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friend, "Bumble-bees & Bird Music" safe to hand this morning—does me good—makes me feel exactly as if I were

Sea rolling up on broad smooth sands there, but with treacherous reefs just beyond on which there were

And the castle on its wooded height in the very midst—& the great cavern below that runs through the city

Drink is the giant evil of the city as of the north generally—Such a sensible rugged healthy looking

If Per were here he would return your friendly message. Bees best love.

My mother is away staying with Beatrice in Edinburgh city, recruiting her health, which has most sadly

theatric manner a kind, good heart, oh, so kind, I feel as if I would do anything for her, her manners were

Were her last words to Grace.

I hear that the young American artists are doing capitally filling their pockets.

O'Grady in Ireland, I in Saxonland—if we three were together we would tread the clouds!

The historical writings of Standish O'Grady (1846–1928) were an inspiration to the great Irish Literary

Theodore and William Heiniken (or Hieniken) were apparently brothers or perhaps son and father; see the

from the beginning) but by superiority, additions, modernness, &c—The Thayer & Eldridge plates of 1860

copies—can be stopt stopped instantly by me & will be—(The matter is not of any moment however)—The plates were

On May 16, 1881, Beers wrote to thank Whitman for quoting his verses in The American on May 14: "To a

Similar reservations appear in his Four Americans (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919), 85–90.

Later the decree was altered, and O'Reilly was sent to Australia, where he escaped on an American whaler

would have suited you, & been a study—different from any I ever saw in my life before—fully one half were

(at $1 a head) & they say there never was a more high toned crowd collected in the town—full half were

Y. papers —(will send you the Critic of the latter city next Monday or Tuesday with my piece in)— Havn't

Haven't felt very well lately—a real bad spell last night & this forenoon—don't feel right living in the city

Balch of The American (Philadelphia), for which he received $20 (Whitman's Commonplace Book).

Picture-Gallery" to Balch on October 8, 1880, for which he received $5, and which appeared in The American

Welcome are American friends!

Salt Lake City, U.T., 15 April, 1881.

Wit—humor—these, moreover, were lacking in Wordsworth, and without them no modern poet can hope to be

respect, the French Revolution would have struck deeper chords in him than it did; but the chords were

brighter now—I am feeling pretty well—went out around yesterday & last night—great bright stirring city

He was the founder and editor of the American Review of Reviews from 1891 to 1937 and author of Abraham

gal and a mighty nice little thing she is too; just such a one as you would like, and I know if you were

Aunt Lizzie has been to see us twice since you were here, and is coming down to stay three or four days

Reprinted in the American (May 1881) and Leaves of Grass (1881–82).; Our transcription is based on a

The sketch of Carlyle in the London paper was the best I have seen, your own words upon his death were

I first wrote them a notice of his Journal just published, which they were pleased to say was too good

Lawrence lived at 81 Park Avenue, New York City.

Relations between the poet and the young man were frequently strained; see Edwin Haviland Miller, "Introduction

correspondence with William Sloane Kennedy (1850–1929), who at this time was on the staff of the Philadelphia American

, and who later published biographies of Longfellow and Whittier (Dictionary of American Biography).

Dakota" which has always been to me like a saunter through spicy, summer-warm woods, when the brooks were

I have read too your views in the North American Review on The Poetry of the Future.

through with —read very slow, & mind the pauses—I want the extracts return'd returned to me as they were

During the Civil War he was a supporter of Abraham Lincoln, and, according to the Dictionary of American

Even now do I go with and heartily believe in the North American Review article.

North American Review, received this morning. I was delighted with it.

I agree entirely with all you say there about the American poets— γόνιμον δὲ ποιητὴν ἂν οὐχ εὕροις ἔτι

The law of contract does not touch that question at all, for the contracts were made upon the false assumption

See Walter Grünzweig, Constructing the German Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995

Probably "The Poetry of the Future," North American Review, 32 (1881), 195–210.

Stafford's nephew, were married on February 9 by the Reverend J. B.

