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schools" behind, he goes "to the bank by the wood to become undisguised and naked" (sections 1 and 2)

erotic imagery, the soul settles his head "athwart" the poet's hips, "gently" turns over upon him, parting

for assembling these stories for the page.

From Democratic Vistas (pw 2:367, 396); “Origin of Attempted Seces- sion” (pw 2:433); “Poetry To-Day

—Shakspere—The Future” (pw 2:486); “A Word about Tennyson” (pw 2:570); and “The Bible as Poetry” (pw

San Jose Studies 12, no. 2 (1986): 75–83.

Vol. 2.

that if the new edition is a triumph for the poet, it has been achieved without any concession on his part

The additional verses are not so important in themselves as in the relation of parts to a completed whole

The poet has compared his work to one of those ambitious old architectural edifices, built part by part

A considerable part of his contemporaries hold him to be beneath criticism; a small circle of ardent

It is not from any lack of conscientious intention that the poet fails in part of his purpose, and instead

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

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

He is about as handsome an old man as I have seen, his white locks parting over a serene and most noble

Let others ignore what they may, I make the poem of evil also—I commemorate that part also, I am myself

upon and received with wonder, pity, love or dread, that object he became, And that object became part

of him for the day, or a certain part of the day, or for many years, or stretching cycles of years.

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

, The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt-marsh and shore-mud— These became part

He first wrote a collection of short stories entitled Dubliners (1914), followed this with A Portrait

After the war, in 1868, he became editor and part-owner of the New York Sun, and remained in control

the dramas, the plays, the poems: least accessible, yet greatest of all—greater than the novels, stories

Vol. 2. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961. Hugo, Victor (1802–1885)

Harry wrote Whitman: "You know when you put it on there was but one thing to part it from me and that

It is all a part of him.

and beauty of a spiritual or poetical vision; the glimpsing of that which, after all, for the most part

fails to do anything like justice to the vast subject although it is the result of the best efforts of 2½

Coleman Esq. .05 " Willie Durkee .15 " Miss Kate Lane $15.20.

For Crawley, "Birds" functions as a transitional cluster between the first part of Leaves, which is more

concerned with the physical (the journey motif and the land being unifying principles), and the second part

Croly to Walt Whitman, 2 May 1882

draft contributed to Whitman's poem "A Thought of Columbus," which was published in Once a Week on July 2,

According to a perhaps apocryphal story recounted by Walter Grünzweig in Constructing the German Walt

Thayer and Eldridge, Boston, placed in the "Enfans d'Adam" poem cluster, and designated simply as number 2.

On 2 June 1860 a review was published in the Saturday Press.

Lines 2, 3, and 4 describe the time that they spent together, absorbed in each other's presence.

Instead of "a woman I casually met there who detain'd me for love of me" in line 2, Whitman had originally

poem begins with an image of two lovers sleeping peacefully together (perhaps the "friend" of line 2,

The poem ends with a salutation to procreation, and a parting gesture in which this "bunch" (of semen

In 1871 "To Rich Givers" was placed in the cluster "Songs of Parting," and was moved to its present placement

meanings and implications of "rich givers" widen to include the poet, this poem, and the "poems" of line 2.

in order for procreation to take place.The second stanza develops the idea of "sex" as an integral part

The latter part of the poem collapses Whitman's poetic and political agendas in its use of hyperbolic

American counterpart that the essential character of a people inheres in its language, songs, and stories

Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1961.Yeats, William Butler. The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats. Ed.

BUT PURSUE HER NO MORE." ( , 2: 887).

"Let Riker go to hell," Walt advised Pete ( ., 2:106).

Peter's Catholic Church ( ., 2: 113).

Cloud, on the corner of 9th and F Streets, NW ( ., 2: 116).

Whites ( ., 2: 308).

Leaves of Grass (1860) who was serving as Assistant Army Paymaster during the War, Whitman obtained part-time

There the "poet-chief" (Notebooks 2:881) welcomed visiting delegations of Indian tribes, when not performing

Dismissed on 30 June 1865 by Interior Secretary James Harlan for authoring "that book" (Notebooks 2:799

David Reynolds attributes Whitman's conservative political perspective, in part, to his warm personal

The journey from Falmouth to Washington was made in two parts: first by rail to Aquia Creek Landing,

After the war, the poet rented a room in the 3-story brick building shown directly next to the Corcoran

He died on August 2, 1863.

