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Kennedy, William Sloane (1850–1929)

  • Creator(s): Reagan, Katherine
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KatherineReaganKennedy, William Sloane (1850–1929)Kennedy, William Sloane (1850–1929) Biographer, editor

, and critic, William Sloane Kennedy was one of Whitman's most devoted friends and admirers.

William Sloane Kennedy and the daughter of a minister, Sarah Eliza Woodruff, Kennedy attended Yale, graduating

in Lewis Bay near his home in West Yarmouth, Massachusetts, on 4 August 1929.Bibliography Kennedy, William

William Sloane Kennedy. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1904. Kennedy, William Sloane (1850–1929)

Knortz, Karl (1841–1918)

  • Creator(s): Grünzweig, Walter
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Together with Thomas William Hazen Rolleston, Knortz was coauthor of the first book-length translation

Associations, Clubs, Fellowships, Foundations, and Societies

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.PannapackerAssociations, Clubs, Fellowships, Foundations, and SocietiesAssociations, Clubs,

Whitman's American admirers—William D.

Johnston, John, and James William Wallace.

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.

White, William.

Attorney General's Office, United States

  • Creator(s): Graham, Rosemary
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His friends William O'Connor and J.

Australia and New Zealand, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): McLeod, Alan L.
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traditional forms—especially the quatrain and the rhymed couplet.A Scottish visitor to Australia, William

Barnburners and Locofocos

  • Creator(s): Widmer, Ted
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New York: New York UP, 1925.Trimble, William.

"Beat! Beat! Drums!" (1861)

  • Creator(s): Schwiebert, John E.
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.: Harvard UP, 1987.White, William. "'Beat! Beat! Drums!' The First Version."

Bibliographies

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
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White's "Whitman in the Eighties: A Bibliographical Essay" (1985); Donald D.

William Peterfield Trent et al. Vol. 3. New York: Putnam, 1918. 551–581.[Kebabian, Paul, et al.].

New York: New York Public Library, 1953.Kennedy, William Sloane.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922.White, William. "Walt Whitman: A Bibliographical Checklist."

Chesley Mathews, 445–451.White, William. "Whitman in the Eighties: A Bibliographical Essay."

Biographies

  • Creator(s): Loving, Jerome
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Poet and Person (1867) was co-written by Whitman to promote the fourth edition of Leaves of Grass; William

upon information from Whitman associates such as Traubel and Ellen O'Connor Calder, the widow of William

"Boston Ballad (1854), A" (1855)

  • Creator(s): Klammer, Martin
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be resisted not to protect the freedom and rights of blacks, but to protect the freedom of Northern white

British Isles, Whitman in the

  • Creator(s): Thomas, M. Wynn
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It was, in fact, by relating Whitman to William Blake, or to Percy Bysshe Shelley, that many radicals

Nicholas (Niclas y Glais), the great Welsh-language poet Waldo Williams, and of course Dylan Thomas,

Burgess pointed out, distinguished British composers have remedied this deficiency: Ralph Vaughan Williams's

British Romantic Poets

  • Creator(s): French, R.W.
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well acquainted with the works of the British Romantic poets, none of them mattered to him as did William

probably dating from 1855 or 1856 specifically rebuked Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William

Swinburne's William Blake, which concluded with a laudatory comparison of Whitman and Blake.

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.

Brooklyn Daily Times

  • Creator(s): Renner, Dennis K.
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after he began editing the Times, Whitman wrote the editorials "Kansas and the Political Future" and "White

If this is so, Whitman observes, then slaves are as capable as white Americans and deserve the rights

Brooklyn, New York

  • Creator(s): Gill, Jonathan
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the Whitmans lived, near the port and ferry terminals, was chaotic and dirty, densely populated with white

Buffalo Free Soil Convention (1848)

  • Creator(s): Lueth, Elmar S.
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viewed the extension of slavery as detrimental to American democracy and as unfair competition for white

"By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Lulloff, William G.
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William G.Lulloff"By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame" (1865)"By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame" (1865)This poem

"By the Roadside" (1881)

  • Creator(s): Rachman, Stephen
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brief lyric "Thoughts" and imagistic snapshots such as "A Farm Picture" (a poem which anticipates William

Carlos Williams's "The Red Wheelbarrow" in its photographic minimalism), which emphasize the observing

Canada, Whitman's Reception in

  • Creator(s): Cederstrom, Lorelei
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William Sloane Kennedy. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1904. Canada, Whitman's Reception in

Canada, Whitman's Visit to

  • Creator(s): Mason-Browne, N.J.
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William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978.____. Specimen Days.

"Centenarian's Story, The" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Chandran, K. Narayana
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narratives are appropriately analytical, factual, and self-reflexive by turns.BibliographyBurrison, William

Allen, Gay Wilson (1903–1995)

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
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genius seems to have resided in the artful rendering of lives, for he also wrote major biographies of William

State Department to send Allen, along with William Faulkner, on a 1955 tour of Japan.

Actors and Actresses

  • Creator(s): Meyer, Susan M.
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favorites as Junius Brutus Booth, Charlotte Cushman, Edwin Forrest, Thomas Hamblin, Fanny Kemble, and William

The British style was best exemplified by William Charles Macready, subdued and rather tame, as opposed

Africa, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
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Asselineau, Roger, and William White, eds. Walt Whitman in Europe Today.

William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1976. 27. Senhor, Léopold Sédar.

Roger Asselineau and William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1972. 33. Smuts, Jan Christian.

"Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Klawitter, George
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980. ____.

"America [Centre of equal daughters]" (1888)

  • Creator(s): Griffin, Larry D.
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980.

