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He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the

The letter is pasted into a manuscript book, and the tipping into the binding often obscures the final

A Major (later Colonel) John Gibson Wright was taken prisoner with George Washington Whitman at Petersburg

He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the

The letter is pasted into a manuscript book, and the final letters on the edge closest to the binding

Burroughs wrote several books involving or devoted to Whitman's work: Birds and Poets (1877), Notes on

The letter is pasted into a manuscript book, and the final letters on the edge closest to the binding

He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the

Jules Mason helped to get supplies to George Washington Whitman when he was held prisoner (see Jeff's

He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the

The letter is pasted into a manuscript book, and the final letters on the edge closest to the binding

He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the

The letter is pasted into a manuscript book, and the final letters on the edge closest to the binding

to a "christmas present" and the date on which the poem appeared, is presumably "The Singer in the Prison

The letter is pasted into a manuscript book, and the final letters on the edge closest to the binding

He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the

He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the

Walt did not yet know that George was among the exchanged prisoners.

He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the

See "Exchange of Prisoners [. . .]

He was held prisoner with George Washington Whitman, and after Howard's release he forwarded a letter

He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the

The letter is pasted into a manuscript book, and the final letters on the edge closest to the binding

He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the

He had passed most of his life with books, and he found, without trouble, his vocation as publisher.

radicalism, of the desire to alleviate the sufferings of the world—especially the sufferings of prisoners

India, the country of his birth, inspired his most remembered literary works, such as The Jungle Book

Gosse reviewed Two Rivulets in "Walt Whitman's New Book," The Academy, 9 (24 June 1876), 602–603, and

pages are devoted to testimonies by contemporaries.The next full-fledged biography, and the first book

Traubel attacked the book in The Conservator, his journal devoted to the worship of Whitman, for its

Holloway's book, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1927, was the most visible product of many years of

Picking up where Catel left off in his book, the biography begins after the first edition of Leaves of

New York: Basic Books, 1984. Biographies

health, visiting Italy, Germany, France, and England, and returned with at least part of his first book

["Lidian"] Jackson in 1835) was Emerson's sole source of income, as he realized no profit from his books

that such an excision would be like cutting out a person's virility and kept to his course with the book

In his final years, he devoted himself to sketching and writing books of poetry–In Hours of Leisure (

Trautwine, wrote and/or revised books on civil engineering, including the Civil Engineer's Pocket Book

New York: Basic Books, 1984. Crystal Palace Exhibition (New York)

Franklin Evans was published in the Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman and by Random House as a book

Peter Eckler to print the first issue of Drum-Taps but after Abraham Lincoln's death withdrew the book

Except the first book ever written (and who can tell what that was?)

Walt. has given to the world the most original book ever composed.

I can already understand half his book, and hope some day to comprehend the remainder.

The man is the true impersonation of the book—rough, uncouth, vulgar.

I can't understand you when you think so much of books and genius.

must be thankful, though we may mildly complain that Whitman's other prose works, consisting of two books—one

Even in America, says a personal friend of the author, these books can hardly be said to have been published

This does not mean that his books have not been bought and read: indeed, the number of copies sold of

extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed' was Emerson's verdict on the book

This book, with its Carlylian eloquence and anti-Carlylian optimism, is not more remarkable on account

Allen Thorndike Rice's valuable "Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln," a remarkable book by thirty-three

The price of this highly successful book alone has never varied from $4.00.

eulogy was published to great acclaim and is considered a classic panegyric (see Phyllis Theroux, The Book

I owe him a considerable debt for his help in bringing this book into focus, and I am honored that he

who, as a wise and energetic leader of the University of Iowa Press, transformed these words into a book

In this book, I intend to make just such an examination of the civic religion behind Whitman's patriotism

In this book's conclusion, I suggest what those demands are.

I will develop the argument for that claim in subsequent discussions throughout the book; for now, it

In various permutations, Whitman circulated this fourth edition as four separately paginated books stitched

2 [later "Tears"], "Leaves of Grass" number 3 [later "Aboard at a Ship's Helm"], "When I Read the Book

Union proliferate throughout all parts of the 1867 edition, but the physical "dismemberment" of the book

Walt Whitman's Blue Book. Ed. Arthur Golden. 2 vols. New York: New York Public Library, 1968.

; "When I Read the Book"; "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" Leaves of Grass, 1867 edition

complicated publishing history of the fifth edition includes at least three rearrangements of the book

Still another issue of the book contained the Passage to India annex, with separate pagination, as well

In short, the fifth edition of Leaves contained in its format three separate books of poetry, as well

postwar America, at the moment when he was announcing a companion volume to Leaves which he labeled a book

Whitman's construction of a book of "democratic nationality" took more coherent form in the first annex

As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free, Whitman makes a proposal to accompany Leaves, which he called the book

" Democratic Individual," with a companion volume which would fulfill nationalist aspirations (the book

volume Two Rivulets to accompany the 1876 Leaves, and the former comes closest to representing any book

Whitman began work on a "little book" to accompany Drum-Taps.

