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His liberal ideas about education were often controversial and misunderstood, and his difficult-to-read

writings were not very helpful.

Although they were different in temperament and demeanor, they came to admire each other and to consider

His liberal ideas about education were often controversial and misunderstood, and his difficult-to-read

writings were not very helpful.

Although they were different in temperament and demeanor, they came to admire each other and to consider

except the single one of the sufficiency and adaptability of the works to the purpose of giving the city

They are satisfied, from the very much larger sums paid by other cities for similar works, that the price

representative of the Sixth might find ample employment within the sphere of his legitimate duties, were

shrubbery all tell to me the same tale A tale of peacefulness and isolation from the busy, busy, striving Cities

high and vapory blue a lone Mountain to whose heights I aspire to climb and on its top to place an American

I see many friends and many who were friends of my Father and Mother.

here and to many I am a "regular suprise party" Hearing them talk of long ago makes me feel as if I were

On July 12, 1874, he wrote for the first time to Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground

men & women—poets or other—ahead of their time, have been well used to such, but, if a subscription were

Walt Whitman My name is not for publication, though if my subscription were for five thousand dollars

The play was "Our American Cousin."

She did indeed marry her stepbrother, as Bloor goes on to note, though they were not related by blood

of precaution, Washington being most of the war-time virtually, & now & then literally, a besieged city

interruptions to write—but it makes no difference whether you address as above, or to my office in the city

Both Larr and Bush were assigned to quartermaster duty in Company I of the 1st Indiana.

to inform me that he had brought your books with him from America, a gift from you, and that they were

The coming year should give new life to every American who has breathed a breath of that soul which inspired

the great founders of the American Constitution, whose work you are to celebrate.

soon crop out the true "L EAVES OF G RASS ," the fuller- grown work of which the former two issues were

Quite after the same token as the Italian Opera, to most bold Americans, and all new persons, even of

Then, in view of the latter words, bold American!

You, bold American!

No, bold American!

The contents are brief essays or sketches, mostly fragmentary, many of them dated as if they were leaves

The several prefaces to , 1855, 1872, 1876, succeed; then the North American Review paper on "Poetry

Daniel Webster (1782-1852), the American orator and politician.

William Walker (1824-1860) was an American adventurer and soldier who attempted to conquer several Latin

American countries.

.; Daniel Webster (1782-1852), the American orator and politician.; Henry Clay (1777-1852) was an American

He was also Secretary of State from 1861-1869.; William Walker (1824-1860) was an American adventurer

and soldier who attempted to conquer several Latin American countries.

president of the Republic of Nicaragua from 1856-1857 and was executed by the government of Honduras in 1860

political reformer Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894)led Hungary's struggle for independence from Austria.; The American

.— Yesterday the Herald undertook to show by statistics that there were upwards of 25,000 tailors thrown

midst of journeymen tailors’ residences, and there have been several such in the 16th ward of this city

When asked why he did this, the boy replied: “Oh, I know all the others in the trade were cutting it

Houses that employ one cutter and perhaps 16 girls, were put down as employing 16 cutters and 400 girls

This manuscript contributed to the poem Proto-Leaf, which was first published in the 1860 edition of

Miss Beecher, in her popular work on physiology, laments the general decay of health among American women

She says, and truly, according to our own experience, that a healthy American female is rapidly becoming

The great trouble with our people—especially “city men,” merchants, lawyers, professional and business

in the rich valleys of the interior, to balance the wicked waste of nerve and tissue in our great cities

remark, in speaking of the decay of health in metropolitan life,—“I should despair of my country, if it were

in 1991 that he "had not planned an academic career as a Whitman scholar, or even as a teacher of American

Hubbell Medallion for contributions to American literature.Bibliography Allen, Gay Wilson.

American Literary Biographers: First Series. Ed. Steven Serafín.

THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETER. Editorial Department.

There is a drawn-in line beginning at the top of the page above the words "THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW"

All these were meant for thee, and more I need not now extract.

And I take pleasure in what men would call my personal defects for I can, standing by as it were an outsider

And if it were possible, I know thou wouldst come. Yet it shall come to pass somehow, soon or late.

plucked from the soil of his inmost bosom to send to Walt Whitman the American, poet, brother and lover

the curious, beautiful self-deception of youth: Stoker, this boy: it's the same: they thought they were

writing to me: so they were, incidentally: but they were really writing more definitely to themselves

For Whitman's writings on Carlyle, see "Death of Thomas Carlyle" and "Carlyle from American Points of

Becoming A Man of metal , as it were! This atomic theory is very pretty as it stands: is it not?

If all the talks of you which are heard in our family were telephoned to your ear, you would have daily

"Uncle Walt would enjoy this;" "I wish Uncle Walt could hear that;" "If Uncle Walt were only here," are

Well I feel at home here and dont think I will come to the city untill I am muster out for good Everything

Lutt so I was not alone had quite a nice time told them how long I had been in city and what kept me

I am glad to Know that you are once more in the hotbed City of Washington So that you can go often and

Adrian Bartlett was a friend of Joseph Harris and Lewis Brown; all three met Whitman while they were

According to Brown's letter of September 5, 1864, the three young men were living in a Washington boardinghouse

Two of the scraps (the second and fourth) were inscribed before being cut apart to insert the material

I had a very pleasant passage and enjoyed the ride very much but yet I found that my wounds were somewhat

transferred to the Invalid Corps in July and sent to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, where invalid soldiers were

We saw a good deal of the author, Olive Schreiner, when we were in the Riviera, & she is such an interesting

I wish that she were going to America instead of back to Africa, so that you could see her.— Mary sends

If only Camden were a little near London!

