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Search : William White

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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)

Raymond Blathwayt to Walt Whitman, 17 April 1891

  • Date: April 17, 1891
  • Creator(s): Raymond Blathwayt
Annotations Text:

Rechel-White, "Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894)," (Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, eds. J.R.

Raymond Blathwayt to Walt Whitman, 6 May 1891

  • Date: May 6, 1891
  • Creator(s): Raymond Blathwayt
Annotations Text:

Rechel-White, "Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894)," (Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, eds. J.R.

Ralph Waldo Emerson to William H. Seward, 10 January 1863

  • Date: January 10, 1863
  • Creator(s): Ralph Waldo Emerson
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William H. Seward , | Secretary of State. Ralph Waldo Emerson to William H. Seward, 10 January 1863

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."

"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

Trowbridge, John Townsend (1827–1916))

  • Creator(s): Rachman, Stephen
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of weeks in 1863, Trowbridge spent a good deal of time with Whitman along with John Burroughs and William

Introduction to Walt Whitman, Poemas, by Álvaro Armando Vasseur

  • Creator(s): Matt Cohen | Rachel Price
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The Italian bedfellow kisses and hugs, and fills the house with white towels.

The youth float on their backs, their white bellies soak up the sun; they do not wonder who clasps them

I neither suffer nor despair despite my exhaustion, Beautiful and white are the people surrounding me

I depart like the air, shake my white hair towards the setting sun, Throw my flesh into eddies, let it

Hall Walt Whitman in Europe Today Roger Asselineau and William White Detroit Wayne State University Press

Walt Whitman at Home

  • Date: 23 January 1886
  • Creator(s): George Johnston | Quilp [George Johnston?]
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back with feelings of reverence and respect for the destiny which threw him in contact with the good white-haired

His hair and beard, both of which were white as the driven snow and of great length, blended beautifully

Traveling with the Wounded: Walt Whitman and Washington's Civil War Hospitals

  • Date: 1996
  • Creator(s): Murray, Martin G. | Price, Kenneth M., Folsom, Ed
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America, already brought to Hospital in her fair youth—brought and deposited here in this great, whited

William J. Stone, on Meridian Hill near 14th Street.

Whitman also befriended a Wisconsin soldier, William Hugh McFarland.

Whitman befriended Wisconsin Volunteers William Hugh McFarland (seated, center) and Stephen M.

Photograph of William Bliss.

Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays

  • Date: 2007
  • Creator(s): Belasco, Susan | Folsom, Ed | Price, Kenneth M.
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William White, 3 vols. [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:263). 28.

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 3:676. 15.

White, William. “More about the ‘Publication’ of the First Leaves of Grass.”

White, William. “The First (1855) Leaves of Grass: How Many Cop- ies?”

White, William. “An Unknown Whitman ms on the 1855 Leaves.”

Debating Manliness: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Sloane Kennedy, and the Question of Whitman

  • Date: 2001
  • Creator(s): Nelson, Robert K. | Price, Kenneth M.
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In 1908 William Sloane Kennedy, one of Walt Whitman's close allies in his final years, wrote a barbed

Surprisingly, the restriction also emboldened Kennedy to attack Whitman's "dearest friends"—William Douglas

Since it was precisely the mailing of that was later banned, at least one of Whitman's friends, William

William White (New York: New York Univ. Press, 1978), 2, 289 n. 1515; and Correspondence , ed.

Debating Manliness: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Sloane Kennedy, and the Question of Whitman

Twentieth-Century Mass Media Appearances

  • Date: 2006
  • Creator(s): Jewell, Andrew | Price, Kenneth M.
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the Dooryard Bloom'd" (titled "I Saw the Vision of Armies" on the album) with works by James Joyce, William

influence of literature ("Rave on words on printed page"), mentions Whitman along with John Donne, William

A Wartime Whitman was edited by Major William A. Aiken.

Major William A. Aiken. New York: Editions for the Armed Services.

To Walt Whitman, America

  • Date: 2004
  • Creator(s): Price, Kenneth M.
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Swinton's Rambles among Words , means "white man."

Wasn't he a white man?

has it—both white and black, both slave and master.

in American culture is white.

But the trapper is by no means unambiguously white.

