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Search : William White

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"Hand-Mirror, A" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Losey, Jay
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1980.

"Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood" (1872)

  • Creator(s): Losey, Jay
Text:

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

O'Connor (Calder), Ellen ("Nelly") M. Tarr (1830–1913)

  • Creator(s): Lott, Deshae E.
Text:

Calder's first husband, William Douglas O'Connor (married 22 October 1856), invited Whitman to live with

Shortly after meeting O'Connor, she introduced him to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, which William

By William Douglas O'Connor. Toronto: Henry S. Saunders, 1927. i–ix. ———. Myrtilla Miner: A Memoir.

"William O'Connor and Walt Whitman." The Conservator 17 (1906): 42. Freedman, Florence Bernstein.

William Douglas O'Connor: Walt Whitman's Chosen Knight. Athens: Ohio UP, 1985.

O'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]

  • Creator(s): Lott, Deshae E.
Text:

Deshae E.LottO'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]O'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]Walt Whitman met

William Douglas O'Connor in 1860 at the short-lived firm of Thayer and Eldridge, which that year published

William Douglas O'Connor: Walt Whitman's Chosen Knight. Athens: Ohio UP, 1985.Loving, Jerome.

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor.

O'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, 10 November [1868]

  • Date: November 10, 1868
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

poor little fellow i miss him very much they had the funeral last he was put in a casket lined with white

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [16 or 23 October 1867?]

  • Date: October 16 or 23, 1867?
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

sick so marthe had A doctor she was quite bad for two or three days she was as yellow as gold the white

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [20 June 1867]

  • Date: June 20, 1867
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Annotations Text:

Beecher is Eunice White Beecher, the wife of Henry Ward Beecher, a Congregational clergyman who accepted

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [2 May 1867]

  • Date: May 2, 1867
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Annotations Text:

Eunice White Beecher was the wife of Henry Ward Beecher, the Congregational clergyman who accepted the

Biographies

  • Creator(s): Loving, Jerome
Text:

Poet and Person (1867) was co-written by Whitman to promote the fourth edition of Leaves of Grass; William

upon information from Whitman associates such as Traubel and Ellen O'Connor Calder, the widow of William

Emerson, Ralph Waldo [1809–1882]

  • Creator(s): Loving, Jerome
Text:

hint of Emerson's sermons, lectures, and essays.After graduation Emerson assisted his older brother William

Robert Chambers

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; 1850
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Ludwig Herrig | Robert Chambers
Text:

islands, contains about four hundred thousand inhabitants, of whom only about thirty-seven thousand are white

less populous, the full amount being in each case divided in the same proportions between blacks and whites

Buffalo Free Soil Convention (1848)

  • Creator(s): Lueth, Elmar S.
Text:

viewed the extension of slavery as detrimental to American democracy and as unfair competition for white

"Come Up from the Fields Father" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Lulloff, William G.
Text:

William G.Lulloff"Come Up from the Fields Father" (1865)"Come Up from the Fields Father" (1865)The poem

Franklin Evans; or The Inebriate

  • Creator(s): Lulloff, William G.
Text:

William G.LulloffFranklin Evans; or The InebriateFranklin Evans; or The InebriateWalt Whitman's temperance

William G. Lulloff Bibliography Allen, Gay Wilson.

"By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Lulloff, William G.
Text:

William G.Lulloff"By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame" (1865)"By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame" (1865)This poem

"Army Corps on the March, An" (1865–1866)

  • Creator(s): Lulloff, William G.
Text:

William G.Lulloff"Army Corps on the March, An" (1865–1866)"Army Corps on the March, An" (1865–1866)The

"Mannahatta [I was asking...]" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Lulloff, William G.
Text:

William G.Lulloff"Mannahatta [I was asking...]" (1860)"Mannahatta [I was asking...]" (1860)Walt Whitman's

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Vol. 6. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982.Whitman, Walt.

"Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Lulloff, William G.
Text:

William G.Lulloff"Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night" (1865)"Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field

Whitman in the British Isles

  • Creator(s): M. Wynn Thomas
Text:

See, for instance, Swinburne's discussion of Whitman in William Blake: A Critical Essay (London: John

Hyder, "Swinburne's 'Changes of Aspect' and Short Notes," PLMA 58 (March 1943): 241; William J.

(Edinburgh: William Brown, 1884); originally published in the Round Table Series 4. 13.

