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all—None refuse, all attend; Armies, ships, antiquities, the dead, libraries, paintings, machines, cities

This was revised to form section 41 of Calamus in 1860 and was permanently retitled Among the Multitude

Julian B.Freund"To One Shortly to Die" (1860)"To One Shortly to Die" (1860)Included in a cluster of poems

"To One Shortly to Die" (1860)

This poem was published under the title To One Shortly to Die, with only minor revisions, in the 1860

years old the/ eighty-first year of The States" indicate that Whitman composed the poem in 1857; these were

revised to read "I, forty years old the Eighty-third Year of The States" in the 1860 Leaves, in which

Draft, with many corrections, of To Him That Was Crucified, a poem first published in Leaves of Grass (1860

/ If nothing lay more developed the quahaug and its callous shell were enough. / Mine is no callous shell

Both poems were first published in the 1855 first edition of Leaves of Grass.; duk.00883 To be at all

I think if there were nothing more developed, the clam in its callous shell in the sand, were august

/ If nothing lay more developed the quahaug and its callous shell were enough. / Mine is no callous shell

JimMcWilliams"To a Western Boy" (1860)"To a Western Boy" (1860)Originally written in 1860 as number 12

Whitman's Manuscripts: "Leaves of Grass" (1860). Ed. Fredson Bowers. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1955.

"To a Western Boy" (1860)

Robert K.Martin"To a Stranger" (1860)"To a Stranger" (1860) The twenty-second of the "Calamus" poems

underwent almost no changes from the manuscript for the 1860 to later editions.

"To a Stranger" (1860)

It was numbered section 22 of Calamus in 1860: the lines on the first page correspond to verses 1-6 of

the 1860 version, and those on the second ("You give me the pleasure") to verses 7-10.

All is recall'd as we flit by each other, fluid, affectionate, chaste, matured, You grew up with me, were

All is recall'd as we flit by each other, fluid, affectionate, chaste, matured, You grew up with me, were

All is recall'd as we flit by each other, fluid, affectionate, chaste, matured, You grew up with me, were

we flit by each other, fluid, affection- ate affectionate , chaste, matured, You grew up with me, were

poem was revised somewhat and published under the same title in the Messenger Leaves cluster of the 1860

BernardHirschhorn"To a President" (1860)"To a President" (1860)The president addressed and disparaged

The Disruption of American Democracy. New York: Macmillan, 1948.Pressly, Thomas J.

Americans Interpret Their Civil War. New York: Free Press, 1962.Reynolds, David S.

"To a President" (1860)

This poem, featuring a new first line, became section 12 of Calamus in 1860; in 1867 Whitman dropped

The first page contains verses corresponding to lines 2-3 of the 1860 version, and the lines on the second

American Quarterly 17 (1965): 92–103.Faner, Robert. Walt Whitman & Opera.

It appears that originally the two leaves were pasted together as one piece, but have since come apart

Walt Whitman's law] in the composition process, correspond, like [Of Biography], to section 13 of the 1860

version of the poem Chants Democratic and Native American which was revised and permanently retitled

Maverick MarvinHarris"To a Historian" (1860)"To a Historian" (1860)When this poem first appeared in the

third (1860) edition of Leaves of Grass, it was number 10 of sixteen new poems that were combined with

called "Inscriptions," where it has remained ever since.The poem prophesies the ideal man that the American

"To a Historian" (1860)

1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf20 x 16 cm pasted to 11 x 16 cm; After undergoing extensive revisions, in 1860

1858, under the working title Slavery—the Slaveholders—/ —The Constitution—the true America and Americans

It became "To a Foiled Revolter or Revoltress" in 1860 and 1867, and took its familiar title thereafter.In

1860, "Foil'd" was included in the "Messenger Leaves" cluster; it was in no cluster in 1867; then in

both political and spiritual, but its earthy roots are suggested in the poem's positioning after "The City

CarmineSarracino"To a Common Prostitute" (1860)"To a Common Prostitute" (1860)Whitman added more than

a hundred new poems to the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, including "To a Common Prostitute."

The sexuality of the 1860 edition (which, in addition to "Prostitute," included for the first time fifteen

Thayer and Eldridge, the Boston publishers who went bankrupt just after they brought out the third (1860

"To a Common Prostitute" (1860)

prostituteabout 1860poetry1leafhandwritten; Draft of To a Common Prostitute, a poem published first in the 1860

These lines were revised and published under the title To a Cantatrice in the Messenger Leaves cluster

of 1860.

They are the American poetry which the Old World has been challenging us so long to produce; they "stir

FROM MEMORANDA MADE AT THE TIME IN NEW YORK CITY, OR WASHINGTON, OR IN ARMY HOSPITALS, OR CAMP OR FIELD

Some were scratched down from narratives I heard and itemized while watching, or waiting, or tending

All the moral convictions of the best portion of the Nation were outraged.

