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

ultimate transformation of the Preface into poetry was not, however, Whitman's; it came in 1982 when William

this summary may suggest, Whitman's 1855 Preface deserves comparison with the works of Robert Burns, William

Blake, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and, of course, Emerson.In 1855, the Preface

Walt Whitman Review 10 (1964): 51–60.Everson, William. American Bard.

1842 issue of The New World.Whitman's earliest poetry was sentimental in nature and imitative of William

Walt Whitman was further influenced by the writing of William Leggett of the New York Evening Post, who

Grant, who would be Johnson's successor in the White House, and thought him "the noblest Roman of them

New York: Knopf, 1995.Thayer, William Roscoe. "Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman."

shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them, / You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white

shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them, / You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white

latter have been and are ready to exchange man for man as far as prisoners go, (certainly all the whites

John Williams & Mary Woolley Cold Spring, LI parents of Amy Williams mother's mother They (Capt.

Oregon prohibits colored persons, either slave or free, from entering the State—making an exclusively white

The great obstacle to Southern progress and enterprise is well-known to be the fact that White Labor

It would be altogether a contest with reference to the interest of the masses of the Whites, and would

Who believe that the Whites and Blacks can ever amalgamate in America? Or who wishes it to happen?

Besides, is not America for the Whites? And is it not better so?

John Tyler (1790–1862) became president of the United States upon the death of William Henry Harrison

Sister of loftiest gods, Alboni's self I hear.) 4 I hear those odes, symphonies, operas, I hear in the William

Sister of loftiest gods, Alboni's self I hear.) 4 I hear those odes, symphonies, operas, I hear in the William

Founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, who wished to acknowledge divine assistance in his forced relocation

& smart, but too constrained & bookish for a free old hawk like me" (61).BibliographyMcLoughlin, William

New York: New York, 1961.Woodward, William, and Edward F. Sanderson.

New Haven: Yale UP, 1955.Finkel, William L.

Whiting, in favor of excluding from the list of studies Astronomy, Zoology, Algebra, Geometry and Physiology

Whiting, or any of them, should be dispensed with.

Whiting's resolution, and now after reflection we see many reasons for sympathising with his feelings

Whiting for the exclusion from the list of studies prescribed for our public schools of such branches

Whiting’s resolution that they are, the poor—for whom mainly the schools are designed—reap no benefit

Whiting’s resolution will not be summarily ignored—but that it will provoke at least discussion and inquiry

William A.PannapackerPutnam's MonthlyPutnam's MonthlyFounded in New York by George Palmer Putnam and

In January 1868 Putnam's new series contained an effort by William D.

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

enjoyed free-ranging conversations with local Quaker acquaintances.His maternal grandmother, Naomi Williams

(Van Velsor), brought Quaker culture from the Williams home when she married Cornelius Van Velsor.

culture whose chief contribution to democracy lay in the past.In 1889 one of Whitman's supporters, William

Unpublished manuscript, 1995.Kennedy, William Sloane. "Quaker Traits of Walt Whitman."

soil's May-utterance here (Smelling of countless blessings, prayers, and old-time thanks)— A bunch of white

DrewsHutchinsonRacial AttitudesRacial AttitudesWhitman has commonly been perceived as one of the few white

truth is that Whitman in person largely, though confusedly and idiosyncratically, internalized typical white

nationalist terms, opposing "the great cause of American White Work and Working people" to "the Black

Elsewhere he refers to slave labor as a "black tide" threatening white workingmen.

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor. College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1978. 

Grass reflects his humanitarian belief in the value of all human beings, his deepest sympathy was with white

important issue for Whitman because of its potentially devastating effect on the status and livelihood of white

Leaves of Grass is compared to the work of Whitman's poetic contemporaries—John Greenleaf Whittier, William

William H. Seward , | Secretary of State. Ralph Waldo Emerson to William H. Seward, 10 January 1863

Rechel-White, "Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894)," (Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, eds. J.R.

