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Search : William White

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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).

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

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

Patroling Barnegat.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • 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

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

Cassius M. Clay to Walt Whitman, 6 January 1891

  • Date: January 6, 1891
  • Creator(s): Cassius M. Clay
Text:

White Hall, Ky.

I remain yours truly Cassius Marcellus Clay Walt Whitman Esq. see | notes | April 1 st | 1891 White Hall

Annotations Text:

On the lower left Clay has written: "White Hall: | ky. | C. Clay."

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.

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.

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.

"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."

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.____.

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

"Fireman's Dream, The" (1844)

  • Creator(s): McGuire, Patrick
Text:

The Native American was found by white pioneers when he was about seven.

opposite that of Natty Bumppo of The Pioneers (1823) and other James Fenimore Cooper novels, who is a white

The first sentences of chapter 2 establish the duality: "I am white by education and an Indian by birth

"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.____.

scene in the woods on

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

Hospital Note Book Walt Whitman This prose narrative (probably describing the battle of White Oak Swamp

scene in the woods on the peninsula—told me by Milton Roberts, ward G (Maine) after the battle of White

The prose narrative at the beginning probably describes the battle of White Oak Swamp and is the basis

Annotations Text:

The prose narrative at the beginning probably describes the battle of White Oak Swamp and is the basis

W. I. Whiting to Walt Whitman, 14 June 1886

  • Date: June 14, 1886
  • Creator(s): W. I. Whiting
Text:

Whiting W. I. Whiting to Walt Whitman, 14 June 1886

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.

Public School Training

  • Date: 5 November 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whiting for the exclusion from the list of studies prescribed for our public schools of such branches

Whiting’s resolution that they are, the poor—for whom mainly the schools are designed—reap no benefit

Whiting’s resolution will not be summarily ignored—but that it will provoke at least discussion and inquiry

Silas S. Soule to Walt Whitman, 12 March 1862

  • Date: March 12, 1862
  • Creator(s): Silas S. Soule
Text:

Canby had only eight hundred white men and one Reg of Mexicans under the renowned Kit Carson .

Sibley had three thousand men our white men done all the fighting for the Mexicans broke and ran at the

miles farther before they slept and they did  they started off singing the Star spangled banner, Red White

Old Ireland.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

grave an ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen, now lean and tatter'd seated on the ground, Her old white

cold ground with fore- head forehead between your knees, O you need not sit there veil'd in your old white

Old Ireland.

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

grave an ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen, now lean and tatter'd seated on the ground, Her old white

cold ground with fore- head forehead between your knees, O you need not sit there veil'd in your old white

The Mask thrown off

  • Date: 7 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White, 1839], 732). from Austrian monasteries—be permitted thus to dictate what Tammany Tammany, fully

From Scene II, Act III of William Shakespeare's Macbeth .

Annotations Text:

White, 1839], 732).; Tammany, fully known as Tammany Hall, was the political machine of the Democratic

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

[When I heard at the close of]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00080[When I heard at the close of]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leaves15 x 9.5 cm; On two leaves of white

paper, both measuring 15 x 9.5 cm; the lower half of the second page is pasted over with a section of white

Amos T. Akerman to Richard H. Whitely, 24 February 1871

  • Date: February 24, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Whitely, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.

Whitely, 24 February 1871

Old Ireland.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

grave, an ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen—now lean and tatter'd, seated on the ground, Her old white

on the cold ground, with forehead between your knees; O you need not sit there, veil'd in your old white

Old Ireland

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

grave, an ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen—now lean and tatter'd, seated on the ground, Her old white

on the cold ground, with forehead between your knees; O you need not sit there, veil'd in your old white

Cassius M. Clay to Walt Whitman, 9 July 1887

  • Date: July 9, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cassius M. Clay
Text:

White Hall, Ky. 7-9-1887 My dear Mr.

Annotations Text:

The envelope also includes the following return address: C, Clay: White Hall, Ky.

Walt Whitman to Isabella Ford, 8 December 1883

  • Date: December 8, 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 2:325).

Tuesday, March 5, 1889

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

Again: "Hugo is one of William's enthusiasms: he often used to talk of it."

Bucke said: ""William is subject to crazy enthusiasms." I said to W. "Were they crazy?"

W. laughed: "Maurice is wrong: Maurice himself is more likely to do that thing than William: it is odd

for such a characterization: quite the contrary: William always has the best of reasons for whatever

Great are Talcott Williams and Thomas Donaldson, and blessed be their names.

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.

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

Amos T. Akerman to D. J. Baldwin, 10 November 1871

  • Date: November 10, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Whiting has been received.

If I should learn that a suit against either White or Hodges, or both, for the recovery of the money,

Radicalism

  • Creator(s): Panish, Jon
Text:

Grass reflects his humanitarian belief in the value of all human beings, his deepest sympathy was with white

important issue for Whitman because of its potentially devastating effect on the status and livelihood of white

Leaves of Grass is compared to the work of Whitman's poetic contemporaries—John Greenleaf Whittier, William

Every Day Talk: Walt Whitman's Story of the Purpose of His Writings—Odds and Ends

  • Date: 7 September 1888
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Long white hair, long white beard and mustache, a florid face, with blue eyes alive with fire, a gigantic

His old white hat lies on a chair.

Defining "Our Position"

  • Date: 30 March 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White, 1839]).

White, 1839]). This piece is unsigned.

Annotations Text:

White, 1839]).

White, 1839]).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of an original issue.

Canada, Whitman's Visit to

  • Creator(s): Mason-Browne, N.J.
Text:

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

"Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood" (1872)

  • Creator(s): Losey, Jay
Text:

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

"Wound-Dresser, The" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

Friday, November 22, 1889

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

On Keats, Byron, Kirke White, others, this scurrility, abuse, contempt, was bestowed.

No one can know it as I know it—not my nearest friends of the old days—not even William O'Connor, not

New Books

  • Date: 26 May 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Newport, Rye, Niagara, Shirley, Long Island, Cohasset, Bergen Point, Cape May, or the Mountains called White

Leaves of Grass—456 pages, electro-typed, beautiful print, fine type, elegant binding, seemly, comely, white

Of this broad and majestic

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

Later in the manuscript he writes of "the buckwheat and its white tops and the bees that hum there all

day," and on page 36 of the 1855 Leaves he writes of the "white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and a

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 13 November 1878

  • Date: November 13, 1878
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

Since that was written a friend (Walter White) tells me they—the Tennysons—have taken a house in Eaton

Annotations Text:

Walter White had been a friend of Anne Gilchrist's late husband, Alexander Gilchrist.

Walt Whitman to Wallace Wood, 3 March 1891

  • Date: March 3, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

See William White's article in The American Book Collector, XI (May, 1961), 30–31, where Wood's second

Walt Whitman to Frank H. Ransom, 6 January 1881

  • Date: January 6, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 224).

Free Soil Party

  • Creator(s): Klammer, Martin
Text:

abolitionists, who opposed slavery on moral grounds, most Free-Soilers opposed slavery because they felt that white

In representing antislavery as an issue of self-interest to whites, free-soilism made antislavery for

made clear that Whitman opposed the extension of slavery because he cared about the opportunities for white

Leaves of Grass, "There Was a Child Went Forth Every"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morningglories, and white and

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

There Was a Child Went Forth.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

at sunset— the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white

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