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

Talbot Wilson

  • Date: Between 1847 and 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

anticipate the following lines in the preface to the 1855 : "Little or big, learned or unlearned, white

body and lie in the coffin" (1855, p. 72). + The sepulchre Observing the shroud The sepulchre and the white

Sylvester Baxter to Walt Whitman, 8 October 1887

  • Date: October 8, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Sylvester Baxter
Text:

Bartol William P. Wesselhoeft Mrs. Ole Bull L. N. Fairchild Albert B. Otis A friend W. D.

Ford Roberts Brothers George Fred Williams J. R.

Swinton, William (1833–1892)

  • Creator(s): Southard, Sherry and Sharron Sims
Text:

Sherry and Sharron SimsSouthardSwinton, William (1833–1892)Swinton, William (1833–1892) Although William

William and his older brother, John, became intimates of Whitman in the mid-1850s.

"Whitman and William Swinton: A Cooperative Friendship." American Literature 30 (1959): 425–449.

"Swinton, William." Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. 18. New York: Scribner's, 1936. 252–253.

Swinton, William (1833–1892)

Swinton, John (1829–1901)

  • Creator(s): Yannella, Donald
Text:

Born in Scotland, as was his brother William, he resided there until the family's migration to Canada

"Whitman and William Swinton." American Literature 30 (1959): 425–449. Hyman, Martin D.

White, William. "Whitman and John Swinton: Some Unpublished Correspondence."

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.

Swimming Against the Current

  • Date: 10 June 1860
  • Creator(s): Heenan, Adah Isaacs Menken
Text:

William Seward, Charles Sumner, and Elijah Parish Lovejoy, were all famous anti-slavery advocates.

Sweet flag

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

of delight" and "tooth prong") probably contributed to the following passage in the same poem: "The white

Sweet flag

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

the "tooth of delight" and "tooth prong") may relate to the following passage in the same poem: "The white

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

Susan Stafford to Walt Whitman, 4 April 1878

  • Date: April 4, 1878
  • Creator(s): Susan Stafford
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1:35.

Susan Stafford to Walt Whitman, 3 December 1890

  • Date: December 3, 1890
  • Creator(s): Susan Stafford
Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Susan Stafford to Walt Whitman, 21 August 1889

  • Date: August 21, 1889
  • Creator(s): Susan Stafford
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1:35.

Debbie and Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Susan Stafford to Walt Whitman, 16 July 1880

  • Date: July 16, 1880
  • Creator(s): Susan Stafford
Text:

for a weeks pleasure has just returned a day or two ago she had a nice time George spent a day at Williams

Suppressing Walt Whitman.

  • Date: April 22, 1876
  • Creator(s): William Douglass O'Connor
Text:

WILLIAM DOUGLAS O’CONNOR Washington, D.C. , May 19, 1882. Suppressing Walt Whitman.

Sun-Down Poem.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

notice the arriv- ing arriving ships, Saw their approach, saw aboard those that were near me, Saw the white

serpentine pennants, The large and small steamers in motion, the pi- lots pilots in their pilot-houses, The white

pass up or down, white-sailed schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 9 bis]

  • Date: 6 July 1841
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

See William Godwin, St.

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 9]

  • Date: 24 November 1840
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The ideologial founder of the Loco focos, William Leggett (1801-1839), advocated for free trade, and

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 8]

  • Date: 20 October 1840
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

delightfully variegated with rolls and slight elevations of land: on the highest of these I beheld a white

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 6]

  • Date: 11 August 1840
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

For instance, in a poem titled "The Ideal," by William H.C.

Levine, "William Shakespeare in America," Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 3]

  • Date: 28 March 1840
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Levine, "William Shakespeare and the American People: A Study in Cultural Transformation," The American

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 2]

  • Date: 14 March 1840
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the reference to the “Youth’s guide to Polite Manners” could be related to the 1833 publication of William

Many advice manuals quoted William Scott’s definition of good-breeding from his 1817 publication of Lessons

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 10]

  • Date: 20 July 1841
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Bright, we started forth to visit the other side, whereon the surf comes tumbling, like lots of little white

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 1]

  • Date: 29 February 1840
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—Forms that the coffin shrouds in its white linings; voices that once sounded joyous and light, but which

Sunday, September, 9th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

very funny: the fellow who writes the notice (a very good notice it is, too: among the best)—Clarke—William

Sunday, September 7, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

WhitmanGeorge Horton in the Chicago HeraldAn old man I once saw,Bowed low was he with time,Heart-frosted, white

Sunday, September 28, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

enough with Southern people to feel convinced that if I lived South I should side with the Southern whites

Sunday, September 23rd, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

The morning papers published extracts from the Diary of the Emperor Frederick William—cabled from abroad

"Long white hair, long white beard and moustache, a florid face, with blue eyes alive with fire, a gigantic

His old white hat lies on a chair.

They were from Nelly O'Connor, William O'Connor, Cyril Flower, Henry Clapp, Sylvester Baxter, and W.'

