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Search : William White

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Walt Whitman to Reverend Minot Judson Savage, 4 November 1880

  • Date: November 4, 1880
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1977) 1:209.

William Taylor to Walt Whitman, 9 June 1880

  • Date: June 9, 1880
  • Creator(s): William Taylor
Text:

Sent copy to the Senator, and there was a prompt responce response of the White Plume Plumed Knight,

about the same reason that the crows display in pecking to death one of their kind happening to have a white

If he had been ill-dressed and low-minded, it is hardly probable that the beloved poet, William Cullen

William Taylor to Walt Whitman, 9 June 1880

James Hearne to Walt Whitman, 29 December 1880

  • Date: December 29, 1880
  • Creator(s): James Hearne
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 213).

Tammany Meeting Last Night

  • Date: 6 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William C. Gover, The Tammany Hall Democracy of the City of New York [New York: Martin B.

White and Company, 1895], 4: 37). addressed the assemblage, and spurred them on to do their best in the

The Era , edited at this time by Parke Godwin (the son-in-law of poet and editor William Cullen Bryant

Annotations Text:

White and Company, 1895], 4: 37).; John Hughes (1797–1864) was a Catholic, Irish-born bishop and later

Walt Whitman

  • Date: May 1892
  • Creator(s): William H. Garrison
Text:

the sporting event to sit in admiration of a clump of green trees that outlined themselves against a white

"How the white background sets off the many shades of the green leaves!"

, and this the poet has always been, that the "Whit" may either be the Saxon "wit" or "wisdom" or "white

" in the sense of his being a "white" man, but that the essence of the whole name lies in the last syllable

William H. Garrison . Our transcription is based on a digital image of an original issue.

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 7 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

I depart as air—I shake my white locks at the run-away sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it

William Wycherley (1641-1716) was an English playwright whose plays juxtaposed deep-seated Puritanism

In 1841 Macaulay offered a scathing assessment of William Wycherley's work. Leaves of Grass

Dictionaries

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

New York: William Morrow, 1990.Dressman, Michael Rowan.

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978.____.

'Song of the Exposition' [1871]

  • Creator(s): Wolfe, Karen
Text:

Kennedy, William Sloane. The Fight of a Book for the World. West Yarmouth, Mass.: Stonecroft, 1926. 

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980. ____.

Walt Whitman to Jeannette L. Gilder, 21 November [1881]

  • Date: November 21, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1:272.

Newspaperial Etiquette

  • Date: 18 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White, 1840], 753). themselves on their "influence."

Government Printing Office, 1884], 90; William Huntzicker, Popular Press, 1833–1865 [Westport, CT: Greenwood

Annotations Text:

White, 1840], 753).; Whitman's sarcastic comment is poking fun at the self-perceived influence of New

"Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling" (1881)

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980._____.

Long Islander

  • Creator(s): Karbiener, Karen
Text:

White, William. Walt Whitman's Journalism: A Bibliography. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1969. 

Wednesday, April 25, 1888.

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

"Here's something for you to take along—something for your archives: another of William's letters: a

William could not be uninteresting: this is a sort of executive letter, so to speak, yet it is racy,

sparkling—a real flame out of William's irrepressible fire."

The allusion, which is one George William will keenly feel, is to Tennyson's "O irresponsible, indolent

Have you seen Grant White's article in the Atlantic for April on the Bacon-Shakespeare craze?

The Celebration

  • Date: 28 April 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Water Department—Birkenbein, White, Moore, Barond, City Comptroller, J. N. Dutton.

Williams. Health Officer, Arthur Hughes. NEW HAVEN—Aldermen—H. S.

White, Ald. Huntley, and ex-Ald. Bannon acting as vice-chairmen.

Marion Hose Company No. 1—William H. Lawrence Foreman with a full company numbering 30.

White, whose own fair proportions distracted by no means from those of his noble team.

Maize-Tassels

  • Date: undated
Text:

Written at the top of the manuscript is the note, "White Horse notes."

Walt Whitman to Unidentified Correspondent, 18 April 1887

  • Date: April 18, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Walt Whitman's entry in his notebook (Daybooks and Notebooks [1978], 3 vols., ed. by William White) for

Walt Whitman to Albert D. Shaw, 9 April 1881

  • Date: April 9, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1:237.

