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punishment, temperance, slavery, and health issues; and literature and the arts, including reviews of plays

The famous nature writer Peter Matthiessen invoked the war metaphor when he traveled to east Tennessee

What is fascinating about the poems considered in this chapter is the way Whitman plays with closeness

calls out to "you precedents," and vows to connect with them, and he describes "[o]ne generation playing

its part and passing on, / And another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn."

he unceremoniously exited Washington for Camden, which left him separated from his intimate friend, Peter

Two issues that are of increasing critical interest concern the role played by sentimentality in shaping

of twenty-two volumes published by New York University Press, two additional volumes published by Peter

, only in the last few years have the first two volumes appeared, issued by a different publisher, Peter

quickly clarify for any non-specialists in attendance, we'll gloss some of the acronyms that are in play

But in the last ten years we've brought other tools into play, and we should reflect on the consequences

Twenty-two volumes of this series were published by New York University Press; Peter Lang published two

Peter Robinson and Hans Walter Gabler have observed that "experiments with the design of electronic textual

Robinson, Peter M. W., and Gabler, Hans Walter (2000).

Putnam’s Sons, 1902) and The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman (New York University Press, Peter Lang

I strongly agree with Peter Shillingsburg that a new term is needed, though I am not enthusiastic about

After New York University Press published twenty-two volumes of , the publishing house of Peter Lang

Peter Shillingsburg, for example, remarks that "the level of critical intervention is miniscule in the

Shillingsburg, Peter. From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts .

Peter Lang eventually published two volumes of the journalism in 1998 and 2003, though these volumes

The Peter Lang volumes are produced so as to replicate the appearance of the New York University Press

Arguably, the Peter Lang volumes constitute volumes 23 and 24 of the , and a 25th volume, treating recently

Comprised of 630 Early Modern English plays, pageants, and other 6 entertainments by non-Shakespearean

systematic effort to harness the energy and imagination of undergraduates as editors and explorers of old plays

list—and also larger analytical undertakings including writing an account of the reception history of a play

, reviewing the scholarly literature, comparing different versions of a play if more than one exists,

"Whitman's Anthology of English Literature," Library Notes [Duke University] 50 (1982), 33-34, and Peter

Jeff played the guitar and sang pleasantly, and Walt encouraged such musical inclinations by purchasing

poet developed during his work in the hospitals (and indeed for his relationships after the war with Peter

As an independent consultant he played a major role in planning the Milwaukee sewer system, incorporating

Suppose, however, he undertook to play the part in a cutaway coat, a plug hat, corduroy trowsers, and

.: Peter Smith, 1972. Long Island Patriot

.: Peter Smith, 1972. Long Island Star

.: Peter Smith, 1972. Long Islander

When he died, Whitman left Stafford his silver watch, originally intended for Peter Doyle.  

very pleaseant City They have two or three Theaters going now I was to one of them last evening they Played

Immense Caravanserais starting from all lands for several centuries, inspire by rapt men—Peter the Hermit

Popes, Bishops; Christ Peter the Hermit Walter the Pennyless Godefroi de Bouillon Richard Coeur de Lion

Saviour's tomb Columbus was its immaculate conception and a new world thus linked with old Palestine Peter

Whitman pasted this letter together with a letter he received from Peter Doyle.

General statements of principle and program play their part, but the part is strictly limited to introducing

number of currents and forces, and contributions, and temperatures, and cross purposes, whose ceaseless play

phrasing, for "the greatest possible enrichment of our ethical consciousness, through the intensest play

was a sort of triangular combat,—O'Connor maintaining the Baconian theory of the authorship of the plays

O'Connor in his estimate of Lear and Hamlet and Othello, which Walt belittled, preferring the historical plays

, and placing Richard II. foremost; although he thought all the plays preposterously overrated.

letters, they would have afforded a better argument than any we now have against his authorship of the plays

Art, as exemplified by such poets as Longfellow and Tennyson, he has little or none; but in the free play

.☞ They scared me tho' , and made me think "God" would rather do so than not—to "play the Devil with"

