discredit monarchy and kings

individual, not that he might enjoy himself for himself, but that he might be the better fitted to play

obligations to Emerson; but I did recognize in him a poseur of truly colossal proportions, one to whom playing

acclaim; he could not have doubted seriously, for habit, if nothing else, would have enabled him to play

The Evolution of Walt Whitman: An Expanded Edition

  • Date: 1999
  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
Text:

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.

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: September 1887
  • Creator(s): Lewin, Walter
Text:

Bucke, his intimate friend and truly able biographer, who plays Boswell to Whitman's Johnson, reports

Peter Bayne. Among Whitman's personal friends were Bryant and Longfellow.

Walt Whitman.

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

loos'd to the eddies of the wind; A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms; The play

ready; The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow- drawn slow-drawn wagon; The clear light plays

From the cinder-strew'd threshold I follow their movements; The lithe sheer of their waists plays even

I believe in those wing'd purposes, And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me, And consider

not marches for accepted victors only—I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

Walt Whitman

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

loos'd to the eddies of the wind; A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms; The play

ready; The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow- drawn slow-drawn wagon; The clear light plays

From the cinder-strew'd threshold I follow their movements; The lithe sheer of their waists plays even

the common air that bathes the globe. 18 With music strong I come—with my cornets and my drums, I play

not marches for accepted victors only—I play great marches for conquer'd and slain persons.

Song of Myself.

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

loos'd to the eddies of the wind, A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms, The play

From the cinder-strew'd threshold I follow their movements, The lithe sheer of their waists plays even

I believe in those wing'd purposes, And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me, And consider

the common air that bathes the globe. 18 With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play

not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.

Song of Myself.

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

loos'd to the eddies of the wind, A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms, The play

From the cinder-strew'd threshold I follow their movements, The lithe sheer of their waists plays even

I believe in those wing'd purposes, And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me, And consider

the common air that bathes the globe. 18 With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play

not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.

Whitman in the German-Speaking Countries

  • Creator(s): Walter Grünzweig
Text:

The poem by Wellbrock (born in 1949), a Berlin-based writer of poems, short stories, and radio plays,

its part and passing on, Another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn, With faces

There played the famous Booth, whom the 15-year-old Whitman had a first chance to see as Richard III.

Gedichte der Nachgeborenen (Wuppertal: Peter Hammer, 1971), 154–155.

Hermann Peter Piwit and Peter Rühmkorf, eds., Literaturmagazin 5. Das Vergehen von Hören und Sehen.

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 21 October 1890

  • Date: October 21, 1890
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Annotations Text:

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

be one of the founders of the German Romantic Movement, and his translations of sixteen Shakespeare plays

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

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

You play the unbroken role of an unruly party to the social contract.

Are you playing down or up? Do you bring disease or health?

Yours truly, Peter G. Doyle.

This is where Shaw plays trumps.

The “Interview with Peter Doyle” by Dr.

A Place for Humility: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Gerhardt, Christine
Text:

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.

Reply

  • Creator(s): Ed Folsom
Text:

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

A Sermon Preached in the Central Reformed Protestant Dutch Church

  • Date: After July 27, 1851; 1851
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Jacob Brodhead
Text:

In the summer of the next year, Director Peter Minuit purchased from the aborigines, the whole of Manhattan

City Photographs

  • Date: 16 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

office for a still longer period of time, and down to within a year or two since; with the presence of Peter

Longfellow's Poets and Poetry of Europe

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

had no niche with its holy image; and because the naked Dryads of Paganism were permitted there to play

Nay, often he plays on the poetic strings with so rich and jewel-loaded a hand, that the sparkling mass

disturbs, if not the playing, yet our hearing of it."

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 14 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

loosed to the eddies of the wind, A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms, The play

Tuesday, September 3, 1889

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

cane—slowly going to the door—stood in the doorway, his back to us—his face turned—the light of the gas playing

Friday, July 13, 1888.

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

At times he plays with you with a deliberate, baffling sportiveness."

Thursday, October 22, 1891

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

We were there till eleven, Wallace and Tom talking, Anna and I playing euchre at a little table nearby

Monday, March 7, 1892

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

Keller and Warrie playing cribbage in back room. Joined them in game of euchre after a bit.