This "little book" was completed later in 1865 and appended to Drum-Taps with the title page Sequel to

It introduced seven new poems and the significant prose Preface announcing his desire to produce a book

In the 1872 Preface Whitman registers uncertainty over whether such a book of democratic nationality

I got the book you sent me and I am very much oblighed obliged for it papa is coming home friday I go

Smith Gray her Sons cary carry on the business. she writes potry poetry for her friends I have two Books

TAYLOR 1193 Broadway New York has doubtlessly received 12 of my books within the last few days to "PLACE

In the general conception of the book, as well as in many of the poems, he echoed the American poet,

Both books have a poem entitled "Broadway."

The first text is the preface to his book of poems Paulicéia Desvairada Hallucinated City ), published

The dates of these two books illuminate Whitman's literary reception in Brazil.

In the 1920s critical and creative responses to his work were frequently found in books and literary

its various forms—manuscripts, notebooks, corrected page proofs, and printings in periodicals and books

Unique items no longer need to be locked away behind the doors of rare book rooms and special collections

It is some more than two years since I first read your book, and sometimes I have felt so in raport rapport

eulogy was published to great acclaim and is considered a classic panegyric (see Phyllis Theroux, The Book

cluster of the 1881–82 (and 1891–92) Leaves , the poem attained a preeminent position in Whitman's book

Published in 1988, the book contains the most authoritative selection of Whitman's poems in print.

played a large role in that film, of course) and the book's appeal to a larger, and possibly younger,

The book, published by the largest Italian publisher, Mondadori, seems to address a select audience of

reprinting of Thoreau's letter (December 7, 1856) to Harrison Blake about Whitman; concluding the book

Poet Boston U.S.A. see | notes | Aug 14 | 1891 Marion Harry Spielmann to Walt Whitman, 16 March 1891

the back of her letter to write notes and instructions related to the binding of the limited pocket-book

The book was published in 1889 by Philadelphia publisher David McKay.

As Leaves of Grass grew through its five subsequent editions into a hefty book of 389 poems (with the

Copies of the first edition are regularly some of the most expensive American books sold at rare-book

Whitman worked on the Preface while the book was being printed and wrote most of the poems in 1854 and

Though no reliable records have survived, probably very few copies of the book were sold.

Whitman Making Books / Books Making Whitman.

The catalogues, so characteristic of the entire book, first appear in this poem ("Interlink'd, food-yielding

more delightfully evinced by Whitman than in 'A Word out of the Sea,' to our thinking the poem of the book

Whitman, Czesław Miłosz, did not translate this particular poem, its message seems to echo in his book

Szuba, who has published five book-length collections of Whitman translations so far, attempted to translate

Both translators were active in the first decade of the new millennium—Boczkowski published his first book-length

Louis Oct 28th/72 Dear brother Walt I have received a good many letters and books etc. from you and have

In his 1904 book Mountain Peaks (Gonyja veršiny) Balʹmont offers a list of "the most outstanding symbolists

of Grass,' which I first read at the age of twenty-five, influenced me more perhaps than any other book

Balʹmont likes Symonds' reference to a marvelous prodigy of power from the Book of Job, but instead of

His death came just after the publication of his last book, a biography of Longfellow.

as a critic and reviewer, Arvin wrote two major essays on Whitman prior to the publication of his book

chest hair to pubic hair, and from the body to the earth, from leaves of grass to the leaves of his book

The "me" of the title is both the poet's body and his book, and a commitment to either requires a loss

Whitman also makes himself available as his book, not to be read, but rather to be thrust "beneath your

The reader is left with what Edwin Miller has called "the chill of the type face" (153), the book as

This is not a book intended to look backward as much as forward; it is a book intended above all to understand

Whitman's words "no book," which is not only Leaves of Grass but any book or text that by design negates

that "this is no book, IWho touches this touches a man," Ginsberg's speaker responds, "I touch your book

I am thinking of book 1,part 3 ("Statement"), and the more obviously parodic section of book 2 called

One year later, in 1866, he read a book that was to lead to trouble in his marriage. The book?

According to the "Hospital Note Book" (Henry E.

According to the "Hospital Note Book" (Henry E.

often felt that I should like to write to you and tell you how much pleasure and instruction your books

The other papers in that book are interesting to me too.

For more information on the book, see James E.

December 17. 1891 My dear sir, Having seen by a paragraph in the Pall Mall Gazette that some of your books

But the small edition of the book that you now have would be greatly prized by me.

I would like also to know what price is the other book mentioned in the newspaper, a large volume of

Grass appeal very strongly to me, but this is only singling out one series in that most beautiful book

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

For more information on the book see Ed Folsom, Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman: A Catalog

Whitman's "big book" is a reference to his Complete Poems and Prose of Walt Whitman (1888).

Whitman's November Boughs—a book of prose and poetry—was published in 1888 by David McKay.