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Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY

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Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman

  • Date: June 1907
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. Calder
Text:

Among the plays of Shakespeare, King Richard the Second was a great favorite of Whitman's, and he had

A half-dozen of us, playing the game frequently together, became able to easily to discover the thing

Canal, and he told us that he watched for hours a negro at work, who was naked to the waist, and the play

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

Leaves of Grass (1855)

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

He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men and

I play not a march for victors only . . . . I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

The most renowned poems would be ashes . . . . orations and plays would be vacuums.

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.

I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

Twentieth-Century Mass Media Appearances

  • Date: 2006
  • Creator(s): Jewell, Andrew | Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Sarah Tyndale, 20 June 1857

  • Date: June 20, 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

During the Civil War, he played a significant role at the Battle of Antietam and rose to the rank of

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 15 March 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Every move of him has the free play of the muscle of one who never knew what it was to feel that he stood

Wednesday, March 27, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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He said: "You are my right bower: I can't play the game without you." Wednesday, March 27, 1889

Thursday, October 4th, 1888.

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

He is the kind of a man who might play with riches and die poor—though he's mighty comfortable fixed,

Tuesday, October 23, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. said again: "Hugo's immortal works were the dramas, the plays, the poems: least accessible, yet greatest

City, Whitman and the

  • Creator(s): Bauerlein, Mark
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He also reviewed plays and opera and occasional ballet presented in New York theater houses.

Canada, Whitman's Reception in

  • Creator(s): Cederstrom, Lorelei
Text:

In spite of the vital role the landscape plays in Canadian literature and the need for a cosmic vision

Tuesday June 25, 1889

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

passage or more about Rachel—why it was she was so aroused when going to her room and reading aloud her plays

'Children of Adam' [1860]

  • Creator(s): Miller, James E., Jr.
Text:

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

Monday, August 6, 1888.

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

I find my memory sometimes playing me tricks—working a little rusty: I may be saying to myself, 'it was

Sunday, May 6, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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alone or chiefly because of her eyes, her complexion, the mellowness of her body, though these, too, play

Sunday, May 13, 1888.

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

Harned asked: "Are you then prepared to say the plays were written by Bacon?"

Sunday, May 20, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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the proposition I set forth in the Leaves, considering the rumpus I made, considering my refusal to play

Monday, May 28, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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The obvious retort is, that I have never really heard it played.

Monday, June 4, 1888.

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

Ordinarily he would have played for time. But I could see that he was serious about the warning.

Friday, November 9, 1888.

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

"no" he continued: "I seemed to hear something: it was like a distant rain: my ear, it may be, is playing

Monday, November 19, 1888

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

Ed has a violin which he plays round the house.

Thursday, May 14, 1891

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

"Yes, I admit it, and I often think I see in the English character a higher growth of fair play—the willingness

Wednesday, September 9, 1891

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

Bush played some for us—from Wagner, Schumann. And in due time we followed Bucke.

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South

  • Date: November 20, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"But it is a dangerous game, and should be played cautiously."

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South

  • Date: November 24, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Like an actor who plays a part, I became warmed in the delineation, and the very passion I feigned, came

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South

  • Date: November 28, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Whether any suspicions of foul play were as yet aroused in the breasts of other persons, is more than

A Song of Joys.

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

To go to battle—to hear the bugles play and the drums beat!

Poem of Joys

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

to hear the bugles play, and the drums beat! To hear the artillery!

A Song of Joys.

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

To go to battle—to hear the bugles play and the drums beat!

Poems of Joy

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

to hear the bugles play, and the drums beat! To hear the crash of artillery!

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.

Complete Prose Works

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

What Lurks Behind Shakspere's Historical Plays?

Austin as Ariel, and Peter Richings as Caliban.

The vocal play and significance moves one more than books.

All work seem'd play to him.

Not for nothing does evil play its part among us.

