Search Results

opinion of the living and working conditions of England in the New York Aurora editorials "Black and White

In "Black and White Slaves" he writes, "In England, nine-tenths of the population do not enjoy the common

opinion of the living and working conditions of England in the New York Aurora editorials "Black and White

In "Black and White Slaves" he writes, "In England, nine-tenths of the population do not enjoy the common

See: John Boag, Popular and Complete English Dictionary (London: William Collins, 1848), 903. twice the

White, 1839], 532). to the north. What troops of children, large and small, appear on every side!

White, 1839], 532).; "fen scrapins" was perhaps a slang term used during the game of "Ring Taw."

Quilp—the dull, callous insensibility to any virtue, of Sikes Fagin (Whitman misspells his name) and William

"Black and White Slaves." "Black and White Slaves."

texts show that he had little tolerance for abolitionism, that he thought blacks were inferior to whites

The lithograph to which Whitman refers was actually entitled "Black and White Slavery," and was created

by a Northern slavery apologist named Edward Williams Clay.

It compares Britain's "white slaves" (factory workers) to America's black slaves in an effort to show

texts show that he had little tolerance for abolitionism, that he thought blacks were inferior to whites

Vintage Books, 1996), 125–127.; The lithograph to which Whitman refers was actually entitled "Black and White

It compares Britain's "white slaves" (factory workers) to America's black slaves in an effort to show

A bill written by William B.

Maclay (1812–1882), a New York Democrat, as a response to Governor William Seward's (1802–1872) call

Wisdom mentioned by Whitman is Captain William A.

Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (London: Verso, 2002

William Leete Stone (1793–1844) was described in an 1856 biographical sketch as "the editor and one of

In Whitman's written appeal to the minds of all men (where "all men" refers to native-born white males

Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (London: Verso, 2002

In Whitman's written appeal to the minds of all men (where "all men" refers to native-born white males

White, 1839]).

White, 1839]). This piece is unsigned.

White, 1839]).

White, 1839]).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of an original issue.

The first editor-in-chief was William Coleman (1766–1829).

The poet William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) took over in the 1830s, and was the editor-in-chief for nearly

For more information on William Cullen Bryant and the Evening Post , see: Allan Nevins, The Evening Post

William Scott Stowell (1745–1836) was an English civil lawyer turned jurist and later a judge.

and Determined in the High Court of Admiralty Commencing with the Judgements of the Right Honor Sir William

William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) served as the editor of the Evening Post for nearly fifty years, from

Stone is a good writer, William Leete Stone (1792–1844) was the editor of the Commercial Advertiser from

New Era and Whitman's poem published there, see Wendy Katz, "A Newly Discovered Whitman Poem About William

William Seward (1801–1872), as governor of New York, passed the so-called Maclay Bill to increase funding

The Maclay Bill was written by William B.

John Tyler (1790–1862) became president of the United States upon the death of William Henry Harrison

A white silken mantle, somewhat like a scarf, was worn by every person; it encircled the neck, falling

The silk scarf that Whitman is referring to is a tallit, a white garment that is shawl-like and is worn

platform which made part of this structure, there was another figure standing, half shrouded in a white

Scott" and "Shakespeare's Shylock" are both Jewish characters in works from Sir Walter Scott and William

Similarly, Shylock is a character from the William Shakespeare play, The Merchant of Venice .

.; The silk scarf that Whitman is referring to is a tallit, a white garment that is shawl-like and is

In the election of 1840, Van Buren lost to William Henry Harrison (1774–1841), a former general during

President William Henry Harrison died from complications of pnuemonia four weeks after taking the oath

length of years seldom vouchsafed to his kind; and his head was thinly covered with hair of a silvery whiteness

assured him I was not jesting, he began telling me of former times, and how it came to be that this white-haired

In a short time, as the white-haired ancient was out of sight, the square was cleared, and I stood in

I stopped and leaned my back against the fence, with my face turned toward the white marble stones a

White hairs, and pale blossoms, and stone tablets of Death!

She who sat on the door-step was a widow; her neat white cap covered locks of gray, and her dress though

The perspiration ran down his white forehead like rain-drops. "Speak, sir!"

His countenance turned to a leaden whiteness; the ratan dropped from his grasp; and his eyes, stretched

Bright, we started forth to visit the other side, whereon the surf comes tumbling, like lots of little white

See William Godwin, St.

The ideologial founder of the Loco focos, William Leggett (1801-1839), advocated for free trade, and

delightfully variegated with rolls and slight elevations of land: on the highest of these I beheld a white

For instance, in a poem titled "The Ideal," by William H.C.

Levine, "William Shakespeare in America," Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America

pork; believe L.I. sound and the south bay to be the ne plus ultra of creation; and the "gals" wear white

—Our conversation, too, was a caution to white folks; it consisted principally, as you may imagine, of

Levine, "William Shakespeare and the American People: A Study in Cultural Transformation," The American

the reference to the “Youth’s guide to Polite Manners” could be related to the 1833 publication of William

Many advice manuals quoted William Scott’s definition of good-breeding from his 1817 publication of Lessons

—Forms that the coffin shrouds in its white linings; voices that once sounded joyous and light, but which

Later in the manuscript he writes of "the buckwheat and its white tops and the bees that hum there all

day," and on page 36 of the 1855 Leaves he writes of the "white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and a

William Penn, in his "Testimony to the truth as held by the people called Quakers,"written in 1698, says

"— Elias Hicks' letter to William B.

