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Search : William White

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Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?, ca. late 1860s

  • Date: ca. late 1860s
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
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Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?

Kurtz's "Rembrandt" style of light and shadow, a style he pioneered in 1867.For more information on William

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?, ca. late 1860s

  • Date: ca. late 1860s
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
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Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?

, then it is from after 1865, when Kurtz first opened his New York studio.For more information on William

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?, ca. 1867 - 1870

  • Date: ca. 1867 - 1870
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
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Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?

, ca. 1867 - 1870 For more information on William Kurtz, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers."

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. late 1860s

  • Date: ca. late 1860s
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
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Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. late 1860s This photo is usually dated 1860, but Kurtz did not open

endorsed by WW: "Walt Whitman 1869" (which Henry Saunders misread as "1860").For more information on William

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. 1866 - 1869

  • Date: ca. 1866 - 1869
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
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Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. 1866 - 1869 This or two other photos (zzz.00055, zzz.00138) may be

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. 1865 - 1873

  • Date: ca. 1865 - 1873
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
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Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. 1865 - 1873 Clara Barrus said that this photograph was "taken by Kurtz

the pose showed Whitman “as most of his friends knew him—wearing a hack suit, a slouch hat on his white

printed over and over, often with the caption “Walt Whitman in his Prime.”For more information on William

Walt Whitman by William Kuebler, Jr.?, Louis Kuebler?, ca. 1889

  • Date: ca. 1889
  • Creator(s): Kuebler, William, Jr. | Kuebler, Louis | Kuebler Photography
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Walt Whitman by William Kuebler, Jr.?, Louis Kuebler?

Kuebler Photography, at 1204 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, was co-owned and operated by brothers William

According to the 1890 Philadelphia city directory, William, Jr. lived at 864 41st Street, and Louis lived

—also the address of William, Sr., an optician.

William Rudolph O'Donovan explained that "the great difficulty was the hair—to give the sense of its

Walt Whitman by William J. Linton (engraver), ca. 1871

  • Date: ca. 1871
  • Creator(s): Linton, W. J.
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Walt Whitman by William J.

Walt Whitman by W. Curtis Taylor of Broadbent and Taylor, ca. 1877

  • Date: ca. 1877
  • Creator(s): W. Curtis Taylor
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Whitman told the historian William Roscoe Thayer, "I've always had the knack of attracting birds and

Walt Whitman by V.W. Horton(?) of J. Gurney and Son, 1871

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Horton, V.W. | Gurney & Son
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William thought it "a trifle weak", but I don't think so. I can't always be a roaring lion!'"

Walt Whitman by Unknown, probably Sophia Williams, 1887

  • Date: 1887
  • Creator(s): Williams, Sophia Wells Royce
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Walt Whitman by Unknown, probably Sophia Williams, 1887 Carolyn Kinder Karr, in "A Friendship and a Photograph

: Sophia Williams, Talcott Williams, and Walt Whitman" (American Art Journal vol. 21, no. 4, 1989, pp

(1850–1928), a writer and the wife of journalist and editor of the Philadelphia Press, Talcott Williams

Talcott Williams.”

Williams took years ago—the one which counterfeits W. at parlor window.”

Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakins? Samuel Murray?, 1891

  • Date: 1891
  • Creator(s): Eakins, Thomas | Murray, Samuel
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this was taken.In May of 1891, Murray accompanied the New York sculptor and friend of Thomas Eakins, William

Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakins? Samuel Murray?, 1891

  • Date: 1891
  • Creator(s): Eakins, Thomas | Murray, Samuel
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where this was taken.In May of 1891, Murray accompanied the New York sculptor and friend of Eakins, William

Walt Whitman by Samuel Murray, 1891

  • Date: 1891
  • Creator(s): Murray, Samuel
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where this was taken.In May of 1891, Murray accompanied the New York sculptor and friend of Eakins, William

Walt Whitman by Samuel Hollyer, engraving of a daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison (original lost), 1854

  • Date: July 1854
  • Creator(s): Hollyer, Samuel | Harrison, Gabriel
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Grass, then again in the 1876 and 1881–1882 (and following) editions, as well as—in a cropped version—William

Some of Whitman's friends did not share his enthusiasm for the image; William Sloane Kennedy, for example

William O'Connor liked it, Whitman said, "because of its portrayal of the proletarian—the carpenter,

Walt Whitman by Mathew Brady? or William Kurtz?, ca. 1863 - 1867

  • Date: ca. 1863 - 1867
  • Creator(s): Brady, Mathew B. | Kurtz, William
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or William Kurtz?

, ca. 1863 - 1867 For more information on Mathew Brady and William Kurtz, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers

Walt Whitman by John Plumbe Jr.?, ca. 1848–1854

  • Date: ca. 1848–1854
  • Creator(s): Plumbe, John, Jr.
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William Cauldwell, who worked as a printer on the Aurora in the early 1840s and who knew Whitman well

Walt Whitman by J. C. Tarisse?, ca. 1869

  • Date: ca. 1869
  • Creator(s): Tarisse, J. C.
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The lines in this MS poem could also refer to "Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?