1892 in a spectacular shipwreck off the Isle of Wight, England; all passengers and the entire crew were

1871prosehandwritten11 leaves; These notes served as background for Whitman's discussion of current popular American

Now, this let ter I send you has only come out of the reading of your late article in the North American

Gannett say, a friend of his a lady who knew you, said you were "coarse."

If I were younger I would strive with all my to do something worthy of my worship of your genius, worthy

After 1860 it transfers the power to fill vacancies from the Governor to the Board of Supervisors.

Joel Myerson (New York: Garland, 1993), 1:134; Major American Authors on CD-Rom: Walt Whitman (Westport

Joel Myerson (New York: Garland, 1993), 1:134; Major American Authors on CD-Rom: Walt Whitman (Westport

in New York Harbor, and the figures on the obverses of numerous nineteenth- and twentieth-century American

Voices of the Poets: Readings by Great American Poets from Walt Whitman to Robert Frost.

His are perhaps more numerous in New York, in Cincinnati and Charleston than they are in other cities

This manuscript probably dates to the early 1860s, as it appears to have been inscribed after the writing

the leaf (duk.00795), which contains draft lines that contributed to poems first published in the 1860

tropes, likenesses, piano music, and smooth rhymes — nor of This manuscript probably dates to the early 1860s

the leaf (duk.00795), which contains draft lines that contributed to poems first published in the 1860

these years I sing...]" and to "Apostroph," the opening section of "Chants Democratic and Native American

Both poems first appeared in the 1860–1861 edition of Leaves of Grass. America needs her own poems

This manuscript probably dates to the early 1860s, as it appears to have been inscribed after the writing

the leaf (duk.00795), which contains draft lines that contributed to poems first published in the 1860

these years I sing...]" and to "Apostroph," the opening section of "Chants Democratic and Native American

Both poems first appeared in the 1860–1861 edition of Leaves of Grass.

"Nat Bloom," the name that appears on the recto of the third leaf, was a New York City acquaintance of

The lines were incorporated as lines 90 and 91 in the poem Thy Mother with Thy Equal Brood, first published

The American

In The American Adam, R.W.B.

panorama, artifacts shaped from the American forests.

"'Hankering, Gross, Mystical, Nude': Whitman's 'Self' and the American Tradition."

The American Adam. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1955. Miller, James E., Jr. "America's Epic."

The Continuity of American Poetry. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1961. American Adam

relationship with the lines on another manuscript in the University of Virginia collection, which were

revised to form part of section 14 of Chants Democratic in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, a set

American air I have breathed

20 American air I have breathed, breathe henceforth also of me, American ground that supports me, I will

See "Remembrances I plant American ground with" and "A Remembrance."

American air I have breathed

See "Remembrances I plant American ground with" and "A Remembrance.

In choosing such figures to represent the "splendid average" of the American, Whitman forged a new poetic

Although disease, death, and injustice lurk in the poet's field of vision, his catalogue of American

, one of the roughs, a kosmos" (1885 Leaves) embodies all aspects of American reality.

character long before most of Whitman's countrymen were willing to do so.

American Character

American Feuillage. AMERICAN FEUILLAGE. AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage!

Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities, trav- elers travelers , Kanada, the snows; Always

drift spooning ahead, where the ship in the tem- pest tempest dashes; On solid land, what is done in cities

sit on the gunwale, smok- ing smoking and talking; Late in the afternoon, the mocking-bird, the American

day, driving the herd of cows, and shouting to them as they loiter to browse by the road-side; The city

American Feuillage AMERICAN FEUILLAGE. AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage!

Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities, travelers, Kanada, the snows; Always these compact

White drift spooning ahead, where the ship in the tempest dashes; On solid land, what is done in cities

sit on the gunwale, smoking and talking; Late in the afternoon, the mocking-bird, the Ameri- can American

day, driving the herd of cows, and shouting to them as they loiter to browse by the road-side; The city

American Institute Farmers Club April 21, '57 Origin and unchangeable nature of Plants and Animals. —

also contends that there is no upward progression into another of any species—that all are as they were

The North American Indian, as he was found here by our ancestors, was a carnivorous animal, as untamable

Yet when we suppose the age was faultless, or that all were actuated by pure and patriotic motives, or

American Institute Farmers Club

These pages were transformed into section 13 of Chants Democratic in the 1860 Leaves of Grass.

American Laws

ideas in this manuscript came from an article entitled Thoughts on Reading that appeared in the American

Whig Review in May 1845 (Notes on Whitman's Reading, American Literature 26.3 [November 1954]: 352).

American literature must become distinct

1 American literature must become distinct from all others.

—American writers of must become national, idiomatic, free from the genteel laws— America herself appears

ideas in this manuscript came from an article entitled "Thoughts on Reading" that appeared in the American

Whig Review in May 1845 ("Notes on Whitman's Reading," American Literature 26.3 [November 1954]: 352

American literature must become distinct

ideas in this manuscript came from an article entitled "Thoughts on Reading" that appeared in the American

Whig Review in May 1845 ("Notes on Whitman's Reading," American Literature 26.3 [November 1954]: 352