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Search : William White

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Robert Chambers

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

Robert Southey

  • Date: After 1847; February 1851; September 25, 1847
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
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Robert Southey, working out his own original nature honestly, is entitled to as much respect as William

Rocky Mountains

  • Creator(s): Stifel, Timothy
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Martin, and William W. Reitzel, traveled to the Colorado Rockies in September of 1879.

Rolleston, Thomas William Hazen (1857–1920)

  • Creator(s): Grünzweig, Walter
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WalterGrünzweigRolleston, Thomas William Hazen (1857–1920)Rolleston, Thomas William Hazen (1857–1920)

Thomas William Hazen Rolleston's interest in a German translation of Whitman can be attributed to his

Rolleston, Thomas William Hazen (1857–1920)

Romanticism

  • Creator(s): Hodder, Harbour Fraser
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and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were the chief analysts of the creative imagination, while Coleridge, William

Blake, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats were its poetic exemplars.In

Brockden Brown, the frontier romances of James Fenimore Cooper, and the elegiac nature poetry of William

1904), "America's Mightiest Inheritance" (1856), "Slang in America" (1885), and his ghostwriting for William

Rossetti, William Michael [1829–1915]

  • Creator(s): Smith, Sherwood
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SherwoodSmithRossetti, William Michael [1829–1915]Rossetti, William Michael [1829–1915]One of Whitman's

most important European editors, critics, and supporters, William Michael Rossetti, brother of Dante

Rossetti, William Michael. The Diary of W.M. Rossetti, 1870-1873. Ed. Odette Bornand.

Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti. Ed. Roger W. Peattie.

Rossetti, William Michael [1829–1915]

Roughs

  • Creator(s): Baker, Danielle L. and Donald C. Irving
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persona would have posed a direct affront to the sensibilities of a contemporary reviewer such as William

Reynolds discusses Whitman's actions around the same time, when he sent a letter to William D.

"'Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete, The'" (1891)

  • Creator(s): Altman, Matthew C.
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the "Calamus" (1860) poems, and the narrator of "Song of Myself" (1855) empathizes with blacks and whites

Rudolf Schmidt to Walt Whitman, 27 November 1881

  • Date: November 27, 1881
  • Creator(s): Rudolf Schmidt
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He was a heart's ease growing in the shadow: the leaves are turning white from want of sun!

Rudolf Schmidt to Walt Whitman, 28 July 1874

  • Date: July 28, 1874
  • Creator(s): Rudolf Schmidt
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Sometimes it is white and reeking with foam as an injured ghost and for two weeks ago it took ago a new

The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires

  • Date: 1890 or later; 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | C.F. Volney
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Next to these, that second more numerous group, with white banners intersected with crosses, are the

Russia and Other Slavic Countries, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): Bidney, Martin
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In White Summer Lightnings (1908) Balmont sees the earth-titan Whitman as "building" utopian future cities

Swinburne's perspective (but that is a puzzle: in William Blake Swinburne praises Whitman highly).

Roger Asselineau and William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1972. 24–26.Bidney, Martin.

Sail out for Good Eidolon yacht

  • Date: about 1891
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Written on this small white sheet are the title of the poem (Sail out for good Eidólon yacht) and trial

Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Raise main-sail and jib—steer forth, O little white-hull'd sloop, now speed on really deep waters, (I

Sail out for good? for aye, O mystic yacht!

  • Date: 1890 or 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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of me Heave the anchor short, Raise main-sail and jib—steer forth, for aye O little white-hull'd sloop

Salut Au Monde!

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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of their churches—I hear the responsive base and soprano; I hear the wail of utter despair of the white-hair'd

and from one to an- other another of its islands, The inland fresh-tasted seas of North America, The White

Salut Au Monde!

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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of their churches—I hear the responsive base and soprano; I hear the wail of utter despair of the white-hair'd

and from one to an- other another of its islands, The inland fresh-tasted seas of North America, The White

Salut Au Monde!

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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and the bay of Biscay, The clear-sunn'd Mediterranean, and from one to another of its islands, The White

Salut Au Monde!

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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of their churches —I hear the responsive base and soprano, I hear the wail of utter despair of the white-haired

and from one to an- other another of its islands, The inland fresh-tasted seas of North America, The White

you white or black owners of slaves! You owned persons, dropping sweat-drops or blood- drops!

Salut Au Monde!

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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and the bay of Biscay, The clear-sunn'd Mediterranean, and from one to another of its islands, The White

Samuel S. Frayer to Lorenzo Thomas, 21 July 1863

  • Date: July 21, 1863
  • Creator(s): Samuel S. Frayer
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Though they received older uniforms, worse equipment, and lower pay than white soldiers, and were barred

Annotations Text:

Though they received older uniforms, worse equipment, and lower pay than white soldiers, and were barred

Sand, George (1804–1876)

  • Creator(s): Moore, Andy J.
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novelists, musicians, and poets is staggering: Honoré de Balzac, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, William

"Sands at Seventy" (First Annex) (1888)

  • Creator(s): Stauffer, Donald Barlow
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980.