, ca. late 1860s" or "Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?

, ca. 1867–1870"; William Kurtz was a master of shadow in his portraits, which gained a reputation of

Walt Whitman by Frederick Gutekunst, 1889

  • Date: 1889
  • Creator(s): Gutekunst, Frederick
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Critic soon after the photo session, described the portrait this way: "From its framework of thin white

Walt Whitman by Dr. William Reeder, 1891

  • Date: 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. William Reeder
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William Reeder, 1891 Dr. William Reeder was a Philadelphia physician and admirer of Whitman.

William Reeder, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers."

Walt Whitman by Dr. William Reeder, 1891

  • Date: 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. William Reeder
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William Reeder, 1891 Dr. William Reeder was a Philadelphia physician and admirer of Whitman.

William Reeder, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers."

Walt Whitman by Alexander Gardner, 1863

  • Date: 1863
  • Creator(s): Gardner, Alexander
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Whitman by Alexander Gardner, 1863 Whitman referred to this as "one of the several portraits which William

Walt Whitman at Home

  • Date: 23 January 1886
  • Creator(s): George Johnston | Quilp [George Johnston?]
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back with feelings of reverence and respect for the destiny which threw him in contact with the good white-haired

His hair and beard, both of which were white as the driven snow and of great length, blended beautifully

Walt Whitman at Home

  • Date: 14 April 1889
  • Creator(s): Richard Hinton
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The white beard—so singularly clear and pure and silken in aspect and texture makes nobly venerable the

The arched eyebrows are also white, like bows of driven snow.

Is the latter's little book of 1867 worth nothing, or is it of no importance that William D.

saturnine-looking business man named Houston—at least to me he seemed what I say—was in the handsome white

and soft, almost roseate-hued face, with the tired but still affectionate eyes, all framed in the white

The Walt Whitman Archive: The Body of Work Electric

  • Creator(s): William Pannapacker
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The site also includes transcriptions (but not facsimiles) of the two British editions compiled by William

vast quantity of music inspired by Whitman (e.g., the settings of Charles Ives and Ralph Vaughan Williams

the most active supporters of Whitman during his lifetime—Richard Maurice Bucke, John Burroughs, William

The Walt Whitman Archive at Ten: Some Backward Glances and Vistas Ahead

  • Creator(s): Kenneth M. Price
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None of our musings took concrete form, however, until after I had moved to the College of William &

Some of you may know that the brown site featured William Michael Rossetti's Poems by Walt Whitman and

biographical sketches of three of the most important figures—Horace Traubel, John Burroughs, and William

William Thomas, formerly the director of the Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia

All we know for certain about such projects as the The William Blake Archive The Complete Writings and

Walt Whitman and the Tennyson Visit

  • Date: 3 July 1885
  • Creator(s): William H. Ballou
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The poet's hair and beard were fleecy, shining, white, and long, his clothing was of the simplest type—a

Walt Whitman and the Poetry of the Future

  • Date: 19 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Mitchell, Edward P.
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Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white, or white come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

Walt Whitman and the Family of Francis Williams by Francis Williams?, 1888

  • Date: 1888
  • Creator(s): Williams, Francis Howard
Text:

Walt Whitman and the Family of Francis Williams by Francis Williams?

, 1888 Back of Library of Congress copy identifies this as "Family of Francis Williams, ca. 1888," taken

at the Williams' house in Germantown, Philadelphia.

Mary Williams' face has been scratched out, and the Williams children are Aubrey (in front of Whitman

Francis Howard Williams was a playwright and poet, and Whitman recalled "how splendidly the Williamses

Walt Whitman and the Earth: A Study in Ecopoetics

  • Date: 2004
  • Creator(s): Killingsworth, M. Jimmie
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The environmental historian William Cronon, on whom Buell relies, is no doubt right in suggesting that

The spider of Jonathan Edwards, the waterfall of Henry Vaughan, the waterfowl of William Cullen Bryant

And as to you corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses

And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers, Darker than the colorless beards of

Walt Whitman and His Poems

  • Date: September 1855
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
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He does not separate the learned from the unlearned, the Northerner from the Southerner, the white from

Walt Whitman And His 'Drum Taps'

  • Date: 1 December 1866
  • Creator(s): Burroughs, John
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During this period he was on familiar terms of acquaintance with William Cullen Bryant, and the two were

again, this soil'd world; For my enemy is dead a man divine as myself is dead I look where he lies white-faced

and still in the coffin—I draw near I bend Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in

Walt Whitman: A Visit to the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 19 April 1876
  • Creator(s): Frank Sanborn
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. * * * I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world, A white-haired shadow, roaming

Stevens street, near Fifth) is a still, Philadelphia-looking quarter, of long rows of brick houses with white

marble door-steps and white wooden shutters, in one of which, at a street corner, Whitman has taken

The poet now dresses in gray clothes, matching well with his hair and beard, and wears a white scarf

Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your wholly-white and turban'd turbaned head

