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1883prose3 leaveshandwritten; Three-page draft of The Attempted Official Suppression, a section of Part

2, Chapter 1, History of Leaves of Grass, in Richard Maurice Bucke's 1883 biography, Walt Whitman.

Of scenes like these, I say, who writes—who e'er can write, the story?

part of the country.

There were six brothers (all the boys of the family) in the army, part of them as conscripts, part as

But there is every kind of wound, in every part of the body.

and story-tellers, windy, bragging, vain centres of street-crowds.

become a huge body, Whitman wrote in Democratic Vistas (1871), "with little or no soul" (Prose Works 2:

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964. Memoranda During the War [1875–1876]

Briusov, Izbrannye Sochineniia [Moskva: Goslitizdat, 1955 Volume 2], p. 130.)

times when he brought together a group of people who were eager to publish some of the wonderful stories

The group came together, determined to tell the story of the Garden of Eden and Adam's rather unfortunate

On the other hand, he could be genuinely critical of American poetry and parts of its intellectual life

He appreciated the parts of Whitman's poetry that were critical of American society, or could at least

profound, noble, personal grief and despair at the loss of this "powerful western fallen star" (section 2)

One White House story comes to me of his leaving Lincoln in wrath, "slamming the doors behind him" because

I think also that he was the hero of the famous whisky story of Lincoln, now an undying part of the literature

Of the noisy, frothy world he never seemed to be a part, was more at home with the chestnut tress and

listened in benevolent, complacent wonder to argument, heard my speech as if it were by no means a new story

Nor does the freedman appear in any part of the poet's noble vision of the restored Union.

A poet herself, she was moved by his gifts; he, in turn, saw the group of women of which she was a part

However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified

The lines eventually became part of the independent poem Poets to Come.

The lines eventually became part of the independent poem "Poets to Come."

1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, but that his attitude gradually changed in favor of the spiritual part

However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified

However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified

If, on the contrary, our representatives will confine their objections to those parts of the law which

However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified

The grim story of Goliad follows: "A youth not seventeen years old seiz'd his assassin till two more

the receipt of important news, the many discussions, the returning wounded, and so on" (Prose Works 2:

that composite American identity of the future, Spanish character will supply some of the most needed parts

Cleveland Rodgers and John Black. 2 vols. New York: Putnam, 1920.____.

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964. Mexican War, The

multivolume work, Histoire de France (1833–1867), approached the past from the perspective of the present as part

Childs, he purchased a humble two-story frame house that was for sale on nearby Mickle Street.

The Mickle Street Review 9 Part 1 (1987): iii-v. Stern, J. David. Memoirs of a Maverick Publisher.

A revised version of this prose piece was eventually published as part of Specimen Days & Collect (1882

vortex of New York city politics—when one gets the taste of their maddening excitement, and becomes a part

We should say that they are too much for most men who take a part in them—they require a far more robust

However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified

depicted—an essence, a suggestion, an indication leading off into the immortal mysteries" (With Walt Whitman 2:

Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906; Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908. Whitman, Walt. Specimen Days.

received its shortened title in 1867 and took its final form, shortened by eleven lines, in 1881, as part

The catalogue closes with the fundamental transcendental intuition of the unity of the whole and the part

However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified

However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified

Whitman calls it "the fresh free giver the mother" in the revised version of "Thoughts" from "Songs of Parting

Emory Holloway. 2 vols. New York: Peter Smith, 1932. Mississippi River

However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified

And the almost certainty of Kansas being free has lessened the value of salve property in that part of

However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified

Cleveland Rodgers and John Black. 2 vols. New York: Putnam, 1920. Mitchel, O.M.

As if it were anything to analyze fluids and call certain parts oxygen or hydrogen, or to map out stars

As if it were anything to analyze fluids and call certain parts oxygen or hydrogen, or to map out stars

It is well enough to probe a wound to ascertain its nature and extent, but the probing is no part of

But while biographers have generally treated the Southold story as apocryphal, Molinoff's pamphlet suggests

1840–1841, in the period immediately preceding Whitman's publication of such homoerotically nuanced stories

William Douglas O'Connor's stories The Ghost (1867) and The Carpenter (1868) would eventually be published

For the story of Swinburne's veneration of Whitman and his later recantation, see two essays by Terry

It is postmarked: | SEP | 2 | 1867 | MASS; CARRIER | SEP | 25 | 7 P.M.

incomparably the largest poetic work of our period" (see "Current Literature," New York Times, July 28, 1867, 2)

About the same time that I received your volumes I got a letter from Kate Hillard, (a brilliant girl

Grier [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 2:840).

article in question—Roden Noel's "A Study of Walt Whitman: The Poet of Modern Democracy" (Dark Blue 2

2 Pembroke Gardens, W. London.

I can only suppose you have seen some bungled & mutilated telegram embodying part of the statement of

Again: "I've been reading a newspaper story about Colonel Bob: it was about somebody he befriended: I

W. again: "The largest part of our human tragedies are humanly avoidable: they come from greed, from

He said: "It's the best story in a long time: and bilin', too! haven't I been there?

Yes, it's a story whose meaning goes way beyond itself." Blake went home this morning.

He doubted the story that Hawthorne was killed by the War.

After all is said—after the full story is told, the future will read, acknowledge, in these men our best

Tonight urgent: asked after proof anxiously—seemed disappointed when he found I had only brought him a part

appears to be in the intrinsic man a disposition to turn the back on phrases which signify absolute partings

I told the story of Ingersoll's visitor and his everlasting "yes, yes"—and after W. had ceased his laugh

that it make you think of a rubicund sailor with his hands folded across his belly about to tell a story

Monday, April 2, 1888.Mousing among some old papers on his table today, looking for something else, W

ever a fighter lived, Boyle O'Reilly is that fighter: he writes me fiery letters, he tells me fiery stories

Good-bye.Faithfully yours,Boyle O'ReillyThe enclosed letter follows:39 Bowdoin Street [Boston]10, 2,

Monday, April 2, 1888.

And then he said: "It is a glorious story all through. The Captain—what is his name?

s manner, brief, sketchy, was intense: "And now the grandeur of the story.

The town was full of the story of it." Had he ever written anything about it?

—And he asked me: "Is the story at all known to you?" It was not.

"I suppose the papers will be full of it tomorrow—full of it—part truth, a good part fiction, only that

How had the second part of O'Connor's story impressed him? He said, "I read it."

I might say, love.I hope that as the sunshine comes, he will grow better, and that he may have his part

I know there are things in Morris' life which may account in part for this: but not wholly—rather, he

It is in such a suggestion as that we find the old Greek log story—and good, fitting, applicable, it

I repeated the story I had heard of Emerson's criticism of Alcott, that he could not write but could

When I went over this story for Walt he exclaimed: "Poor Frank!—Poor Frank!

Part of it is very fine.I wonder if young William Allingham wrote it?

And Bucke seems to have as good an opinion as I have—probably through you—or through you in part—and

sometime, should think all this very important—especially if 'Leaves of Grass' continues—becomes a part

W. told me with great gusto a Washington story related to him by Tom Donaldson.

that explains in part why he likes me, likes the book!"

It is in part the explanation of my work—of Leaves of Grass.

had never been forthcoming.I had a long talk with Ferguson today, who gave me in a general way the story

For one thing, it shows a determination on the part of the Church to plant its standard forward—to make