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Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY

1584 results

Days with Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1906
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

would quite enjoy, on a rainy after- noon, having a game of twenty questions such as he had "often played

far, far reaching, giving weight and permanent value to what would other- wise have been only two plays

The truth is, Peter, here at the present time mainly that I am in the midst of female women, some of

Isay the matter isnot very important because itis obvious that whatever part Emerson's teaching played

In his heart of hearts— though doubtless he thought Whitman had played him unfair, and 173 Days with

Days with Walt Whitman: Walt Whitman in 1884

  • Date: 1906
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
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Walt talked about Shakespeare, the Bacon theory, the greatness of the historical plays, the "dragon-rancours

"I will not be positive about Bacon's connection with the plays, but I am satisfied that behind the historical

and far, far reaching, giving weight and permanent value to what would otherwise have been only two plays

Days with Walt Whitman: A Visit to Walt Whitman In 1877

  • Date: 1906
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

would quite enjoy, on a rainy afternoon, having a game of twenty questions such as he had "often played

Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 27 December 1888

  • Date: December 27, 1888
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

see an old friend, 72 yrs. years of age—who is very badly down with heart disease—an old harpist —plays

Edward Dowden to Walt Whitman, 15 October 1871

  • Date: October 15, 1871
  • Creator(s): Edward Dowden
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I think he has made Apollo (& his English fellow) too idle, a god of glorious play merely, whereas he

Edward S. Mawson to Walt Whitman, 17 August 1885

  • Date: August 17, 1885
  • Creator(s): Edward S. Mawson
Text:

rather pretty house for those times, built I think by Flynn of the old Bowery Theater —I think he played

the "Iron Chest" both pieces besides all you name I saw him in—at this representation I speak of—he played

— a very good singer I believe for she was before my time—but a very bad immoral woman—they were playing

theater goer in my time—I am getting a little in the "sere and yellow leaf" now—but I still enjoy the play

Annotations Text:

He introduced many famous British actors to New York and with his focus on spectacle, Price played a

William Macready (1793–1873) was a British stage actor, who played Shakespearean roles, including Richard

While the duel apparently never took place, Webb continuted to editorialize against the couple and played

Drum-Taps (1865)

  • Creator(s): Eiselein, Gregory
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his book published, Whitman made his own arrangements and, on 1 April 1865, signed a contract with Peter

Lincoln's Death [1865]

  • Creator(s): Eiselein, Gregory
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Although Whitman was not an eyewitness, his close companion, Peter Doyle, was at Ford's Theater, and

Walt Whitman in Russian Translations: Whitman's "Footprint" in Russian Poetry

  • Creator(s): Elena Evich
Text:

there is a repetition of the morpheme bride; Chukovsky decides to preserve the effect, but in so doing plays

skreplyali vse, i budut vechno Indeed, in the history of Russian Symbolism the poetry of Walt Whitman has played

Editing Whitman's Poetry in Periodicals

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Elizabeth Lorang
Annotations Text:

published/periodical/index.html; The interlibrary loan department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln played

Gems from Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Elizabeth Porter Gould | Walt Whitman and Elizabeth Porter Gould
Text:

step they wend, they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions, One generation playing

its part and passing on, Another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn, With faces

Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman

  • Date: June 1907
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. Calder
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Among the plays of Shakespeare, King Richard the Second was a great favorite of Whitman's, and he had

A half-dozen of us, playing the game frequently together, became able to easily to discover the thing

Canal, and he told us that he watched for hours a negro at work, who was naked to the waist, and the play

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 20 December 1888

  • Date: December 20, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Ellen M. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 12 September 1889

  • Date: September 12, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

The bookThe Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays, authored by the politician

Donnelly was well known for his belief that Shakespeare's plays had been written by Francis Bacon, an

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 19 January 1865

  • Date: January 19, 1865
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

William would send love if he new that I was writing,—Jeannie is out playing & as usual, her voice is

Emory S. Foster to Walt Whitman, 30 May 1890

  • Date: May 30, 1890
  • Creator(s): Emory S. Foster
Annotations Text:

Foster's poem quotes, echoes, and plays upon Whitman's epigraph poem for the 1876 and 1891–92 editions

Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus"

  • Date: 2011
  • Creator(s): Erkkila, Betsy
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political, and other contests surrounding these poems, and the constitutive role these poems have played

or remain in the same room with you, littleyou know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing

Calamus  as a cluster of poems focused on the love between men, “live oak, with moss” played a crucial

Brown and other soldiers he met and cared for in the Washington hospitals, as well as with Peter doyle

Coviello, Peter. “Intimatenationality: anonymityand attachment inWhitman.”

