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passing the memory of any now living among us, that the line of fortified posts and entrenchments were

On the same neighborhood were thrown up hasty entrenchments during the last war,—the men and boys of

These Powder Houses were covered with slate, and were the only edifices in the neighborhood—being placed

appropriated to a free city Burial Yard, or Potter's Field.

Part of it was, in due time, filled up by the city, and forms the present City Park, with its northerly

'the banner city of Washingtonianism'" (qtd. 307).

were relegated to disappear into an American history.

with Native Americans in "Song of Myself."

In Chants Democratic: New York City & the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788–1850 , 306–314.

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2014. Winwar, Frances.

There were only seven or eight houses from Orange street up to Joralemon, on that side.

was not finished until the battles were over.

were wounded.

Some of the bodies were carried to their friends at distance places, but most were buried in Brooklyn

The ones we saw entombed at the Episcopal burying-ground were some of the officers.

1862, Henry Reed Stiles notes, “The graveyard was for many years disused, being finally removed in 1860

See Henry Reed Stiles, History of the City of Brooklyn: Including the Old Town and Village of Brooklyn

, the Town of Bushwick, and the Village and City of Williamsburgh (1867; repr., Westminster, MD: Heritage

, Fulton the First was not finished until the battles were over.

were wounded.

seems, in modern life, to be under the curse of an insane appetite, especially among the youth of cities

We say this state of things is throwing a bad ingredient in the stock of the population of our cities

There is no doubt, as things now are, among the young men of modern civilized life, in cities, that a

, and of all great cities, a sure and increasing amount of the tainted blood of prostitution, morbid,

In fact, three more installments of the series were published.

Eleventh of Poland, is lifted, much of it verbatim, from an article on "Muscular strength" in the American

thousand hours.; This sentence is also taken from the same article on "Muscular strength" in the American

, no.6 (June 1846): 194–195.; [CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.]In fact, three more installments of the series were

published.; In fact, three more installments of the series were published.; Our transcription is based

on a digital image of an original issue held at the American Antiquarian Society.

149uva.00292xxx.00112xxx.00085A City WalkAbout 1855poetryhandwritten1 leaf4.5 x 12 cm; A faint horizontal

line beneath part of "A City Walk," along with the words' capitalization and central position on the

18 in his Blue Book revisions of the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

This title was changed in the Blue Book to City of orgies, walks and joys and finally became City of

The poem was retitled Crossing Brooklyn Ferry in 1860. A City Walk

Every great city is a sort of countryman-trap.

It is often better, if you are to visit a city friend, to proceed to his abode by foot or by omnibus,

The city ordinances expressly provide that full explanations shall be posted in plain sight within every

If your errand is in the city, you will probably find no great difficulty in learning your way.

Don't be in haste to make city street acquaintances.

See Louise Pound, "'Peter Funk': The Pedigree of a Westernism," American Speech 4.3 (February 1929),

Butler, of having an affair with the "harlot" Slavery.; Decoy houses, also known as "touch houses," were

Whitman comments on the fraught politics of selecting the New York City legislative body in the April

A lazy person; a sluggard" (Noah Webster, John Walker, An American Dictionary of the English Language

Their shouts and howls were perfectly terrific; and we are told the residents in that quarter of the

The Irish drew up a threatening front; but so indignant were the Americans who had been witnessing the

citizens were concerned in the affair, we can see nothing in their conduct to condemn.

Whitman comments on the fraught politics of selecting the New York City legislative body in the April

The Spartans were a Democratic faction lead by Mike Walsh (1810–1859) that was known for their working-class

For further information, see: Tyler Anbinder, Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood‬

A lazy person; a sluggard" (Noah Webster, John Walker, An American Dictionary of the English Language

The Sixth Ward, also called "Five Points," was a poor, predominantly Irish, neighborhood in New York City

SALEM, a manufacturing city of 6000 population, is an Excellent Show Town, surrounded by a good country

nature, muted outlines and a "richness of coloring" adjusted to the scene's temporal requirements were

Like the larger and more established American Art Union, whose president in the mid-1840s was Whitman's

to specific paintings, the last a work by American landscape painter George Inness.After the Civil War

popular with the American public, who, like Whitman, were attracted by the works' moral and ethical

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921. Painters and Painting

The Empire State put this name instead of New York The population, Wealth & commerce Mts, the Mohegan

The Mannahatta that's it Mannahatta —the mast‑hemmed—the egg in the nest of the beautiful bays— my city—ma

pine & live-oak of Florida Mississippi Staple—cotton Louisiana sugar-cane —the coast—the levee of the city

on Shockoe hill ( Richmond Va. a picturesque, commanding hill, & the building looking down, as it were

We were unable to obtain an image of the verso of surface 43, although it is presumably blank.