The next quotation, on page 72 of the pamphlet, is taken from William Penn's "Guide Mistaken, and Temporizing

To which distinction of persons William Penn replies– "As for his strange distinction of the Deity, which

[Here William Penn introduces M 298 inference, I say, is as irrational, as it would be for any to conclude

A note at the top of the manuscript, written by Whitman's friend William Sloane Kennedy, indicates that

Written at the top of the manuscript is the note, "White Horse notes."

leaf16 x 19 cm; A draft beginning "Peace no more, but flag of war" written in pencil on a sheet of white

White

Death of William Cullen Bryant

(William Sloane Kennedy, for example, wrote that Whitman would "probably have desired to have him privately

William Douglas O'Connor photograph of William Douglas O'Connor Walt Whitman met William Douglas O'Connor

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor . College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1978.

O'Connor, William Douglas. "The Carpenter: A Christmas Story."

"O'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]," by Deshae E.

Biography of William Douglas O'Connor

what is unsuitable is also unintelligible to her; and, if no dark shadow from without be cast on the white

In a letter on July 19, 1869, William Michael Rossetti had urged Gilchrist to "suppress" her name; see

The Letters of William Michael Rossetti , ed.

writing positively of it in his December 9, 1869 letter to Rossetti and in his May 11, 1870 letter to William

The White House by Moonlight — . 24.—A spell of fine soft weather.

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

There are fires in large stoves, and the prevailing white of the walls is reliev'd by some ornaments,

Williams, age 21, 3d Va. Cavalry.

Father, John Williams, Millensport, Ohio. 9–10.

in toward land; The great steady wind from west and west-by-south, Floating so buoyant, with milk-white

, I was refresh'd by the storm; I watch'd with joy the threatening maws of the waves; I mark'd the white

Then to the third—a face nor child, nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory: Young man

NOT alone our camps of white, O soldiers, When, as order'd forward, after a long march, Footsore and

WORLD, take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-six

table Henry Clapp, Walt Whitman, Fitz James O'Brien, Ned Wilkins, George Arnold, Sheppard, Gardette, William

William Winter was its literary critic.

William Winter came from the Cambridge (Mass.) Chronicle in 1859.

Our transcription is based on William Shepard, ed., Pen Pictures of Modern Authors (New York: G. P.

looked a moment at the blaze of the great wood fire, ran his forefinger and left through the heavy white

The Italian bedfellow kisses and hugs, and fills the house with white towels.

The youth float on their backs, their white bellies soak up the sun; they do not wonder who clasps them

I neither suffer nor despair despite my exhaustion, Beautiful and white are the people surrounding me

I depart like the air, shake my white hair towards the setting sun, Throw my flesh into eddies, let it

Hall Walt Whitman in Europe Today Roger Asselineau and William White Detroit Wayne State University Press

" ("Pevec ličnosti i žizni") and "The Poetry of Struggle" ("Poèzija borʹby"), appear in the volume White

which has in effect powerfully recreated: Me and mine, loose windrows, little corpses, Froth, snowy white

By the time he became acquainted with Whitman's poetry through William Rossetti's British edition of

It was facilitated by Whitman's friends, probably under the aegis of William D.

The translators were an unlikely team—Thomas William Rolleston (1857–1920) was an Irish nationalist and

He is also a prominent translator of American dramatists (among them Williams, Miller, and Wilder).

And four voices under the high white hats reply: "Et c'est bon!" . . .

William Parry reports that in Baku poems by Whitman were distributed as morale builders to oil workers

"I am both white and black, and belong to every caste—mine is every faith—I am a farmer, gentleman, mechanic

Traubel was fifteen years old when he began to chat occasionally with the white-bearded old poet on the

See Roger Asselineau and William White, eds., Walt Whitman in Europe Today (Detroit: Wayne State University

William White, ed., The Bicentennial Walt Whitman (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1976), 14.

Asselineau and White, , 19.

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

Roger Asselineau and William White, eds., (Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1972).

See, for instance, Swinburne's discussion of Whitman in William Blake: A Critical Essay (London: John

Hyder, "Swinburne's 'Changes of Aspect' and Short Notes," PLMA 58 (March 1943): 241; William J.

(Edinburgh: William Brown, 1884); originally published in the Round Table Series 4. 13.

This is what William Carlos Williams learned from Whitman, the natural cadence, the flow of breath as

William Carlos Williams once praised a poem by Marianne Moore as an anthology of transit, presumably

that swing and bloom; in your dining room, close to the tiled stove that smells of pine resin and white

America] most nearly recognizes its image is good gray Whitman in his open-collared shirt, in his white

class or of his own intellectual caste, of his own region or territorial area, or of his own race of white-skinned

Perhaps his long white hair made him seem paternal or maternal in the eyes of fatally wounded young men