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March 2, 1870. Bernard O'Kane, Esq. Boston, Mass.
Pleasants to Bernard O'Kane, 2 March 1870
April 2, 1870. Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co. Boston, Mass.
The unbound Volume of English and Irish Appeals, described in the invoice as "Vol. 1, part 4," will be
Pleasants to Little, Brown, & Co., 2 April 1870
April 2, 1870. D. W. Middleton, Esq. Clerk Supreme Court United States.
Middleton, 2 April 1870
July 2, 1870. Alexander McLeod, Esq. Drummondsville Ontario, Canada.
Pleasants to Alexander McLeod, 2 July 1870
Gillet, 2 November 1870
June 2, 1869. Louis Houck, Esq. St. Louis, Mo.
Pleasants to Louis Houck, 2 June 1869
October 2, 1866. To Hon. O. H. Browning, Secretary of the Interior.
Pleasants to Orville Hickman Browning, 2 October 1866
see notes Feb 9 1889 Confidential United States Senate Chamber, Washington, Jan. 31, 187 2. Mr.
followed by conception; maintaining that the fact of conception was conclusive evidence of consent on the part
Gilder (1888), and in Critic Pamphlet No. 2 (1898).
New York, April 2 18 90. Walt Whitman, Esq.
Maurice Minton to Walt Whitman, 2 April 1890
It is postmarked: New York | Apr 2 | 630PM | D | 90; Camden, N.J. | Apr | | 6 | 9 | .
in which this letter arrived and used the blank inside of it to write drafts of lines that became part
journalist best known for his long narrative poem, The Light of Asia (1879), which tells the life story
Whitman, therefore, found feudalism to be at odds with the democratic ideal, in part, at least, because
back and monarchize, or to look forward and democratize," but instead "how, and in what degree and part
He considered American poets, for the most part, to be imitative of their feudal predecessors.
Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1964. Feudalism
to the idea of the pride and dignity of the common people, the lifeblood of democracy" (Prose Works 2:
they "exhale that principle of caste which we Americans have come on earth to destroy" (Prose Works 2:
colossal grandeur and beauty of form and spirit, I could not have written 'Leaves of Grass'" (Prose Works 2:
Vol. 2. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961. Whitman, Walt. Prose Works 1892. Ed.
Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964. Shakespeare, William (1564–1616)
There is no need to revive here, even in slightest measure, any part of the old quarrel as to the ex-act
with the change of positions, etc., came the muffled sound of a pistol shot which not one hundredth part
PatrickMcGuire"Last Loyalist, The" (1842)"Last Loyalist, The" (1842)This short story was first published
as "The Child-Ghost; a Story of the Last Loyalist" in United States Magazine and Democratic Review,
Brasher's edition of The Early Poems and the Fiction.This ghost story has a historical setting.
But "The Last Loyalist" seems to offer a compromise to the solutions of those two stories.
PatrickMcGuire"Little Jane" (1842)"Little Jane" (1842)This short story and "The Death of Wind-Foot" initially
The last one is reserved for Mike; it is a religious story for children, which Jane's mother had given
intemperate father reforms when he is given an embroidered pledge as the last act of his dying son.As a story
as their illness deepens" and "a solemn kind of loveliness . . . surrounds a sick child" (198).The story
The story is slight. A guardian angel, Dai, falls in love with his charge, Eris. She is betrothed.
Eris's fiancé, meanwhile, languishes and longs for death.The story contains an avowal of belief in angels
thing, which the immortal themselves must dare not to cross" (Whitman 247).Justin Kaplan, placing this story
Gay Wilson Allen notes that this story is in the manner of Edgar Allan Poe, but further sees the cosmic
(1845)This short story was initially published in United States Magazine and Democratic Review, July–August
Whitman's extensive revisions, see Brasher's edition of The Early Poems and the Fiction.This Dickens-like story
Thomas Brasher notes that the revisions weaken the story's original opposition to capital punishment.
PatrickMcGuire"Death in the School-Room (a Fact)" (1841)"Death in the School-Room (a Fact)" (1841)This short story
Whitman reprinted it more than any other of his stories.
The story involves Lugare, a sadistic teacher, and sickly Tim Barker, only child of a widow, who is falsely
Along with "Wild Frank's Return" (1841) and "Bervance: or, Father and Son" (1841), the story suggests
The beating in this story has been tied to the seaman's forcefulness in "The Child and the Profligate
PatrickMcGuire"Wild Frank's Return" (1841)"Wild Frank's Return" (1841)This short story appeared in November
This story is Whitman's first use of the theme of two brothers going separate ways.