We were unable to obtain an image of the verso of surface 43, although it is presumably blank.; Transcribed

range of contexts" and there "is evidence he befriended some of the officers he met; [as such] they were

Times served as Whitman's primary, though not exclusive, employer between the second (1856) and third (1860

Whitman's writings on policing for the Brooklyn Daily Times come at a crucial moment in the history of American

While this transition was relatively smooth in Brooklyn, it led to outright rioting in New York City,

Few Impressions of Walt Whitman The Conservator June 1896 57 Greenspan, Ezra Walt Whitman and the American

the southern tip of Manhattan served as a gun emplacement and fortress for the defense of New York City

The crowd and the jam were tremendous.

Upon the Battery, pedestrians, singly and in groups, were enjoying the lazy breeze as it wafted along

American Eclipse famously defeated Sir Henry in 1823 at the Union Course.

cities of the period (Arne K.

the southern tip of Manhattan served as a gun emplacement and fortress for the defense of New York City

American Eclipse famously defeated Sir Henry in 1823 at the Union Course.

According to one source, the combined spectatorship at the race was larger than all but three American

cities of the period (Arne K.

Lang, Sports Betting and Bookmaking: An American History [New York: Rowman and Littfield, 2016], 1).

Genocide and disease decimated Native American populations.

He would soon discover, however, that the American public were even less tolerant than their British

Whitman, LG 1860, 342–43. 16. All poems were originally untitled in the 1855 edition.

A disproportionate number of anatomical subjects were African American, Indian, or Irish.

“The Gory New York City Riot That Shaped American Medicine.” The Smithsonian, June 17, 2014. Web.

March 19 th " 1860 Dear Walt, I am sorry I could not see you previous to your departure for Boston.

Vaughan to Walt Whitman, 19 March 1860

It is postmarked: New-York | Mar | 19 | 1860.

Vaughan worked for the company in 1860.

On February 10, 1860, Whitman received a letter from the Boston publishing firm of Thayer and Eldridge

the Bohemians (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2014).

Whitman published the poem "Bardic Symbols" in the Atlantic Monthly 5 (April 1860): 445–447.

For more information see Terry Golway, Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American

public printing to an Irishman named Denman, who publishes a Catholic paper, the Truth Teller , in this city

The Corporation Attorney was the individual tasked with handling the city's legal affairs, and at the

Ellison History of the Office of the Corporation Counsel of the City of New York (New York: Martin B.

They threatened, unless these things were promised them, still to stand out, or throw their votes in

For more information see Terry Golway, Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American

The Corporation Attorney was the individual tasked with handling the city's legal affairs, and at the

Ellison History of the Office of the Corporation Counsel of the City of New York (New York: Martin B.

The house was in a straggling village some fifty miles from New York city.

Love, agony, and grief, and tears, and convulsive wrestlings were there.

The individuals in the middle of the room were dancing; that is, they were going through certain contortions

His countenance was intelligent and had the air of city life and society.

that they were all together.

Michael Winship has written in response to an email query that the extra sheets were likely issued at

Cheever's The Commonplace Book of American Poetry (1831, but often reprinted), where they are attributed

The Washington societies, part of the Washingtonian temperance movement, were popular in New York in

Masculinity in 1840s Temperance Narratives," in Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American

reader is omitted in Collect.; Transcribed from digital images of an original issue held at the American

/ Proud and passionate city—mettlesome, mad, extravagant city!"Bibliography Adams, Richard P.

American Quarterly 9 (1957): 46–62. Egbert, Donald Drew.

American Renaissance. London: Oxford UP, 1941. Metzger, Charles R.

Emerson and Greenough: Transcendental Pioneers of an American Esthetic.

"Battery Park City: Utopian Poetics in the Urban Greenhouse." Yale Review 79 (1990): 501–508.

See Holloway, A Whitman Manuscript, American Mercury 3 (December 1924), 475–480. See also Andrew C.

One passage seems to have contributed to the 1860–1861 poem that Whitman later titled Our Old Feuillage

The first several lines of that poem (not including the line in question) were revised and published

as My Picture-Gallery in The American in October 1880 and then in Leaves of Grass as part of the Autumn

American Poets [Part 1] W E have many examples in history of a national literature built up in a dialect

It has a flavour of its own, like an American apple.

The American poet has a rich treasury of poetic imagery in his native land.