Re-Scripting Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2005
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed | Price, Kenneth M.
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William White 1978 D-T Drum-Taps (New York: 1865 ) and Sequel to Drum-Taps (Washington: 1865-6 ).

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White 1980 NUPM Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, ed.

From Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams to Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg; from Langston

Whitman's grandmother Amy Williams Van Velsor was especially committed to her Quaker beliefs, and her

He sometimes dreaded slave labor as a "black tide" that could overwhelm white working men.

Motherhood

  • Creator(s): Pollak, Vivian R.
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Thus, though not an advocate of the so-called Cult of True Womanhood, which sought to confine white,

Walt Whitman by John Plumbe Jr.?, ca. 1848–1854

  • Date: ca. 1848–1854
  • Creator(s): Plumbe, John, Jr.
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William Cauldwell, who worked as a printer on the Aurora in the early 1840s and who knew Whitman well

Peter Doyle to Walt Whitman, 20 January 1878

  • Date: January 20, 1878
  • Creator(s): Peter Doyle
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978] 1:79).

Peter Doyle to Walt Whitman, [9 October 1868]

  • Date: [October 9, 1868]
  • Creator(s): Peter Doyle
Annotations Text:

& the splendor of such a great street & so many tall, ornamental, noble buildings, many of them of white

Walt Whitman by William S. Pendleton, ca. 1872

  • Date: ca. 1872
  • Creator(s): Pendleton, William S.
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Walt Whitman by William S.

New York City Directory lists Pendleton at this address starting in 1869, and advertisements for William

directories, Pendleton is listed at 336 Fulton, and in 1890 at 436 Fulton.For more information on William

Walt Whitman's Book

  • Date: 16 March 1889
  • Creator(s): Payne, W. M.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) succeeded William Wordsworth as poet laureate of Great Britain in 1850

At the conclusion of William Blake: A Critical Essay (1868), 300–303, Swinburne pointed out similarities

William Michael Rossetti (1829–1915), brother of Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti, was an English

For more on Whitman's relationship with Rossetti, see Sherwood Smith, " Rossetti, William Michael (1829

Interpretation of the Poetry of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1930
  • Creator(s): Pavese, Cesare
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In his History of American Literature, William P.

dressed in white and olive-skinned girls with beautiful white teeth and flowers in their hair.

You don’t mess with William Kennedy!

Kennedy, William S. Fight of a Book for the World.

Kennedy, William S. Reminiscences of Walt Whitman. London: Alexander Gardner, 1896.

"Death's Valley" (1892)

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.Pannapacker"Death's Valley" (1892)"Death's Valley" (1892)On 28 August 1889, Henry Mills Alden

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.

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

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

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,

Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865)

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.PannapackerLincoln, Abraham (1809–1865)Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865) Abraham Lincoln was the

William Barton, in his study of the two men, shows that these events are probably fabrications.

Their literary styles were both influenced by the Bible, William Shakespeare, Thomas Paine, and Robert

With the aid of supporters like William D.

Coyle, William, ed. The Poet and the President: Whitman's Lincoln Poems. New York: Odyssey, 1962.

Washington, George (1732–1799)

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.PannapackerWashington, George (1732–1799)Washington, George (1732–1799) A Virginia planter,

Osgood, James R. (1836–1892)

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.PannapackerOsgood, James R. (1836–1892)Osgood, James R. (1836–1892) Born in Fryeburg, Maine

After the Boston "suppression," Richard Maurice Bucke, John Burroughs, and William O'Connor rallied around

Putnam's Monthly

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.PannapackerPutnam's MonthlyPutnam's MonthlyFounded in New York by George Palmer Putnam and

In January 1868 Putnam's new series contained an effort by William D.

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor.

Life Illustrated

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.PannapackerLife IllustratedLife IllustratedA miscellany of literature, agriculture, photography

North American Review, The

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.PannapackerNorth American Review, TheNorth American Review, TheA miscellany of politics, economics

Rev. of Venetian Life, by William Dean Howells.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.PannapackerPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaKnown as the Quaker City and

Talcott Williams, a journalist for the Philadelphia Press (1881–1912), managed to get the Boston prohibition

Radicalism

  • Creator(s): Panish, Jon
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Grass reflects his humanitarian belief in the value of all human beings, his deepest sympathy was with white

important issue for Whitman because of its potentially devastating effect on the status and livelihood of white

Leaves of Grass is compared to the work of Whitman's poetic contemporaries—John Greenleaf Whittier, William

"From Far Dakota's Cañons" (1876)

  • Creator(s): Olson, Steven
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Whereas in "Song of Myself," for example, he implies an equality between the Indian and white man, in

"To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod" (1865–1866)

  • Creator(s): Olson, Steven
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.

