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Search : William White

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Monday, October 20, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Talcott Williams and wife still away in Adirondacks.

Afterward we gave his ticket to Thomas Earle White.

Monday, October 22, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Saw McKay and told him W. had sent Williams a book.

Monday, October 26, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Frank Williams' grateful words for the book, which he will send to Mrs.

Monday, October 28, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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.: that "he came down stairs with his long white beard all on," that she was "afraid of him," that he

Monday, October 29, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. says: "Maurice is too conclusive by far: let's take another guess, a good guess, for William: I don't

Monday, October 6, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Then added, "It reminds me of a Quaker story William O'Connor told often—enjoyed telling—of a merchantman

Monday, October 8th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Talcott Williams over today.

be your debtor.Jessie Taylor.The Press yesterday contained some further extracts from Frederick William's

as well as calm: more than once seen him when his whole being was shaken up—when his passion was at white

There's my friend William Swinton, John's brother: I used to be very intimate with him: he has suffered

a good deal of a traveler, wanderer—was in California at the time, I think)—twenty-five years ago William

Monday, September 10th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Bartol, William P. Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Ole Bull, L. N. Fairchild, Albert B. Otis, A friend, W. D.

G. van Renssalaer (New York), Charles Eliot Norton, George Fred Williams, J. R. Chadwick, (Mr.)

Monday, September 14, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Yes, among William's multitude of qualities, he had a hot temper.

But William did not understand the friendliness of Fields, who always took opportunities, direct and

William knew it well—stormed upon him for it.

Monday, September 17th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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great heat of debate, babble of voices, dissenting discordant opinions—mostly antagonizing Hugo—and William's

concluding symposium piece in The American: The Poetry of Walt Whitman: a Rejoinder, written by Frank Williams

Monday, September 21, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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names them, too, and "letters underfoot"—they so often are picked from the floor), a letter from William

Even William wondered that he was so wholly ignored, & he was very modest about any claim.Did Walt enjoy

Monday, September 24th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Bucke is my only constant correspondent left: William writes very rarely—is not able to write."

When William gets on his real high horse—his high horse of high horses—he completely fills the stage:

"It will bear study: William never loses caste at close quarters: he always more than holds his own."

Monday, September 28, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Told me a story, "Swinton—William Swinton—dined with me once at Washington. It was at Willard's.

Monday, September 3, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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It is a strong defense: William says of it himself: 'Walt, it puts them all to flight!'

find another kind of humor, a humor more remote (subtle, illusive, not present)—the sort of humor William

Monday, September 7, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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But what are we to say to this—that Talcott Williams was there, saw it, comes to me and tells me it is

W. then, after solution, "I only wish I had William O'Connor here now.

Monday, September 9, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Now, that was peculiarly absent from William—though of course he was not New Englander alone—rather Irish

But William was first of all cheerful—kept up to the last a devil of an interest, energy, in things at

The Monroe Obsequies

  • Date: 3 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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William M. Harris, of the Board of Education, and Alonso H. Gale, Esq.

The monthly Magazines

  • Date: 28 July 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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The volume also included poems by Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1813–1871), William Howe Cuyler Hosmer (1814

More about William Blake

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

More about William Blake—I met R.W.

More about William Blake

More Catholic Insolence!

  • Date: 12 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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William Denman was the editor of the New York Truth Teller (Edwin Williams, New-York Annual Register

for the Year of Our Lord 1834 [New York: Edwin Williams, 1834], 125).

For more information, see William B.

Motherhood

  • Creator(s): Pollak, Vivian R.
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Thus, though not an advocate of the so-called Cult of True Womanhood, which sought to confine white,

The mountain‑ash

  • Date: Undated
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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The mountain‑ash, a large shrub, 16 or 2 0 ft high—northern part of the state of New York —has white

blossoms—blooms early in the spring—has then a pleasant perfume—the hill‑sides where it grows thickly look white

Music, Whitman and

  • Creator(s): Strassburg, Robert
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Among twentieth-century composers inspired by his rhapsodic word-music are Ralph Vaughan Williams, Frederick

Delius, Gustav Holst, Paul Hindemith, Roger Sessions, Ernest Bloch, Charles Ives, Roy Harris, William

Music, Whitman's Influence on

  • Creator(s): Leathers, Lyman L.
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Villiers Stanford, Frederick Delius, Gustav Holst, Cyril Scott, Hamilton Harty, and Ralph Vaughan Williams

using lines from "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," was written in 1903–1904 and Ralph Vaughan Williams

Vaughan Williams also used three poems from "Sea-Drift": "Song for All Seas, All Ships," "On the Beach

of the scope: Otto Luening, lines from "A Song for Occupations" in an a cappella version (1966); William

[My two theses]

  • Date: about 1856
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theses]about 1856poetryhandwritten1 leaf4 x 16 cm pasted to 10.5 x 16 cm; On a small composite leaf of white

"Mystic Trumpeter, The" (1872)

  • Creator(s): Butler, Frederick J.
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980.

