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.; Reprinted in the American (May 1881) and Leaves of Grass (1881–82).; Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy

Entertainment, Improvement, and Progress between 1854 and 1861, after which the newspaper merged with the American

"Letters from Paumanok" and the "Sun-Down Papers," perhaps because he seeks to "dissect" New York City

The three articles included here were published as a series entitled “Letters from Paumanok," over the

project, Civil War Washington (civilwardc.org), attempting to illuminate certain key aspects of the city's

concentrated on the development of forts, the growth of hospitals, and the changing nature of the population

We have not studied other potentially illuminating aspects of the city's history—crime statistics, foreign

to document, just as it is often hard to find much detail about many nineteenth-century African Americans

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

For Aaron, American writers failed to produce texts that were commensurate with the magnitude of the

, Randall Fuller, and a host of others have analyzed writings, particularly by women and African Americans

Generous support from the American Council of Learned Societies has helped me—along with Ed Folsom and

issued after the war was over and were shaped by the nation’s internal struggle.

His efforts, as numerous soldiers testified, were extraordinary and in some cases life-saving.

Marina Camboni's translation of the poem that would later become "Poets to Come," as it appears in the 1860

Buinicki University of iowa Press iowa city University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright © 2011

While unity, adhesion, and the bonds that link Americans were themes of Whitman’s poetry before and after

Altogether there were more than thirty peri- odicals which were quoted at 100,000 circulation or over

Whitman’s poetic machinery,” arguing, “Whitman’s memories of the war were also convulsive: they were

It is likely that Whitman and his mother were hearing as many tales of defeat as they were of victory

–61 edition of Leaves of Grass. although the book was published in 1860, Whitman dated it “1860–61” so

________ ( 30 ) IX I dreamed in a dream of a city where all the men were like brothers, o I saw them

They were also taken at a time when greater public re- straints were being placed on the popularand primarily

to city, and land to land across the 46 universe.

“Whitman and the Gay american ethos.”

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

(among them were Whitman, Lincoln, the naturalist John Burroughs and the remarkable African American

erected to house the city's swelling population.

of determining those areas of the city where African Americans built some of their own institutions,

While bridges were defended and a ring of forts encircled the city, Washington fostered vibrant life.

What portions of the city were disproportionately affected by disease and crime?

Were you thinking that those were the words—those upright lines? those curves, angles, dots?

Both were responding to the same problem, even if their reactions were contradictory —or even, arguably

Do you term that perpetual, pistareen, paste-pot work, American art, American drama, taste, verse?

“American History/American Memory: Reevaluating Walt Whitman’s Relationship with the Brooklyn Bridge.

“Poet at Work: Walt Whitman Notebooks 1850s–1860s.” American Memory.

ed.EdwinH.CadyandLouisJ.Budd(Durham,N.C.,1987),273–89at273,283. 2.LeavesofGrass(Boston:ThayerandEldridge,1860

andoneofhisstu- dentsbecamethefirsttoobservespermatozoain1677.Leeuwenhoek’sfamousdraw- ings of sperm were

Emersonwasmusinginhisjournalabout the ways reading and sexual union were intricately and figuratively

“Every hour,”Whitmanknew, was “the semen of centuries” (LG 1860, 226), and America’s hour was now at

“A sprit of my own seminal wet”: Spermatoid Design in Walt Whitman’s 1860 Leaves of Grass

oneofthelastpartsofthebooktobeprepared, thisadvancecopyprobablydidnotreachWhitmanuntilthemonthofpublication,May 1860

Arguably,then,WhitmancouldhavebegunhisannotationsontheBlueBook even before the publication of the 1860

By the 1860 edition, pensive had become a much more prominent word for Whitman, especially in contexts

sdictionaryincludestheItalianpensierosowhentracingtheetymology ofpensive.)Both“L’Allegro”and“IlPenseroso”were

His scholarship focuses on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature, American periodicals

With regard to book design, a wide range of options were available, but these choices customarily were

; the rest were unedited.

