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Search : William White

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Periodicals Devoted to Whitman

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
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White also oversaw the production of several special issues and publications, including Walt Whitman

1982 Wayne State University Press abruptly withdrew its support of the Review, and White and Feinberg

White until it was discontinued after the 1985 issue.

In Japan, William L.

New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 1992.White, William.

Pennell, Joseph (1857–1926), and Elizabeth Robins (1855–1936)

  • Creator(s): Garrett, Paula K.
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Pennell did illustrations for many well-known writers, including George Washington Cable, William Dean

A Peep at the Israelites

  • Date: 28 March 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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A white silken mantle, somewhat like a scarf, was worn by every person; it encircled the neck, falling

The silk scarf that Whitman is referring to is a tallit, a white garment that is shawl-like and is worn

platform which made part of this structure, there was another figure standing, half shrouded in a white

Scott" and "Shakespeare's Shylock" are both Jewish characters in works from Sir Walter Scott and William

Similarly, Shylock is a character from the William Shakespeare play, The Merchant of Venice .

Annotations Text:

.; The silk scarf that Whitman is referring to is a tallit, a white garment that is shawl-like and is

[Peace no more]

  • Date: undated
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leaf16 x 19 cm; A draft beginning "Peace no more, but flag of war" written in pencil on a sheet of white

Paumanok

  • Date: about 1888
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copy.loc.00259xxx.00312Paumanokabout 1888poetryhandwritten1 leaf12 x 21 cm; Written in ink on a sheet of white

Patroling Barnegat.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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piercing and pealing, Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing, Out in the shadows there milk-white

wending, Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting, Along the midnight edge by those milk-white

Patroling Barnegat.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

piercing and pealing, Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing, Out in the shadows there milk-white

wending, Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting, Along the midnight edge by those milk-white

["Pastourel," by Frederick Soulie]

  • Date: 28 September 1847
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Soulie] "Pastourel," by Frederick Soulie, translated from the French by Samuel Spring, published by Williams

[party, a night of]

  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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looked a moment at the blaze of the great wood fire, ran his forefinger and left through the heavy white

Parodies

  • Creator(s): Andriano, Joseph
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Intermediate Geography" (Falk 138).Some parodies were downright mean-spirited, like Richard Grant White's

But mainly White views Whitman as a drunken, disreputable boaster reveling in physical corruption—"Of

White especially takes umbrage at Whitman's vision "Of the beauty of flat-nosed, pock-marked" Africans

White's, is Helen Gray Cone's verse dialogue, "Narcissus in Camden: A Classical Dialogue of the Year

New York: Scribner's, 1922.Zaranka, William, ed. The Brand-X Anthology of Poetry.

The Pallid Wreath.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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is, Let it remain back there on its nail suspended, With pink, blue, yellow, all blanch'd, and the white

Painters and Painting

  • Creator(s): Bohan, Ruth L.
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larger and more established American Art Union, whose president in the mid-1840s was Whitman's friend, William

A black and white print of Eakins's gripping Gross Clinic, given him by the painter, graced Whitman's

completion of the portrait and painted portraits of several Whitman associates, including Talcott Williams

Two of Eakins's associates, sculptors William R.

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

The Ox-Tamer.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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some are such beautiful animals, so lofty looking; Some are buff-color'd, some mottled, one has a white

The Ox-Tamer.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

some are such beautiful animals, so lofty looking; Some are buff-color'd, some mottled, one has a white

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Winds blowsouth, or winds blow north, Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

shadows, Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts, The white

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

shadows, Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts, The white

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

Out of May's Shows Selected.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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golden, transparent haze of the warm afternoon sun; The aspiring lilac bushes with profuse purple or white

Out from Behind this Mask

  • Date: About 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The poem was written in response to an engraving by William J.

Our Wounded and Sick Soldiers

  • Date: 11 December 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

presented here, in the generally fine, soft, peculiar air and light,) and has his eyes attracted by these white

Our Veterans Mustering Out

  • Date: 5 August 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White Sulphur Springs.