American Character

  • Creator(s): Gruesz, Kirsten Silva
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overcome the most pressing social and political problem of the day, the racial division between black and white

American Phrenological Journal

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.PannapackerAmerican Phrenological JournalAmerican Phrenological JournalPublished in New York

their own books: nevertheless, in an unsigned review in the New York Daily Times (13 November 1855) William

American Primer, An (1904)

  • Creator(s): Dressman, Michael R.
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William White. New York: New York UP, 1978. 728–757. American Primer, An (1904)

"America's Mightiest Inheritance" (1856)

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
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poetry of Leaves of Grass and the prose of the prefaces and of Democratic Vistas, contributions to William

Architects and Architecture

  • Creator(s): Roche, John F.
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Similarly, in the prose pieces of Specimen Days, architecture serves to evoke a theme or mood, as in "The White

These include Edward Carpenter, William Sloane Kennedy, John Burroughs, and Elbert Hubbard.

Near Philadelphia, architect William L.

Sullivan worked for the important Philadelphia architect Frank Furness, who was the son of the Reverend William

"Army Corps on the March, An" (1865–1866)

  • Creator(s): Lulloff, William G.
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William G.Lulloff"Army Corps on the March, An" (1865–1866)"Army Corps on the March, An" (1865–1866)The

Art and Daguerreotype Galleries

  • Creator(s): Dougherty, James
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Kensett, William Sidney Mount, and George Caleb Bingham prior to its yearly lottery of paintings.

Arts and Crafts Movement

  • Creator(s): Roche, John F
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Philadelphia and Chicago.In England, where the movement started under the aegis of John Ruskin and William

William Lloyd also spoke highly of Whitman.The arts and crafts movement subsided after 1917, though its

Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878)

  • Creator(s): Higgins, Andrew C.
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Andrew C.HigginsBryant, William Cullen (1794–1878)Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878) William Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant. New York: Scribner's, 1971. Bryant, William Cullen.

The Letters of William Cullen Bryant. Ed. William Cullen Bryant II and Thomas G. Voss. 2 vols.

The Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant. Ed. Parke Godwin. 2 vols.

Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878)

Carlyle, Thomas (1795–1881)

  • Creator(s): Altman, Matthew C.
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Carlyle insists in his Occasional Discourse that blacks are naturally inferior to whites, and although

Conway, Moncure Daniel (1832–1907)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
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In 1867 Whitman and Conway corresponded concerning an edition of Whitman's poems which William M.

Douglas, Stephen Arnold (1813–1861)

  • Creator(s): Garvey, T. Gregory
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Douglas's bill was perceived as a threat by Northern abolitionists and working class whites because it

Eakins, Thomas (1844–1916)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
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(Gross's widowed daughter-in-law married Whitman's doctor, William Osler.)

Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler: A Poet and His Physician. Toronto: ECW, 1995. Rule, Henry B.

Freiligrath, Ferdinand (1810–1876)

  • Creator(s): Grünzweig, Walter
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He translated just ten poems from William M.

For the Whitman community and especially William O'Connor, Freiligrath's interest in Whitman was a source

Furness, Clifton Joseph (1898–1946)

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.PannapackerFurness, Clifton Joseph (1898–1946)Furness, Clifton Joseph (1898–1946) Born on 30

Gray, Fred (1834–1891)

  • Creator(s): Yannella, Donald
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family and visited them, but the connection apparently dissolved in the 1870s.Bibliography Howells, William

Harned, Thomas Biggs (1851–1921)

  • Creator(s): Mattausch, Dena
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Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.

Hicks, Elias (1748–1830)

  • Creator(s): Davey, Christina
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grandfather, Jesse Whitman, and Hicks had been friendly as youths, and his maternal grandmother, Naomi Williams

Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844–1889)

  • Creator(s): Raleigh, Richard
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wilder beast from West" in Hopkins's sonnet "Andromeda" (1879) is a direct reference to Whitman, and William

Templeman, William Darby. "Hopkins and Whitman: Evidence of Influence and Echoes."

Hotten, John Camden (1832–1873)

  • Creator(s): Myerson, Joel
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JoelMyersonHotten, John Camden (1832–1873)Hotten, John Camden (1832–1873) John Camden Hotten was born John William

In 1867 he engaged William Michael Rossetti to edit a selection of Whitman's writings for twenty-five

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807–1882)

  • Creator(s): Rechel-White, Julie A.
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Rechel-White, Julie A. "Longfellow's Influence on Whitman's 'Rise' from Manhattan Island."

Lowell, James Russell (1819–1891)

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.PannapackerLowell, James Russell (1819–1891)Lowell, James Russell (1819–1891) Poet, editor,

O'Connor (Calder), Ellen ("Nelly") M. Tarr (1830–1913)

  • Creator(s): Lott, Deshae E.
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Calder's first husband, William Douglas O'Connor (married 22 October 1856), invited Whitman to live with

Shortly after meeting O'Connor, she introduced him to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, which William

By William Douglas O'Connor. Toronto: Henry S. Saunders, 1927. i–ix. ———. Myrtilla Miner: A Memoir.

"William O'Connor and Walt Whitman." The Conservator 17 (1906): 42. Freedman, Florence Bernstein.

William Douglas O'Connor: Walt Whitman's Chosen Knight. Athens: Ohio UP, 1985.

Osler, Dr. William (1849–1919)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
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William (1849–1919)Osler, Dr.

William (1849–1919) Born in Bond Head, Ontario, Canada, Osler graduated from the McGill University medical

The Life of Sir William Osler. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1925. Leon, Philip W.

Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler: A Poet and His Physician. Toronto: ECW, 1995. Traubel, Horace.

William (1849–1919)

Pennell, Joseph (1857–1926), and Elizabeth Robins (1855–1936)

  • Creator(s): Garrett, Paula K.
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Pennell did illustrations for many well-known writers, including George Washington Cable, William Dean

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