The broad spaces, sidewalks, and street in the neighborhood, and for some distance, were crowded with

He was overthrown in 1857 and executed in Honduras in 1860.

He was overthrown in 1857 and executed in Honduras in 1860.; Plutarch (46–120 AD) was a Greek essayist

FROM MEMORANDA MADE AT THE TIME IN NEW YORK CITY, OR WASHINGTON, OR IN ARMY HOSPITALS, OR CAMP OR FIELD

They were very fond of it, and liked declamatory poetical pieces.

Many were entire strangers.

They are not charity-patients, but American young men, of pride and independence.

The two were chatting of one thing and another. The fever soldier spoke of John C.

.; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was a celebrated American poet.

FROM MEMORANDA MADE AT THE TIME IN NEW YORK CITY, OR WASHINGTON, OR IN ARMY HOSPITALS, OR CAMP OR FIELD

I have never seen a more pathetic sight than the patient and mute manner of our American wounded and

This B. is a good sample of the American Eastern young man—the typical Yankee.

It was quite fresh and nomadic, the way these two primal cavaliers, well mounted as they were on expert

Traveling with the Wounded: Walt Whitman and Washington's Civil War Hospitals ." northeast of the city

. and act upon others as upon us now . . . . yet not act upon us;To think of all these wonders of city

American Transcendental Quarterly 12 (1971): 55–60.McGhee, Richard D.

Whitman and most biographers have emphasized the solitude of Timber Creek, but human relationships were

American Literature 5 (1933): 235–246.Kaplan, Justin. Walt Whitman: A Life.

OFFICE OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY BOSTON, March 6, 1860. MR. WALT WHITMAN— Sir.

Yours truly, Ticknor & Fields Ticknor & Fields, for The Atlantic Monthly, to Walt Whitman, 6 March 1860

By the late 1840s Ticknor and Fields were publishing most of their trade books in a dark brown cloth;

For discussion of Ticknor and Fields's "blue and gold" books see Michael Winship, American Literary Publishing

nyp.00516xxx.00022[Thuswise it comes]1860–1867poetry3 leaveshandwritten; One of a series of draft introductions

Whitman prepared for Leaves of Grass, but which were never printed during Whitman's lifetime.

Talcott is not an American by birth—Syrian, I think: born, however, of English or American parents."

When they were brought W. said: "No—they won't do—they don't satisfy me for shape: I like a shapely envelope

No copies were ever taken. It is here still.

It was said by some, they were wanting in dignity—but they were not.

seem to be a dispute in which nearly everybody, outside of the bosses themselves, believe the men were

justified—that their demands were just.

Though the Lincolns were not plenty now— "we must remember there is no call for them, nor should I wish

And as to Ingersoll's contention that Shakespeare's plays were impersonal—non-personal—more absolutely

If I were you I would do all I could to perpetuate it.

Often and often I used to look at Brooklyn, New York City—see all that transpired there—a perfect carnival

I suppose no city on the face of the globe—no municipality—can show a worse fool, for its size, than

their taxes, knowing they are looted—but half of whom couldn't tell you today who is mayor of the city

He said: "It seemed as if all the fiends out of hell were loose: some bright particular devils sent here

canny—perhaps laying too much stress on that point: canny to that degree, I might say, that if it were

I don't remember where we were when he gave me that picture"—pointing to the wall—"whether it was in

Also June 11 enclosing Song of the Universal—American Humor—Souther letter &c.

My dear Walt—Nine years ago I delivered before a German Society of New York city a lecture on American

it partly.I have been staying here for a week and shall leave in two or three days; but back in the city

But Gilchrist spoke of the great lesson his American experience had taught him—that we went on differentiating

W. showed a peculiar interest in Gilchrist's explanation of his impression of American life—its significance—as

"They were here just before I went out."

No, they were old. "My writing days are done—all done!" Had he read Morse's paper? "Yes!

My lungs which were pierced by the cruel bullet have so far resisted the approach of pneumonia or other

And as he looked up, I found he had grown quite serious—that tears were in his eyes. O rare sight!

a lady in New York who exhibited an autograph album which she boasted of as about complete (all American

And he added: "I should imagine there were various words that would need such attention on closer scrutiny

I wish there were more of his order.

He insisted that they were in London now—I not.

At the very time we were talking about it Warrie came in.

W.; a North American Review corrected reprint of "Poetry Today in America."

But, "Still I worked some today—sent off the 'Old Poets' piece to North American Review.

I shouldn't wonder if seats were at a premium. There is a good deal of inquiry here for seats.

I recited to him good shape in which we were getting lecture affair.

Pan-American Congress in Philadelphia next week. "Have you your poem finished?" I asked.

For, he said, "The Colonel would set them on fire, if he were there—were to let himself out."