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The first thing necessary is the thought—the rest may follow if it chooses—may play its part—but must

by others, as if risen by instinct from all quarters of the wind, till a magic stream was in full play

out and up the street and then north through Fourth to the railroad—and it continued its reach and play

Someone was sure Peter Doyle was seen somewhere in the crowd, but I saw nothing of him till we had got

The beard combed and not quite freely flowing and playing as of old, but the lips very sweet, not set—and

He said: "You are my right bower: I can't play the game without you." Wednesday, March 27, 1889

His imagination flames and plays up, up, up. It is a grand height!

Century in his mail and a letter from Charlie at Burlington—also letter from Peter Eckler enclosing money

After a pause, "I wish you would write Peter Eckler for me—Peter Eckler, 35 Fulton St.

I find he has no enthusiasm over the best piano playing.

fellows, across the sea and here—there can be no ban: use your judgment—use Kennedy's—let it have its play

After all he had his part to play: he stood for unification, condensation, compactness, nationality—not

Now I rest myself with saying, back of all the plays is a something unrevealed, perhaps the profoundest

You know, I did not get as far as Donnelly's cipher: yet the plays are I am sure full of mysteries in

Thought Symonds' "Democratic Art" was "somewhat like the play 'Our American Cousin'—in which the only

Some years ago I debated with myself whether it was not the thing to play stoic with all the ills—to

were offensive to him: there was something crude, powerful, drastic, in the Shakes-speareShakespeare plays

issued in a different shape—quite square I should like to have it—so as to give your long lines full play

Shakespeare had it—putting his enemies into verse—into a play, what-not.

He spoke of the Richard as "a favorite play" of his.

"It is typical: the most likely, conclusive of the Shakespeare plays."

Then Shakespeare was to palm the plays off as his own? Was that the idea?

Harned said: "The Plays are so great won't they stand alone for all time?"

Were the Shakespeare plays the best acting plays? W. said: "That's a superstition—an exaggeration."

Scovel once told me of an old play she had heard of or seen—a play in which much hangs upon the saying

—"Eddy is off to-nighttonight: takes a music lesson once a week: is very fond of music—his violin: plays

if there was not "something" in Eddy and if that "something" could not "be brought out by the free play

apologized—"of course"—here again a reflecting moment—"as to the last point—the highest flights—the latest plays—in

however, is gloomy, looks upon the people with something like despair: does so especially in his maturer plays

His memory had "played" him "tricks before," "but never one equal to this."

I picked up a picture from the box by the fire: a Washington picture: W. and Peter Doyle photoed together

C. 1865—Walt Whitman & his rebel soldier friend Peter Doyle."

so called, took a form that could be explained if not justified: the memory is a strange creature—plays

me, I get nearer to them, than any others: they have no axe to grind, no wires to pull, no game to play

When he heard I was going out to see Peter Montgomerie tonight, he would have me take papers—putting

Farrell wishes me to ask if you will not find an early opportunity to write a line to Peter Eckler of

The keel-boatmen were great sticklers for "fair-play," and would permit of no interference with either

How often I have heard him argue that the plays were no defense of feudalism—that no man who meant to

Yes, that the writer of the plays, whoever, could have been no friend of the great figures even of feudal

To William O'Connor that was the spirit which moved the writer of the plays."

Alluded to Castle with considerable affection—"he plays, I see—and who else, do you know?"

W. himself very philosophical over it, said, "This is not the first time I have been played with—I could

Lychenheim sent W. back by Ed a book of the play. Wednesday, August 7, 1889

And so "I sit here, let the elements play about me—see what they will bring about."

In the play, talk, walk, the same air, carried along without a break."

had written me that Bob was wrong about Bacon: "take my word for it, Shakespeare never wrote those plays

Then as to the plays, "Don't be too sure, Doctor—don't be too sure!

early days, Julius was always the name and there was a hilarious common joy and wit about the whole by-play

and play of the men which attracted me."

