Skip to main content

Search Results

Filter by:

Date


Dates in both fields not required
Entering in only one field Searches
Year, Month, & Day Single day
Year & Month Whole month
Year Whole year
Month & Day 1600-#-# to 2100-#-#
Month 1600-#-1 to 2100-#-31
Day 1600-01-# to 2100-12-#

Work title

See more

Year

Search : William White

3753 results

"Long, Too Long America" (1865)

  • Creator(s): King, Jerry F.
Text:

poem gained popularity and was read or recited at many anti-Vietnam war meetings.BibliographyCoyle, William

Compromise of 1850

  • Creator(s): Klammer, Martin
Text:

Free-Soilers who opposed the extension of slavery on the principle that it would discourage the migration of white

Free Soil Party

  • Creator(s): Klammer, Martin
Text:

abolitionists, who opposed slavery on moral grounds, most Free-Soilers opposed slavery because they felt that white

In representing antislavery as an issue of self-interest to whites, free-soilism made antislavery for

made clear that Whitman opposed the extension of slavery because he cared about the opportunities for white

Slavery and Abolitionism

  • Creator(s): Klammer, Martin
Text:

texts show that he had little tolerance for abolitionism, that he thought blacks were inferior to whites

Congress, that the introduction of slavery into new territories would discourage, if not prohibit, whites

from migrating to those areas because white labor could not economically compete with slave labor and

"Examine these limbs, red, black or white," ("I Sing," section 7) Whitman says of the auctioned slave

all without its redeeming points" (I Sit 88), and in 1858 he editorializes: "Who believes that the Whites

"Boston Ballad (1854), A" (1855)

  • Creator(s): Klammer, Martin
Text:

be resisted not to protect the freedom and rights of blacks, but to protect the freedom of Northern white

Wilmot Proviso (1846)

  • Creator(s): Klammer, Martin
Text:

solidly within the Free Soil camp and showed his thinking on slavery to be motivated more by concern for white

echo the Free-Soilers' position that the introduction of slavery would discourage, if not prohibit, white

prototypical Free-Soiler and characterizes the debate as an issue not of race but of class between white

While Whitman's position follows the Free-Soilers' emphasis on white labor and not on moral opposition

to slavery, Whitman, unlike many Free-Soilers, does not evoke white anxiety about associating with blacks

"Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Klawitter, George
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980. ____.

"As Adam Early in the Morning" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Klawitter, George
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980. ____.

"Native Moments" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Klawitter, George
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.

"We Two, How Long We were Fool'd" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Klawitter, George
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

"I Dream'd in a Dream" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Knapp, Ronald W.
Text:

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1955.Kuebrich, David.

"Song of the Universal" (1876)

  • Creator(s): Knapp, Ronald W.
Text:

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1955.Miller, James E., Jr.

Whitman, Hannah Brush (1753–1834)

  • Creator(s): Kohn, Denise
Text:

She told Walt about his unconventional great-grandmother, Sarah White Whitman, who chewed tobacco and

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837–1909)

  • Creator(s): Kozlowski, Alan E.
Text:

His William Blake (1868) includes a favorable comparison of Blake and Whitman, noting their identical

Noting that they both have flaws, Swinburne calls William Blake's work more profound but finds Whitman's

Published in 1887, "Whitmania" is a far cry from the admiration expressed in William Blake.

London: White, 1872. ———. "Whitmania." Fortnightly Review ns 42 (1887): 170–176.

William Blake: A Critical Essay. London: Hotten, 1868. Rpt. in Walt Whitman: The Critical Heritage.

A Whitman Chronology

  • Date: 1998
  • Creator(s): Krieg, Joann P.
Text:

Blod gett, Arthur Golden, and William White.)

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1978. EPF Early Poetry and Fiction.Ed.

William B.

White, William. "An Unknowri Check for Ed Whitman's Board." Walt Whitman Review 22 (June 1976): 91.

William, 85 Cottage Fund, 130, 156 Chapin, William, 73 Cox, G.

Long Island, New York

  • Creator(s): Krieg, Joann P.
Text:

Three Voices from Paumanok: The Influence of Long Island on James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant

Walt Whitman & the Irish

  • Date: 2000
  • Creator(s): Krieg, Joann P.
Text:

The unnamed author, whom Whitman seems to assume his readers will know, was William Carleton (1794–1869

Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy ), has been seconded by literary critics of the caliber of William

Rolleston, William Butler Yeats, and others in furthering an appreciation of Whitman among Europeans.

William M.

For some years William Tweed wielded great power in the state legislature.