Let us take a few pictures of American scenery drawn by master-hands.

American Poets Part 1

On page 306, the reviewer writes "Now, if we were amind, we could quote from fifty poets of the Union

The article then continues with a history of American poetry, beginning with the Puritans, ending with

It records a who's who of American poets (Whitman does not appear, although Poe does, 310).

Walt Whitman, the American Poet.

their souls as an instinct, their general tone of thought and feeling, and modes of expressing them, were

One of his own countrymen (a press correspondent) thus writes of him— The only American prophet to my

The "seven cities" refer to Chios, Athens, Rhodes, Colophon, Argos, Smyrna, and Salamis.

Walt Whitman, the American Poet

Clear Grits were reformers in the province of Upper Canada, a British colony that is now Ontario, Canada

Their support was concentrated among southwestern Ontario farmers, who were frustrated and disillusioned

The Clear Grits advocated universal male suffrage, representation by population, democratic institutions

They can easily be remembered through the mnemonic "carcass" (the first letter of each city spells the

have been attributed to several writers, including Thomas Heywood (died 1649), who wrote: "Seven cities

that transported passengers or parcels on a regular schedule. for those whose means or dispositions were

is a part of the State of New York, and stretches out into the Atlantic, just south-eastward of the city

many pretty towns and hamlets; the soil is fertile, and the people, though not refined or versed in city

who noticed him, thought they saw him brushing something from his eyes—the traces of tears, as it were

, one might easily judge that fun and frolic were the elements he delighted in.

added to his self-created myth as representative of the innate physical integrity and health of the American

All of these were indications of hypertension and emotional stress brought on by his work in the hospitals

his health and remained housebound a full month before eventually regaining his strength.In the late 1860s

Whitman had visited the offices of the phrenologists Fowler and Wells in New York City many times, and

completely sympathetic to the standard medical approaches of his day, Whitman felt that physicians were

—Your clients were purchasers at the Marshal's sale.

pursuance of estimates for the general Judicial expenses of the Government; and such payments as these were

Hence I am obliged to exercise the greatest circumspection in expenditure, in order to avoid exceeding

of his luck, and has doubtless astonished hundreds of fellow lawyers, around Nassau street, and the City

Deer Park, (we Americans seem to christen new localities according to contraries, like the way dreams

For there were also, in those days, perpetual quarrels and lawsuits between the people there, and the

An expert adept in city crime, however, would easily show it a clean pair of heels.

Shell heaps; kitchen middens of early Native American settlements.

See Isaac Backus, Church History of New England from 1620–1804 (Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication

"; Shell heaps; kitchen middens of early Native American settlements.; Our transcription is based on

Throughout his collection of philosophic essays, Birth of a Poet (1982), Everson sees Whitman as an American

Whitman "expressed . . . both the populous and the natural wonder" (103) of an American romanticism of

Press, published Everson's setting of the Preface to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass as a poem, American

Alcoran, signifies law Lecture ( lectio Latin—to read Originally laws were promulged by word of mouth

—The proportion of the world's population who are Pagans is nearly 1 in 2; Mahommedans Muslims , about

one in 8; Protestants, about 1 in 15; Greek Church, 1 in 18; Jews, about 1 in 100 of the whole population

His poems may be said to be essentially filled with an American spirit, to breathe the American air,

and to assert the fullest American freedom.

American books was known to be as profound as that of Sydney Smith —had discovered an American poet.

cities, and fit to have for his background and accessories their streaming populations and ample and

He famously remaked, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American

He famously remaked, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American

play, or looks at an American picture or statue?"

Lancaster Intelligencer Lancaster City, PA April 7, 1863 [1] W.

Ukiah City Press Ukiah City, CA February 14, 1879 [6] [Unsigned] Wild Frank's Return The Cambria Freeman

The Salt Lake City Weekly Tribune Salt Lake City, UT October 27, 1892 8 [Unsigned] Her Offerings The

Free Press Osage City, KS December 15, 1892 3?

Whig Yazoo City, MS May 30, 1845 [1] W.

first Leaves of Grass in 1855, Walt Whitman has been justly honored as the first great innovator in American

In the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, Whitman begins to show his concern for larger units of poetic

Always conscious of the printed format of the poems, Whitman numbers stanzas in the 1860 edition, and

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1994.Hollis, C. Carroll. Language and Style in "Leaves of Grass."

An American Primer. By Walt Whitman. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1904. v–ix.Warren, James Perrin.

