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She looked weary, and her eyes were red with weeping.

The ceiling was hung with cages, in two of which were turtle doves; in the others were a robin and a

Many were presentation copies—among them one by Longfellow, and one by Tennyson.

In this confused pile were rolls of manuscript written on different colored bits of paper; many were

As a rule visitors were admitted in the afternoon or early evening.

The poet's face was just as ruddy as the bright face above him, and his eyes were as bright and his smile

he would accept such a position, but still I would like only too well to put a feather in his cap were

They were in the air, in Carlyle's and Emerson's works in particular, and they were not even hers to

body-politic were really a body."

American public health and American national policy.

ultimately an American republic-in which men loving men can live and love and touch openly-a dream city

republic and the American race.

The handsome third (1860-61) Boston edition, published by Thayer & Eldridge, commenced well and paid

Whitman's darkest times were from 1873 to 1876.

Whitman had made a good fight, but the fates were adverse.

Lists of purchasers of the $10 edition were sent over to Whitman, accompanied by the money.

Among the names were those of G. H. Lewes, Vernon and Godfrey Lushington, Dante G. and William M.

The floor around it, and one or two chairs near it, were strewn with scrawled half-sheets of note-paper

His tone and manner were perfectly cheerful, and went far to explain the affectionate interest he is

You were explaining the plan of your work?"

WALT WHITMAN, THE AMERICAN POET OF DEMOCRACY.

that a new poet had arisen in America, and that much difference of opinion existed as to his merits, were

had in his pocket while we were talking.

These were all inarticulate poets, and he interpreted them.

Walt Whitman, The American Poet of Democracy

Walt Whitman, the American Poet.

their souls as an instinct, their general tone of thought and feeling, and modes of expressing them, were

One of his own countrymen (a press correspondent) thus writes of him— The only American prophet to my

The "seven cities" refer to Chios, Athens, Rhodes, Colophon, Argos, Smyrna, and Salamis.

Walt Whitman, the American Poet

Clear Grits were reformers in the province of Upper Canada, a British colony that is now Ontario, Canada

Their support was concentrated among southwestern Ontario farmers, who were frustrated and disillusioned

The Clear Grits advocated universal male suffrage, representation by population, democratic institutions

They can easily be remembered through the mnemonic "carcass" (the first letter of each city spells the

have been attributed to several writers, including Thomas Heywood (died 1649), who wrote: "Seven cities

With each language were imported poetic, artistic, and cultural seeds.

Most of my friends were English.

And the consciousness of being the poet of such Americanness.

The city, and the countryside, everything. There is nothing.

cities.

It is rather the poet's review in his old age of what he conceives were his intentions in his manhood's

breath of life to my whole scheme that the bulk of the pieces might as well have been left unwritten were

shocked amazement, the dear people all the while forgetful of the fact that in reading Whitman they were

The American nation is not much at present, but will be some day the most glorious one on earth.

I always remember that my ancestors were Dutch .

He has a smack of Americanism, American individuality, a smack of outdoor life, the wash of the sea,

But he is too melancholy for a great representative of American poetry.

"Leaves of Grass" are the reflections of American life and ideas which reflect again.

Whitman received, like all our salaries in this city, a small affair; but he always lived frugally, and

You think it mere "recklessness" in him to charge that the literary class of American persecute our poet

Whenever he wants facts to sustain that charge, American authors will owe it to the magnanimity of Walt

author, favorably, if feebly, reviewing "Leaves of Grass" in The North American , even linking it with

Be it so: we can well pardon blindness—or could, were it not for its resultant bitterness.

How he Commenced to Write and the Way his Works were Received.

"How did you know we were aboard the train?"

You may say, in fact, that with true American instinct I feel like lecturing.

"Thought you were throwing away your life, did they?" asked the doctor.

Legally, however, the blacks were slaves.

But in the history of Russian literature there were earlier treatments of free verse in poetry.

In a review of foreign novels he writes: "English critics are strongly opposed to the American novel

He belongs to the old type of American workers.

In Germany he is known among learned men of letters more than any other contemporary American poets."

okhotnika' ['A Sportsman's Sketches'] I will send a few translated lyric poems of the remarkable American

I looked at him closely; his hands were strong and clean, his nails cared for.

subjects—make all except inspirations and intentions; must mould mold and carve and sing the ideal American

I wanted to know what the surroundings of this man were.

I always had an idea that poets were fed on finer food than falls to the lot of ordinary mortals, but

They were especially interested in the old Whitman burial hill and cemetery, containing the poet's ancestors

The house, barn, and other buildings were all gone and the ground ploughed over.

Whitman's relations with Boston were of quite another kind.

But these visits were notable occasions in his life.

cities so far as the native social element, that which distinguishes them as American, was concerned

"Whereupon we went and had a good dinner at the American House."