Temperature agreeable even to a still or idle person—no wind, a good deal smoky, birds chirping, children playing

out of money— we put my boo flag) on top our house fap flap we will bin bring big fiddles too, for play

satisfied to deal with him on the ordinary surface level of everyday affairs, and to leave him to the free play

for a full hour, facing the golden sunset, in the cool evening breeze, with the summer lightning playing

than all, the sweetness of his voice, the loving sympathy, the touches of humour, the smile that played

I told him I had got an autograph copy of "Peter Peppercorn's" poems, and he said he was glad I had,

because he knew "Peter" very well, and liked him for his genuine goodness of heart and his sharpness

The great poems—Homer's 'Illiad,' Shakespeare's plays, etc.

Not, as in Homer's 'Iliad,' to depict great personalities, or, as in Shakespeare's plays, to describe

I think Bulwer Lytton has made his title clear in three plays: 'Richelieu,' 'The Lady of Lyons,' and

After tea we went into the front room where Warry played his violin for a little time, after which I

His assistants had told me that Peter Peppercorn had been in the day before. "Do you know Peter?"

Giacosa —the Shakspear of Italy—whose Play on Wed. night at the Standard Theater Sarah Bernhard Bernhardt

The French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923) starred in stage productions of popular French plays in

She had roles in plays by Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas and played males roles, including Shakespeare's

his rank aftera time familiar, contemporaneity; you willsurely see the lambent spiritualflames that play

"Oncere I to charge you give play your self.

He presents you the elements of good and evil in himself in vitalfusion and play; your part to how the

Sin, repentance, fear,Satan, hell, Creation had resulted play important parts. in a tragedy in which

Death is the right hand of God, and evil a also. plays necessary part Nothing is discriminated against

sky, and yet from time to time, and especially in some of the concluding parts, abandons itself to a play

or have the rocks and the weeds a part to play also?

unconscionable energy, as of earthquakes, and ocean storms, and cleft mountains, across which things of beauty play

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

O'Connor attempted to defend Ignatius Loyola Donnelly's Baconian argument—his theory that Shakespeare's plays

idea Donnelly wrote about in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

it in the edition of 1856. publishing enlarged It must be inserted here,for the part this letter played

This played propagation spirit was somewhat grotesquely exhibited in his table-talk at a banquet held

His lofty and vigorous nature lent itself to the of this which would have playing part, been unbearable

During my darkest hours, itcomforted me with inthe the conviction that I too played my part illimitable

take that he the section. it recognised right and the of " native moments " in that necessity free play

chief figure in a box with Childs Dayton and self on the eve of the 24th inst at the opening of my play

Emory Holloway (New York: Peter Smith Press, 1921), II, 37-41.

Whitman feared that the Confederate authorities were "playing foul" by moving George and other officers

Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840-1855 (New York: Peter

The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman: The Journalism, Volume 1: 1834-1846 Herbert Bergman New York Peter

Whitman's former tone from the "Sun-Down Papers—From the Desk of a Schoolmaster" (1840-1841), where he played

is referencing Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy in Act 3, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's play

As we approached along the avenue a band struck up, playing by lamplight, the new moon shining over head

Everyone manifestly glad to see him back—talk & laughter, band playing all the time—now "Home, Sweet

Helena Modjeska (1840–1909) was a well-known Polish actress, particularly famous for playing Shakespearean

Outside, the sky perfectly clear & cloudless, the fountain playing, the trees across the open space,

—Evening spent in the house—chiefly in learning & playing "Pedro" with Willie & his friends.

—I liked too to get out into the "bush"—chipmunks calling & playing about me—one little fellow descending

a tree in front of me & playing about for fully 5 minutes before running off amid the rustling leaves

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

coming into supper, & then adjourning to the barn, where to the light of 2 or 3 candles Johnston played

I met Maurice Barrymore, the actor who was playing in "Held by the Enemy" at the Academy last week.

champion before taking up acting; he emigrated to the United States and debuted in Augustin Daly's play

A play by William Gillette (1853–1937), set during the Civil War, and now recognized as having a significant

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