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Had he yet sent the books to Forman? "No, but I shall.

I can't find any 'Memorandas'—I must send him a loose copy of 'Two Rivulets'—he must make his book out

Letter from Bucke, who is warm for the one dollar edition and suggests (wildly) that the three dollar book

We could make a five dollar book in morocco, but that would not be advisable.

Perhaps our three dollar and one dollar books would be the best—fit into all our purposes and please

He paid me $68 for big books to date, I giving him receipt.

Again we discussed book, the new "Leaves of Grass."

"I can see the day for dear books is past.

I like Dave's present book: the letterpress, the paper.

But I have a suspicion the cover of the three dollar book should be more elegant or substantial than

At the passage about the book he made me reread.

I had found on floor book Rhys had wished me to have, a pamphlet by-play entitled "The Great Cockney

I have sent the books, with them a loose copy of 'Two Rivulets.' The other book impossible."

Could not talk over book with him. Gone to New York and Boston, will be returned Saturday.

Prefers to have Gardner handle the foreign books.

Though Harry prints it a little vaguely here. I did not suppose it could be Harry's own.

Then going back to the Post piece, "It sounds very well, very—and warm enough to be Harry's, though it

Charney (W. spells it Cheney) worth printing in the book?"

O'Connor got first proofs of book forwarded from Washington today.

(Book will start with "The Ghost.") W. declares, "That's the first evidence of fact.

W. has not yet put book in shape for printers. "Now to be sure—forgotten again!

He acknowledged at the time the receipt of the book you handed him; so I knew the package must have reached

I am heartily glad if the books have been put to any use.

idolator of Whitman, he wrote to O'Connor in 1867: "Every year confirms my earliest impression, that no book

has approached the power and greatness of this book, since the Lear and Hamlet of Shakespeare" (Rufus

According to the "Hospital Note Book" (Henry E.

a month, Carleton "had the distinction of turning down both Leaves of Grass and Mark Twain's first book

I have been to see about getting together a package of books for you, but the booksellers are so busy

idolator of Whitman, he wrote to O'Connor in 1867: "Every year confirms my earliest impression, that no book

has approached the power and greatness of this book, since the Lear and Hamlet of Shakespeare" (Rufus

According to the "Hospital Note Book" (Henry E.

eulogy was published to great acclaim and is considered a classic panegyric (see Phyllis Theroux, The Book

Whitman recorded in his Commonplace Book that the lecture was "a noble, (very eulogistic to WW & L of

speech itself was published in New York by the Truth Seeker Company in 1890 (Whitman's Commonplace Book

All the books have arrived and been safely transmitted. Many thanks.

As I think I told you before, I shall ever regret the insertion of certain passages in your books (Children

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

of course if the printer wants it so, but mainly because you request it, I accede to the names of books

that the proposed paragraphing would be simply horrible: I mean the long enumeration of the great books

I love better the grand old Aldine manners of the books of former days.

I hope when the book comes out that you can arrange that I may have some copies at wholesale prices.

Have you seen the last edition of Dana's Household Book of Poetry? It is really cheering.

and hope, and such a great personality, that I write to express my simple thanks for the gift of the book

I said I would write to you about your Book when I found time to read it as it was written to be read

tremendous success, and Whitman was so showered with adulation that he observed in the Commonplace Book

By the late 1840s Ticknor and Fields were publishing most of their trade books in a dark brown cloth;

beginning in 1856 with Tennyson's The Poetical Works, Ticknor and Fields began to print books in a distinctive

For discussion of Ticknor and Fields's "blue and gold" books see Michael Winship, American Literary Publishing

There is a lion in the way—$ I could easily publish a small Book, but the one you propose—to stereotype

Whether I will or no depends somewhat on the printer's notions as to whether the book would sell.

Whitman wrote to James Redpath on October 21, 1863, with a detailed proposal for a book he proposed to

Shall I live to write my Shakespeare book and a score of gorgeous romances?

get nothing but promises from the booksellers for the present, so I sent you today a package of such books

I can send you more newspapers—and perhaps more books—in a few days, if you wish for another bundle.

idolator of Whitman, he wrote to O'Connor in 1867: "Every year confirms my earliest impression, that no book

has approached the power and greatness of this book, since the Lear and Hamlet of Shakespeare" (Rufus

valor, compassion and poetry that you are, and reciting moreover all the splendid passages from your book

I have many misgivings about your plan of getting out the book yourself.

But somebody whispers, open your book!

What care I for books now (though loved companions ever before).

I have that which is better than books. The book opens itself. What do I behold! oh! blessed eyes!

Swedenborg is best known for his 1758 book Heaven and Hell, in which he describes his vision of the afterlife

dignity, winning the reader thus from the start, and reinforced by all the following contents of the book

There are several persons with whom I wish to place copies, with a view to doing the book good.

The instance is, the peril—the terrible peril—in which he placed your book, when he got Oliver Stevens

my shanty—a large comfortable room on the brink of the hill, fifty yards from the house, where my books

Bucke's book? I hear nothing. How is Jenny O'Connor? Kindest remembrances to George and his wife.