Walt Whitman by William Kuebler, Jr.?, Louis Kuebler?, ca. 1889

  • Date: ca. 1889
  • Creator(s): Kuebler, William, Jr. | Kuebler, Louis | Kuebler Photography
Text:

Walt Whitman by William Kuebler, Jr.?, Louis Kuebler?

Kuebler Photography, at 1204 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, was co-owned and operated by brothers William

According to the 1890 Philadelphia city directory, William, Jr. lived at 864 41st Street, and Louis lived

—also the address of William, Sr., an optician.

William Rudolph O'Donovan explained that "the great difficulty was the hair—to give the sense of its

Bibliographies

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
Text:

White's "Whitman in the Eighties: A Bibliographical Essay" (1985); Donald D.

William Peterfield Trent et al. Vol. 3. New York: Putnam, 1918. 551–581.[Kebabian, Paul, et al.].

New York: New York Public Library, 1953.Kennedy, William Sloane.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922.White, William. "Walt Whitman: A Bibliographical Checklist."

Chesley Mathews, 445–451.White, William. "Whitman in the Eighties: A Bibliographical Essay."

Allen, Gay Wilson (1903–1995)

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
Text:

genius seems to have resided in the artful rendering of lives, for he also wrote major biographies of William

State Department to send Allen, along with William Faulkner, on a 1955 tour of Japan.

"America's Mightiest Inheritance" (1856)

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
Text:

poetry of Leaves of Grass and the prose of the prefaces and of Democratic Vistas, contributions to William

Internet, Whitman on the

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
Text:

Jointly sponsored by the College of William and Mary, the University of Iowa, and the Institute for Advanced

White, William (1910–1995)

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
Text:

Donald D.KummingsWhite, William (1910–1995)White, William (1910–1995)From the 1950s to the 1990s, William

White was a strong presence in literary studies in general and in Whitman studies in particular.

Housman, Sir William Osler, Ernest Hemingway, and Nathanael West.

"William White, 1910–1995." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 12 (1995): 205–208.

White, William (1910–1995)

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?, ca. late 1860s

  • Date: ca. late 1860s
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
Text:

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?

Kurtz's "Rembrandt" style of light and shadow, a style he pioneered in 1867.For more information on William

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. late 1860s

  • Date: ca. late 1860s
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
Text:

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. late 1860s This photo is usually dated 1860, but Kurtz did not open

endorsed by WW: "Walt Whitman 1869" (which Henry Saunders misread as "1860").For more information on William

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?, ca. 1867 - 1870

  • Date: ca. 1867 - 1870
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
Text:

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?

, ca. 1867 - 1870 For more information on William Kurtz, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers."

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. 1866 - 1869

  • Date: ca. 1866 - 1869
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
Text:

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. 1866 - 1869 This or two other photos (zzz.00055, zzz.00138) may be

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?, ca. late 1860s

  • Date: ca. late 1860s
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
Text:

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?

, then it is from after 1865, when Kurtz first opened his New York studio.For more information on William

Walt Whitman with Katharine "Kitty" Devereux Johnston and Harold "Harry" Hugh Johnston by William Kurtz, July 1878

  • Date: July 1878
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
Text:

Walt Whitman with Katharine "Kitty" Devereux Johnston and Harold "Harry" Hugh Johnston by William Kurtz

For more information on William Kurtz, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers."

Walt Whitman with Katharine "Kitty" Devereux Johnston and Harold "Harry" Hugh Johnston by William Kurtz, July 1878

  • Date: July 1878
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
Text:

Walt Whitman with Katharine "Kitty" Devereux Johnston and Harold "Harry" Hugh Johnston by William Kurtz

For more information on William Kurtz, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers."

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. 1865 - 1873

  • Date: ca. 1865 - 1873
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
Text:

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. 1865 - 1873 Clara Barrus said that this photograph was "taken by Kurtz

the pose showed Whitman “as most of his friends knew him—wearing a hack suit, a slouch hat on his white

printed over and over, often with the caption “Walt Whitman in his Prime.”For more information on William

Macpherson, James ("Ossian") (1736–1796)

  • Creator(s): Ladd, Andrew
Text:

language heavily influenced major romantic writers in nineteenth-century Europe and America, including William

Swedenborg, Emanuel (1688–1772)

  • Creator(s): Ladd, Andrew
Text:

whether Whitman read Swedenborg or simply was acquainted with him through other sources, most notably William

Laura Lyon White to Walt Whitman, 29 January 1891

  • Date: January 29, 1891
  • Creator(s): Laura Lyon White
Text:

admiringly reads your writings, and who fancies she feels their spirit Sincerely Yours Laura Lyon White

Laura Lyon White to Walt Whitman, 29 January 1891

Walt Whitman & the Class Struggle

  • Date: 2006
  • Creator(s): Lawson, Andrew
Text:

Reprinted in William White, “A Tribute to William Hartshorne: Unrecorded Whitman” (Brooklyn Printer,

John O’Sullivan, “White Slavery,” 260. 85. O’Sullivan, “White Slavery,” 261. 86.