She further notes that nowhere is the adjective American more secure than when it is offered as American

American literature is a self-evident field, as American physics and American biology are not.

American Fiction, 1851–1875: A Contribution Toward a Bibliography .

In fact, there were extended periods when we were convinced that such an approach would not be possible

In the case of Whitman, we might want to study him as a city poet.

erected to house the city’s swelling population, which tripled during the four years of the War.

Washington was a noisy city during these years: the noise in the city was of construction as work on

Even as bridges were defended and a ring of forts made this space the most heavily defended city on earth

The following list notesotherfeaturesofWhitman’srevisions: Two of the 1860 poems were, in 1867, joined

Two of the 1860 poems survived as unnamed poems in a “Debris” cluster in 1867 and then were dropped.

City of the world!

These adventurers were clearly fools, bolder than they were wise.

In the modern American era there were still Whitmanesque figures such as HowardHughes,largerthanlifepersonalitieswhomultiplied

wander around Cambridge, which still had many secondhand bookstores, and sometimes travel to other cities

It seemed almost providential, as if we were destined to come together.

with an impressive documentary Web site called " The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American

"The World of Dante," "The Vivarium Digital Library of Latin Literature," "Uncle Tom's Cabin and American

He was the most photographed American author of the 19th century, but no publisher is likely to support

Every week, the invasion of generic products took over a larger segment of American grocery stores.

Category had prevailed; the borders were secured.

and performing typographical experiments that forced readers to engage the printed page in ways they were

" but never once mentioning poetry as the thing that made him rub his eyes "to see if this sunbeam were

how to sell his book, and one thing he needed to do was make it clear to consumers just what they were

But when we prepared to tag the text of the first edition, we were confronted with the jarring typographical

And since in the 1860 edition Whitman includes a cluster of twenty-four numbered poems called "Leaves

interpretive narratives about them, using bits of the data to construct a meaning that is always exceeded

The archive already includes six American editions of Leaves of Grass , as well as the "deathbed" printing

Project co-director Kenneth Price, a professor of American literature at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln

These letters provide context for poems drafted at the time, many of which were inspired by wounded soldiers

and it includes transcriptions (whole text and individual poems) and facsimiles of the six major American

Price's edited collection, Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews , along with several reviews that were

Cohen of Duke University, will be fully searchable and will include facsimiles of the ephemera that were

Nebraska, is developing a section that includes about fifty interviews with Whitman, most of which were

Iowa City: Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, 2005. Folsom, Ed. and Kenneth M. Price. .

Whitman was well prepared to produce a poetic tribute to a great American city in 1855.

of Whitman’s Memory : 209 landmark book The Death and Life of Great American Cities in 1961.

Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington—these were names that were now shared by American

American Literature 28 (March 1956): 78–79. Exactly 795 copies of the 1855 Leaves were bound.

In The American Epic: Transforming a Genre, 1770–1860.

The collection started with a first edition soon after Semans and Trent were married and were living

"In those days, things like that were fairly reasonable," Semans said.

American Literary History 16.1 (2004): 85–92. McGann, Jerome.

Such people were always Americatohim.Doyoubegintoseewhathisword“American”signified?

City.’”

American magazines were few in those days.

City.’

Slicer in your city.

These books were especially popular in small towns and rural areas in the US, but they were read in the

Given that press runs were of over 100,000 copies or more, this had significance.

Despite wartime circumstances, few ASE books were censored.

series with contrasting purposes that were driven by different political ideologies.

history, American culture, and cultures around the world.

Both Knickerbocker and Young American circles were composed of gentle- men and thus closed to Whitman

McWilliams, Jr., The American Epic: Transforming a Genre, 1770–1860, 223, 225. 12.

Even fifty-cent paperback editions of American authors were “out of reach to most working-class readers

City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788–1850, 53–60; Elliott J.

Stansell, City of Women, 91. See also Reynolds, Beneath the American Renaissance, 463. 16.