Monday, March 28, 1892

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

I have not seen Tennyson's new play—hope to later.

Tuesday, November 10, 1891

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

But after thrust and parry and play and a good deal of real fire, my own wind up was positive enough.

Wednesday, November 11, 1891

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

Told W. about the play last night, "The Rivals," and he went warmly into discussion of the old Park Theatre

Wednesday, November 5, 1890

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

It is a great thing to let life play to such measure—spontaneity."

Monday, February 9, 1891

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

It is like a bit of literature descending from a purer, less affected age than ours, and will play a

About "A Legend of Life and Love"

  • Date: 2015
  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock
Text:

In addition to publishing articles on national policy and playing an important role as an organ of the

About "One Wicked Impulse! A Tale of a Murderer Escaped"

  • Date: 2015
  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock
Text:

section entirely, a revision that takes out Marsh's redemptive involvement with cholera victims and plays

Williamsburgh Word Portraits, No. 9

  • Date: 27 June 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In this sphere his long practical acquaintance with the laws of mechanics has been brought into play;

'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry' [1856]

  • Creator(s): Nelson, Howard
Text:

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

Song of the Banner at Day-Break.

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

up here, soul, soul; Come up here, dear little child, To fly in the clouds and winds with me, and play

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1871)

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

Trottoirs throng'd—vehicles—Broadway—the women— the shops and shows, The parades, processions, bugles playing

A Word Out of the Sea

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

wander'd alone, bare- headed bare-headed , barefoot, Down from the shower'd halo, Up from the mystic play

Song of the Banner at Day-Break

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

up here, soul, soul; Come up here, dear little child, To fly in the clouds and winds with us, and play

A Word Out of the Sea

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

wandered alone, bare- headed bareheaded , barefoot, Down from the showered halo, Up from the mystic play

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 13 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

a passage remarkable for its nobility: "With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play

not marches for accepted victors only, I play Marches for conquer'd and slain persons.

Bervance: Or, Father and Son

  • Date: December 1841
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

so fully upon it, that I really fear, sir, your refusal would excite him more than the sight of the play

deliberately rose—raised his hand to his head—lifted his hat, and bowed low and long—a cool sarcastic smile playing

Some Fact-Romances

  • Date: December 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

They bathed in the surf, danced, told stories, ate and drank, amused themselves with music, plays, games

They bathed in the surf—danced—told stories—ate and drank—amused themselves with music, plays, games,

Annotations Text:

They bathed in the surf—danced—told stories—ate and drank—amused themselves with music, plays, games,

Walt Whitman: His Life, His Poetry, Himself

  • Date: 23 July 1875
  • Creator(s): J. M. S. | J[ames] M[atlack] S[covel]
Text:

You might hear his voice, half in sport, declaiming some passage from a poem or play; and his song or

will our ordinary verse-making, our system of forcing thought into all sorts of received forms, our playing

Cluster: Sea-Drift. (1891)

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

leaving his bed wander'd alone, bareheaded, barefoot, Down from the shower'd halo, Up from the mystic play

tangle, openings, and pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold, the play

Cluster: Songs of Parting. (1891)

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

force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage, (Have the old forces, the old wars, played

How my thoughts play subtly at the spectacles around! How the clouds pass silently overhead!

By Blue Ontario's Shore.

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

head, No more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce, With war's flames and the lambent lightnings playing

the praise of things, In the dispute on God and eternity he is silent, He sees eternity less like a play

Cluster: Sea-Drift. (1881)

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

leaving his bed wander'd alone, bareheaded, barefoot, Down from the shower'd halo, Up from the mystic play

tangle, openings, and pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold, the play

Cluster: Songs of Parting. (1881)

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

force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage, (Have the old forces, the old wars, played

How my thoughts play subtly at the spectacles around! How the clouds pass silently overhead!

By Blue Ontario's Shore.

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

head, No more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce, With war's flames and the lambent lightnings playing

the praise of things, In the dispute on God and eternity he is silent, He sees eternity less like a play

Hannah Whitman Heyde to Walt Whitman, 22 September [1891]

  • Date: September 22, [1891]
  • Creator(s): Hannah Whitman Heyde
Annotations Text:

Walt's favorite brother, Jeff played the piano and had a lively sense of humor.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, February 1891

  • Date: February, 1891
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

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

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