How To Build Up the City HOW TO BUILD UP THE CITY.

since, started an idea which does not appear to us altogether unreasonable—to lay the bulk of the city

In the 16th and other Wards of this city, there are acres of lots which have been held for years past

by non-resident speculators, who care not a straw for the growth or prosperity of the city, except so

In either event the city would be the gainer.

Both Knickerbocker and Young American circles were composed of gentle- men and thus closed to Whitman

McWilliams, Jr., The American Epic: Transforming a Genre, 1770–1860, 223, 225. 12.

Even fifty-cent paperback editions of American authors were “out of reach to most working-class readers

City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788–1850, 53–60; Elliott J.

Stansell, City of Women, 91. See also Reynolds, Beneath the American Renaissance, 463. 16.

modern or ancient times, the duty which the State owes to the rising generation who form part of the population

In the large cities there are many children, some deprived of parental care, and others neglected by

mental capacity to attend the public schools, shall be found wandering in the streets or lanes of any city

occupation, any justice of the peace, police magistrates or justices of the district courts in the city

The Protestant American people of Kings County will regard with indignation this attempt on the part

slavery is demonstrated in Leaves of Grass by the way in which he consistently includes African Americans

, various Whitman texts show that he had little tolerance for abolitionism, that he thought blacks were

It would be well if the English abolitionists were to reflect upon it.

has been used less often to portray the UK ("John Bull and Uncle Sam: Four Centuries of British-American

In England, nine-tenths of the population do not enjoy the common comforts of life.

slavery is demonstrated in Leaves of Grass by the way in which he consistently includes African Americans

, various Whitman texts show that he had little tolerance for abolitionism, that he thought blacks were

has been used less often to portray the UK ("John Bull and Uncle Sam: Four Centuries of British-American

command of the best materials, and the most critically overlooked workmen—no work more worthy a proud, populous

, ambitious and opulent city, full of the spirit and the means to do as much as any city upon earth has

do we think there has ever been anything superior in ancient times; the Roman Aqueducts and Cloacæ were

home to our immediate presence, we have such a work, in its sort the peer of the best of any other city

We have drank in all part of North American, at Niagara, at the Straits of Machinaw, the Missouri, the

It is inexplicable that they cannot be exposed like the doors after which they were modeled upon the

The city of Dayton divides with Cleveland the reputation of being the most beautiful city in Ohio.

Mobs were frequent, news papers were torn out, Vallandigham's door was beaten in with muskets, his friends

went armed and people were shot dead.

Breakfast brought florid faced cockneys; at dinner there were Americans—ladies and men—making haste to

Calamus 18. p 363 City of my walks and joys!

City whom that I have lived and sung there will one day make you illustrious!

little you h You city : what do y you repay me for my daily walks joys Not these your crowded rows of

On the back of this leaf is a draft of a poem published first in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass

City of my walks and joys

This manuscript is a draft of the poem first published in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass as number

18 in the "Calamus" cluster and ultimately entitled "City of Orgies."

manuscript was probably written in the late 1850s.; This is a draft of the poem first published in the 1860

edition of Leaves of Grass as number 18 in the "Calamus" cluster and ultimately entitled "City of Orgies

digital images of the original.; On the back of this leaf is a draft of a poem published first in the 1860

In choosing such figures to represent the "splendid average" of the American, Whitman forged a new poetic

Although disease, death, and injustice lurk in the poet's field of vision, his catalogue of American

, one of the roughs, a kosmos" (1885 Leaves) embodies all aspects of American reality.

character long before most of Whitman's countrymen were willing to do so.

American Character

the territory, at least of renewed convulsion and agitation on the everlasting slavery question, exceeding

friendly solution between the Federal Government and the other powers who claim an interest in Central American

With Wales, it contains fifty-two counties, or thirty-seven millions of acres, and a population of about

legislative system till 1800, contains thirty-two counties, or twenty millions of acres, and a population

at a more rapid pace than any other part of the civilised world, some of the states of the North American

Barbadoes, Trinidad, and the other West India colonies, are less populous, the full amount being in each

In Ireland, the population is divided into seven hundred and fifty-two thousand persons in connexion

Things were not just as he wanted them, and he was strangely irascible for a few minutes.

And these out of democracy's average—out of the thousands, millions, of our population.

To me it is markedly American—more our trait than any nation's else—marks our young men.

Morning clear & fresh & beautiful—the landscape & farmsteads American!

The effects of the wreathing spray were beyond description & unique.

See Joann Krieg, Walt Whitman and the Irish (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press), 40-45.

Morris (1808–1855) was the Democratic candidate and the incumbent for the New York City Mayoral election

Its Religious Discontents, 1805-1840," American Education History Journal 37, no. 2 (2010): 455–471.