Tuesday, September 10, 1889

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

Frank Williams wife is at Atlantic City—communication cut off—W. saying: "Yes, I read in this night's

Morris repeated a saying of Frank Williams': "It's the drapery that causes all the trouble"—and W. laughed

—found it white? White quartz, eh? Very pretty? No inscription? No monument of any kind?"

I have been waiting to see Talcott Williams—I fear the letters are cut—the high protection editors probably

Prohibition of Colored Persons

  • Date: 6 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Oregon prohibits colored persons, either slave or free, from entering the State—making an exclusively white

The great obstacle to Southern progress and enterprise is well-known to be the fact that White Labor

It would be altogether a contest with reference to the interest of the masses of the Whites, and would

Who believe that the Whites and Blacks can ever amalgamate in America? Or who wishes it to happen?

Besides, is not America for the Whites? And is it not better so?

Architects and Architecture

  • Creator(s): Roche, John F.
Text:

Similarly, in the prose pieces of Specimen Days, architecture serves to evoke a theme or mood, as in "The White

These include Edward Carpenter, William Sloane Kennedy, John Burroughs, and Elbert Hubbard.

Near Philadelphia, architect William L.

Sullivan worked for the important Philadelphia architect Frank Furness, who was the son of the Reverend William

George A. White to Walt Whitman, 28 November 1873

  • Date: November 28, 1873
  • Creator(s): George A. White
Text:

Whitman, Mrs White Today—Nov 28th 73—acknowledges the receipt of twenty five dollars on account from

White George A. White to Walt Whitman, 28 November 1873

The Late Riots

  • Date: 15 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

One of his loyal followers was William Ford, also known as Bill.

White, 1839], 427). attracted, probably, by the expectation of seeing "fun."

Annotations Text:

White, 1839], 427).; The Sixth Ward, also called "Five Points," was a poor, predominantly Irish, neighborhood

Saturday, April 25, 1891

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

I have left no more white space on that last page than I want."

Frank Williams brought me today a copy of Lippincott's for W. in which he discusses the static and dynamic

"Mystic Trumpeter, The" (1872)

  • Creator(s): Butler, Frederick J.
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980.

Taylor, Bayard (1825–1878)

  • Creator(s): Gould, Mitch
Text:

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982. Whitman, Walt.

Walt Whitman on Himself

  • Date: 8 June 1890
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

spot near the Market Street Ferry, where he can see the boats coming in and enjoy the sight of the white

Francis Howard Williams of Germantown wrote me the other day something that pleased me very much.

Davis, Mary Oakes (1837 or 1838–1908)

  • Creator(s): Singley, Carol J.
Text:

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.

British Romantic Poets

  • Creator(s): French, R.W.
Text:

well acquainted with the works of the British Romantic poets, none of them mattered to him as did William

probably dating from 1855 or 1856 specifically rebuked Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William

Swinburne's William Blake, which concluded with a laudatory comparison of Whitman and Blake.

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.

[My two theses]

  • Date: about 1856
Text:

theses]about 1856poetryhandwritten1 leaf4 x 16 cm pasted to 10.5 x 16 cm; On a small composite leaf of white

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 21 November 1877

  • Date: November 21, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Fanny R. Ritter, 24 February 1879

  • Date: February 24, 1879
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978) for February 24, 1879, and that he enclosed

Thursday, May 8, 1890

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

, strawberries—"perhaps blackberries best of all"—the raspberries better when "mixed with currants—white

him towards literariness grow stronger with age—yet I remember that even so keen and cute a man as William

William was one of the first to change—to recognize the gold in John: I only mention it now, confidentially

Drum-Taps (1865)

  • Creator(s): Eiselein, Gregory
Text:

Drum-Taps also garnered the attention of Henry James and William Dean Howells, both of whom disparaged

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

Saturday, March 2, 1889

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

William turned again to Nellie.

William of Stratford is too strong for me!"

I induced William to talk about W. as he was in Washington.

Bucke and William and I were face to face. William looked up at us.

William said: "Well." Bucke said: "William!" I said: "Love always!" No more.

Good for Governor Walker!

  • Date: 6 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the Jury-box, vote in all elections, meet us in social intercourse, and intermarry freely with the whites

The doctrine of the perfect equality of the white with the black in all respects whatsoever, social and

The Free State theory is that the West is the white man's land—the land for free independent farmers,

such a State government as will result in large plantations, full of African slaves, crowding out the white

farmer, white emigrant, and white poor family.

