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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

The Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections

Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892—Manuscripts; Poets, American—19th century

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts at the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature

Original documents held in The Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, The Albert and

Included with the collection were 17 photographs and 20 manuscripts.

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

seventh grade, but he continued to educate himself independently, and he developed a keen interest in American

Rossetti's American Poems, and he began constructing his vast Whitman collection at age seventeen with

We Americans apply too fast.

At the 1992 Whitman Centennial Conference in Iowa City, four senior Whitman scholars were honored as

The lecture was entitled "American Literature and the American Language."

By the time Eliot delivered his address, there were two nineteenth-century American writers whose reputations

Bergland argues, "In American letters, and in the American imagination, Native American ghosts function

And Howard Gillman's insights on American political history and pragmatic philosophy were instrumental

American democratic values and ideals.

were able to translate their ideals into successful public policy.

signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir."

If so, the seeds of doubt were probably latent in Whitman's poetics from the start.

By the time Eliot delivered his address, there were two nineteenth- century American writers whose reputations

In him the hitherto incompatible extremes of the American temperament were 15 fused.”

The possibility of showing the entire American population its own face in the Mirror Screen has at last

In the manuscript, the threat to the city is not mentioned, but rather “all the men were like brothers

He characterizes American landscapes from Canada down to Cuba, rivers and forests, cities and rural areas

I would like to begin by briefly telling a long story, an all too familiar one, a story of American literary

There were more and more universities, and more and more graduate students, and more and more professors

that the nature of scholarship itself changed to accommodate a suddenly swollen mass of scholars, who were

Still, it is the standard edition, the edition cited by American literary scholarship over the past few

So much of the labor of book-editions of were devoted to the process of turning materials—manuscripts

Between the 1860 publication of the third edition of and the publication of the fourth edition six-and-a-half

It seems, then, that one effect of these various encoding choices we've inherited—even though they were

Intimate with Walt: Selections from Walt Whitman's Conversations with Horace Traubel, 1888-1892 (Iowa City

Kennedy's differences with Traubel were more intense.

On the Bowery, see Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789–1860 (Urbana: Univ

," American Literary History 6 [winter 1994]: 648).

Modernism," American Quarterly 39 [spring 1987]: 12).

there were several.

Price, first appeared in American Literature 73.3 (2001): 497-524.

Note: Whitman refers here to the three first editions of Leaves (1855, 1856, and 1860), which were written

American City Names One day Walt fulminated about the habit of giving cities Old World names, speaking

were not as really American as we were.

The American Idea of a Good Time WarrieFritzinger’sreportofavisittothebustlingseasideresortAtlantic City

American Sculpture I have seen most of the statutes in Central Park and off through the city there,andmustsayofthem

for his celebration of ordinary people, and for his masterpiece, Leaves of Grass , which redefined American

Despite Whitman's centrality in American culture, his manuscripts have been little studied, and the poetry

Beginning in his teenage years, Whitman's manuscripts were scattered widely when documents were sent

dipping into the sea of paper that surrounded him, a seemingly endless source of manuscripts that were

digital form, and the ones that were in digital form were not necessarily encoded following current archival

New York City Chapter 4. Boston, 1860 Chapter 5. Washington, D.C. Chapter 6.

and of these the Irish formed about 45 percent; of the city's total population, 30 percent were Irish

Few realize the Irish were in America before the American Revolution and that many were involved in the

In New York City conditions were no better.

So many of them remained in the city that in 1860 New York was the most Irish city in the United States

PSM has asked us to initiate their American Literature Major Authors series with a CD-ROM of Whitman,

Whitman, having worked as a printer and editor, was unusual among American Renaissance writers in not

For instance, throughout his career, nineteenth-century reviewers were united in finding the essence

Talks are in progress with two additional high schools in Iowa City, IA. What does each member do?

From Georgetown University's American Studies Crossroads Project

There were a few courses in American literature, but they were optional and did not count toward a degree

Whitman was already the "lover of populous pavements, dweller in Mannahatta my city,"84 as he proclaimed

His American friends were also active.

In his papers were found many clippings from the American Phrenological Journal; see CW, X, 75, 86, 89

These accusations were taken up by Frances Winwar in American Giant: Walt Whitman and His Times, but

His original goal had been to bring out one volume a year until all were in print, but the final two

volumes did not appear until 1996, over a century after they were written.

poet as a dutiful son: he became the most active of Whitman's three literary executors (the other two were

Artsman from 1903 to 1907, espousing the belief hat radical reforms in art, design, and production were

The two were close for at least eight years. Anne B.

As editor ofthe Aurora, located just four doors from City Hall, he enters into the city's politicalbattles

This marks his return to the city.