Belohlavek, "John Tyler: The Accidental President," The Journal of American History 93, no. 4 (2007):

According to the 1841 Journal of the American Temperance Union , regular meetings were held at Washington

See Joann Krieg, Walt Whitman and the Irish (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press), 40-45.

Morris (1808–1855) was the Democratic candidate and the incumbent for the New York City Mayoral election

Its Religious Discontents, 1805-1840," American Education History Journal 37, no. 2 (2010): 455–471.

Belohlavek, "John Tyler: The Accidental President," The Journal of American History 93, no. 4 (2007):

According to the 1841 Journal of the American Temperance Union, regular meetings were held at Washington

expressionist poets: the Hebrew Greenberg, the Russian Vladimir Mayakovsky (1894–1930), and the American

Whitman's crises of faith in himself, as revealed in the poem "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life" (1860

As socialist values were very much evident then in Israel, such an act exhibits a willingness to give

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1995. 386–395.Halkin, Simon.

"Walt Whitman: Poet of American Democracy" (in Hebrew). Trans. editorial staff. Parts 1 and 2.

chance it affords to ventilate the real account & true inwardness of that Emerson talk on the Common in 1860

What were Emersons Emerson's relations to Walt Whitman?

And my arriere and citadel positions—such as I have indicated in my June North American Review memorandum

—were not only not attacked, they were not even alluded to.

Certain am I that he too finally came to clearly feel that the "Children of Adam" pieces were inevitable

According to the 1860 Richmond city directory, Doyle worked as a blacksmith for Tredegar Iron Works.

The 1860 Population Census for Richmond, enumerated on June 28 of that year, lists Peter Doyle, aged

The Doyle households were within blocks of one another in the city's Southwest section.

Walt and Pete were especially fond of taking long hikes together out of the city.

By the time of Doyle's death in 1907, there were over 1,000 lodges in as many cities.

Of course the Spanish authorities at the district where they were landed will deny all knowledge of the

Of course the reader understands that the present slave population of the United States descends to us

The traders are Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, English, and Americans.

From these things they are sold to the American plantations. Would we then defend the slave-trade?

In the summer of 1881, Whitman spent three weeks revising his book in New York City, then oversaw publishing

their entirety, added seventeen new ones, and modified hundreds of lines, but many of the changes were

Spiritual poems—combined with prose works in a second volume, Two Rivulets —were understandably ascendant

The roadside metaphor suggests the journey of American promise is being thwarted or delayed.

"The ‘Paths to the House’: Cluster Arrangements in Leaves of Grass, 1860–1881."

From the various libraries of this city,—public and private,—to which I have access, I have been able

One was "Leaves of Grass," published in Boston by Thayer and Eldridge, in 1860–61; the other was "Leaves

The poems were classified in each one in an entirely different manner from the other, which at times

was a Boston publishing firm responsible for the third edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1860

David McKay (1860–1918) took over Philadelphia-based publisher Rees Welsh's bookselling and publishing

For more information about McKay, see Joel Myerson, "McKay, David (1860–1918)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia

As William White has shown, 795 copies were printed in all, 599 of which were bound in cloth with varying

plates); once the pages were printed, the type was redistributed.

That in this exuberant yet anxious world of contrasts and tensions Americans—indeed, Americans of the

Iowa City: Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, 2005.Genoways, Ted.

New York: Library of American Poets/Collectors Reprints, 1992. ____.

— A great fight came off last evening between Mike Walsh's Spartans The Spartans were a nativist group

of American-born and Irish Protestants that feared the rise of the Irish Catholics in New York.

Centre Street, in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City, extends from Park Row to the intersection

In the nineteenth century, it was less than a block from the Five Points intersection in the city's 6th

True, they are occasionally rather fond of a "muss," but they are imbued with the true blue American

The Spartans were a nativist group of American-born and Irish Protestants that feared the rise of the

of Rebellion (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005).; Centre Street, in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City

In the nineteenth century, it was less than a block from the Five Points intersection in the city's 6th

which is to appear in folio with portraits of other poets and writers in a volume to be entitled "American

After July no 15, East Seventy-fourth St, New York City.

send you a proof of your portrait for which you may remember that you him a short sitting last winter Were

with the article and portrait of yourself which appeared in the sixth volume of my "Cyclopaedia of American

seen the work, I will take pleasure in sending you the sketch and illustration on my return to the city

Reich's drawing of Whitman, see Edwin Haviland Miller, ed., Selected Letters of Walt Whitman (Iowa City