C. B. Burr to Walt Whitman, 22 January 1881

  • Date: January 22, 1881
  • Creator(s): C. B. Burr
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 1:220).

Walt Whitman to H. R. Ricardo, 24 October [1876]

  • Date: October 24, 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:45).

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 17 June 1881

  • Date: June 17, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978] 1:244).

Wilmot Proviso (1846)

  • Creator(s): Klammer, Martin
Text:

solidly within the Free Soil camp and showed his thinking on slavery to be motivated more by concern for white

echo the Free-Soilers' position that the introduction of slavery would discourage, if not prohibit, white

prototypical Free-Soiler and characterizes the debate as an issue not of race but of class between white

While Whitman's position follows the Free-Soilers' emphasis on white labor and not on moral opposition

to slavery, Whitman, unlike many Free-Soilers, does not evoke white anxiety about associating with blacks

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 11 November 1890

  • Date: November 11, 1890
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

The English visitor was likely Joseph William (Gleeson) White (1851–1898), an English critic and editor

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 2:575).

Whitman Noir: Black America & the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Wilson, Ivy G.
Text:

readers: a white fireman would have taken the white faces for granted and not have specified their color

The white that is—to whites—normally transparent becomes instead opaque, worth mentioning, there.

to a white speaker the whiteness of white faces is invisible or transparent.

to black and black to white.

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 3:748. 22.

"Marble Time" in the Park.

  • Date: 4 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

See: John Boag, Popular and Complete English Dictionary (London: William Collins, 1848), 903. twice the

White, 1839], 532). to the north. What troops of children, large and small, appear on every side!

Annotations Text:

White, 1839], 532).; "fen scrapins" was perhaps a slang term used during the game of "Ring Taw."

Whitman: The Correspondence, Volume VII

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

Facsimile: WWR 24 (1978), [134], 133, ed. by William White. 1.

Facsimile: WWR 25 (1979), [182], ed. by William White. 1.

Facsimile: WWR 26 (1980), [40], with notes by William White. 1.

Facsimile: WWR 28 (1982), 108, ed. by William White; and Miller, 33.

White, WW’s February 28. From William H. Millis, Jr. landlady. Berg.

"This Compost" (1856)

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

Leaves of Grass, 1876, Author's Edition

  • Creator(s): Keuling-Stout, Frances E.
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

White labor, versus Black labor

  • Date: 25 May 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White labor, versus Black labor White labor, versus Black labor.

whether it be submitted to the inhabitants of that territory for their fiat, the great cause of American White

indeed formed upon the wishes of the people, no doubt or shadow of doubt clouds the prospects of the White

Claims of Partisans

  • Date: 22 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

featured many sensationalized stories that were discredited, The Sun persisted in some form until 1950 (William

, Light and Shadows of Irish Life (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1838), 141; "Patrick," William

according to the belief of these sage, grave men, The phrase "sage, grave men" comes from a line in William

originally worked to elect Jeffersonian Republicans and to extend the right to vote to non-property owning white

Annotations Text:

originally worked to elect Jeffersonian Republicans and to extend the right to vote to non-property owning white

Saturday, November 9, 1889

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

I am very sure that William never foresaw where his lavish generosity would land me, & in his last years

Channing, now of Cal. where William spent some six months; but they are now in such pecuniary trouble

What case under heaven but in the hands of a cute lawyer may not evidence white black and black white

Russia and Other Slavic Countries, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): Bidney, Martin
Text:

In White Summer Lightnings (1908) Balmont sees the earth-titan Whitman as "building" utopian future cities

Swinburne's perspective (but that is a puzzle: in William Blake Swinburne praises Whitman highly).

Roger Asselineau and William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1972. 24–26.Bidney, Martin.

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 26 March 1878

  • Date: March 26, 1878
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Text:

the 'darkey man' is here yet: and George have their fun has been the about drinking it to his skin white

it all in good part: he asked Van other day, wheather whether the first man on earth was black or white

, and Van told him the first man was white, and then John asked him where the black man came from, and

clothes which I am to have like yours: I have had myself all pictured out with a suit of gray, and a white

Annotations Text:

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

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