In the first printing of the 1876 edition of Leaves of Grass some poems were pasted in: these intercalations

A criticism of "The Poetry of the Future" appeared in The American (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles

With the cooperation of yourself and other American thinkers of the first note, the Review must become

January 1881 My good friend, It was a kind thought of yours sending me your article from the North American

Their words may not have been arraignable by law, (though in many cases they were so) but they were such

to repudiate unjust rents, and I would have thrown myself heart and soul into this movement if it were

See Walter Grünzweig, Constructing the German Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995

And Dillon's words were repeated and elaborated on numerous occasions prior to September, 1880, by other

With this "Coercion Act," the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended and authorities were given the power to

THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, NEW YORK, N. Y.

With the cooperation of yourself and other American thinkers of the first note , the Review must become

North American Review.

I think (though I am not sure) that an article on it will appear in The American soon, by a couple of

But I have never wondered that you were caviare to the general; because, although I see clearly that

Now, this let ter I send you has only come out of the reading of your late article in the North American

Gannett say, a friend of his a lady who knew you, said you were "coarse."

If I were younger I would strive with all my to do something worthy of my worship of your genius, worthy

Please see an article by me in the forthcoming number of the N A North American Review for February,

— —In the Feb: February N A North American Review there is a piece of mine about Poetry (a good many

Charles Allen Thorndike Rice (1851–1889) purchased The North American Review in 1876.

—the North American Review —it was ordered—I get $100 for it—I read the proof last night & sent it off

"The Poetry of the Future" appeared in The North American Review in February (195–210).

The poem had appeared in The American in June, 1880 (The Cambridge History of American Literature, ed

It appeared, however, in The American (see Whitman's letter to Harry Stafford on May 5, 1881).

Parts of the essay were used for Death of Thomas Carlyle published in Specimen Days in 1882 (later retained

the essay first published as The Poetry of the Future in the February 12, 1881, issue of the North American

the essay first published as The Poetry of the Future in the February 12, 1881, issue of the North American

The essay appeared in the February 1881 issue of The North American Review.

These corrections were made after the piece's initial publication, and reflect changes that Whitman made

1Undated, on the American idiomloc.05215xxx.00067?

about the book emphasized Whitman’s increasingly conservative stance, and many of the sexual passages were

edition, but the book eventually appeared in November without one.Initial sales of the Osgood edition were

strong, and reviews were almost universally positive.

about the book emphasized Whitman’s increasingly conservative stance, and many of the sexual passages were

edition, but the book eventually appeared in November without one.Initial sales of the Osgood edition were

strong, and reviews were almost universally positive.

about the book emphasized Whitman’s increasingly conservative stance, and many of the sexual passages were

edition, but the book eventually appeared in November without one.Initial sales of the Osgood edition were

strong, and reviews were almost universally positive.

about the book emphasized Whitman’s increasingly conservative stance, and many of the sexual passages were

edition, but the book eventually appeared in November without one.Initial sales of the Osgood edition were

strong, and reviews were almost universally positive.

TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning

obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after

We dwell a while in every city and town, We pass through Kanada Canada , the North-east, the vast valley

And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

A WOMAN waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking,

WE TWO, HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D.

ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.

ONCE I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture

for city and land for land.

CITY OF ORGIES.

CITY of orgies, walks and joys, City whom that I have lived and sung in your midst will one day make

Or the vaunted glory and growth of the great city spread around me?

if I could be with you and become your comrade; Be it as if I were with you.

the scaffold;) I would sing in my copious song your census returns of the States, The tables of population

that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception, I assert that all past days were

what they must have been, And that they could no-how have been better than they were, And that to-day

barefoot, Down from the shower'd halo, Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and twisting as if they were

what joys were thine! ABOARD AT A SHIP'S HELM.

They live in brothers again ready to defy you, They were purified by death, they were taught and exalted

The stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped, Wonders as of those countries, the soil, trees, cities

WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,

of the questions of these recurring, Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill'd with the

OF Equality—as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—as if it were not

CITY OF SHIPS. CITY of ships! (O the black ships! O the fierce ships!

City of the world!

City of wharves and stores—city of tall façades of marble and iron!

Proud and passionate city—mettlesome, mad, extravagant city!

(Washington City, 1865.)