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Detail of page 27 of the Blue Book.
For discussion of Harry T.
Snyder, Harry T.
We cannot be certain when Whitman began work on the Blue Book.⁷¹ What is known is that the Blue Book
; Walt Whitman’s Blue Book, ed.
The Blue Book illuminates Whitman’s poetic practice, particularly as it changedduring(andinresponseto
cw/tei/loc.00885.html. 22.Golden,WaltWhitman’sBlueBook,2:xxxvi. love, war, and revision in the blue book
The Blue Book bears numerous traces of beingawartimedocument,andthiscontextilluminatesmanyofWhitman’srevisions
In the Blue Book, Whitman contemplated revising a key moment of self- definitionin“WaltWhitman”(later
Love, War, and Revision in Whitman’s Blue Book
George once said to me: 'Walt, hasn't the world made it plain to you that it'd rather not have your book
used the back of this letter to draft "Grand is the Seen," a poem that was first published in his book
New Haven May 24th 1876 Mr Walt Whitman Dear Sir I want to get your new book (the "Two Rivulets" I think
I asked for it at one of the largest book stores in this place but they did not have it, so I thought
I know he would appreciate one of your Books better than anything else I could give him R. M.
poem "Hush'd be the Camps To-day," with a note about Lincoln's death to the final signature of the book
Whitman then decided to stop the printing and add a sequel to the book that would more fully take into
For more information on the printing of Drum-Taps (1865), see Ed Folsom, Whitman Making Books/Books Making
Briggs, author of The Adventures of Harry Franco (1839); Henry C.
how he first came across excerpts of Leaves of Grass while staying in Paris during 1855; he read the book
giant steam presses (of twenty-four in the world), and the some twelve thousand shops for dispensing books
Indeed, in a letter to Bridges in 1887, Hopkins, who had just reworked an old sonnet called "Harry Ploughman
New York Review of Books 3 December 1987: 43-44. ____. Oscar Wilde. New York: Knopf, 1988.
I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is
I did not know until I, last night, saw the book advertised in a newspaper, that I could trust the name
For more information on Whitman's use of Emerson's letter, see Ed Folsom, Whitman Making Books/Books
According to Whitman's account of this interview, Chase "said he considered Leaves of Grass a very bad book
seeing Leaves of Grass on the table, Chase had asked: "How is it possible you can have this nasty book
Cardinal Gibbons was known as a labor advocate, and he authored several books on religion, including
He published the influential book The Eternal Priesthood in 1883.
Reverend Raymond Blathwayt (1818–1910) served as the chaplin at several convict prisons before becoming
Blathwayt started a series of prison lectures, inviting speackers to lecture on various subjects to the
prisoners in an effort at prison reform ("Pioneer of Prison Reform," The Ashbourne Telegraph, March
In 1926 he advanced his campaign to make good books available to the general public when he became the
first chairman of the board of judges of the Book-of-the-Month Club, a position he held until 1958.
Wadsworth Longfellow and Robert Louis Stevenson and written Thoreau: A Biography (1939) and numerous other books
biography, Abraham Lincoln (1907), and (sometimes publishing under the pseudonym Richard Askham) several books
Kennedy also dedicated himself to writing, over a period of many years, a book-length study of the poet
He then edited Walt Whitman's Diary in Canada (1904) and in 1926 published The Fight of a Book for the
The Fight of a Book for the World. West Yarmouth, Mass.: Stonecroft, 1926. ———.
Whitman changed the title to number 15 of "Chants Democratic," he added two lines in the 1860 Blue Book
(Whitman, Blue Book 1:188).
Walt Whitman's Blue Book. Ed. Arthur Golden. 2 vols. New York: New York Public Library, 1968.
Longfellow's book Ballads and Other Poems, in which "Excelsior" appeared, had been reprinted nine times
OLD BOOKS BOUGHT.
Replying to your favor of 20th, The terms regarding "Leaves of Grass" are satisfactory, we publishing the books
Did you get from HM&Co the dies used by them for stamping cover of the book?
OLD BOOKS BOUGHT.
It would be our aim (if having control of the book) to put it before the trade at once , so that every
bookseller might know, before the fall trade opens, that the book can be had regularly, this would of
OLD BOOKS BOUGHT.
day while in the store, that you had not, as yet, made arrangements for another publisher, for your book
OLD BOOKS BOUGHT.
OLD BOOKS BOUGHT.