White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, was the site of continuing skirmishes during August of 1862 along the

The resort of White Sulphur Springs was turned into a hospital in 1862 and cared for both Union and Confederate

A major battle at White Sulphur Springs took place the following summer, but George Whitman was not involved

Hill, Major General Henry Heth, and Major General William Mahone. loss slight. September 30.

Annotations Text:

.; White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, was the site of continuing skirmishes during August of 1862 along

The resort of White Sulphur Springs was turned into a hospital in 1862 and cared for both Union and Confederate

A major battle at White Sulphur Springs took place the following summer, but George Whitman was not involved

Our Old Feuillage.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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where men have not yet sail'd, the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes, White

tree tops, Below, the red cedar festoon'd with tylandria, the pines and cypresses growing out of the white

wind, The camp of Georgia wagoners just after dark, the supper-fires and the cooking and eating by whites

Our Old Feuillage.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

where men have not yet sail'd, the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes, White

tree tops, Below, the red cedar festoon'd with tylandria, the pines and cypresses growing out of the white

wind, The camp of Georgia wagoners just after dark, the supper-fires and the cooking and eating by whites

Our New York Letter: Jennie June's Weekly Jottings

  • Date: 17 March 1877
  • Creator(s): Jennie June
Text:

Both men look older than they are, for the massive head of on all gray, and the other all white.

his time with some English friends, the family of the late Alexander Gilchrist, the biographer of William

The biography of William Blake was completed by his wife, who wrote a preface, which is said to be the

Our Brooklyn Boys in the War

  • Date: 05 January 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Matthew Partridge, William Gill, DEATHS OF BROOKLYN MEN.

Our Boston Literary Letter

  • Date: 10 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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most novel and interesting long article in the number is Mrs Talbot's felicitous translation of Dr William

Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly, human, With your woolly-white and turbaned head, and bare

Our Book Table

  • Date: 27 February 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers.

Then he is "Pleased with primitive tunes of the choir of the white- washed white-washed church," And

An Ossianic Paragraph

  • Date: After 1846; 13 November 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
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went out by night and struck the bosky shield, and called to him the spirits of the heroes and the white-armed

To me, too, came those visionary shapes; floating slowly and gracefully, their white robes would unfurl

Osler, Dr. William (1849–1919)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
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William (1849–1919)Osler, Dr.

William (1849–1919) Born in Bond Head, Ontario, Canada, Osler graduated from the McGill University medical

The Life of Sir William Osler. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1925. Leon, Philip W.

Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler: A Poet and His Physician. Toronto: ECW, 1995. Traubel, Horace.

William (1849–1919)

Osgood, James R. (1836–1892)

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
Text:

William A.PannapackerOsgood, James R. (1836–1892)Osgood, James R. (1836–1892) Born in Fryeburg, Maine

After the Boston "suppression," Richard Maurice Bucke, John Burroughs, and William O'Connor rallied around

"Osceola" (1890)

  • Creator(s): Sierra-Oliva, Jesus
Text:

Soon, some white raiders kidnapped Osceola's wife.

to add to Leaves of Grass his homage to Osceola, one of their bravest heroes.BibliographyHartley, William

Orville Hickman Browning to William M. Evarts, 17 March 1868

  • Date: March 17, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Text:

William M. Evarts, Esq. Dear Sir: I have just received a telegram from Mr.

Elizabeth Lorang Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Orville Hickman Browning to William

Orville Hickman Browning to William M. Evarts, 16 July 1868

  • Date: July 16, 1868.
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
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Elizabeth Lorang Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Orville Hickman Browning to William

Orville Hickman Browning to William Henry Trescott, 10 June 1868

  • Date: June 10, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
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Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Orville Hickman Browning to William

Orville Hickman Browning to William H. Seward, 7 July 1868

  • Date: July 7, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Text:

William H.

Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Orville Hickman Browning to William

Orville Hickman Browning to William H. Seward, 6 May 1868

  • Date: May 6, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Text:

William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen Orville Hickman Browning to William

Orville Hickman Browning to William H. Seward, 5 May 1868

  • Date: May 5, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
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William H. Seward, Secretary of State. Sir: I have the honor to return herewith a letter from Hon.

Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen Orville Hickman Browning to William

Orville Hickman Browning to William H. Seward, 2 July 1868

  • Date: July 2, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
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William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

Williams, the subject of a communication made to your Department by the United States Consul at Melbourne

Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Orville Hickman Browning to William

Orville Hickman Browning to Lyman Trumbull, 7 July 1868

  • Date: July 7, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Text:

William M.

Orville Hickman Browning to John McAllister Schofield, 22 June 1868

  • Date: June 22, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Text:

It is confidently believed and averred that if two whites, felons, malefactors, and outlaws, had fallen

"From these proceedings, it will appear that the said Isaac Owens was regularly in charge of said William

killing, when the infuriated mob of freedmen were about to take Isaac Owens away to kill him, our white

Orville Hickman Browning to Columbus Delano, 3 April 1868

  • Date: April 3, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
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Williams, Assistant to S. A. Riggs, U. S.D.

Williams S. A. Riggs, Kansas, for Qr. end'g April 26, '69 June 26, S. F.

Williams Kansas 3d qr. 1869 $375 22 W. Virginia 3d qr. 1869 $125 Nov. 3 So.

Orville Hickman Browning to Andrew Johnson, 28 March 1868

  • Date: March 28, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Text:

that at the recent February term of the Circuit of the United States for the District of Kentucky, William

The prisoner is a white person and the deceased was a negro.

Orville Hickman Browning to Andrew Johnson, 16 July 1868

  • Date: July 16, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Text:

Rowan Boone to be United States Marshal for the District of Kentucky, in the place of William A.

Organs of the Democracy

  • Date: 29 March 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The first editor-in-chief was William Coleman (1766–1829).

The poet William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) took over in the 1830s, and was the editor-in-chief for nearly

For more information on William Cullen Bryant and the Evening Post , see: Allan Nevins, The Evening Post

Organicism

  • Creator(s): Costanzo, Angelo
Text:

In a lecture on William Shakespeare's work, the British romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, rejected

flight of mating eagles.The first scholar to write at length about Whitman's organic principle was William

London: Martin Secker, 1914.Kennedy, William Sloane. Reminiscences of Walt Whitman.

Oratory

  • Creator(s): Mason, John B.
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Whitman might have seen a model in William Andrus Alcott, Bronson Alcott's cousin and the author of nearly

For many writers of the day, like William Alcott and Ralph Waldo Emerson, writing led to a primary career

Speech Monographs 19 (1952): 11–26.Finkel, William L. "Walt Whitman's Manuscript Notes on Oratory."

Optimism

  • Creator(s): Renner, Dennis K.
Text:

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1955.Erkkila, Betsy. Whitman the Political Poet.

Opera and Opera Singers

  • Creator(s): Stauffer, Donald Barlow
Text:

,' with Donizetti's 'Lucia' or 'Favorita' or 'Lucrezia,' and Auber's 'Massaniello,' or Rossini's 'William

He had little interest in what the critic Richard Grant White called "the thin, throaty, French way of

One Wicked Impulse! A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: September 7, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Learning far out of an open window, appeared a white draperied shape, its face possessed of a wonderful

One Wicked Impulse! A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: September 8, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The first, titled "The White Dove.—( A Hymn for Children )," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

Annotations Text:

The first, titled "The White Dove.—(A Hymn for Children)," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

The first, titled "The White Dove.—(A Hymn for Children)," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

"One Touch of Nature"

  • Date: 22 September 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

One William Shakespeare, a literary man, who is supposed to have understood the intricacies of human

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