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present volume is distinctly a political, a historical, or, perhaps more correctly still, a prophetic book

God sends Alza, the angel of tears, to the criminal's bedside in prison to soothe the murderer's sleep

regarded among writers like Julian Hawthorne and James Whitcomb Riley, and he authored a number of books

the Birch trees by the brook—Many a time while lying on the Bank of the little stream reading your Book—have

I N a letter dated Concord, 6th May, 1856, Emerson wrote to Carlyle:—'One book, last summer, came out

terrible eyes and buffalo strength, and was indisputably American, which I thought to send you, but the book

The book referred to was a copy of the singular looking thin quarto volume of little more than a hundred

The solid sense of the book is a sober certainty.

Thoreau wrote of the book in a similar, if more guarded, strain.

a good American Lever, for $22.07 which I was to pay within a month but I was robbed of my pocket Book

For two hundred dollars, Worthington purchased the publishers' plates for the 1860 edition of the book

George and Susan Stafford were the parents of Harry Stafford, a young man Whitman met and befriended

Harry's parents were tenant farmers in Laurel Springs, outside of Glendale, near Camden, New Jersey.

Harry invited Whitman to his family home, and Whitman immediately fell in love with the homestead and

Whitman only stopped going to the farm when his friendship with Harry Stafford became strained, which

New York: Bantam Books, 1982.Reynolds, David S. Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography.

(union)-was a long while a prisoner in secesh prisons in Georgia, & in Richmond-three times the devils

Harry, I wish when you see Ben.

He wrote less frequently and more quietly to Harry, and sent long gossipy letters to Harry's mother,

Henry (Harry) L.

Harry Fritzinger, Warren's brother.

The pun upon leaves of grass and the leaves of a book has often been noted.

This profundity appears in a book discussing American humor.

Ransom. 58 Myers also cites 7: 124 in support of his argument. 59 Harry B.

The Evolution ofWalt W hitman-The Creation ofa Book. Cambridge: Har vard, 1962.

New York: Basic Books, 1984. Zitter, Emmy Stark.

Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1971. 32–41.Whitman, Walt.

In setting these clusters together in his book, he appears to be following a tradition of the personal

The récherché or ethereal sense, as used in my book, arises probably from it, Calamus presenting the

The poet (becoming his book) gives the reader a chance to escape, but then entices him or her by suggesting

Readers discover, perhaps to their dismay, that they have been propositioned by a book!

special meaning of the Calamus cluster of Leaves of Grass, (and more or less running through that book

sexuality have dominated Leaves of Grass from the very beginning and have shaped the course of the book's

Preface call direct attention to this element in his work, in one of his anonymous reviews of his book

Whitman added other sex poems to his book in 1856, including "Poem of Procreation" (now "A Woman Waits

When Whitman came to Boston to see his book through the press there, Emerson tried to persuade him to

Before the book could be distributed by its publisher in Boston, however, it was found to be immoral

Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1971. Kummings, Donald D., ed.

I accept and consider the book as a study.

topic of the book. 55.

Folsom, Whitman Making Books, 19. 27.

, it is not in this book (lg 77, 213) 30.

: of 1855 index book-making process (cont.)

He published numerous books of poetry and was considered an unofficial poet laureate of Canada by the

He is best known for his book of poetry titled Méditations poétiques (1820) and for his role in the Revolution

Fancy the untamable, untranslatable Walt pottering over rondeaux, or elaborating canzonets, or measuring

It is the kind of book that if it can once get out here will sell.

We are not here up to the point yet, but are rising, & this book will help us I am quite sure.

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

For more information on Rossetti's book, see "Introduction to the British Editions of Leaves of Grass

It later described the 1860 Leaves of Grass as "a book evidently intended to lie on the tables of the

This is possibly Reverend William Sharman, whose address was listed in Whitman's address book (Notebooks

February 28, 1876, and Whitman sent her a copy of Leaves of Grass on July 27, 1876 (Whitman's Commonplace Book

It later described the 1860 Leaves of Grass as "a book evidently intended to lie on the tables of the

Buchanan to say that you are in danger of starving, or that you have no appreciation in America (where books

The effort to circulate your books by a subscription will be successful.

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

Burroughs would write several books involving or devoted to Whitman's work: Notes on Walt Whitman, as

I will watch for reviews when your book appears, & send you any that are valuable. see notes sept 7 &

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

For more information on Rossetti's book, see "Introduction to the British Editions of Leaves of Grass

, I hereby fully empower you to decide & act for me in any matters or propositions relating to the book

Streets, I learned that he was absent, and perhaps at the printing-office of the Republic, where his new book

Then also I was told I should find him at a printing-office, where he was printing his book.

After so many years, in which he has achieved fame, the poet has still to print his books at a job-office

The book alternates quite abruptly with a streak of prose and a streak of poetry.

The book also contains a very remarkable contribution to the literature of the late Secession struggle

On his table had been laid one day a queerly-shaped book entitled, "Leaves of Grass.

There was not, apparently, a single book in the room.