Walt Whitman in Russian Translations: Whitman's "Footprint" in Russian Poetry

  • Creator(s): Elena Evich
Text:

there is a repetition of the morpheme bride; Chukovsky decides to preserve the effect, but in so doing plays

skreplyali vse, i budut vechno Indeed, in the history of Russian Symbolism the poetry of Walt Whitman has played

Thursday, November 15, 1888.

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

I suppose you know that is a performance, a play, all in music and singing, in the Italian language,

besides she is a tall and handsome lady, and her actions are so graceful as she moves about the stage, playing

As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shore.

  • Date: 1871
  • 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

As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shore

  • Date: 1867
  • 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

Poems by Walt Whitman [1868]

  • Date: 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The most renowned poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums.

some playing, some slumbering? Who are the girls? who are the married women?

play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!

Play the old rôle, the rôle that is great or small, according as one makes it!

—S , 6 th May "The passion of Althæa is much the finest part of the play.

Whitman in His Own Time

  • Date: 1991
  • Creator(s): Myerson, Joel
Text:

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."

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 1)

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

Peter's. It is grand, grand—O how grand!

They were reviving a whole series of old English plays: very good, staple plays: I saw a good many of

In the plays—the historical plays especially—Bacon sees the basilisk in all his nature and proportions.I

There is much in the plays that is offensive to me, anyhow: yes, in all the plays of that period: a grandiose

Kennedy came along and put in a demurrer, W. resuming: "The Shakespeare plays are essentially the plays

Suppressing Walt Whitman.

  • Date: April 22, 1876
  • Creator(s): William Douglass O'Connor
Text:

blackened corpse of Glanas swung beside the carcass of the regicide for having translated Plato, and where Peter

Tuesday, November 27, 1888

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

O'Connor, is veritably a Peter the Hermit, a Luther."

Introduction to Franklin Evans and "Fortunes of a Country-Boy"

  • Date: 2015
  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock | Nicole Gray
Text:

"Scores of lesser-known writers produced temperance novels, stories, poems, plays, and periodicals,"

temperance out of Franklin Evans for publication in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1846, however, he also played

Conclusion Whitman's decision to play down the temperance theme when he republished Franklin Evans as

thinking through dynamics that would eventually become central to Leaves of Grass , including the play

New York: Peter Lang, 1998. Blanck, Jacob, comp. Bibliography of American Literature . 9 vols.

In RE Walt Whitman: Round Table with Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1893
  • Creator(s): Horace L. Traubel
Text:

rivulets and bigger streams of literature—there is a splendid lesson that such notes as there is in the play

At the end of that interesting play, which I have seen, a great fellow who is in pursuit of it comes

Who will play his part for him? And Hawthorne—wasn't he expected?

How strange that Shelley and "Leaves of Grass" should play upon him together!

Whitman .—[ To Traubel ].— Did he suppose we intended that he should be left out of the play?

Leaves of Grass (1860–1861)

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

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

Let priests still play at immortality! Let Death be inaugurated!

to hear the bugles play, and the drums beat! To hear the artillery!

play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!

I am a dance—Play up, there! the fit is whirling me fast!

Walt Whitman

  • Date: September 1883
  • Creator(s): Metcalfe, William Musham
Text:

dry and flat Sahara appears, these cities, crowded with petty grotesques, malformations, phantoms, playing

religion, and the democratic adjustments, all these swarms of poems, literary magazines, dramatic plays

He could no more have written the idylls of the King , or a play of Shakespeare than he could have written

Cluster: Marches Now the War Is Over. (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • 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

Let the priest still play at immortality! Let death be inaugurated!

The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires

  • Date: 1890 or later; 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | C.F. Volney
Text:

NEW YORK: PETER ECKLER, 35 F ULTON TREET 26 THE RUINS OF EMPIRES. family against family, tribe against

To suppose that this product of the play of the organs, born with them, matured with them, and which

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1 April 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

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