Walt Whitman in Private Life

  • Date: 6 November 1875
  • Creator(s): Olive Harper
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.— White with the snows and storms of winter, bent, bowed, and scarred with fierce tempests, but staunch

firm mouth expressing much sweetness and much sorrow, his color still healthy red, his hair and beard white

His collar was open, but snowy in whiteness, and one could see at a glance that he felt that the gift

I found a handsome house, with white marble steps, the outer door invitingly open; a pretty parlor, with

homeless dogs follow him gratefully and little children gather affectionately around him—this aged, white-maned

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2 December 1866
  • Creator(s): O'Connor, William Douglas
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She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farm-house; The sun just shines on her old white

again, this soil'd world. … For my enemy is dead—a man divine as myself is dead; I look where he lies, white-faced

and still in the coffin—I draw near; I bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the

"Spirit That Form'd This Scene" (1881)

  • Creator(s): Oates, David
Text:

alliteration; those between develop artful changes on the basic three-beat line.BibliographyAarnes, William

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: September 1855
  • Creator(s): Norton, Charles Eliot
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White and beautiful are the faces around me…the heads are bared of their fire- caps firecaps — The kneeling

Examine these limbs, red, black, or white… they are very cunning in tendon and nerve; They shall be stript

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farm house— The sun just shines on her old white

Documents Related to the 1855 Leaves of Grass: Binding Records

  • Creator(s): Nicole Gray
Text:

Information about bindings has been supplemented by a transcription and explanation of this statement in White

White, 353. Whitman varied in his reports of how many copies were printed.

White, William. "The First (1855) 'Leaves of Grass': How Many Copies?"

Documents Related to the 1855 Leaves of Grass: Copyright Materials

  • Creator(s): Nicole Gray
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One Williams College copy has a blank copyright page; two other copies, now at the University of Virginia

White notes by way of context that "the scrapbook was used by Whitman to keep clippings from newspapers

In research for a short article describing the discovery, William White determined that the document

White also identified the "Mr.

White, William. "More About the 'Publication' of the First American Literature 28.4 (1957): 516–17.

Introduction to the 1855 Leaves of Grass Variorum

  • Creator(s): Nicole Gray
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Based on the binder's records, William White argues that the total edition consisted of 795 copies, an

Williams & Co. to Mr. B. E. Perry.

Blodgett, Harold, Sculley Bradley, Arthur Golden, and William White, eds.

White, William. "The First (1855) 'Leaves of Grass': How Many Copies?"

White, William, ed. . 3 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1978. Whitman, Walt.

Harper's Monthly

  • Creator(s): Newstrom, Scott L.
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From comments by George Curtis on Drum-Taps to William Dean Howells's editorial on November Boughs, the

Adams, Henry Brooks (1838–1918)

  • Creator(s): Newstrom, Scott L.
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Jordy, William H. "Henry Adams and Walt Whitman." South Atlantic Quarterly 40 (1941): 132–145.

Nelson Jabo to Adeline Jabo, 21 January 1865

  • Date: January 21, 1865
  • Creator(s): Nelson Jabo
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Jabo's health declined rapidly after the battle of White Oak Swamp, and he was ultimately discharged

Annotations Text:

Jabo's health declined rapidly after the battle of White Oak Swamp, and he was ultimately discharged

Whitman in His Own Time

  • Date: 1991
  • Creator(s): Myerson, Joel
Text:

Gilder], The Lounger 66 William H.

Gertrude Traubel and William White; Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982), 7July 1890

Garrison William H.

William T.

His hair was perfectly white.

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

Rhys, Ernest Percival (1859–1946)

  • Creator(s): Myerson, Joel
Text:

Rhys was a member of the Rhymers' Club, which included Arthur Symons and William Butler Yeats among its

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