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.: Peter Smith, 1972. British Romantic Poets

It was also in Brooklyn that the youthful Whitman saw two more figures who would later play an important

The poem serves as a summation of Whitman's career and poses a tableau wherein the light and dark playing

1860), "Waves" receives little critical attention, but it chronicles a moment in the poet's life and plays

silent") and the abiding quality of his commitment to that struggle in spite of setback ("the powerful play

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

democracy.Some critical interest (e.g., Howard Waskow, John Schwiebert) has focused on the roles readers play

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

He also reviewed plays and opera and occasional ballet presented in New York theater houses.

Whole letters were published by Bucke in Calamus, which contains Whitman's letters to Peter Doyle, and

At this time, the first two volumes of a projected five are scheduled for publication by Peter Lang Press

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

own personal reflections in his notebooks around 1870 in which he anguishes over his affection for Peter

The extensive body of letters Whitman wrote to Civil War soldiers, and especially Peter Doyle, usually

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

Antipathy has reached inspired heights in such writers as Peter Bayne and Knut Hamsun, and this makes

Nonetheless, in a letter to Peter Doyle remarking on the commencement, Whitman seemed to feel his poem

It is useful to remember Whitman's love of dictionaries when reading his poems, for his words often play

his book published, Whitman made his own arrangements and, on 1 April 1865, signed a contract with Peter

And it in turn solidified his conviction that the teacher played a pivotal role in their education.

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

Awakening, Protestant pulpit style, particularly that of evangelicals, became freer and more varied and played

When played by the regimental band in the western wilderness, rather than in a city opera house, the

Peter Mitilineos. Washington, D.C.: NCR Microcard Editions, 1973.McCain, Rea.

Its history from 1854 to the time of Whitman's visit was a crucible for the struggle that played such

he unceremoniously exited Washington for Camden, which left him separated from his intimate friend, Peter

formed the nucleus of "Calamus," and it gave Whitman the idea of the "cluster," a formal feature that plays

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.

.: Peter Smith, 1972. Long Island Patriot

.: Peter Smith, 1972. Long Island Star

Whitman's major lovers—Fred Vaughan, Peter Doyle, and Harry Stafford—were cut from much the same depressive

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

New York: Peter Smith, 1932. Mississippi River

Paul, and experienced the virtuoso playing of the French violinist Henry Vieuxtemps and the Norwegian

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

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

the culture and literature it so thoroughly permeated, had become enervated, that it had at last played

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

based on "new developments in the human nervous system" (Das dritte Reich, 1900; Die Suchenden, 1902; Peter

years later in France with Bertz, Bazalgette, and others as active participants—Whitman continued to play

of Lucrece (1594), and 154 sonnets, this Renaissance poet and playwright remains best known for his plays

, which include histories, comedies, tragicomedies (the so-called problem plays), tragedies (most notably

While he recognized and acknowledged Shakespeare's poems and plays as masterpieces, he at the same time

Shakespeare's works, reading and rereading them and even carrying a copy of the Sonnets or one of the plays

Indeed, Whitman memorized long passages from Shakespeare's plays (especially from Richard II), then "

echoes and phrases from "Song of Myself": "I have heard the melodious harp / On the streets of Cork playing

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

Peter Uwe Hohendahl and Sander L. Gilman. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1991. 199–223.

.: Peter Smith, 1972. 139–141. ———. Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts. Ed. Edward F.

Menken played a deposed prince.

Christian (1870–1950) Jan Christian Smuts was an influential South African leader and prime minister who played

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

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

Hugo's plays were also enjoying successful performances on the New York stage.

Whitman told Horace Traubel that "Hugo's immortal works were the dramas, the plays, the poems: least

In his poetry and prose, Simpson has played an influential role in the ongoing "dialogue" between post-World

news and the Shakespeare controversy, agreeing that the Stratford actor was not the author of the plays

Peter Van Egmond. Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1972. Traubel, Horace.

He was a minor but colorful poet whose romantic verse, plays, and prose mainly glorified the West.

Turkey (1871–1875) and Russia (1875) and is best known for Francesca da Rimini (staged 1855), a popular play

Boker was dissatisfied with his theatrical career and desperately wanted a following for his Plays and

periodical editor throughout his long career and wrote across the genres: fiction, sketches, poetry, and plays