Mysticism

  • Creator(s): Chari, V.K.
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This image was first promoted by Whitman's own friends and disciples—Richard Maurice Bucke, William Douglas

O'Connor, William Sloane Kennedy, and Edward Carpenter—and corroborated by recent scholars, both Western

William James in The Varieties of Religious Experience analyzes this phenomenon and cites Whitman as

Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1986.James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience. 1902.

National Literature

  • Date: 1890 or 1891
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the backing sheet's lower right corner is dated 1907 and indicates that he presented this item to William

Native Americans [Indians]

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
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formative years of Leaves of Grass, many of the most explosive Western battles between natives and whites

Tale of the Western Frontier," about a deformed and treacherous amalgam of the worst qualities of the white

the far west, the bride was a red girl" (section 10)—a scene that has been read as suggestive of the white

the present day, have propensities, monstrous and treacherous, that make them unfit to be left in white

"Native Moments" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Klawitter, George
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.

Nature

  • Creator(s): Doudna, Martin K.
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For him as for William Cullen Bryant in the opening lines of "Thanatopsis," nature as naturans speaks

deceptive.Whitman's poetic use of natural objects differs from that of his contemporaries such as William

Nehemiah Whitman

  • Date: Between 1845 and 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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on the old Hills homestead at West Hills—which was inherited by his son, His wife was Phebe Sarah White

— Sarah White born about 1713 " died " 180 1 see next page—bottom Jesse Whitman, born Jan. 29, 1749 died

—Lived in Classon from May 1st '56, '7 '8 '9 Lived in Portland av. from May 1st '59 '60 '61 Sarah White

Nelson Jabo to Adeline Jabo, 21 January 1865

  • Date: January 21, 1865
  • Creator(s): Nelson Jabo
Text:

Jabo's health declined rapidly after the battle of White Oak Swamp, and he was ultimately discharged

Annotations Text:

Jabo's health declined rapidly after the battle of White Oak Swamp, and he was ultimately discharged

New Books

  • Date: 26 May 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Newport, Rye, Niagara, Shirley, Long Island, Cohasset, Bergen Point, Cape May, or the Mountains called White

Leaves of Grass—456 pages, electro-typed, beautiful print, fine type, elegant binding, seemly, comely, white

The New Poets

  • Date: 19 May 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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we had conquered— The captain on the quarter-deck, coldly giving his orders through a countenance white

Near by, the corpse of the child that served in the cabin, The dead face of an old salt, with long white

New Publications

  • Date: 19 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

After the dilettante indelicacies of William H.

New Publications

  • Date: 14 March 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

By William Hazlitt . Second Series. New York: Wiley & Putnam.

New Publications

  • Date: 6 March 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary and part of Central Asia, by Thomas William

New Publications

  • Date: 14 June 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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revised edition of Allison's great work, in four handsome, compact volumes, well-printed, on fine, white

New Publications

  • Date: 2 November 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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His father, Frederick William, set him to work at French and Mathematics as soon as he was out of long

New Publications

  • Date: 21 June 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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number, and as we do not often do such a thing, we have ventured to clip a little gem from the fair white

New Publications

  • Date: 16 December 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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We see in the “Poet Laureate’s” department the arm— “Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful,” raising

New Publications

  • Date: 27 August 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Papers follow on the Circulation of the Blood;" on White's "Eighteen Centuries;" on "London Exhibitions

New Publications

  • Date: 9 August 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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$54,000; rosin oil, $25,000; Kerosene, $200,000; saleratus, $500,000; starch, $30,000; vinegar, $12,000; white

lead, $1,250,000, giving employment to 225 men; whiting $60,000; lamps, lanterns, gas fixtures, &c,

New York Amuses Itself—The Fourth of July

  • Date: 12 July 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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deliberately on, horse and foot, light infantry, hussars, dragoons, riflemen, Highlanders (with ridiculously white

Discontinue all the "sound and fury, signifying nothing," William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act V, Scene

[New York Atlas, 10 October 1858]

  • Date: 10 October 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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In later times, William Pestel, a Frenchman, lived to a hundred and well-nigh twenty years, the top of

[New York Atlas, 12 September 1858]

  • Date: 12 September 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William L.

[New York Atlas, 17 October 1858]

  • Date: 17 October 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William E. Finkel traces these writings to R. T.

advantages are here concentrated . . .") are taken, with only minor changes in wording, from John William

William Gilmore Simms relates this maxim as one of Weems' favorites.

[New York Atlas, 19 December 1858]

  • Date: 19 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

being the real foundation of all manly beauty, and have done our part toward dissipating the pink-and-white

Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was an English mathematician, astronomer, and scientist; William Harvey

The anecdote about the French statistician, which appears in the Harper's article, originates in William

[New York Atlas, 26 December 1858]

  • Date: 26 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

beauty, flickers out of and over your face; a transparency beams in the eyes, both in the iris and the white

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