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ultimate transformation of the Preface into poetry was not, however, Whitman's; it came in 1982 when William

this summary may suggest, Whitman's 1855 Preface deserves comparison with the works of Robert Burns, William

Blake, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and, of course, Emerson.In 1855, the Preface

Walt Whitman Review 10 (1964): 51–60.Everson, William. American Bard.

citizens underscores the popular displeasure with the contemporary squabbles between races, in the white

wildpigeon and highhold and orchard-oriole and coot and surf-duck and redshouldered-hawk and fish-hawk and white-ibis

Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration

.00323xxx.00586Preface1890prose1 leafhandwrittenprinted; A corrected galley proof of Whitman's Preface to William

Gilded Age, when in 1872 his opposition to black suffrage cost him his important friendship with William

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

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1980.

philosophical tradition of American pragmatism, especially such pragmatists as Ralph Waldo Emerson, William

And so, mindful of William James's great pragmatic insight that "truth happens to an idea," I will test

Like William James's pragmatic theory of truth, Whitman's conception of judgment endlessly defers any

William James famously claimed that pragmatism is not a philosophy but a methodology only, not a closed

William Cookson. London: Faber and Faber, 1973. Willard, Charles B.

Whitman started out largely as a writer of gloom and skepticism, in the vein of popular poets like William

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

An ardent Jacksonian Democrat, he revered William Leggett, the party's foremost spokesman in the 1830s

Democratic presidential candidate Martin Van Buren, who lost his re-election bid to Whig candidate William

the Wilmot Proviso, but he remained loyal.Whitman defended the rights and dignity of free male labor—white

of the people of the Union, Whitman was not prepared to accept the political and social equality of white

We have his aim now set before us in black and white.

Clemens (Mark Twain), Charles Dudley Warner, John Boyle O'Reilly, William J.

Elkins, Charles Emory Smith, Talcott Williams, of Philadelphia; William D.

Stuart, William W. Justice, John Harker, of Exina, Canada, and R. M. Buck, M. D., and Dr.

William Bell Scott , a name perhaps not very familiar to most of our readers, but which Mr.

William Bell Scott, British poet and artist, introduced Rossetti to the 1855 Leaves of Grass.

In the dooryard fronting an old farmhouse near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing

Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white, or white come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

soiree, I heard what the singers were singing so long, Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farmhouse, The sun just shines on her old white

, of original grandeur and elegance of design, with the masses of gay colour, the preponderance of white

and sunny temperament, a sight to draw near and look upon with her large figure, her profuse snow-white

(William Carlos Williams credits Whitman with foreshadowing the "variable foot," though it is difficult

, and literary poesis is best expressed by a devout and subtle reader of Whitman, the philosopher William

New York: Library of America, 1983.James, William.

Certainly, nothing like this could be said of poor William Shakespeare.

instance:— "All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it; Did you think it was in the white

My children and grand-children—my white hair and beard, My largeness, calmness, majesty, out of the long

I am more than eighty years of age—my hair, too, is pure white—I am the most venerable mother; How clear

SELECTED AND EDITED WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI.

TO WILLIAM BELL SCOTT.

with my lips the white face in the coffin.

Written by William Shakespeare, 1600.

By the late William Makepeace Thackeray.

William Michael Rossetti has been for some time what may be called a disciple of Whitman.

Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti —J.C. Hotten.

side through the night, and withdraws at the peep of the day, And leaves for me baskets covered with white

And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers, Darker than the colorless beards of

The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the sun, they do not ask who seizes

Painless after all I lie, exhausted but not so un- happy unhappy , White and beautiful are the faces

Let the white person tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

I see not merely that you are polite or white-faced, married, single, citizens of old states, citizens

The sum of all known reverence I add up in you, whoever you are, The President is there in the White

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it, Did you think it was in the white or gray

bars of pig-iron, the strong clean-shaped T rail for rail- roads railroads , Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead-works

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

sun- set sunset , the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, light falling on roofs and gables of white

beauty of person, 8 The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white

swelling and deliciously aching, Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow

Examine these limbs, red, black, or white—they are so cunning in tendon and nerve, They shall be stript

of their churches—I hear the responsive base and soprano, I hear the wail of utter despair of the white

- haired white-haired Irish grand-parents, when they learn the death of their grand-son, I hear the cry

Mediterranean, and from one to another of its islands, The inland fresh-tasted seas of North America, The White

you white or black owners of slaves! You owned persons dropping sweat-drops or blood-drops!

