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Jan: 1, '91 —Well it has come—a dark stormy morning here—but of course it will clear & brighten up— Walt

Whitman Walt Whitman to Jessie Louisa Whitman, [31 December 1890]–1 January 1891

here—Horace is at work at the bank all night—a splendid etching "Milton Visiting Galileo" f'm Johnston — Jan: 1,

morning—but it will soon clear— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 31 December 1890–1

[1–2 August 1891] which is as little as one can possibly get on with here unless the woman of the house

for it is very narrow and all up and down stairs—altogether there are no less than 5 flats to it—viz—/1/

Costelloe Goodly With much love R M Bucke Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, [1–2 August 1891]

Putnam's Monthly Magazine ns 1 (1868): 55-90. ——. . New York: Bunce and Huntington, 1866.

he think, for example, of t is this gem, cut by an eminent hand, in The Boston Transcript of April 1—

Here was America, "brought to Hospital in her fair youth" (Correspondence 1:69), and yet, sadly, the

I must be continually bringing out poems—now is the hey day" (Correspondence 1:185).

Whitman believed, would "shape the destinies of the future of the whole of mankind" (Correspondence 1:

Vol. 1. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906; Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908; Vol. 3.

Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1962. 1–14.____. 1855 Preface. Complete Poetry and Collected Prose. Ed.

(section 1). The reader encounters in "Body Electric" Whitman's profound love of bodily flesh.

Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1963.  Zweig, Paul. Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet.

Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1.4 (1984): 1–11. Miller, Edwin Haviland.

Vol. 1 of Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. New York: New York UP, 1963.

same to the passion of Woman-Love as the Calamus-Leaves are to adhesiveness, manly love" (Notebooks 1:

Vol. 1. London: GMP, 1984. 10–77. Carpenter, Edward [1844–1929]

Vols. 1–3. 1906–1914. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961; Vol. 4. Ed. Sculley Bradley.

those who corrupted their own live bodies" and "those who defiled the living" bodies of others (section 1)

Edward W.HuffstetlerIndian Affairs, Bureau ofIndian Affairs, Bureau ofOn 1 January 1865 Whitman was hired

with the radicals, which led to rows with the boss and 'the party,' and I lost my place" (Prose Works 1:

Vol. 1 of Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. New York: New York UP, 1963. 13. Winwar, Frances.

reader like Emerson could not "trust the name as real & available for a post-office" (Correspondence 1:

missing from the Preface, as he "invite[s his] soul" and "observ[es] a spear of summer grass" (section 1)

declared that he found "incomparable things said incomparably well" in Leaves of Grass (Correspondence 1:

Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2007. 1–32.Folsom, Ed. Whitman Making Books / Books Making Whitman.

Vol. 1. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906. White, William.

—They retard my book very much" (Correspondence 1:44).

Thus the dozen poems of the first edition are here distributed in the following sequence: 1, 4, 32, 26

Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1980. ____.

writing poems for it, Whitman saw his project as " The Great Construction of the New Bible " (Notebooks 1:

Whitman conceived of "Enfans d'Adam" as a cluster about "the amative love of woman" (Notebooks 1:412)

what Whitman called comradeship or "adhesiveness," the phrenological term for "manly love" (Notebooks 1:

Like "Leaves of Grass" number 1 ("As I Ebb'd"), this poem is set on the Long Island shore.

But, unlike the nearly nihilist "Leaves of Grass" number 1, in which the isolated poet sees himself in

Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1980. xv–xxv. Crawley, Thomas Edward.

As early as 1 December 1891, Whitman noted in a letter to Dr.

pass'd; and waiting till fully after that, I have given (pages 423–438) my concluding words" (Variorum 1:

entitled "Opinions. 1855-6," reprints nine reviews of the 1855 Leaves that had originally appeared in 1)

Vol. 1. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906. Whitman, Walt.

Vol. 1 of Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. New York: New York UP, 1963. ____.

Memoranda During the War [1875–1876]"My idea is a book of the time, worthy the time" (Correspondence 1:

The Mickle Street Review 9 Part 1 (1987): iii-v. Stern, J. David. Memoirs of a Maverick Publisher.

of the aborigines " that would incorporate "every principal aboriginal trait, and name" (Notebooks 1:

Vol. 1. New York: Putnam's, 1902. xiii–xcvi.De Selincourt, Basil. Walt Whitman: A Critical Study.

