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Search : William White

3756 results

Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824–1903)

  • Creator(s): Schroeder, Steven
Text:

London: William Heinemann, 1893. Pennell, Elizabeth Robins.

Gray, Fred (1834–1891)

  • Creator(s): Yannella, Donald
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family and visited them, but the connection apparently dissolved in the 1870s.Bibliography Howells, William

Joseph B. Marvin to Walt Whitman, 16 February 1887

  • Date: February 16, 1887
  • Creator(s): Joseph B. Marvin
Text:

William Brough, who lives in a costly residence on Farragut Square and is a very pleasant, educated man—evidently

William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 25 August 1885

  • Date: August 25, 1885
  • Creator(s): William Michael Rossetti
Text:

Rossetti William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 25 August 1885

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy and John Burroughs, 11 February 1888

  • Date: February 11, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy and John Burroughs, 11 February 1888

Redpath, James [1833–1891]

  • Creator(s): LeMaster, J.R.
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Although he remained a moderate, Whitman befriended such radical writers as Redpath and William Douglas

Adams, Henry Brooks (1838–1918)

  • Creator(s): Newstrom, Scott L.
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Jordy, William H. "Henry Adams and Walt Whitman." South Atlantic Quarterly 40 (1941): 132–145.

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 21 September 1867

  • Date: September 21, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

My dear friend, I suppose you saw my letter to William O'Connor, a week since, with notice of my safe

Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 18 May 1889

  • Date: May 18, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Edward Carpenter
Text:

contribution to the record of your birthday—a draft for $19495 (£ 40) from Bessie & Isabella Ford, William

Rocky Mountains

  • Creator(s): Stifel, Timothy
Text:

Martin, and William W. Reitzel, traveled to the Colorado Rockies in September of 1879.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 20 July 1883

  • Date: July 20, 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

W W Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 20 July 1883

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 21 February 1883

  • Date: February 21, 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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September, 1881, at Concord, told it—told better than ever can be put in words — Walt Whitman to William

American Poets Part 1

  • Date: 4 April 1874
  • Creator(s): Earle, John Charles
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Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti. London: John Camden Hotten. 1868.

The article focuses on descriptive poetry quoting from Taylor's "Lars," William Gilmore Simms, Alfred

Wednesday, November 4, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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And a good lick for William in it? William O'Connor?"

Monday, June 16, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"We must not forget William O'Connor's priest, who took up Leaves of Grass, spent an hour over it, then

It was a splendid exhibit of mock passion in William."

Saturday, February 14, 1891

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

Seventy-one counts in its list Signor Crispi, John Ruskin, Walt Whitman, Sir Lyon Playfair, and General William

Wondered if Talcott Williams had written it. "I am sure Talcott will stand by his guns."

Wednesday, March 11, 1891

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

Shakespeare controversy, "I am not satisfied that we know all that is to be known, or ever will know—though William

I long ago confessed that what had much weight with me was the fact that such a man as William—so cute

Local Intelligence: &c.

  • Date: 18 November 1847
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William Stairko yesterday gave $100 sureties for his appearance at the next general sessions to answer

William Logue was committed for trial before the same tribunal, in default of $200 bail, on a charge

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 29 March 1888

  • Date: March 29, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Am reading again Landor's "Examination of Wm William Shakspere Shakespeare ." Rich!

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 29 March 1888

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 29 March 1887

  • Date: March 29, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Ernest Rhys
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Ernest Rhys Whitman's letter to William Sloane Kennedy of April 11, 1887 is written on the last verso

Whitman wrote his April 11, 1887, letter to William Sloane Kennedy on the verso of the first page of

Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the sun, they do not ask who seizes

you white or black owners of slaves! You owned persons dropping sweat-drops or blood-drops!

pass up or down, white-sailed schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

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

Let the white person tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

[We proceed this morning to]

  • Date: 5 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

See: Robert Swan, "Prelude and Aftermath of the Doctors' Riot of 1788: A Religious Interpretation of White

Annotations Text:

See: Robert Swan, "Prelude and Aftermath of the Doctors' Riot of 1788: A Religious Interpretation of White

Sidney H. Morse to Walt Whitman, 31 January 1888

  • Date: January 31, 1888
  • Creator(s): Sidney H. Morse
Annotations Text:

Rechel-White, "Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894)," (Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, eds. J.R.

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 3 September 1878

  • Date: September 3, 1878
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Annotations Text:

John White Chadwick (1840–1904), who termed himself a radical Unitarian, was the pastor of the Second

Walt Whitman to James W. Wallace, 8 September 1890

  • Date: September 8, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Rechel-White, "Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894)," (Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, eds. J.R.

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

.^ BY WILLIAM SLOANE KENNEDY " WholoveaMan seehis here." may imagJ.R.LOWELL.

William Wesselhoeft. The result of of two months' generous work by Mr.

Channing gives himself almost entirely up to William's care and treatment.

William's blood boiled at the covert malignancy dis- in his Bazar played by [T.W.]

Don't know of [my grandmother Amy] Williams having any blood never heard ab't that.