This is what William Carlos Williams learned from Whitman, the natural cadence, the flow of breath as

William Carlos Williams once praised a poem by Marianne Moore as an anthology of transit, presumably

Walt Whitman

  • Date: December 1882
  • Creator(s): Macaulay, G. C.
Text:

Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

the child, gliding down to the beach, had stood with bare feet, the wind wafting his hair, with 'the white

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark brown fields uprisen, Passing the apple-tree blows of white

The Pragmatic Whitman

  • Date: 2002
  • Creator(s): Mack, Stephen John
Text:

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

philosophical tradition of American pragmatism, especially such pragmatists as Ralph Waldo Emerson, William

And so, mindful of William James's great pragmatic insight that "truth happens to an idea," I will test

Like William James's pragmatic theory of truth, Whitman's conception of judgment endlessly defers any

William James famously claimed that pragmatism is not a philosophy but a methodology only, not a closed

Preface to As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free (1872)

  • Creator(s): Mancuso, Luke
Text:

citizens underscores the popular displeasure with the contemporary squabbles between races, in the white

Leaves of Grass, 1867 edition

  • Creator(s): Mancuso, Luke
Text:

at least four different formats of the text were available from the presses of a New York printer, William

debuted the poem "Tears," which offers the enigmatic spectacle of a weeping "muffled" figure on a "white

Given the color coding ("white"/"shade") and the undeniable remorse expressed in this text, "Tears" may

sentimental "lump" suddenly takes on a threatening persona and wills a strong storm to engulf the "white

With the legislative tide turning toward "equal protection" for black and white citizens, Whitman coerced

Leaves of Grass, 1871–72 edition

  • Creator(s): Mancuso, Luke
Text:

recognize her finds its analogue in the historical agitation in 1871–1872 over the inability of the white

The insurrection of African-American struggles for recognition, as well as the revolt of Southern whites

of Grass can be read as an (unconscious) resistance of Whitman's egalitarian solidarity against the white

Reconstruction

  • Creator(s): Mancuso, Luke
Text:

closest personal friend who was a streetcar conductor and former Confederate soldier, as well as William

Burroughs published the second Whitman biography, Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (1867), and William

Margaret Stillwell to Walt Whitman, 25 October 1863

  • Date: October 25, 1863
  • Creator(s): Margaret Stillwell
Text:

friends if not we ask the favour of you to inquire i suppose John was buried not far from Culpeper William

Margaretta and William A. Avery to Walt Whitman, 16 September 1891

  • Date: September 16, 1891
  • Creator(s): Margaretta and William A. Avery
Text:

Sep 16/91 Margaretta and William A. Avery to Walt Whitman, 16 September 1891

Margaretta L. and William A. Avery to Walt Whitman, 1 March 1892

  • Date: March 1, 1892
  • Creator(s): Margaretta L. and William A. Avery
Text:

Margaretta & William A. Avery. Margaretta L. and William A. Avery to Walt Whitman, 1 March 1892

Margaretta L. Avery to Walt Whitman, 25 February 1889

  • Date: February 25, 1889
  • Creator(s): Margaretta L. Avery
Text:

William is Sick most of the time. we have had the fashionable Complaint. the Gripp. the Boarder in the

said was acquainted with your brothers family. her Sister lived in my house at one time, nice family William

Whitman in Brazil

  • Creator(s): Maria Clara Bonetti Paro
Text:

that swing and bloom; in your dining room, close to the tiled stove that smells of pine resin and white

America] most nearly recognizes its image is good gray Whitman in his open-collared shirt, in his white

class or of his own intellectual caste, of his own region or territorial area, or of his own race of white-skinned

Perhaps his long white hair made him seem paternal or maternal in the eyes of fatally wounded young men

Maria Smith to Walt Whitman, 1 February 1875

  • Date: February 1, 1875
  • Creator(s): Maria Smith
Text:

1871 iwill I will the names of our Children Comencing Commencing at the first ira Ira Smith Halsa/ William

Marion Harry Spielmann to Walt Whitman, 16 March 1891

  • Date: March 16, 1891
  • Creator(s): Marion Harry Spielmann
Text:

"Black & White" 33, Bouverie Street, London, E.C. 16th March 189 1. Sir/.

Leaves of Grass, 1855 edition

  • Creator(s): Marki, Ivan
Text:

As William White has shown, 795 copies were printed in all, 599 of which were bound in cloth with varying

White, William. "The First (1855) Leaves of Grass: How Many Copies?"

