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Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY

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The Walt Whitman Archive: The Body of Work Electric

  • Creator(s): William Pannapacker
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by New York University Press from 1961 to 1984 and later supplemented by two additional volumes by Peter

, organized into thirty–seven topics, chronologically arranged (e.g., "Opera Lover," "The 1856 ," "Peter

Peter Lang, 1998–2003; 1 vol. U of Iowa P, 2004. ———. The Walt Whitman Archive . Ed.

Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman

  • Date: June 1919
  • Creator(s): William Roscoe Thayer
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One day, for instance, he talked about Shakespeare's historical plays, which, he said, showed that Shakespeare

was at heart a democrat, and that he had written the plays in order to discredit monarchy and kings

individual, not that he might enjoy himself for himself, but that he might be the better fitted to play

obligations to Emerson; but I did recognize in him a poseur of truly colossal proportions, one to whom playing

acclaim; he could not have doubted seriously, for habit, if nothing else, would have enabled him to play

William Roscoe Thayer to Walt Whitman, 12 October 1885

  • Date: October 12, 1885
  • Creator(s): William Roscoe Thayer
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in Philadelphia for the beneficient effects wrought by crisp air, blue skies, endlessly fascinating play

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
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A canary sang with all his might, and a kitten played toand fro.

When the committee handed him the he said: thisislike bag, "Why, a play.

How " " is it with you now, Robert Browning, maker of plays ?

The dialogues of the play are mostly in and the and inheroics.

In our modern-life plays the stifantiqueness of heroic verse is unendurable.

The Fight of a Book for the World

  • Date: 1926
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
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s letterto his mother and to Peter Doyle.

J., I give to my friend,Peter Doyle, my silverwatch. I give to H.

Bayne, Peter, 28, 29. Answerer, the. See Song.

Doyle, Peter, 261. Finta, Alexander, 118, 119.

Herald, 260; Letters to Peter sirs ^ , a.

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman: Memories, Letters, Etc.

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
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A canary sang with all his might, and a kitten played to and fro.

young friend Horace Traubel and another, we all fell to discussing the authorship of the Shakspere plays

them the force of a projectile), had not only shaken his belief in the Shaksperean authorship of the plays

When the committee handed him the bag, he said: "Why, this is like a play.

facing the golden sunset, with the cool evening breeze blowing around us, and the summer lightning playing

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 22 April 1888

  • Date: April 22, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
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Last night I saw Bronson Howard's play—Henrietta—Robson & Crane chief actors.

A very useful play—satire on Wall Street.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 28 August 1888

  • Date: August 28, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
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A Reminiscence of New York Plays and Acting Fifty Years Ago," appeared in November Boughs (1888), along

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 11–12 May 1889

  • Date: May 11–12, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
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figures of speech in Bacon to Shakespeare, argued for Bacon as the author behind Shakespeare's famous plays

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [3] June 1889

  • Date: June [3], 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
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O'Connor attempted to defend Ignatius Loyola Donnelly's Baconian argument—his theory that Shakespeare's plays

idea Donnelly wrote about in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, February 1891

  • Date: February, 1891
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
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He was the author of numerous plays, sonnets, and narrative poems.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 19 January 1891

  • Date: January 19, 1891
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

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

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [After 25 November 1890]

  • Date: [After November 25, 1890]
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
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Peter Pangloss was a character in the play The Heir at Law (1797) by George Colman (the Younger), and

Both roles were played by the nineteenth-century actor Joseph Jefferson.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 19 June 1890

  • Date: June 19, 1890
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
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We are going tonight to a children's play (dramatic opera) down at town hall—tickets given me by our

dramatic critic on Transcript=Jenks —I'll say a word abt the play.

Whitman Noir: Black America & the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Wilson, Ivy G.
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Sundquist’s To Wake the Nations (1993) and Toni Morri- son’s Playing in the Dark (1992), among others

Vodou ritu- als played an integral role in fomenting the Haitian revolution. C. L. R.

Peter Coviello discusses racial solidarity in Whitman’s antebellum poetry.

Peter Coviello, introduction to Walt Whitman, Memoranda during theWar, ed.

Peter Coviello (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), xlvi. 14.

Prosody

  • Creator(s): Winslow, Rosemary Gates
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Whitman's musical working of regularized accentual contours drawn from speech is able to contain the play

Influences on Whitman, Principal

  • Creator(s): Worley, Sam
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Awakening, Protestant pulpit style, particularly that of evangelicals, became freer and more varied and played

Pseudoscience

  • Creator(s): Wrobel, Arthur
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contemporary sources, including animal magnetism, phreno-magnetism, and phrenology.Though the various roles played

Mathews, Cornelius (ca. 1817–1889)

  • Creator(s): Yannella, Donald
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periodical editor throughout his long career and wrote across the genres: fiction, sketches, poetry, and plays

What Lurks Behind Shakspere's Historical Plays?

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What Lurks Behind Shakspere's Historical Plays?

The Play-Ground

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The Play-Ground

Plays and Operas too

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Plays and Operas too

Specimen Days

  • Date: about 1880
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Whitman saw in New York in the 1850s, and who Whitman mentions in the section of Specimen Days entitled Plays

Sweet flag

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
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Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast."

Bill Guess

  • Date: March 20, 1854
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This manuscript contains notes about the characters and physical traits of three men: Bill Guess, Peter

What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays?

  • Date: 1884
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fol.00003xxx.00465S.b.89What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays?

[manuscript], ca. 1884What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays?

leaveshandwritten; A late-stage manuscript of Whitman's essay What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays

What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays?

Two or three memories

  • Date: December 13, 1883
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Whitman referred to Mario in Specimen Days & Collect, published in 1882-1883, in the passages entitled Plays

Notebook, 1868-1870

  • Date: about 1868-1870
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several notes that scholars have identified as autobiographical comments on Whitman's relationship with Peter

principal personages of the

  • Date: Around 1869
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In this particular manuscript, Whitman lists figures such as "Peter the Hermit" and "The Popes."

[nor humility's book]

  • Date: 1868
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9Doyle, Peter.

humility's book]1868poetryhandwritten2 leaves; A draft of a poem on the verso of an 1868 draft letter to Peter

far. Amongst this

  • Date: Between 1844 and 1846
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28"The Play-Ground" (1846), draftloc.07421xxx.01143far.

On the back of the leaf (loc.00264) is a draft of Whitman's early poem The Play-Ground, which was published

The title The Play-Ground is written vertically along the left side of this leaf, presumably labeling

The Play-Ground

  • Date: About 1846
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28The Play-Ground (1846).

A.MS. draft.loc.00264xxx.00741The Play-GroundAbout 1846poetryhandwritten1 leaf20 x 16.5 cm; A draft of

the early poem The Play-Ground, nearly as it appeared in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on June 1, 1846 (during

The Play-Ground

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

Murray Doyle, Peter (1843–1907) The romantic friendship that Walt Whitman shared with Peter Doyle embodied

Peter Doyle made a lasting contribution to Whitman biography in 1897 when he allowed Richard Maurice

Peter Doyle is buried in Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Martin G.

"Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 12 (1994): 1–51.

Walt Whitman's Reading: A Bibliographical Handlist

  • Date: 1921; 1906–1996; 1959
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Peter Eckler 1890 or after 106, 107, 136, 166, 167, 168, 26, 35, 45, 53, 64, 66, 79, 93-94, 97 bmr.00014

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