Smith in New York City (DN, 1:251). 3 AUGUST.

These gifts were to furnish his home. 16 AUGUST.

version of "Live Oak" differs from Parker's version in the Fourth Edition of The Norton Anthology of American

mentioned it, but he revised the poems slightly and included them among the forty-five poems of the 1860

in Bibliography , and again in slightly altered form in Whitman's Manuscripts: "Leaves of Grass" (1860

My essay first appeared in American Poetry Review months before The Continuing Presence came out, and

Helms himself points the way by saying that the 1860 "Calamus" is "narratively incoherent."

) in the new forty-five poem "Calamus" section of the 1860 .

The ninth poem ("I dreamed in a dream of a city where all the men were like brothers"), consisting of

(among which, revised and reordered, were the "Live Oak" poems).

Martin (Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press, 1992), p. 186.

Ed Folsom (Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press, 1994), p. 175.

The poetic suitor's advances were welcomed by some Americans, spurned by others, and ignored by most.

After the war's outbreak in April, Georgetown's Union Hotel and the City Infirmary on E Street were commandeered

Sketch of the City Infirmary.

Carver, Cliffburne, Finley, Emory, and Campbell were built as Army barracks but were converted by the

Consequently, the structures were raised off the ground on cedar posts, and the wards were generously

keenly interested in the new developments in textual scholarship and the new digital archives that were

manuscripts; I was then located relatively near Charlottesville; and leading people in humanities computing were

because, after issuing the CD-ROM, the publisher proceeded to move Whitman material online, and we were

because they didn't actually own the material they had printed in book form: that is, all the reviews were

The Classroom Electric: Dickinson, Whitman, and American Culture , ed. Kenneth M.

Such approaches to American literature were necessary to offset the earlier perception ofthe nation's

I wish it were not so.

And these names were not said; they were sung in a surge of enthusiasm and adoration.

Americanism.

Many important American poets were completely unknown in Slovenia, but this was not the case with Whitman

By the early 188os, the population exceeded 1 million; by 1900, the city had 2.7 million inhabitants;

As the great democratic ideals of 1848 were forgotten, so was the tem porary interest in the American

Since Schlaf's beginnings in 1892,German Whitman enthusiasts were continu ously constructing the American

What the American public did understand were the sexually explicit passages-and the reaction was one

"anti-American."

Whitman strives to create a distinctive poetry suited for an American national tradition: a modern epic

Other American authors had written about democracy before, but they did not imbibe the democratic spirit

devoted a long essay to democracy, Democratic Vistas (1871), which deals with the shortcomings of American

Campion, the editors of Walt Whitman: the Measure of His Song (1998), have shown that almost every American

Some poets, like Ezra Pound or Allen Ginsberg, were more explicit than others such as T.S. Eliot.

They were in the air, in Carlyle's and Emerson's works in particular, and they were not even hers to

body-politic were really a body."

American public health and American national policy.

ultimately an American republic-in which men loving men can live and love and touch openly-a dream city

republic and the American race.

According to the 1860 Richmond city directory, Doyle worked as a blacksmith for Tredegar Iron Works.

The 1860 Population Census for Richmond, enumerated on June 28 of that year, lists Peter Doyle, aged

The Doyle households were within blocks of one another in the city's Southwest section.

Walt and Pete were especially fond of taking long hikes together out of the city.

By the time of Doyle's death in 1907, there were over 1,000 lodges in as many cities.

extraordinary findings (in Studies in Bibliography and then in Whitman's Manuscripts: Leaves of Grass (1860

enough to include all of them among the forty-five poems of "Calamus" (published in the third Leaves in 1860

even mentioned it, and in his fourth edition of the , two of the three poems dropped from "Calamus" were

give the "Live Oak" poems in their first published form—that is, as they appeared in the third in 1860

Or the vaunted glory and growth of the great city spread around me?

Martin, ed., The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman: The Life After the Life (Iowa City: University

city.

At every turn in New York, James inscribes a vision of the power of the American city that reinscribes-in

The American Uto pia has become, in this incipient moment of modernism, the Un real City.

EricSavoy : 15 In this particular constellation,The American Scene allegorizes the reading of the city

Mexico City: Edi ciones Studium, 1954. Allen, Gay Wilson. American Prosody.

No other nineteenth-century American authors, with the possible exception ofMark Twain, were so much

If, for instance, by some vast instantaneous con vulsion, American civilization were lost, where is the

cities so far as the native social ele ment, that which distinguishes them as American, was concerned

O'Connor had already made his acquaintance in Boston in 1860, when Thayer and Eldridge were printing

Walt had, in fact, read most of the American poets who were his contemporaries.

that all the rest were well also.