The Whitman Revolution: Sex, Poetry, and Politics

  • Date: 2020
  • Creator(s): Erkkila, Betsy
Text:

(New York: Peter Lang, 1998–2003).

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.

Whitman and Peter Doyle, ca. 1869. Photograph by M. P. Rice, Washington, DC.

Covielo, Peter. “Intimate Nationality: Anonymity and Attachment in Whitman.”

New York: Peter Lang, 1998–2003. ———. Leaves of Grass: An Exact Copy of the First Edition 1855.

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 4 January 1888

  • Date: January 4, 1888
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
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Dressed as Portia, when a Shakespeare masquerade (in which everyone took some part from the plays) was

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 22–24 April 1889

  • Date: April 22–24, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Annotations Text:

He is known for such works as his novel The Portrait of Dorian Gray and the play The Importance of Being

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 7 June 1888

  • Date: June 7, 1888
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

Dear Walt Whitman, These last days have been so crowded with work & play, that there has been no fair

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 7 December 1889

  • Date: December 7, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

along the top of the Heath, (called the Spaniards Road, & passing an old inn where Skittles are still played

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 7 July 1885

  • Date: July 7, 1885
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

issued in a different shape—quite square I should like to have it—so as to give your long lines full play

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 5 January 1889

  • Date: January 5, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Annotations Text:

Fabians played a key role in founding the Labour party in 1990 and have a commitment to non-violent political

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 21 May 1888

  • Date: May 21, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Ernest Rhys
Annotations Text:

He played numerous parts during his career, including taking on a number of Shakespearean roles, sometimes

Mississippi River

  • Creator(s): Field, Jack
Text:

New York: Peter Smith, 1932. Mississippi River

Travels, Whitman's

  • Creator(s): Field, Jack
Text:

.: Peter Smith, 1972. Travels, Whitman's

Translating "Poets to Come": An Introduction

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
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Because he goes on to suggest that Canada, too, will play a part in his realization, the future he addresses

That he addresses the future is clear, though, and we can feel Whitman playing with the etymology of

a "fear" that is "generally submerged or disguised, since Whitman attempts to deny it in order to play

Whitman East & West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2002
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

A photo of the actor playing the Whitman figure in The Carpenter.

In the play, the ad- mirers of Whitman are Agatha, Ginny (Merrill’s daughter), and Dr.

Fay Kanin’s original play makes clear that the college is set in Massachusetts.

Price sode treats the Peter Doyle–Whitman relationship.

Pantheism played an increas- ingly important role in shaping his own thought.

Dictionaries

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

It is useful to remember Whitman's love of dictionaries when reading his poems, for his words often play

Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays

  • Date: 1994
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

The night before, in Washington, Peter Doyle, who liked the theater and was attracted by celebrities,

had gone to see the play, the President, and his wife.

The vexed question ofreference comes into play here.

Jiirgen Wellbrock, "Dein Selbst kann ich nicht singen," in Hermann Peter Piwit and Peter Riihmkorf, eds

in Peter C.

Photographs and Photographers

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

On four occasions, he was photographed with young male friends—Peter Doyle in the 1860s, Harry Stafford

Whitman East & West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2002
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

Griffith through Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler and on up to contemporary directors like Peter Weir,

it did not overtly repress or privatize the role that passion, eroticism, sympathy, and love might play

influence to other modernist Chinese writers and discusses Whitman in terms of "the unique role he played

Re-Scripting Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2005
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed | Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

Undoings': Walt Whitman's Writing of the 1855 ," in Anthony Mortimer, ed., From Wordsworth to Stevens (Peter

Recchia (New York: Peter Lang, 1998-2003 LG Leaves of Grass, Comprehensive Reader's Edition, ed.

While Whitman's parents were not members of any religious denomination, Quaker thought always played

Fenimore Cooper, and other romance novelists), theaters (where he fell in love with Shakespeare's plays

and saw Junius Booth, John Wilkes Booth's father, play the title role in Richard III , always Whitman's

Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman

  • Date: 2005
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

appearance of his book, and his changes reflect his evolving notions of what role his writing would play

The color shift from green to dark red, burnt orange, or purple is one that Whitman would play on for

He prepared the broadside before contracting with the printer Peter Eckler in New York.