The front matter of volume 1 contains a concise introduction, lists of abbreviations, illustrations,

of them is the earliest known notebook, and one of the most fascinating: "albot Wilson" (Notebooks 1:

journeywork of suns and systems of suns, / And that a leaf of grass is not less than they" (Notebooks 1:

we fetch that height, we shall not be filled and satisfied but shall look as high beyond" (Notebooks 1:

In another of the stolen manuscripts recently recovered, "You know how the One" (Notebooks 1:124-127)

Putnam's Monthly Magazine ns 1 (1868): 55–90. ____. The Good Gray Poet: A Vindication.

Massaniello,' or Rossini's 'William Tell' and 'Gazza Ladra,' were among my special enjoyments" (Prose Works 1:

it; the living soul, of which the lower stage they call art, is but the shell and sham" (Uncollected 1:

recalled in Specimen Days that he "heard Alboni every time she sang in New York and vicinity" (Prose Works 1:

It was the beauty of Adam before God breathed into his nostrils" (Uncollected 1:257). 

For details see especially volumes 1, 2, and 4 of The Correspondence, edited by Edwin Haviland Miller

Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 12 (1994): 1-51. Shively, Charley, ed.

introduction of an institution which will render their honorable industry no longer respectable" (Gathering 1:

I am the poet of slaves and of the masters of slaves / I am the poet of the body / I am" (Notebooks 1:

Entering into both so that both will understand me alike" (Notebooks 1:67).

He vows to "permit to speak at every hazard, / Nature without check with original energy" (section 1)

reeds and schools" behind, he goes "to the bank by the wood to become undisguised and naked" (sections 1

On beginning his journey (section 1) he promised he would "permit to speak at every hazard, / Nature

payment and traveling expenses and guaranteed publication in the "metropolitan press" (With Walt Whitman 1:

Vol. 1. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906; Vol. 4. Ed. Sculley Bradley.

New York: New York UP, 1964. 1–9.Shively, Charley.

Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1980. 'There Was a Child Went Forth' [1855]

Vols. 1-3. 1906-1914. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961; Vol. 4. Ed. Sculley Bradley.

Resources for American Literary Study 20 (1994): 1-15.  Myerson, Joel.

Springfield Daily Republican 23 July 1875, sec. 3: 1-3.  Whitman, Walt. The Correspondence. Ed.

Vol. 1 of Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. New York: New York UP, 1963.

evening, and the frequent extras of that period, and pass'd them silently to each other" (Prose Works 1:

commented in an 1863 letter; "few know the rocks & quicksands he has to steer through" (Correspondence 1:

(Prose Works 1:92). 

if it told something, as if it held rapport indulgent with humanity, with us Americans" (Prose Works 1:

rise to Whitman's quip that George was interested "in pipes, not poems" (Traubel, With Walt Whitman 1:

Vol. 1. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906.Whitman, Walt. The Early Poems and the Fiction. Ed. Thomas L.

Vols. 1–2. New York: New York UP, 1961.____. The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman. Ed.

Vol. 1. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921.Zweig, Paul. Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet.

In a letter to Whitman postmarked 1 March, Wilde writes: "Before I leave America I must see you again

In 1888, after Alcott's death, Whitman said, "Alcott was always my friend" (With Walt Whitman 1:333)

Vol. 1. New York: Small, Maynard, 1906; Vol. 3. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1914.

sheet of letter paper . . . throw it down, stamp it flat, and that is a map of old Boston" (Prose Works 1:

(Correspondence 1:50).

New England Quarterly 1 (1928): 353–370.  Kaplan, Justin. Walt Whitman: A Life.

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 1 (1984): 55–70.

Vol. 1 of Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. New York: New York UP, 1963. Bucke, Richard Maurice

Vol. 1. 1906. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961. Whitman, Walt. The Correspondence. Ed.

A Tale of the Times, was originally published in the New World (2.10, Extra Series, November 1842: 1-

Vol. 1. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906.  Whitman, Walt. Franklin Evans. 1842.