My first impressions, architectural, &c. were not favorable; but upon the whole, the city, the spaces

The whole city was lit up with torches. Cannons were fired all night in various parts ofthe city.

B. first, & then me-say, ifI WERE sick, or WERE poor, why then,-& c. &c. &c.

And would yield my life for this cause with serene joy if it were so appointed, if that were the price

Introduction In July 1855, about the time Americans were again celebrating their indepen dence, an oversized

Indian is also the American poet."

American Literature, 6(1934): 254-63. Canby, Henry Seidel. Walt Whitman-An American.

Frontier: American Literature and the American West. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965.

"Personae in Whitman (1855-1860)." American Transcendental Quarterly, 12(1971):25-32.

що ті роздаєш, може, тобі повернеться так само, як вертають доби року, Й зможе бути таким, як вони. 1860

обридне чекання, Він повернеться скоро, його віщуни вже ідуть. 1850 ПРЕЗИДЕНТОВІ* Поезію написано 1860

.; Поезію написано 1860 р., коли президентом США був Дж.

These poems therefore were “lyrics” or “art.”

In his History of American Literature, William P.

So much so that a poem in the “Ch. of Adam” Section,” Once I Pass'd through a Populous City,” written

an American man or woman.

Novelists” to state that the War (1917-1918) “terrorized” the Americans, “who thought they were going

Jefferson, who, strictlyspeaking, were rather the fathers of American democracy than of the vast Continental

Karl Knortz, a German- American scholar of New York City, has had firstand last a good deal to say in

In New York the bells of Trinity spire were instantly rung, a salute fired in City Hall Park, and servicesheld

Titles with no page reference are those of poems occurring in early American editions,which were laterdiscarded

Dead-House, The 284 1871 [City of Friends, The] i860 City of Orgies 105 i860 City of Ships 230 1865

His shoulders were broad, and neither age nor infirmity had broken down the original robustness of his

The broad brim of his soft, gray, felt hat shaded his eyes so that you were not sure whether they were

His eyes were dimmer now, but his heart kept its old zest.

Walt had, in fact, read most of the American poets who were his contemporaries.

The Greeks howled when they were hurt and bawled with rage when they were angry.

people were very " evanescent."

Americans.

"A typical American or a typical American character exists.

While we were at lunch Mrs.

I that meeting thought Americans were generally better speakers than the English.

WHITMAN AND HIS FRIENDS IN 1890 IN CAMDEN O N Tuesday, July 15, 1890 , I landed at Philadelphia—"the city

I did so, and his next words were, "And how are you?"

Cuthbertson, of Annan, has), and that we were anxious to possess it. "Why?" he asked.

people were "very evanescent."

"My sympathies," he said, "were aroused to their utmost pitch, and I found that mine were equaled by

Bucke amongst the crowd on the wharf waiting the arrival of the ship, and with him were Horace Traubel

We were joined immediately by Mrs.

"Horace read it to me as we were waiting for Wallace. I guess Symonds is in a bad way—dying.

Then, if he found that things were not so bad, he was relieved and pleased.) W. W.

The new moon was shining, and the lights on the river as we crossed it were very beautiful.

We were very cordially welcomed by Mrs.

"Ed. said they were brought by negroes."

Americans.

"A typical American or typical American character hardly exists.

Judges, lawyers, doctors, etc., were there, and they were all said to be men of more or less note; but

, and were attended with increasing regularity and in larger numbers.

, ideas and training, who were united only in a common friendship.

We were all about the same age and belonged to nearly the same social stratum.

When we were met together, however, we were conscious of a composite character and of a certain emotional

Religious in the ordinary sense of the word, however, they certainly were not.

black-barred bees hummed as they flitted from the nectar-laden chalices; flies, moths and "bugs" of all kinds were

there in almost countless numbers; and the katydids were loudly whispering their self-contradictory

"He was a tall, straight man, but not so tall as his father and his uncle, who were about 6½ feet high

however, in the extraordinary effect which Whitman's personality had at times on those whose natures were

These are the real burdens of his book, and they were the chief factors in his personal influence.

His surroundings were those of the average citizen he represented, and he lived in a plain, old-fashioned

His accent and articulation were of a purity and clearness entirely free from any local peculiarity or

And when he was feeling better his smiling cheer and geniality were like the sunshine.

There were three parcels: one for Dr.

And I thought that you were more frail than you are.

In the city I met Mrs.

While we were at lunch Mrs.

I thought that Americans were generally better speakers than the English. "They are, are they?

We were just "anybody".

of the room, and put in our brief wait in looking at the thousand-and-one things of interest that were

We turned, and there stood Walt, "framed", as it were, by the door-casings.

We moved forward and shook hands with him, and told him who we were and where we came from.

He was as genuinely interested in us as if we were old friends.