Search Results

For the reading of this book "The Two Rivulets" has filled it very full—Ever the deep inward assent,

In the afternoon the books, I dont don't know how to settle down my thoughts calmly enough to write,

nor how to lay down the books (with delicate yet serviceable exterior, with inscription making me so

this today but send what I have written without delay that you may know of the safe arrival of the books

Two Rivulets was published as a companion volume to the book.

Burroughs would write several books involving or devoted to Whitman's work: Notes on Walt Whitman, as

I believe Addington Symonds is preparing a book which treats largely of your Poems.

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

Carpenter—a socialist philosopher who in his book Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure posited civilization

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

Burroughs would write several books involving or devoted to Whitman's work: Notes on Walt Whitman, as

Bucke's book. It is about the only thing I have read since my return.

Carpenter—a socialist philosopher who in his book Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure posited civilization

See Esther Schor, Emma Lazarus (New York: Schocken Books, 2006).

February 28, 1876, and Whitman sent her a copy of Leaves of Grass on July 27, 1876 (Whitman's Commonplace Book

Burroughs would write several books involving or devoted to Whitman's work: Notes on Walt Whitman, as

February 28, 1876, and Whitman sent her a copy of Leaves of Grass on July 27, 1876 (Whitman's Commonplace Book

She worked closely with her husband, designing the text illustrations for all of his books of poetry.

Dexter from Boston, who was a Miss Tic[k]nor, daughter of the author of the book on Spanish literature—she

February 28, 1876, and Whitman sent her a copy of Leaves of Grass on July 27, 1876 (Whitman's Commonplace Book

February 28, 1876, and Whitman sent her a copy of Leaves of Grass on July 27, 1876 (Whitman's Commonplace Book

Carpenter—a socialist philosopher who in his book Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure posited civilization

making good progress & has just done a beautiful little drawing for the new edition of his father's book

Carpenter—a socialist philosopher who in his book Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure posited civilization

He was also a reviewer for The Nation and the author of A Book of Poems (1876).

The second copy of book & my lending one, has come safe—too—and the card that told of your attack of

at my own dumbness—but tied to as many hours a day writing as I could possibly manage, at my little book

I hope you received my little book safely.

Bucke's book at last; could not succeed in buying one at Trübner's —I believe they all sold directly—but

My little book on Mary Lamb just out—will send you a copy in a day or two.

we can fill out between the lines with what you have given us of yourself forever & always in your books

Joseph Pennell (1857–1926) was an American etcher and lithographer, who produced a number of books in

I have been much a prisoner to the house with bad colds ever since I returned from Wolverhampton, but

Carpenter—a socialist philosopher who in his book Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure posited civilization

September 3 Dear Friend At last the beloved books have reached my hand —yet now I have them, my heart

This was what happened to me when I had read for a few days, nay hours, in your books.

Walt Whitman enclosed books for Gilchrist in his July 28, 1871 letter to William Michael Rossetti.

Your book does indeed say all—book that is not a book but, for the first time, a man complete, godlike

so, all alone, as I have done now nearly three years—it will be three in May since I first read the book

Then came the long long waiting, the hope deferred: each morning so sure the book would come & with it

Then when the Book came but with it no word for me alone, there was such a storm in [my] heart I could

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

For more information on this book, see Edward Whitley, "Introduction to the British Editions of Leaves

Dexter from Boston, who was a Miss Ticknor, daughter of the author of the book on Spanish literature

The book Gilchrist is referring to is probably History of Spanish Literature, Ticknor's best-known work

I still busy with the proof &c. of the new edition of my Husbands Husband's book.

designs of which they have lent us the blocks It is delightful to have this help & enrichment of the book

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

Carpenter—a socialist philosopher who in his book Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure posited civilization

We look forward to the new book I need not say.

Write soon again, dear friend, and let us know if the book is ready that we may have some copies for

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

Since I have had it, I can read no other book: it holds me entirely spell-bound, and I go through it

of the heart, that mine refuses to beat under it,—stands quite still,—and I am obliged to lay the book

But not such is this book.

You argued rightly that my confidence would not be betrayed by any of the poems in this book.

"Leaves of Grass"—An Extraordinary Book. Here we have a book which fairly staggers us.

Its author is Walter Whitman, and the book is a reproduction of the author.