[Sara Stewart McGee Forsyth] to Walt Whitman, 14 August 1889

  • Date: August 14, 1889
  • Creator(s): Sara Stewart McGee Forsyth
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 513–514).

Sarah Tyndale to Walt Whitman, 24 June 1857

  • Date: June 24, 1857
  • Creator(s): Sarah Tyndale
Annotations Text:

Martha "Mattie" Griffith Browne (d. 1906) was a white abolitionist and suffragist who wrote poetry and

Sarrazin, Gabriel (1853–1935)

  • Creator(s): Sarracino, Carmine
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Horace Traubel reports that Whitman asked two friends, William Sloane Kennedy and Dr.

Saturday, April 13, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. mentioned William Swinton, and asked: "Do you know him?"

Saturday, April 20, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Out of the neck of his sherry bottle, now filled with water, white and red roses.

Saturday, April 25, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I have left no more white space on that last page than I want."

Frank Williams brought me today a copy of Lippincott's for W. in which he discusses the static and dynamic

Saturday, April 27, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"A selection of his poems, by William M. Rosetti, was published (London, 1868).

McKay afterwards humorously described Walsh's picture of William's immense content in the litter of the

Saturday, April 4, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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You think it was written by William Walsh?

I can see William all through it.

of the centuries from 12th to 16th—and what are called the Elizabethan group, literature—were at William's

Saturday, April 6, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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the main, but with a black thread running through it all: it seems that after many hideous nights William

He came back with a big white envelope containing the usual monthly announcement of the Contemporary

Saturday, August 11, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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explains all I wish explained: is personal, confessional: a variegated product, in fact—streaks of white

Saturday, August 22, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"As I told you today, I read William's piece—enjoyed it—who would not enjoy it?

O the great William! It was like living with him again—those times, events."

Saturday, August 29, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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O'Connor delightful—full of reminiscence—of her tender love for William and for W.

Saturday, August 31, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Said he had seen by the papers that Talcott Williams was back in town.

Alluded to fact that the Williams' had money.

Saturday, December 1, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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always talk like this: that I love O'Connor for doing exactly the opposite thing: so I do: I like William

I said: "You speak of William and Dowden: I don't think that the difference between them is the difference

Bucke says William goes on and Dowden stands still.

William goes on, sure enough: but if Dowden stands still how is it he ever came to recognize you?"

I for my part am rather more disposed to William's than to John's estimate, characterization, of Hugo

Saturday, December 12, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Coates protested to Frank Williams at last Club meeting, "Why don't you say something in defense of the

The Reinhalters—this woman—and I do not know but Talcott Williams, too—our friend Talcott" (reflecting

about Williams' retention of that manuscript).

Saturday, December 13, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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brief prefatory note to a volume containing "The Brazen Android," an unpublished tale by the late William

William Lloyd.

Saturday, December 15, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William Tebb (Surrey, England). They were greatly disappointed W. not being able to see them.

Saturday, December 20, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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specifically and he seemed quickly to understand, thanking me for it.Said he still had no word from Talcott Williams

Saturday, December 26, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Morris, Frank Williams and Brinton solicitous and tender.

Talcott Williams glided silently in towards 12 and stayed till 12:20.At 12:40 W. called Warrie, who was

Frank Williams over and had talk with Bucke anent funeral, and will be over again Sunday morning.Cables

Saturday, December 29, 1888

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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how that sounds like William O'Connor!

If only William O'Connor could hear you talk so!"

Williams, Philadelphia. M. B. W.'s letter with portrait, &c. on the table.

Saturday, December 5, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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And William, too, with his lips of fire! Many's the hot word of all that, back in Washington!"

Saturday, December 7, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"Do you know much about William Kingdon Clifford, the English scientist?

Saturday, February 1, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Has William Morris the right quality?"

Saturday, February 13, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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White and others, Arthur and I adjourned to the sitting room of the Club and at a desk there perfected

Saturday, February 14, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Seventy-one counts in its list Signor Crispi, John Ruskin, Walt Whitman, Sir Lyon Playfair, and General William

Wondered if Talcott Williams had written it. "I am sure Talcott will stand by his guns."

Saturday, February 15, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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It seems that the man—or one of the men—to whom William loaned money— is not paying up according to promise

Saturday, February 16, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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No change in William.

W. protestingly: "No, Tom: you are wrong, wrong, wrong: William is hot: he is a giant—like other giants

"As William's letters all have more or less to contribute to the story of the ups and downs of the Leaves

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