Shane White and Graham White, Stylin’, 74. 43.

White, Shane, and Graham White.

In “A Tribute to William Hartshorne: Unrecorded Whitman.” William White.

Music, Whitman's Influence on

  • Creator(s): Leathers, Lyman L.
Text:

Villiers Stanford, Frederick Delius, Gustav Holst, Cyril Scott, Hamilton Harty, and Ralph Vaughan Williams

using lines from "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," was written in 1903–1904 and Ralph Vaughan Williams

Vaughan Williams also used three poems from "Sea-Drift": "Song for All Seas, All Ships," "On the Beach

of the scope: Otto Luening, lines from "A Song for Occupations" in an a cappella version (1966); William

Redpath, James [1833–1891]

  • Creator(s): LeMaster, J.R.
Text:

Although he remained a moderate, Whitman befriended such radical writers as Redpath and William Douglas

Walt Whitman

  • Date: August 1900
  • Creator(s): Leon Mead
Text:

Moffit's caravansary, in Bulfinch Place, where William Dean Howells, with his family, and other literary

old rouge, Whitman, I'd give the planet Jupiter, if I owned it, in exchange for your physique, your white

Dowden, Edward (1843–1913)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

His substantial literary reputation rests upon his prolific writings about William Shakespeare; he also

Conway, Moncure Daniel (1832–1907)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

In 1867 Whitman and Conway corresponded concerning an edition of Whitman's poems which William M.

Eakins, Thomas (1844–1916)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

(Gross's widowed daughter-in-law married Whitman's doctor, William Osler.)

Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler: A Poet and His Physician. Toronto: ECW, 1995. Rule, Henry B.

Osler, Dr. William (1849–1919)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

William (1849–1919)Osler, Dr.

William (1849–1919) Born in Bond Head, Ontario, Canada, Osler graduated from the McGill University medical

The Life of Sir William Osler. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1925. Leon, Philip W.

Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler: A Poet and His Physician. Toronto: ECW, 1995. Traubel, Horace.

William (1849–1919)

Drinkard, Dr. William B. (1842–1877)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

William B. (1842–1877)Drinkard, Dr. William B. (1842–1877) In 1873 Dr.

William Beverly Drinkard of Washington, D.C., treated Whitman when he suffered the first of his paralytic

William B. (1842–1877)

Williams, Talcott (1849–1928)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

Philip W.LeonWilliams, Talcott (1849–1928)Williams, Talcott (1849–1928) Talcott Williams was born in

is the presence of Talcott Williams" (Traubel 341).

In 1887 Williams introduced Eakins to Whitman so that he could paint his portrait.

Talcott Williams: Gentleman of the Fourth Estate. Brooklyn: Robert E. Simpson, 1936.

Williams, Talcott. The Newspaperman. New York: Scribner, 1922. Williams, Talcott (1849–1928)

Perry, Bliss (1860–1954)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

Perry, Bliss (1860–1954) Bliss Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and graduated from Williams

Stedman, John Burroughs, Talcott Williams, J.T.

Whitman among the Bohemians

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Levin, Joanna | Whitley, Edward
Text:

William Michael Rossetti, “Adah Isaacs Menken,” in American Poems, ed.

Fowler,William Chauncey. “Charles William Chauncey of New York.”

Howells,William Dean.

Edited by William White. New York: New York University Press, 1978. ———.

, 114– 15 O’Connor,William, 5 Mullen, Edward F.

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: September 1887
  • Creator(s): Lewin, Walter
Text:

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), English novelist, best known for his satirical novel Vanity

Harold Williams. Vol. III. London: Oxford UP, 1963. 102-105.

Freedom

  • Creator(s): Lindner, Carl Martin
Text:

In Whitman's dream of America, all people are equal (men and women, poor and rich, black and white, professor

Walt Whitman by William J. Linton (engraver), ca. 1871

  • Date: ca. 1871
  • Creator(s): Linton, W. J.
Text:

Walt Whitman by William J.

Lionel Johnson to Walt Whitman, 20 October 1885

  • Date: October 20, 1885
  • Creator(s): Lionel Johnson
Text:

belonging to the oldest school of any in England—to the great foundation of the strong priest and ruler, William

Back to top