Remember what was promulged by the founders, ratified by The States, signed in black and white by the

wild-pigeon, high-hold, orchard- oriole orchard-oriole , coot, surf-duck, red-shouldered-hawk, fish-hawk, white-ibis

My children and grand-children—my white hair and beard, My largeness, calmness, majesty, out of the long

I am more than eighty years of age—my hair, too, is pure white—I am the most venerable mother; How clear

the unearthly cry, Its veins down the neck distend, its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites

Off the word I have spoken I except not one — red, white, black, all are deific, In each house is the

soiree, I heard what the singers were singing so long, Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farm-house, The sun just shines on her old white

Bring down those tossed arms and let your white hair be, Here gape your smart grand-sons—their wives

/ My children and grand-children, my white hair and beard, / My largeness, calmness, majesty, out of

gave him not one inch, but held on and night near the helpless fogged wreck, over leaf How the lank white

titled "Song of Myself," first published as the first poem in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass: "The white-topped

busily engaged in pipe-laying and plotting for the succession to that goal of their ambition, the White

his gang supposedly seeing Tammany supporters distributing ballots outside the Sixth Ward Hotel (William

.— Methinks, white‑winged angels, Floating unseen the while, Hover around this village green, And pleasantly

And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird

Charles Reagan Wilson and William R. Ferris.

William Cronon. Washington, DC: Library of America, 1997. Mulder, William.

Charles Reagan Wilson and William R. Ferris.

Charles Reagan Wilson and William R. Ferris.

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980. "Pioneers!

that nature emphatically chose him for the profession of poet, more so than Oliver Wendell Holmes, William

and after the battles; he also bathed his war poems in moonlight, reminiscent of the dark black-and-white

William A.PannapackerPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaKnown as the Quaker City and

Talcott Williams, a journalist for the Philadelphia Press (1881–1912), managed to get the Boston prohibition

Among the most visible were King Clapp and the queen, Ada Clare, Fitz-James O'Brien, George Arnold, William

promoted free love—and validated and encouraged many of Whitman's predilections.BibliographyHowells, William

& the splendor of such a great street & so many tall, ornamental, noble buildings, many of them of white

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978] 1:79).

Their names can be found on the passenger list for the vessel William Patten .

They had two sons, Edward, a bricklayer, and William, a carpenter.

William R.

Whites ( ., 2: 308).

McLaughlin's mother); Katherine; William E.; and Henrietta.

We are glad to find the old poet in good health, and although his hair is white his heart seems to be

Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF WALT WHITMAN By William Roscoe Thayer

impressed you most was his face, with its fresh, pink skin, as of a child, and the flowing beard, white

His hair and beard are long and very white.

I shall long remember him with his white fleece, pink complexion, and friendliness.

So Walt's loafing around the White House was not wholly unremunerated.

at the door of our room—which served both as dining and sitting room—was answered by my husband, William

The landlord was consulted, the room could be rented, and on the return of Walt and William from the

It was soon after that Whitman's old friend, William Swanton, who was war correspondent for one of the

Even so remote and unheard-of a subject as the white beard of Secretary Welles—then Secretary of the

William Henry Channing was living. They had often asked us to bring Whitman, and he and Mr.

sunshine, the trees of Central park, opposite our door, for a background, a baby boy in his arms, his white

Rushing through intervening doors and passages, I found Walt Whitman standing ashy white, and the huge

Aging prematurely, he now became the Good Gray Poet of William O'Connor's polemical pamphlet published

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1955.Kaplan, Justin. Walt Whitman: A Life.

Boston: Twayne, 1990.O'Connor, William. The Good Gray Poet: A Vindication.

Perry, Bliss (1860–1954) Bliss Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and graduated from Williams

Stedman, John Burroughs, Talcott Williams, J.T.