The contents of the book form a daguerreotype of his inner being, and the title page bears a representation

All who read it will agree that it is an extraordinary book, full of beauties and blemishes, such as

'Leaves of Grass'—An Extraordinary Book

We omit much even in this short extract, for the book abounds in passages that cannot be quoted in drawing-rooms

The preface of the book contains an inestimable wealth of this unworked ore—it is a creed of the material

A single glance of it mocks all the investigations of man, and all the instruments and books of the earth

or Asia…a wandering savage, A farmer, mechanic, or artist…a gentleman, sailor, lover orquaker, A prisoner

Its title-page, as will be seen, bears upon it the name of no author, and the book is ushered into the

teacher of the thoughtfulest, a farmer, mechanic, or artist, a gentleman, sailor, lover, or quaker, a prisoner

Are they not all written in the "golden" book aforesaid?—a book which Mr.

When we read that eulogy we were satisfied that this volume would prove to us a sealed book, and that

Our Book Table. L EAVES OF G RASS .

the straining after at least the appearance of total originality, but to give future readers of this book

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889) wrote Proverbial Philosophy , a book of didactic moral and religious

Our Book Table

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889) wrote Proverbial Philosophy, a book of didactic moral and religious

Not only does the donor send us the book, but he favours us with hints—pretty broad hints—towards a favourable

I rubbed my eyes a little, to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is

Whitman into literature, talking like a man unaware that there was ever hitherto such a production as a book

After poetry like this, and criticism like this, it seems strange that we cannot recommend the book to

to the disadvantage of our excellent laureate,—and to whom Mr Emerson writes that he finds in his book

The book he pronounces "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed

In that state he would write a book exactly like Walt Whitman's . Earth!

great authors and schools, A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books

Three-fourths of Walt Whitman's book is poetry as catalogues of auctioneers are poems.

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889) wrote Proverbial Philosophy, a book of didactic moral and religious

The man is the true impersonation of his book—rough, uncouth, vulgar.

cannot tell, unless it means a man who thinks that the fine essence of poetry consists in writing a book

We should have passed over this book, Leaves of Grass, with indignant contempt, had not some few Transatlantic

suppose that Walt Whitman has been learning to write, and that the compositor has got hold of his copy-book

We will neither weary nor insult our readers with more extracts from this notable book.

We shall not aid in extending the sale of this intensely vulgar, nay, absolutely beastly book, by telling

E. has not read some passages in the book, or that he lends his name to this vile production of a vitiated

On opening the book we first beheld, as a frontispiece, the picture of a man in his shirt sleeves, wearing

From this title page we learned that the book was entitled , and was printed at Brooklyn in the year

Then returning to the fore-part of the book, we found proof slips of certain review articles about the

It is a lie to write a review of one's own book, then extract it from the work in which it appeared and

This doctrine is exemplified in the book by a panorama as it were of pictures, each of which is shared

The form of the book has been changed from 4 to 16mo, and the typography is much improved.

But the book is not one that warrants its dismissal with disgust or contempt.

Leaves , a larger edition appeared, and that again is followed by a third and still more pretentious book

The egotism of the book is amusing. Mr.

By the booksellers of the United States generally the book was ignored, but it could be obtained by the

, but for scientific examples, introduced as they might be in any legal, medical, or physiological book

So much for the matter of the book. As to the manner, it is the same as that with which Mr.

It is however, as a printed book, got up in a splendid manner, and is electrotyped for the sake of cheapness

It is a book of poetry such as may well please twenty-one year old statesmen and philosophers, and people

. ∗ N OT the least surprising thing about this book is its title.

Walt Whitman's book.

with John Lord Campbell on the woolsack, and a certain act of his still unrepealed on the statute-book

It is a book evidently intended to lie on the tables of the wealthy.

Such books as this have occasionally been printed in the guise of a scrofulous French novel, On grey

Walt Whitman really be a poet, and if the contents of this book really be poetry, what Shakespeare and

The book was immediately pronounced by Ralph Waldo Emerson to be "the most extraordinary piece of wit

Other critics followed suit, and Walt Whitman became as famous as the author of the Book of Mormon.

, for which the publishers "confidently claim recognition as one of the finest specimens of modern book-making

and Mine, We must not leave our readers under the impression that there is nothing in Walt Whitman's book

'Sensation books,' or what are so called, are now the rage, and each successive production of this kind

Their authors for the most part belong to the foggy or to the flippant schools of book-makers; for the

And now we have another 'sensation' book—an anti-slavery affair—one of the brood spawned by 'Uncle Tom

As a work of art it will be as ephemeral as most books of its class.

The appearance of Walt Whitman's new book of poems, conjointly with Ward's "Indian Hunter," is not without

All the hapless silent lovers, All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked, All

His book is, as Mr. Rossetti admirably observes, the poem of personality and democracy.

It is but a book of extracts. In its class, however, it is a model.

If, however, there are books of which one should know much while one cannot afford him to know all, we

cultivated Englishmen who have crossed the Atlantic, met the author, and learned to admire him and his books