"He has written a book—hasn't he?" "Not as ever I hearn on."

At the Tombs prison we went among the prisoners, and the confidence and volubility with which they ran

There are two or three pieces in the book which are disagreeable; simply sensual. . . .

His Collected Poems (1954) won him the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

He had one significant book of literary criticism, The Necessary Angel (1951).

her later work in its unconventional portrait of an unhappy wife who tries to free herself from the prison

New York: Basic Books, 1984. Sand, George (1804–1876)

Walt Whitman and Harry Stafford by John Moran, ca.

February 11, 1878 Whitman is pictured here with Harry Stafford.

In 1876 Whitman entered an intense and stormy relationship with young Harry, who often accompanied Whitman

to the creek and to whom Whitman gave a ring; the ring is visible in this photo on Harry's right hand

During these years, when they were apart, Whitman wrote Harry intimate letters: "Dear Harry, not a day

One may not care for this or that so-called poem—think it no poem, for that matter; but take his book

To leave preface just at the end and come to the book—most welcome is this 'Second Annex.'

I am sorry the book is not now before me, that I may refresh myself with lines that it would also be

men this country has produced a complimentary of "King's Handbook of the United States"; a little book

King's Handbook of the United States (1891), a volume totaling more than 900 pages, was a reference book

Harris.

Harris to Walt Whitman, 22 February 1891

"My book and the war are one," Whitman would assert in "To Thee Old Cause" (1871); in "Toilsome" that

For all its natural organicism, however, the very title of Whitman's book punningly invokes its own artifice

For both Moon and Thomas, then, the book—what might be called the literary technology of Leaves of Grass—is

which cannot adequately be explained in terms of hostility to artifice or technological mediation: the book—the

his expressed desires literally and figuratively to touch even those readers who will come to his book

review, written by Juliette Beach and signed "A Woman," described Leaves of Grass as "the standard book

adolescence to the maternity and paternity of adulthood.Whitman had marked line 10 for deletion in his Blue Book

New York: Basic Books, 1984. "To Rich Givers" (1860)

"Prison-escaping" What happened next to Doyle?

It's been assumed that Doyle was a prisoner of war.

On April 18, 1863, he was confined in Carroll Prison, an annex to the Old Capitol Prison.

Now Harry was to be Whitman's "darling boy."

For the first time, Walt told Doyle of the Stafford farm, but he did not mention Harry.

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

publication of the first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855) did not impress George, who recalled: "I saw the book—didn't

something of this experience, he wrote to Ralph Waldo Emerson, "I desire and intend to write a little book

And yet, Thoreau continued, "There are two or three pieces in the book which are disagreeable, to say

response from Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Chase, who dismissed the poet's Leaves as a "very bad book

He is a poet, and I believe has written some very queer books about 'Free Love,' etc."

George Whitman had lived through many more battles and even survived imprisonment in the "Prison-Pens

In New Jersey, Harry Stafford provided Whitman with a measure of the companionship that Doyle was not

Included with the letters was Bucke's interview of Doyle, which Henry James in his 1898 review of the book

Saturday, May 23, 1891 ).In a group portrait of Murray, Eakins, and O’Donovan (along with Eakins’s dog, Harry

Hotten published two books by Whitman—a selection from and a complete edition of Leaves of Grass.

Hotten printed one thousand copies of the book, and when after his death his firm was taken over by Chatto

It was a very accurate type-facsimile of Whitman's book, even down to the "Washington, D.C., 1872" imprint

Indeed, Hotten's name was nowhere to be found in the book.

material, and which he probably thought he could avoid more easily by posing as the distributor of the book

On 5 June, McKay wrote Whitman on behalf of Rees Welsh and offered to publish the book.

Whitman received ten guineas for the book, whose sale was restricted to England.

This was a clever way for Whitman to make two books out of Specimen Days & Collect.

Whitman received another ten guineas for each book, and they were both in print through at least 1902

New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1931. Thomas, M. Wynn.

In the room where I found Whitman, a few books were to be seen in a book-case, and two remarkable paintings

NEWHALL seated, absorbed in a book.

The likeness in the book is fair.

Harris, Jr.)

Bucke's book at his request some reminiscences of Walt Whitman, which I showed to him before the book

Wishing to have these books and also to contribute a trifling amount towards the promulgation of such

& to humanity, I enclose twenty Dollars which I hope you will accept in payment for one set of the books

Johnson N M Johnson (order for books—sent March 17, '76) Nancy M.

I closed your book revelation, a wiser and more thoughtful woman, than when, from idle curiosity I first

He was Whitman's first biographer, and his book Cosmic Consciousness (1901), which features Whitman and

Bucke dedicated Man's Moral Nature (1879), his first book on his theory of evolving consciousness, "to

Bucke's biography of Whitman (1883) was an unconventional book, as much an anthology of documents about

collaboration; Whitman advised throughout, revised Bucke's text, and wrote significant portions of the book

Cosmic Consciousness was in a sense the book that Whitman would not let him write in the biography, because