Press, 1981), 2.

Floyd Stovall (New York: New York University Press, 1964), 2: 625.

Whitman also relished the opportunity to be part of the young man's large family circle.

For my part, I said, I thought Mr.

Late number, 328 Mickle Street 2.

"That is only a part and not the most impor tant part of it,'' said Dr. Furness, in substance.

It's all part of the whole; and I can no more honestly cut out that part than any other.''

I caught some part of the writer's faith in American manhood and the part America was going to play in

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

claims from the outset: that he sees in all things a "simple, compact, well-join'd scheme" (section 2)

sights and sounds around him "glories strung like beads on my smallest sights and hearings" (section 2)

Vol. 2. 1908. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961. Whitman, Walt. Specimen Days.

Shoshone Indians and a trek through the Rocky Mountains in winter that cost him one of his feet and part

Though their visit was outwardly unremarkable, after parting Bucke found himself in a state of "mental

The company of Harry and other young men from the neighborhood was a key part of the powerful attraction

Budell, "Writen by Walt Whitman, a Friend," Prologue Magazine 42, no. 2 [Summer 2016]: 36–45).

Budell, "Writen by Walt Whitman, a Friend," Prologue Magazine 42, no. 2 [Summer 2016]: 36–45).; Jabo

He lied to me 2 or 3 times.

Several of his friends know the story in part (from his own lips).

This is the whole story.

Appleton, 1908), 2:19–20.

(2:16).

press releases (including copies of his poem) for eastern newspapers, but these releases for the most part

mere habit has got dominion of me, when there is no real need of saying anything further" (Prose Works 2:

Miller of "The Times": The Story of an Editor. New York: Scribner's, 1931.Perry, Bliss.

Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1961.____. Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. 2 vols.

reprinted "Wild Frank's Return" (May 8, 1846), "A Legend of Life and Love" (June 11, 1846), "Dumb Kate

Two of Whitman's stories were reprinted in the Eagle before he became the paper's editor in March 1846

Whitman made several minor changes to the story before publishing it in installments in the Eagle .

For another story in which the villany of a mixed-race character becomes a major component of the plot

Some of the revisions made to the language of the story for publication in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle are

reprinted "Wild Frank's Return" (May 8, 1846), "A Legend of Life and Love" (June 11, 1846), "Dumb Kate—An

Two of Whitman's stories were reprinted in the Eagle before he became the paper's editor in March 1846

Wind Foot" was reprinted as a work of serial fiction (August 29–30, 1845) about two months after the story

For another story in which the villany of a mixed-race character becomes a major component of the plot

mounted" at 18 cents each December 1855: 169 copies in cloth at 22 cents each and 150 copies in paper at 2

Bibliography of American Literature , Vol. 9 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991), 31–2.

"Walt Whitman." , Vol. 9 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991), 31–2.

See "Of a Summer Evening," Notes and Fragments , Part 3, #136, 122–123; "This Singular Young Man," Part

Most of the stories Whitman contributed are sentimental tales or didactic stories that contain moral

Story Writer," 87–89.

He would eventually publish eight of his stories (about a third of the total number) as part of that

"The Child-Ghost" and "Lingave's Temptation," the other two stories that formed part of "Pieces in Early

"The Reformed" tells the story of Mr.

The Troy Daily Budget (Troy, NY) reprinted the story on November 26, 1842, and by November 29, the story

The oft-repeated story of the formation of the Washingtonians—likely part truth, part creation myth,

If Evans's trip to the South forms a narrative crux of his story, the embedded short story that would

of the group for whom stories about Native Americans are stories of antiquity as well as of national

Wednesday, May 2, 1888 " (1:92).

there" (57; see also Stern, 101–2 and 107).

For further discussion of this story, see Blodgett, , 14–18.

WHITMAN'S POEMS, 'LEAVES OF GRASS,' 1 vol. small quarto, $2.

tell the full story of the evolution and iteration of the 1855 .

`We have just begun our part of the fighting.' Only three guns were in use.

.—21–2 Larned Building. ROY , N.Y.—48 Hall Building. ORONTO ANADA —44 Toronto Arcade.

office (Edwin Haviland Miller, ed., The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

In assenting to this arrangement on the part of the Company, and in anticipation of the completion of

presently to receive on two completed sections of the road, as soon as the necessary formalities on the part