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As Peter Stallybrass notes, however, already "millions of people who cannot or do not want to go to the

Little is known about the firm; Rice took the well-known photos of Whitman and Peter Doyle.

They limp, and halt, and start, and leap, and fairly tumble; then mount and play fantastic tricks, sparkle

Peter, yet discern in every error its basis or contingent of truth.

Calamus: A Series of Letters Written during the Years 1868–1880 by Walt Whitman to a Young Friend (Peter

for a full hour, facing the golden sunset, in the cool evening breeze, with the summer lightning playing

for a full hour, facing the golden sunset, in the cool evening breeze, with the summer lightning playing

for a full hour, facing the golden sunset, in the cool evening breeze, with the summer lightning playing

He was the author of numerous plays, sonnets, and narrative poems.

be one of the founders of the German Romantic Movement, and his translations of sixteen Shakespeare plays

childhood & it was with a swelling heart that I again looked upon the dear old spots where we used to play

thousands on the Town Hall Square—the great central open space in the town—to listen to the band which plays

midnight & upon the last stroke of 12 everybody wishes everybody else a "Happy New Year," the band then playing

The birds sang & twittered joyously in the swaying & rustling trees overhead & a gentle breeze played

The wooden pillow had "the feathers the wrong way up": the tapping & pounding was "playing the piano

To play at pastoral may be for a while the fashion, if the shepherds and shepherdesses are permitted

stand open and ready; The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon; The clear light plays

dry and flat Sahara appears, these cities, crowded with petty grotesques, malformations, phantoms, playing

me over the gaps of the bridge, through impediments, safely aboard"), and would enjoy the stir and play

activity, nor "that other shape of personality dearer far to the artist-sense (which likes the strongest play

New York: Peter Smith, 1932. Art and Daguerreotype Galleries

Nature's amelioration blessing all" (section 4).This purposive, unified, divine, and beneficent nature plays

In Democratic Vistas, written just a few years earlier, the naturans aspect of nature again plays a major

Moreover, playing both Adam and Eve, Whitman's persona gives birth to himself as a poet as well.The things

Similarly, Whitman's Adam is strong, vigorous, and sexual, with limbs quivering with the fire "that ever plays

Yet in 1898, James finds Whitman's posthumously published letters to Peter Doyle in Calamus "positively

He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement…he sees eternity in men and women…he

The most renowned poems would be ashes…orations and plays would be vacuums.

Appropriate for a poem about music, the sound effects are multiple, striking, and subtle (e.g., the play

What play of Shakespeare represented in America, is not an insult to America, to the marrow in its bones

stores, Customs, costumes, churches, theatres, looks And lingoes all are vanished, are Gone, are played

Knock Out the resonant, brassy Notes, and prattle along like A lad at play, while ever and Anon sweet

of them look small, ill fed, ill clothed, and are I heard over drilled—In Strasbourg—Prussian band plays

The quote is from Roman playwright Publius Terentius Afer's adaptation of the ancient Greek play "Heauton

His affectionate bond with Peter Doyle, the Washington, D.C., streetcar conductor he met in late 1865

A fairly rare circumstance, which calls our attention both to the synaesthetic play of text and paratext

With humorous fair play the critic finally avows to have "no intention of regularly criticising this

to the open piano and struck with grandeur the opening chords of the Tannhaser overture; having played

proposition in the two-volume The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-Called Shakespeare Plays

Bacon-authorship proposal had been launched first in book form—Was Lord Bacon the Author of Shakespeare's Plays

The theory gained prominence through Delia Bacon's The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded

Even Whitman’s use of anonymity in the 1855 edition may have drawn upon the games of attribution played

“It seems to me as if it would give the book a formidably scientific appearance,” he hinted, playing

Whitman “played Indian,” taking the pen name of “Paumanok” early in his career.

(Gloucester: Peter Smith, 1972), 2:316–317. 88.

See also Whitman’s image of Dowden, Edward, 116, 117 neglect Doyle, Peter, 32, 143, 149, 218n11 drift

In accordance with your request I met Peter Doyle at Milburn's after office and we proceeded to your

room and made up the package as you directed, and Peter took it to the Adams Express office.

that takes its title from the mischievous forest sprite of the same name in William Shakespeare's play

Whitman had earlier called this poem "Washington's First Battle," referring to the part played by the

finds the revision rather pointless because he feels that for all the poet's supposed intimacy with Peter

characters are individualistic; they let out what they have in them; they give themselves full sweep and play

That is, Whitman could see the role society played in formulating a person's view of self and of others

When one notes the importance that oratory played in Whitman's mind and writing, the presence of such

In spite of the vital role the landscape plays in Canadian literature and the need for a cosmic vision

However, both Peter Rechnitzer's recent study and the Canadian film Beautiful Dreamers, which depicts

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1992. 141–151.Rechnitzer, Peter A. R.M.

myths—the interminable ballad-romances of the Middle Ages—the hymns and psalms of worship—the epics, plays

Baconian theory; and more important, to find that he is convinced that the great series of historical plays

This view seems to play out Werner's notion that this "feudal element" was so important that Whitman

And if, as Miller suggests, the muse plays a different tune to the older poet, Whitman never loses sight

muscular build—his antecedents here being a race of farmers and mechanics, silent, good-natured, playing

of trifles and dallyings, tires even of wit and smartness, dislikes garrulity and fiction and all play

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.

All, he says, is sweet—smell, taste, thought, the play of his limbs, the fantasies of his mind; every

His initial success was followed by a prolific series of poems, novels, and plays.

In a 1946 essay Hughes expressed his belief that, since Whitman had played with slave children in his

Peter Buffett's musical score merges various voices, emphasizing the film's themes of hope, joy, compassion

(Available on video.)Whitman is frequently quoted in director Peter Weir's Dead Poets Society (1989),

produced Song of Myself (first broadcast 9 March 1976), starring Rip Torn as Whitman and Brad Davis as Peter

which set Whitman's verse to original synthesizer music.In 1995 playwright Alan Brody and composer Peter

between Whitman's last breath of inspiration and his last exhalation, with dialogues between Whitman and Peter

these various encoding choices we've inherited—even though they were most likely based on a desire to play

Interviews of the poet have, historically, played a minor role in Whitman scholarship, and as far as

Schyberg concluded that Whitman remained identified with his mother throughout his life, and often played