"There was a time, Horace, when that fellow was among the good of the heap—for some years he played good

parts—played them well—say two or four years—Caesar, for instance.

The whole subject, Beethoven, and the playing absolutely without note.

It has its part to play in the drama.

Told him of Montaigne's cat, whose playing induced M.Montaigne to remark: "She amuses me: who knows but

They had played Raff's "Lenore" Symphony among other things.Evening, 8:00.

For more on financial bubbles, see: Peter M.

Volume I: 1834–1846 (New York: Peter Lang, 1998).

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

Volume I: 1834–1846 (New York: Peter Lang, 1998).

constituted "an important chapter in the history of U.S. public works" and the role that local journalism played

of the “glorious Fourth” and the like occasions, which are not so fully celebrated, as mere child’s-play—as

extra-powerful here,) besides a large effect of green, varied with the white of the Capitol, fountains playing

The vital play and significance of their talk moves one more than books.

friendships with Charles Eldridge, Lewy Brown, William and Ellen O'Connor, John and Ursula Burroughs, and Peter

critical biography, Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (1867).Whitman found friendship with Peter

and cold, or what underlies them all, are affected with what affects man in masses, and follow his play

floating along, rising, falling leisurely, with here and there a long-drawn note; the bugle, well played

These plays are: (1) The Troubador—who nurses wounded heroes during the war of the Rebellion (2).

of the family in which Edward boarded after his mother's death, Edward sat silently the entire day playing

his family (again, though May 1873) far exceed in number those to any family member: forty-five to Peter

entry_25.html That Walt began his revision earlier is also suggested in his October 9, 1868 letter to Peter

October 9, 1868 letter to Peter Doyle.

William Michael Rossetti's expurgated London edition, Poems by Walt Whitman (Hotten, 1868), may have played

may be gathered from one or two passage selected as illustrative of different phases of mind:— "I play

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

seines Lebens dauernde, innige, väterlich-zärtliche Kameradschaft mit dem jungen Irisch-Amerikaner Peter

Seitdem kam Peter täglich nach beendeter Fahrt vor das Schatzhaus, in dem Whitmans Büro lag, und holte

„Piet, mein liebster Sohn“, schreibt er an Peter Doyle, „ich denke immer noch, ich werde durchkommen,

political, and other contests surrounding these poems, and the constitutive role these poems have played

or remain in the same room with you, littleyou know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing

Calamus  as a cluster of poems focused on the love between men, “live oak, with moss” played a crucial

Brown and other soldiers he met and cared for in the Washington hospitals, as well as with Peter doyle

Coviello, Peter. “Intimatenationality: anonymityand attachment inWhitman.”

Peter Coviello. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. PW ProseWorks 1892. 2 vols. Ed.

Peter Coviello (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 3. Hereafter MDW.

In his biographyof Peter Doyle, Martin G.

“Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle.”

Edited by Peter Coviello. NewYork: Oxford University Press, 2004. ———. ProseWorks.

Peter Eckler 1890 or after 106, 107, 136, 166, 167, 168, 26, 35, 45, 53, 64, 66, 79, 93-94, 97 bmr.00014

Buchanan, who have praised his performances, appear to me to be playing off on the public a well-intentioned

, arising out of a life of depression and enervation as their result—or else that class of poetry, plays

The passionate, teeming plays this curtain hid!)

while admitting that the venerable and heavenly forms of chiming versification have in their time played

caste, joyfully enlarging, adapting itself to comprehend the size of the whole people, with the free play

Tennyson' (originally published in this journal, together with 'What Lurks behind Shakspeare's Historical Plays

wandered alone, bare- headed, barefoot, Down from the showered halo and the moonbeams, Up from the mystic play

Picaninies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with a little round button at the top; and they all fell to playing

, after several more short essays, including "The Bible as Poetry," "What Lurks Behind Shakspere's Plays

new world receives with joy the poems of the antique, with European feudalism's rich fund of epics, plays