"By That Long Scan of Waves" (1885)

  • Creator(s): Folton, Joe Boyd
Text:

The poem serves as a summation of Whitman's career and poses a tableau wherein the light and dark playing

1860), "Waves" receives little critical attention, but it chronicles a moment in the poet's life and plays

Frank Cowan to Walt Whitman, 17 February 1892

  • Date: February 17, 1892
  • Creator(s): Frank Cowan
Annotations Text:

Cowan is quoting lines spoken by the character of Bottom from William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer

Walt Whitman: A Visit to the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 19 April 1876
  • Creator(s): Frank Sanborn
Text:

It is by taking advantage of this blot that good Peter Bayne has been able to find so many readers for

Fred B. McReady to Walt Whitman, 29 April 1863

  • Date: April 29, 1863
  • Creator(s): Fred B. McReady
Text:

Received by Gels Dix & Smith March 5th Played a match game of Ball with Hawkin Zouaves in which they

the Battle of Newbern, NC, on board of steamboat City of Hudson the officers of the Brigade Mch 24 Played

Fred B. Vaughan to Walt Whitman, 21 May 1860

  • Date: May 21, 1860
  • Creator(s): Fred B. Vaughan
Annotations Text:

Vaughan plays here with the popular proverb "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest

British Romantic Poets

  • Creator(s): French, R.W.
Text:

.: Peter Smith, 1972. British Romantic Poets

Reading, Whitman's

  • Creator(s): French, R.W.
Text:

.: Peter Smith, 1972. Reading, Whitman's

Whitman, Poet and Seer

  • Date: 22 January 1882
  • Creator(s): G. E. M.
Text:

fight between Deity on one side and somebody else on the other—not Milton, not even Shakespeare's plays

Whitman: The Correspondence, Volume VII

  • Date: 2004
  • Creator(s): Genoways, Ted
Text:

From Peter Eckler. 1865 April 26. From Peter Eckler. January 4. From Dana F. Wright. Berg. May 1.

From Peter Doyle. Trent. November 25. From Louisa Van Velsor September 23. From Peter Doyle.

Schueller and Peters, 2: 201–3. [September?].

Peters, 2: 374–75. November 7. From Peter Doyle. CT: Shive- June 14. From John M. Rogers.

CT: Schueller and Peters, 3: January 6.

Walt Whitman at Home

  • Date: 23 January 1886
  • Creator(s): George Johnston | Quilp [George Johnston?]
Text:

doing so irradiated it with an unearthly glory, so bright and genial was the good-natured smile that played

Mrs. Siddons as Lady Macbeth

  • Date: After February 1, 1878; February 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | George Joseph Bell
Text:

They know that no critic could, by reading a play, evolve a portrait of the man whom an original actor

Yet this by-play of the great actress was such that the audience, looking at her, forgot to listen to

They contain acting editions of the plays in which she appeared, edited by Mrs. Inchbald.

Siddons play this part you scarcely can believe that any acting could make her part subordinate.

The notes on this play will now be given, only so much of each scene being quoted as is necessary to

His earliest printed plays

  • Date: 1844 or later; date unknown; after 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | George Walter Thornbury | unknown author
Text:

1 His earl ies t printed plays 1597 Romeo & Juliet Richard 3d & Richard 2d Chapman's trans. of Homer,

1596—his sone son Hamnet died, in the 12th year of his age. 1598 To this year, only five of his plays

"To be or not to be" is taken almost verbatim from Plato— —To the Iliad, every one of his best plays

—"What Pope says of some of the Plays of Shakespeare is probably true of all—that they were pieces of

His earliest printed plays

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 2 April 1863

  • Date: April 2, 1863
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Annotations Text:

Jeff added that George looked healthy but "played out as regards clothes..."

Diary of George Washington Whitman, September 1861 to 6 September 1863

  • Date: September 1861; September 6, 1863
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

the ships with all their flags flying and I began to think the Burnside Expedition was not quite played

reached and forded the Rappahanock River a[t] a place called Keleys Ford and bivouaced, all pretty well played

Annotations Text:

It does not need calling in play the imagination to see that in such a record as this lies folded a perfect

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 9 June 1862

  • Date: June 9, 1862
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

Sogering too has he, well they will have good times in Baltimore for it seems to me this war is about played

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