Review of Poems by Walt Whitman

  • Date: 25 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Marston, John
Text:

Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti (Hotten.)

the stumpy bars of pig-iron, the strong, clean-shaped T-rail for railroads; Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead-works

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

Martha B. H. Williams to Walt Whitman, 21 December 1884

  • Date: December 21, 1884
  • Creator(s): Martha B. H. Williams
Text:

Williams Martha B. H. Williams to Walt Whitman, 21 December 1884

Leviathan, Yggdrasil, Earth Titan, Eagle: Balʹmont's Reimagining of Walt Whitman

  • Creator(s): Martin Bidney
Text:

" ("Pevec ličnosti i žizni") and "The Poetry of Struggle" ("Poèzija borʹby"), appear in the volume White

which has in effect powerfully recreated: Me and mine, loose windrows, little corpses, Froth, snowy white

The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman: The Life after the Life

  • Date: 1992
  • Creator(s): Martin, Robert K.
Text:

The white socks take on a fetishistic quality, as does the water of the shower.

To take only one example, shortly after Whitman was fired, William D.

Her most recent works are The Imaginary Lover, which won the 1986 William Carlos Williams Award from

Edited by William White. New York: New York University Press, 1978. - - . Leaves ofGrass. 1855 ed.

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. New York: New York University Press, 1980. - - .

Crane, Hart (1899–1932)

  • Creator(s): Martin, Robert K.
Text:

Influenced in his early work, including the volume White Buildings (1926), by the French symbolists,

Mary B. H. Williams to Walt Whitman, 3 September 1888

  • Date: September 3, 1888
  • Creator(s): Mary B. H. Williams
Text:

Williams Kind regards to Mrs. Davis. Mary B. H. Williams to Walt Whitman, 3 September 1888

Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe to Walt Whitman, 1 September 1888

  • Date: September 1, 1888
  • Creator(s): Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe
Text:

William Summers, who is a Member of Parliament.

Oratory

  • Creator(s): Mason, John B.
Text:

Whitman might have seen a model in William Andrus Alcott, Bronson Alcott's cousin and the author of nearly

For many writers of the day, like William Alcott and Ralph Waldo Emerson, writing led to a primary career

Speech Monographs 19 (1952): 11–26.Finkel, William L. "Walt Whitman's Manuscript Notes on Oratory."

Canada, Whitman's Visit to

  • Creator(s): Mason-Browne, N.J.
Text:

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978.____. Specimen Days.

García Lorca, Federico (1898–1936)

  • Creator(s): Mason-Browne, N.J.
Text:

White. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988. Gibson, Ian. Federico García Lorca: 2.

Introduction to Horace Traubel

  • Creator(s): Matt Cohen
Text:

(William Sloane Kennedy, for example, wrote that Whitman would "probably have desired to have him privately

Introduction to Walt Whitman, Poemas, by Álvaro Armando Vasseur

  • Creator(s): Matt Cohen | Rachel Price
Text:

The Italian bedfellow kisses and hugs, and fills the house with white towels.

The youth float on their backs, their white bellies soak up the sun; they do not wonder who clasps them

I neither suffer nor despair despite my exhaustion, Beautiful and white are the people surrounding me

I depart like the air, shake my white hair towards the setting sun, Throw my flesh into eddies, let it

Hall Walt Whitman in Europe Today Roger Asselineau and William White Detroit Wayne State University Press

Introduction to Whitman's Annotations and Marginalia

  • Creator(s): Matt Cohen
Text:

Coors Endowed Chair, US Air Force Academy William H.

Finkel, William L. "Walt Whitman's Manuscript Notes on Oratory."

Sherman, William. Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England.

Harned, Thomas Biggs (1851–1921)

  • Creator(s): Mattausch, Dena
Text:

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.

Galaxy, The

  • Creator(s): Matteson, John T.
Text:

T.MattesonGalaxy, TheGalaxy, TheThe Galaxy was a New York monthly periodical founded and edited by William

critical essay on Whitman, John Burroughs's "Walt Whitman and His 'Drum-Taps,'" which Whitman's friend William

West Jersey Press

  • Creator(s): Matteson, John T.
Text:

life of their author" (qtd. in Reynolds 516).The day the article appeared, Whitman sent a copy to William

Matthew F. Pleasants to William H. Gale, 5 October 1866

  • Date: October 5, 1866
  • Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
Text:

Pleasants to William H. Gale, 5 October 1866

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