Walt Whitman's Book

  • Date: 16 March 1889
  • Creator(s): Payne, W. M.
Text:

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) succeeded William Wordsworth as poet laureate of Great Britain in 1850

At the conclusion of William Blake: A Critical Essay (1868), 300–303, Swinburne pointed out similarities

William Michael Rossetti (1829–1915), brother of Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti, was an English

For more on Whitman's relationship with Rossetti, see Sherwood Smith, " Rossetti, William Michael (1829

Monday, June 18, 1888.

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

"I suppose William [O'Connor] tops us all for vehemence and consecutiveness of life."

He said he thought Burroughs "shied some at O'Connor's directness but I don't admit that that's William's

"I have said a good many things to you about William O'Connor—but there's Ellen, too—superb woman—without

"William is right—I do not cease or reduce my admiration: I have often had the idea of getting out an

Brooklyniana, No. 6

  • Date: 11 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Thomas Kirk, William Hartshorne, the veteran of United States printers Early type-setting experience.

Hartshorne, William Hartshorne was a printer and mentor to Whitman.

We have spoken of William Hartshorne—he was the veteran printer of the United States.

Of William Hartshorne, for the fifteen or twenty years previous to his death, the old man was often to

Poetic Theory

  • Creator(s): Johnstone, Robert
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(William Carlos Williams credits Whitman with foreshadowing the "variable foot," though it is difficult

, and literary poesis is best expressed by a devout and subtle reader of Whitman, the philosopher William

New York: Library of America, 1983.James, William.

Saturday, September 29th, 1888.

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

Reddest murder is white to an act like this and its folly is equal to its crime.

William thought it 'a trifle weak', but I don't think it so. I can't always be a roaring lion!"

City Photographs

  • Date: 16 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Hammersley, who served an equally long time; William Hammersley was one of the earliest physicians and

It is a large apartment, very clean of course, white-washed, with high-ceilings, well-lighted, perhaps

Leaves of Grass, 1891–92 edition

  • Creator(s): French, R.W.
Text:

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

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1 April 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

fruitstand . . . . . . the beef on the butcher's stall, The bread and cakes in the bakery . . . . . . the white

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy

Friday, January 25, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Fellows: he was an uncommon man both in what he looked like and in what he was: nobly formed, with thick white

hair—white as milk: beard: striking characteristics everyhow."

Thursday, August 2, 1888.

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

brief experience in the South—an intimate experience while it lasted—was convinced that the 'poor white

The horrible patois attributed to the 'poor white' there in the South (and not to them only—to Western

Walt Whitman at Home

  • Date: 25 May 1890
  • Creator(s): Foster Coates and Homer Fort | Foster Coates | Homer Fort
Text:

His long white hair fell partly over his face. And such a face!

A clean white counterpane was neatly spead over it and tucked in carefully at the side.

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 28 June 1885
  • Creator(s): William H. Ballou
Text:

might have been olive-colored when put on in the silurian age, and the window sills, bordered with white

The poet's hair and whiskers were fleecy, shining, white and long, his clothing was of the simplest type—a

Complete Prose Works

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

My old pilot friends, the Balsirs, Johnny Cole, Ira Smith, William White, and my young ferry friend,

—everything so white, so marbly pure and dazzling, yet soft—the White House of future poems, and of dreams

One Delaware soldier, William H.

Williams, aged 21, 3d Virginia cavalry.

White, however, is the prevailing color.

Leaves of Grass (1871)

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

spread your white sails, my little bark, athwart the imperious waves!

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

Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue. Behold a woman!

Let the white person again tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

ah my woolly white and crim- son crimson ! Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty!

Leaves of Grass. The Poems of Walt Whitman [Selected]

  • Date: 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Visiting him now in his quiet home in Camden, New Jersey, one would find a white-haired venerable man

spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves, Chant on, sail on, bear o'er the

pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

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

Slavery

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— All white working men, South as well as north are or ought to be against them; for the establishment

from the ancles ankles legs of the slave,—if his breast then feel no more the blood whether black or white

seize with violence on what our laws only know, until duly advised different, as peaceful Americans, white

wretched countrymen of mine, born and bred on American soil, his father or grandfather very likely a white

Orville Hickman Browning to William Henry Trescott, 10 June 1868

  • Date: June 10, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Text:

Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Orville Hickman Browning to William

William M. Evarts to Edward Jordan, 27 February 1869

  • Date: February 27, 1869
  • Creator(s): William M. Evarts | Walt Whitman
Text:

changes to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger William

Benjamin Helm Bristow to William W. Belknap, 23 October 1871

  • Date: October 23, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Anthony Dreesen Nima Najafi Kianfar Benjamin Helm Bristow to William

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 6 December 1870

  • Date: December 6, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Akerman to William W. Belknap, 6 December 1870

Sunday, October 20, 1889

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

He exclaimed—"That's Talcott Williams!" Thought he would "make an effort to get out today."

Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakins? Samuel Murray?, 1891

  • Date: 1891
  • Creator(s): Eakins, Thomas | Murray, Samuel
Text:

this was taken.In May of 1891, Murray accompanied the New York sculptor and friend of Thomas Eakins, William

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 16 January 1885

  • Date: January 16, 1885
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 16 January 1885

Walt Whitman to William Michael Rossetti, 1 September 1876

  • Date: September 1, 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Walt Whitman to William Michael Rossetti, 1 September 1876

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