Acknowledging ourselves your disciples, we take you at your word as you have given it to us in your books
The New York Times Book Review 16 April 1978: 9, 28, 29. Daybooks and Notebooks (1978)
newspapers and the market for temperance fiction, gave him the power to print and promote his own books
image as a poet of immediate experience, and he admired Whitman's metrical innovations, but in his book-length
Osgood edition is notable both for its legacy of clustering and because for the first time Whitmans book
Whitmans book sold more than 1,500 copies before the publisher withdrew it after a district attorney
David McKay when McKay acquired Leaves and other non-legal titles from Welsh, who specialized in law books
In the summer of 1881, Whitman spent three weeks revising his book in New York City, then oversaw publishing
nearly one of ten poems not for aesthetic reasons, but because the poems did not fit his plan for the book
In notebooks from this period, Whitman mentions writing a great book and begins to write lines of experimental
Like the Book of Revelation in the Bible, the millennialism of Whitman's poems may be allegorical.
He was also a viola player (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E.
reference to Farwell's letter of March 5, 1875 (Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University Rare Book
close to several people active in Swedenborgian circles, discussing some of them, such as Thomas Lake Harris
New York: Basic Books, 1984. Popular Culture, Whitman and
W. quickly: 'Just that: a rare man: knowing nothing of books, knowing everything of life: a great big
familiar gray suit, lame, but still capable of moving about, surrounded by the disordered order of his books
and emitting the pungent odors of burning wood; an undraped bed, a table covered with a litter of books
We glanced hastily at some letters and many presentation copies of books with their authors' autographs
Is the latter's little book of 1867 worth nothing, or is it of no importance that William D.
I then observed that he held a small parcel of thin quarto-sized books under his right arm.
eulogy was published to great acclaim and is considered a classic panegyric (see Phyllis Theroux, The Book
and there is no news since I wrote last Love to you RM Bucke I do not understand why Horace's dinner book
The book was published in 1889 by Philadelphia publisher David McKay.
I have the book complete now from p. 5 to p 140 both inclusive. Your idea seems to be to sell Nov.
other illustrations (why not use the phototypes of your father & mother that Gutekunst got up for my book
Book to be sold only by yourself for $10. I like the "N.B."
Whitman was having friends help him read proofs for this book.
Whitman wanted to publish a "big book" that included all of his writings, and, with the help of Horace
The book was published in December 1888.
For more information on the book, see Ed Folsom, Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman: A Catalog
Enclosed you will find $7.25—$6.75 for the books and $0.50 for postage.
The book included a preface and twelve poems.
For more information on the first edition of Leaves of Grass, see Ed Folsom, Whitman Making Books / Books
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
Often called the "workshop" edition, the volume consisted of four separately paginated books stitched
reading George Eliot's Romola over again—have not read it for many years—do not find it as much of a book
principal trouble with my head) but am recovering—only received yours (of Sept 22) today—will send the book
be of any interest to you—it ought to be for it was inspired directly by yourself—it is part of a book
which I have been engaged upon for about six years—the book is on "Man's Moral Nature." this book as
I hope to publish the book in a year or at most two from this time and I intend if you do not object
Man's Moral Nature bears the following dedication: "I dedicate this book to the man who inspired it—to
I am constantly getting letters asking me about the book and a circular would be a better & more convenient
Man's Moral Nature" should all be mentioned in circular—also the English publishers of each of these books
There is no evidence in either Whitman's Commonplace Book or in the letters that Whitman agreed to this
it not be as well (or necessary) for me to go to Philadelphia to arrange for the publication of my book
Bucke is likely talking about his 1883 biography Walt Whitman here—a book for which Whitman wrote long
I think you know that the present of the (largesize) book will be (is) appreciated by me—I am also very
Rudolph Schmidt sent me a copy of his book containing his article on Walt Whitman I have put it in the
less desirable—I hope S.D. will sell and that Rees Welsh & Co. will feel disposed to take hold of my book
the Philistines, no doubt some of the papers would take it up and it would not do the sale of the book
Whitman made the following entries in his Commonplace Book: 6 March 1883: "Dr Bucke's book now in the
tremendous success, and Whitman was so showered with adulation that he observed in the Commonplace Book
Burroughs would write several books involving or devoted to Whitman's work: Notes on Walt Whitman, as
Whitman made the following entry in his Commonplace Book for February 24, 1885: "Mary Davis moves into
328 Mickle" (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E.
eulogy was published to great acclaim and is considered a classic panegyric (see Phyllis Theroux, The Book
eulogy was published to great acclaim and is considered a classic panegyric (see Phyllis Theroux, The Book
course—two I would say so that every word might be saved—we want the speech eventually in a neat little book
radicalism, of the desire to alleviate the sufferings of the world—especially the sufferings of prisoners