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Whitman looked to the Americans whirring around him for inspiration, perceiving "a teeming nation of

Whitman's conviction that America and its citizens were poems in and of themselves echoed the zeitgeist

During this American Renaissance, as it came to be known, authors and philosophers such as Hawthorne,

" in the book's first poem, there were no other clues to his identity.

The third edition of , released in 1860, was the first released by a publisher.

The Walt Whitman Archive was the first hit in both searches; also highly-rated were the Library of Congress's

We began to build what we were then calling the Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive (we later dropped the

There were also problems with the navigation of the site.

There were some important consequences from this undertaking.

These volumes were originally contributed to the by Ed Whitley.

Whitman's Dispersed Poetry Manuscripts Kenneth Price, the Hillegass Professor of American literature

Existing images were gathered, permissions secured, and fees paid.

The poems were often not given the same title, and some were left untitled.

Transcriptions were encoded with Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).

Manuscript images were 24-bit color TIFF images with a minimum resolution of 600 dpi.

, there were 146 new poems.

Such images were viewed by many as pornographic in this Victorian era, as were Whitman's images of fathering

in the "Year 85 of The States. / (1860–61)," indicating Whitman's decision to use a new American calendar

The notes go on; some of the types were used; others were not.

for the 1860 edition in 1879.

Making Whitman is available from the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 308 EPB, University of Iowa, Iowa City

Intimate Script and the New American Bible: "Calamus" and the Making of the 1860 Chapter 5.

Walt Whitman is thus of the first generation of Americans who were born in the newly formed United States

In Whitman's school, all the students were in the same room, except African Americans, who had to attend

The published versions of his New Orleans poem called "Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City" seem to

But the exotic nature of the Southern city was not without its horrors: slaves were auctioned within

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Whitman's correspondence, arranged chronologically, contains an "Addenda," and two supplemental volumes were

The many materials that were not included in the are now housed in numerous and scattered archives, and

The problem we're describing is one of separated cultures: the divisions of labor that were acceptable

multiple repositories offer possibilities (both for public presentation and for scholarship) that were

and some types of research—for example, comparing drafts and establishing the history of composition—were

It's so American.

and free copies were given to the American Armed forces during World War II.

Sexual passing is at the heart of the poem eventually entitled "Once I Pass'd through a Populous City

culture, asserting that the real, pure, or true Americans were Anglo-Saxons.

For most of Whitman's career, and the beginning of Wharton's career, the great American authors were

The poems were also affected by Whitman's own physical life.

you thinking that those were the words, those upright lines?

Were you thinking that those were the words, those delicious sounds out of your friends' mouths?

If they had not reference to you in especial what were they then?)

It also recalls Native American ecopoetics.

Letters, as they were gathered and published, were arranged chronologically and assigned numbers.

When new letters were discovered, they were given the number of the preceding letter plus a decimal –

CITY  Mott avenue & 149th street  Station L New York City –I am stopping here till ab’t Aug: 18–(then

in New York City (Corr. 3: 289n). 2.

The plates of the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, printed by Thayer & Eldridge, were sold to RichardWorthington

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

The bulk of Duke University's Walt Whitman holdings were acquired through a series of substantial donations

Whitman holdings that had belonged to Bucke, and many of the items listed in the catalogue of this sale were

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892—Manuscripts; Poets, American—19th century

Collection at Washington University contains a wide variety of manuscripts relating to a range of American

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

The Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library holds a variety

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

The original manuscript is held at the American Antiquarian Society.

The American Antiquarian Society has one Walt Whitman poetry manuscript.

American Antiquarian Society; 185 Salisbury Street; Worcester, Massachusetts 01609-1634

American Antiquarian Society

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

was written for Bucke's authorized biography (Walt Whitman, 1883) and Whitman's extensive revisions were

The O'Connors were active in a number of social causes, as well as being devoted advocates of Whitman

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library

Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library; Original records created

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century