Rechel-White, "Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894)," (Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, eds. J.R.

New York City at 31 years old, making him the youngest individual to ever receive the appointment (William

what he called his "daily food" (4:67).Of other British writers, three were particularly important: William

for whom Whitman had high regard, despite his differences from them in style and substance, were William

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

Paul Zweig notes, for both Whitman and later realists like Frank Norris and Theodore Dreiser (and William

Howells, William Dean. "First Impressions of Literary New York."

again, this soil'd world: …For my enemy is dead—a man divine as myself is dead; I look where he lies, white-faced

and still, in the coffin —I draw near; I bend down, and touch lightly with my lips the white face in

again, this soil'd world; For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced

and still in the coffin—I draw near, Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the

again, this soil'd world; For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced

and still in the coffin—I draw near, Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the

again, this soil'd world: …For my enemy is dead—a man divine as myself is dead; I look where he lies, white-faced

and still, in the coffin—I draw near; I bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the

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

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

Likely a reference to Whig William Henry Harrison's 1840 presidential campaign in which he was labeled

Transcript 1, No. 78 (Baltimore, July 15, 1840): 2; Richard Brookhiser, "We've Been Here Before: William

.^ BY WILLIAM SLOANE KENNEDY " WholoveaMan seehis here." may imagJ.R.LOWELL.

William Wesselhoeft. The result of of two months' generous work by Mr.

Channing gives himself almost entirely up to William's care and treatment.

William's blood boiled at the covert malignancy dis- in his Bazar played by [T.W.]

Don't know of [my grandmother Amy] Williams having any blood never heard ab't that.

One of the most prized of these was William Douglas O'Connor.

William Rossetti, who edited a volume of selections from Leaves of Grass for the British public, pointed

Had William Shakespeare left any authentic writings as empty of thought and imagination, and void of

William Wesselhoeft. The result of two months' generous work by Mr.

The window sills, bordered with white, were mounted with old-fashioned green blinds."

A white curtain was hung across the lower part of the widow inside, and, in summer, flowers were to be

He leaned as he walked upon the arm of his young friend, William Duckett, of Camden.

Your William Blackwood & sons, of Edinburgh, produce some splendidly printed works.

He had on a short black tailor jacket—no vest, wide turn-over collar, white shirt, broad sailor black

opportunity to get a foothold in Brooklyn, and in this year they entered into negotiations with one William

The deed of conveyance is dated the 12th day of October, 1694, and is from William Morris to the Corporation

This patent was to Sarah Rapelje, daughter of George Jansen De Rapelje, the first white settler on Long

Sarah twenty morgen (forty acres) of land at the Waale-Boght, in consideration of her being the first white

William Smith appear for them.

William White 1978 D-T Drum-Taps (New York: 1865 ) and Sequel to Drum-Taps (Washington: 1865-6 ).

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White 1980 NUPM Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, ed.

From Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams to Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg; from Langston

Whitman's grandmother Amy Williams Van Velsor was especially committed to her Quaker beliefs, and her

He sometimes dreaded slave labor as a "black tide" that could overwhelm white working men.

Let the white person again tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

Let the white person tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

the Revolution to the Age of Jackson [Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010], 481; William

Shepard, Colonel Shepherd, the son-in-law of William H.

light-green sheath, Gather the hay to its myriad mows in the odorous tranquil barns, Oats to their bins, the white

light-green sheath, Gather the hay to its myriad mows in the odorous tranquil barns, Oats to their bins, the white

What, and who was that white figure there? "Forbear! In Jehovah's name forbear!"

Leaning far out of an upper window, appeared a white-draperied shape, its face possessed of a wonderful

The first, titled "The White Dove.—( A Hymn for Children )," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

The first, titled "The White Dove.—(A Hymn for Children)," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

neck open, shirt-collar flat and broad, countenance tawny transparent red, beard well-mottled with white

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun; I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it

ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen now lean and tattered tatter'd , seated on the ground, Her old white