Walt Whitman: A Symposium in a Sick Room

  • Date: 18 November 1876
  • Creator(s): James Matlack Scovel
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cachet de pain —[the thin wafers hiding calomel]—is the fragrant red-rose and the tube-rose or the pure white

Walt Whitman: A Study

  • Date: 1893
  • Creator(s): John Addington Symonds
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NIMMO KING WILLIAM STRAND 14 STREET, MDCCCXCI1I 3331 S>2 AUG 2 i. 921411 PREFACE This hardly needs an

figure,six feet high, costumed in or blue grey, with drab hat, broad shirt collar, fulland with grey-white

And here I may recall President Lincoln's remark on seeing Whitman of House :" from the windows the White

William O'Connor, of Douglas Washington, who had learned to appreciate Walt as a friend, and to admire

Walt Whitman: A Glimpse at a Poet in His Lair

  • Date: 24 February 1876
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Brooklyn there must be a Plymouth Church, and a distinguished though somewhat doubtful clergyman, and a white-souled

As he passed the window a white-haired, pleasant-faced old gentleman looked out of it; and the face looked

It was as white as snow, and gave the poet the appearance of one of the old patriarchs in the Bible.

Walt Whitman, a Brooklyn Boy

  • Date: 29 September 1855
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
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shirt-collar flat and broad, countenance of swarthy transparent red, beard short and well mottled with white

Walt Whitman & the World

  • Date: 1995
  • Creator(s): Allen, Gay Wilson | Folsom, Ed
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This is what William Carlos Williams learned from Whitman, the natural cadence, the flow ofbreath as

Roger Asselineau and William White, eds.Walt Whitman in Europe Today (Detroit: Wayne State University

See Roger Asselineau and William White, eds., Walt Whitman in Europe Today (De troit: Wayne State University

See Asselineau and White, Walt Whitman, 1B-19. 1B.William White, ed., The Bicentennial Walt Whitman (

Mariolina Meliado-Freeth, "Walt Whitman in Italy," in Roger Asselineau and William White, eds., Walt

Walt Whitman & the Irish

  • Date: 2000
  • Creator(s): Krieg, Joann P.
Text:

The unnamed author, whom Whitman seems to assume his readers will know, was William Carleton (1794–1869

Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy ), has been seconded by literary critics of the caliber of William

Rolleston, William Butler Yeats, and others in furthering an appreciation of Whitman among Europeans.

William M.

For some years William Tweed wielded great power in the state legislature.

Walt Whitman & the Class Struggle

  • Date: 2006
  • Creator(s): Lawson, Andrew
Text:

Reprinted in William White, “A Tribute to William Hartshorne: Unrecorded Whitman” (Brooklyn Printer,

John O’Sullivan, “White Slavery,” 260. 85. O’Sullivan, “White Slavery,” 261. 86.

Shane White and Graham White, Stylin’, 74. 43.

White, Shane, and Graham White.

In “A Tribute to William Hartshorne: Unrecorded Whitman.” William White.

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2 December 1866
  • Creator(s): O'Connor, William Douglas
Text:

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farm-house; The sun just shines on her old white

again, this soil'd world. … For my enemy is dead—a man divine as myself is dead; I look where he lies, white-faced

and still in the coffin—I draw near; I bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the

Walt Whitman

  • Date: November 1867
  • Creator(s): Buchanan, Robert
Text:

As he speaks, we more than once see a man's face at white heat, and a man's hand beating down emphasis

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 July 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration

The sum of all known reverence I add up in you, whoever you are; The President is there in the White

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

Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti Hotten: Piccadilly.

Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) was an English physician who famously published an expurgated edition of William

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 8 June 1867
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

During this period he was on familiar terms of acquaintance with William Cullen Bryant, and the two were

William Hepworth Dixon (1821–1879) was a British journalist and editor of the Athenæum from 1853–1869

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 21 March 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

the mass:— "All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it; Did you think it was in the white

Walt Whitman

  • Date: September 1883
  • Creator(s): Metcalfe, William Musham
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, of original grandeur and elegance of design, with the masses of gay colour, the preponderance of white

Probably a slip of the hand or printer's error for William Bell Scott.

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1 June 1872
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

grave, an ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen, now lean and tattered, seated on the ground; Her old white

Abraham Lincoln, seeing him for the first time, from the East Room of the White House, as he passed slowly

Walt Whitman

  • Date: December 1882
  • Creator(s): Macaulay, G. C.
Text:

Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

the child, gliding down to the beach, had stood with bare feet, the wind wafting his hair, with 'the white

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

wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark brown fields uprisen, Passing the apple-tree blows of white

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 18 March 1876
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

from the article appeared in the London Athenaeum (11 March 1876), followed by Robert Buchanan's and William

Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901) was a British poet, novelist and dramatist.

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1883
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

William D.

The man wears a broad-brim white hat.

Harlan would consider Walt Whitman white as purity beside him.

His ruddy features were almost concealed by his white hair and beard.

After the dilettanteindelicacies of William H.

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