Reynolds, seeing in the story psychological parallels to its author, asks if Whitman, as prodigal son
, projected this story to shock his mother.
Allen sees this story, along with "Bervance: or, Father and Son" (1841), as evidence of Whitman's obsession
PatrickMcGuire"Child and the Profligate, The" (1841)"Child and the Profligate, The" (1841)This important short story
After much revision, the story appeared with its present title in Columbian Magazine, October 1844.
The story's obvious didactic purpose is the reformation of a wastrel in contrast to the dissolution of
The vulnerability of the poor and the greed of Charley's employer are also part of its didacticism.
Moreover, Moon connects "Calamus" number 29 (1857) to elements of the story.
The technique of this story is unusual in Whitman's work in that a first narrator introduces another
Reynolds reads the story as Whitman's attempt to purge his psychological demons, perhaps oedipal in nature
Kaplan sees this story as comparable to the work of Edgar Allan Poe, and Allen sees it as part of Whitman's
The story also relates to another frequent theme of Whitman's fiction: the separating of two brothers.BibliographyAllen
PatrickMcGuire"Tomb Blossoms, The" (1842)"Tomb Blossoms, The" (1842)This short story appeared first in
In this well-balanced story, the frets of city life are opposed to the peacefulness of country living
sees the title as one of the central tropes of Whitman's Leaves of Grass, while Callow sees in the story
PatrickMcGuire"Last of the Sacred Army, The" (1842)"Last of the Sacred Army, The" (1842)This short story
A Tale of the Times (1842) is an altered version of this story.
The story is a dream narrative in which the narrator watches an old soldier of the Revolutionary War
Reynolds cites this story as an example of Whitman's jingoism and connects it to Whitman's patriotic
poems like "The Centenarian's Story" (1865).
PatrickMcGuire"Reuben's Last Wish" (1841)"Reuben's Last Wish" (1841)This short story was published on
This temperance story is openly didactic.
Whitman announces in the first paragraph that the story "may haply teach a moral and plant a seed of
The story is told by a narrator who heard it directly from Frank Slade at a temperance meeting.
the prose is almost precious at times.While not as cruel as the many unhappy fathers in Whitman's stories
PatrickMcGuire"Legend of Life and Love, A" (1842)"Legend of Life and Love, A" (1842)This short story
There is a simple message to this story of two brothers, orphans whose last remaining relative, a grandfather
After seventy years they meet each other and tell their stories.
Allen sees the grandfather in this story as a variation on the cruel father theme that plays through
several of Whitman's short stories.
PatrickMcGuire"Angel of Tears, The" (1842)"Angel of Tears, The" (1842)This short story appeared first
As a story, "The Angel of Tears" is negligible.
Asselineau detects in this story the influence of Poe.
Also of interest in this story is Whitman's propensity for capitalized epithets.
No other parts of the novel have been uncovered.
Kaplan, following Brasher, suggests that this story undermines Whitman's recollections about abandoning
The" (1844)"Fireman's Dream, The" (1844)Whitman's incomplete novel "The Fireman's Dream: With the Story
In chapter 2 the dream continues with the Native American telling George his life story.
The first sentences of chapter 2 establish the duality: "I am white by education and an Indian by birth
BibliographyBergman, Herbert, "A Hitherto Unknown Whitman Story and a Possible Early Poem."
PatrickMcGuire"Death of Wind-Foot, The" (1842)"Death of Wind-Foot, The" (1842)This short story, as well
as the story "Little Jane" (1842), initially appeared as part of Whitman's novel Franklin Evans (1842
An Indian Story" when the story was reprinted in Crystal Fount and Rechabite Recorder, 18 October 1845
Tribal hatred and revenge are the basic themes of this story about three Native Americans.
This short story has received little critical attention.BibliographyFolsom, Ed.
The revised story was printed in Specimen Days & Collect (1882).
The story contains some noteworthy observations about the poet's psyche.
reflection, but the poet is easily drawn from his envy by the simple joys around him.Parts of the story
parallel to Whitman's own dissatisfaction with much of the writing he had done throughout the 1840s.The story
PatrickMcGuire"Boy Lover, The" (1845)"Boy Lover, The" (1845)This short story was first published in American
"The Boy Lover" is a first-person account of a love story.
Whitman's fiction; it is implicit in "Death in the School-Room (a Fact)" (1841) and explicit in "Dumb Kate
PatrickMcGuire"Dumb Kate" (1844)"Dumb Kate" (1844)This short story first appeared in Columbian Magazine
, May 1844, under the title "Dumb Kate.
"Dumb Kate" is a slight tale.
Sick at heart, Kate languishes and dies.