Sunday, September 16, 1888

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

bleeding to death—(he is shot in the abdomen,) I staunch the blood temporarily, (the youngster's face is white

Sunday, October 5, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Captain Williams, assistant secretary, said that he had not heard anything about such an application.Several

that case we trust you will allow us an opportunity to consider it.I am, dear Sir, Faithfully Yours,William

Sunday, October 28, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

William speaks of 'a week'—expects a change in a week—is still having battery treatment.

There is a little of the let-us-cry character about John's letters," said W.: "you would never catch William

apology towards life: his acceptance of life is always vehement and conclusive: I always feel in William's

Sick or well, sad or glad, William is the same man—cheerful, tonic, like a strong wind off the sea.

Sunday, October 25, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Gave him message from Frank Williams.

He was much interested in all that Williams had told me and had considerable curiosity about Mrs.

Sunday, October 21, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

W. says he is afraid "William is on the down road—is not long for this world."

Sunday, October 20, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

He exclaimed—"That's Talcott Williams!" Thought he would "make an effort to get out today."

Sunday, November 9, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

the dear and loved ones gone before.I have just written to Walt thanking him for the Preface to William's

much.Thank you for your many kindnesses.Can you give me a hint, as to a good, and just the right title to William's

O'Connor's "solicitations of counsel about William's book," had "by the accident been so postponed, perhaps

Sunday, November 4, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

"O'Connor's orator nature—his mobile, passionate, high-strung orator nature," and spoke again of William

W. at once assented: "There is nothing in their line anywhere near equal to them: William was vehement

Sunday, November 29, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

How much Wallace would have got from William O'Connor!

To have seen William at his best was a world not to be forgotten, ever."

Sunday, November 25, 1888

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

I went up to the White House with a friend of mine, an M.

wouldn't believe until you were convinced,' as you say: you held off: you half thought I was lying: William

Sunday, November 2, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

about it, "It ought to be worth hearing: it must have great points," and this led him to refer to William

Would give me a copy to send on.Attention called to old note from Gleeson White (abroad).

Sunday, November 18, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

W. said: "They are not extraneous: they all have a place: I think William was justified in all he did

"It is one of William's letters," he explained, "one of the best: full of fire—direct, explicit—with

William resembles a natural law: he is beyond appeal: he delivers himself without apologies: he kills

Grant White had a dastardly mass of lies and perversion in The Atlantic in April anent of Mrs.

White's hide off, and "hang the calf-skin on his recreant limbs."

Sunday, November 11, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

White, even at my expense. Reason, Shakespearean hostility to the subject. This is a pretty note!

O'Connor.W. was anxious about William.

Under what circumstances had he first met William?

Had William taken up L. of G. at the beginning?

I said: "Don't you think it significant that William recognized Leaves of Grass at the start?"

Sunday, May 31, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Soon the fellows commenced to float in—Morris, Frank Williams, Eakins, O'Donovan, Harry Walsh, etc. etc

Williams, and so getting his place.

being put into an armchair—from which he again saluted individuals by name where he could—Frank Williams

Sunday, May 27, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Referring to Frank Williams: "Frank has written poetry—a good deal of it, I judge: some of it first rate

have often talked together about Anne Gilchrist and A Woman's Estimate of Walt Whitman, made up by William

Rossetti.Your letter of last summer to William O'Connor with the passages transcribed from a lady's correspondence

In Rossetti Papers, 1903, compiled by William Michael Rossetti, I find this diary reference to the Whitman

Sunday, May 26, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

—and then on the plate where there was the monotony of white flowers, he carelessly placed a soft red

Sunday, May 20, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

"I have some books and papers to send by you, William," he said.

In reply to a question W. said he had never read William Morris' Earthly Paradise.

Take the Emperor Frederick William—I have wished him to live—for years—to live to do his work, which

Sunday, May 18, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

And there is Frank Williams, too—and the wife: Oh! the wife has been very good to me!

Sunday, May 13, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

The easiest thing to do with a man like William O'Connor when he gets a-going about Bacon is to do nothing—to

"Not at all—I should not be prepared to go as far as that: I only say they were not written by William

Sunday, May 12, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

I suppose William was buried today or will be tomorrow! The grand O'Connor!"

Sunday, May 11, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Osceola was like a great many of the niggers—like Douglass—in being of mixed blood, having a dash of white

And the parent disclaimed all his white stock heritage—kept up the chieftainly character.

Sunday, March 6, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

His color very odd and bad—a mixture of blue and white, without any trace of pink—the blue especially

Sunday, March 31, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

I referred to Frank Williams, whom I passed in Germantown today.

And as to Bucke's statement that Williams "amounted to little in the literary sense," W. asked: "What

I laughed and said: "Perhaps Williams wouldn't thank you to have you say that: most men would rather

better with that than I ever did: his English itself is somewhat upside down—sort of cut bias, as William

Back to top