The passionate toll and clang—city to city, join- ing, sounding, passing Those heart-beats of a Nation

Pratt, the American Consul at Belfast."

He is in love with Denver City, and speaks admiringly of Missouri and Indiana.

While in the market, the other day, with a party of us, we were all weighed; his weight was 200 pounds

Next the very finely gotten up Boston edition of 1860, in ordinary 12mo., which size has been adhered

All stood up, ready, as it were, to fall into the ranks for him.

It first commenced with a letter from the English laureate, full of courtesy to his American brother,

I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is

Walt Whitman: His Ideas About the Future of American Literature WALT WHITMAN.

His Ideas About the Future of Amer- ican American Literature.

"What will be the character of the American literature when it does form?"

They are appearing in the Eastern cities and in the West.

They are very American. Emerson is our first man. He is in every way what he should be.

poets, however conservative they may be, tend to the same democratic humanitarianism as our great Americans

deliver my essay or lecture or whatever you may be pleased to call it on Abraham Lincoln in New-York City

He it was who wrote the first article in any American magazine about me.

The New York City Directory lists Pendleton at this address starting in 1869, and advertisements for

Craig's Daguerreian Registry as having a studio at 5 Chatham Square in New York from 1857 through 1860

his imprint with the Chatham Square address, suggesting he may have been there through most of the 1860s

, ca. late 1860s If this photograph is a Kurtz, it must be dated 1865 or later, after Kurtz opened his

, ca. late 1860s This photo is often dated 1861, but it appears to be later, and it would seem to be

, ca. late 1860s Kurtz's "Rembrandt" style of light and shadow is suggested here.

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. late 1860s This photo is usually dated 1860, but Kurtz did not open

Library of Congress copy is endorsed by WW: "Walt Whitman 1869" (which Henry Saunders misread as "1860

The time between the opening of Kurtz’s first studio in New York City in 1865 and the publication of

Robinson, “Laurence Hutton and a Newly Recovered Photograph of Walt Whitman," WWQR, p. 160; Smithsonian American

preconceived notion of what it should be” (With Walt Whitman in Camden, Thursday, May 10, 1888).Most Americans

According to the 1890 Philadelphia city directory, William, Jr. lived at 864 41st Street, and Louis lived

"Yes—that was an actual moth," he told Traubel, "the picture is substantially literal: we were good friends

What is not often noted is that the photo simply enacts one of the recurrent visual emblems in the 1860

Gurney and Son, 1871 Whitman dates this picture to about 1865, but Gurney & Son were at 707 Broadway

Johnston, including the 1854 Gabriel Harrison daguerreotype and the 1860 painting by Charles W.

Stereoscopes were invented before photography (the original ones used drawn landscapes), but they increased

Kinder Karr, in "A Friendship and a Photograph: Sophia Williams, Talcott Williams, and Walt Whitman" (American

Both were frequent visitors to Whitman’s Mickle Street home in Camden in the 1880s.

They were friends of Thomas Eakins, who painted both their portraits.

Black photo in 1860 (zzz.00134) and two photos of Whitman with his friend Bill Duckett, taken in 1886

bilingual newspaper published in Bringier, Louisiana, just upriver from New Orleans, between 1846 and 1860

Walt Whitman by Unknown, ca. early 1860s Henry S.

Chicago Albumen Works, Inc., with the assistance of a grant from the Gilder-Lehrmann Institute for American

Hine, who had painted Whitman's portrait in 1860.

talks about a new photo of “the eccentric poet” on display at Root’s Daguerrian Gallery in New York City

his painting of Whitman on this image, which in turn served as the model for Stephen Alonzo Schoff’s 1860

See Ted Genoways, "'Scented herbage of my breast': Whitman's Chest Hair and the Frontispiece to the 1860

Though Murray’s photographs were intended merely as studies, they are especially important because they

Though Murray’s photographs were intended merely as studies, they are especially important because they

Whitman's 'Calamus' Photographs" in Betsy Erkkila and Jay Grossman, Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American

Hine, 1860 Whitman called this engraving, which he used as the frontispiece for the 1860 edition of Leaves

See Ted Genoways, "'Scented herbage of my breast': Whitman's Chest Hair and the Frontispiece to the 1860

Though Murray’s photographs were intended merely as studies, they are especially important because they

Readers were used to formal portraits of authors, usually in frock coats and ties.

Very often they were posed at reading tables with books spread open before them or holding a thick volume

Perhaps the first American “celebrity photographer,” Sarony made much of his money selling portraits

Perhaps the first American “celebrity photographer,” Sarony made much of his money selling portraits

Perhaps the first American “celebrity photographer,” Sarony made much of his money selling portraits

Perhaps the first American “celebrity photographer,” Sarony made much of his money selling portraits