"Dumb Kate" (1844)
Boddo, the half-breed, is the story's villain, but he is evil because society has made him evil; ostracism
may have been written as an implicit attack on capital punishment, although David Reynolds sees the story
merely as sensationalism.Whitman used the story to inaugurate a regular front-page literary feature
PatrickMcGuire"Shirval: A Tale of Jerusalem" (1845)"Shirval: A Tale of Jerusalem" (1845)This short story
Whitman revised the story for Specimen Days & Collect (1882), though he did not use it.
In "Shirval" Whitman retells a story from the New Testament, Luke 7: 11–18.
Whitman addresses that very issue in the story when he defines a function of literature: "It is the pen's
PatrickMcGuire"Richard Parker's Widow" (1845)"Richard Parker's Widow" (1845)This short story first appeared
The story begins with the narrator and his friend on a tour of a London police station.
Critics have noted that Whitman borrowed heavily for this story from the same source regarding the 1797
Gay Wilson Allen, however, sees in the story Whitman's ability to share the emotions of women.BibliographyAllen
In the introduction, he pledges that the stories are true and, therefore, more charming than fiction.
the Light of a Young Man's Soul, The" (1848)This autobiographical piece, more exemplum than short story
The story is told broadly.
Archie sees the spinster's story as a rebuke of his own conduct and resolves to be more hard-working
eventually became the property of the State Library of Victoria, and O'Dowd's letters to Whitman became part
The brief correspondence was intense and quasi-religious in its Melbourne part, appreciative and avuncular
envisions "oceans to be cross'd, the distant brought near, / The lands to be welded together" (section 2)
Louis for another one-day visit as part of a group traveling to Kansas to celebrate the Old Settlers'
Glasgow, 1883. 2. Specimen Days and Collect Same author. Glasgow, 1883. 3. Poems of Walt Whitman .
the Preface of 1876, 'I have felt temporary depression more than once, for fear that in the moral parts
Following these, and forming the concluding part of the Specimen Days , is a number of memoranda written
The greater part of them are distributed under the headings—'Inscriptions,' 'Children of Adam,' 'Calamus
The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt-marsh and shore-mud; These become part
called him "one of the grandest revelations of my life, a lesson of artistic expression" (Prose Works 2:
as Charles Dickens's Nancy Sykes ("the most intense acting ever felt on the Park boards" [Gathering 2:
performances strongly affected him and "permanently filter'd into [his] whole nature" (Prose Works 2:
Cleveland Rodgers and John Black. 2 vols. New York: Putnam, 1920. ____. Prose Works 1892. Ed.
Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963-1964. Actors and Actresses
Vol. 2. New York: Putnam, 1920. Theaters and Opera Houses
In its position in Drum-Taps following "The Centenarian's Story" and preceding "Quicksand Years," "Pioneers
Whitman directly, but he certainly heard of him through family stories, particularly the stories of his
and homestead in West Hills amounted to nearly five hundred acres of land and became an important part
ofthe original story, consisting very much ofprolix 2 2 Selected Letters of Walt Whitman details of
historical events, gives it thatme-but that part of the story I have contracted into a few paragraphs-and
J.2& shall probably go there & spend a few days, latter part of October. . . .
Traubel, 2: 39· 2.
6 2 - 2 8 0 64.
SONG OF MYSELF 2 :2 2 -3 :5 1 Have you reckoned a thousand acres much ?
SONG OF M YSELF 2 1 :4 3 2 -2 2 :4 6 7 1 5 Have you olitstript the rest ?
SONG OF M YSELF 2 5 :5 6 4 -2 6 :5 9 2 19 We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found
SONG OF M YSELF 4 9 :1 2 9 6 -5 2 :1 3 2 4 43 t ascend from the moon . . . .
AmericanPoetry, 2, no. 2 (Winter 1985): 2-16. Adicks, Richard R.
body: "The love of the body of man or woman balks account, the body itself balks account" (section 2)
In section 2 the "chanter of Adamic songs" provides a random catalogue of men and women engaging in various
strongest of his attractions—Anne Gilchrist, who fell in love with the poet upon reading Leaves of Grass; Kate
In "A Woman Waits for Me" the poet assumes the role of Adam as everyman, contributing his vital part
throughout—"cropping out" as Whitman himself said of it in his 1876 Preface to Two Rivulets (Prose Works 2:
immoral by the Society for the Suppression of Vice; because Whitman refused to remove the offensive parts
The story of that acceptance, beginning after his death in 1892, has been told only in part—and is still
At the center of the story is a shift from concern about his poems of "Sex and Amativeness" to concern
Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963-1964. Sex and Sexuality