Kennedy sent over a fresh batch of addenda for his book.

In the last one he proposes that I should try some other schemes for getting the book afloat.

This evening Herbert Gilchrist is coming down here to look through Kennedy's book, and something may

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

For more information on this book, see Edward Whitley, "Introduction to the British Editions of Leaves

I shall be glad to receive your new books.

Burroughs would write several books involving or devoted to Whitman's work: Notes on Walt Whitman, as

I read this afternoon in the book. I read its first division which I never before read.

It is more to me than all other books and poetry."

Your Specimen Days I regard as the most humane book of the present century.

with your life's work, and that I regard your Leaves of Grass as being the most original of American books

I should like the book to represent your penmanship as well as your skill as a printer.

Boston , 19 Jany 188 8 ing a little book nd book for schools Lincoln and celebrating ill contain the

He was Whitman's first biographer, and his book Cosmic Consciousness (1901), which features Whitman and

Bucke dedicated Man's Moral Nature (1879), his first book on his theory of evolving consciousness, "to

Bucke's biography of Whitman (1883) was an unconventional book, as much an anthology of documents about

collaboration; Whitman advised throughout, revised Bucke's text, and wrote significant portions of the book

with Horace Traubel and Thomas Harned, he served as Whitman's literary executor. was in a sense the book

He is the author of a book of poetry called "Leaves of Grass," which, whatever else you may think, is

Ralph Waldo Emerson pronounced it the representative book of the poetry of our age.

Since the publication of his book, Walt Whitman has driven hack in New York, and employed the hours of

We remember to have seen a brief criticism of the book in dear dead Putnam , by a critic who seemed to

If you attempt to gather the meaning of the whole book, you fail utterly.

Yet there are passages in the book of profound and subtle significance, and of rare beauty; with passages

so gross and revolting, that you might say of them, as the Germans say of bad books— Sie lassen sich

W goes through his book, like one in an ill-conditioned dream, perfectly nude, with his clothes over

Poet or not, however, there was that in Walt Whitman's first book which compels attention to his second

Whitman for his first book is past.

There were reasons in the preponderant beastliness of that book why a decent public should reject it;

The pieces of the new book are nearly all very brief, but generally his expression is freer and fuller

strange, shadowy sort of pleasure, but they do not satisfy, and you rise from the perusal of this man's book

WALT WHITMAN calls his latest book November Boughs , and in more ways than one it testifies and it appeals

Apart from the social import of his first book ("without yielding an inch, the working-man and working-woman

the reader that these are as innocent as so many sprays of apple blossom, and that he may take the book

The book is well named : it is meditative and reminiscent, with a sober fragrance in it like the scent

The poetry of Harris is very fine, but then he said out plumply that the spirits of departed poets gave

make his way into the confidence of his readers, and his poems in time will become a pregnant text-book

poet evinces greater interest in and curiosity about the actual facts than in figures and charts from books

In fact, the poem had not been known to exist until Jerome Loving discovered it in the Rare Book and

GuiyouHuang"When I Read the Book" (1867)"When I Read the Book" (1867)This poem exists in two versions

on the other hand, both suggest that the new poems in the 1867 edition, including "When I Read the Book

"When I Read the Book" (1867)

minister and senator from Iowa, fired Whitman upon discovering he was the author of Leaves of Grass, a book

poem "Hush'd be the Camps To-day," with a note about Lincoln's death to the final signature of the book

Whitman then decided to stop the printing and add a sequel to the book that would more fully take into

For more information on the printing of Drum-Taps (1865), see Ed Folsom, Whitman Making Books/Books Making

Washington I tried to find you but could not. when you first met me, on leaving you you gave me a small book

"Leaves of Grass," the poems entitled "For You O Democracy," p. 99, "the Singer in the Prison," p. 292

—I do not know whether you care to see notices of your books or not, but I venture to send you a review

," "The Singer in the Prison," and "For You, O Democracy" (Huntington Smith, ed., A Century of American

For more information on the book, see James E.

In the poem "To Thee Old Cause" he wrote, "My book and the war are one," and elsewhere he wrote that

By that date, the family knew brother George was missing in action—actually a prisoner of war, as they

later found out, at which point Walt would begin pulling strings to secure his release through prisoner

Also in 1864 Whitman proposed a book composed of his diary entries and observations on the war.

A pocket-sized 1881 translation of Epictetus's book by T.W.H.

Rolleston became his constant companion; he called the book "sacred, precious, to me: I have had it about

The book was a kind of manual for coping with infirmity and pain, calumny, vilification, and death.If

by black intellectuals before World War II, and was set to music as a "war song" for World War I by Harry

work of Whitman's old age (except for the reordering of Leaves of Grass during the same period), the book

Many of the fragments that compose the book had been published previously in periodicals, and most of

the Civil War section had formed a book entitled Memoranda During the War (1875-1876).

Throughout the book one finds such links between geography and historical epochs.

For all its emphasis on memory and continuity, it is a peculiarly "modern" book. 

Gay Wilson Allen argues that Whitman read his father's copies of the Free Inquirer and Wright's book