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Search : William White

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Margaretta L. Avery to Walt Whitman, 25 February 1889

  • Date: February 25, 1889
  • Creator(s): Margaretta L. Avery
Text:

William is Sick most of the time. we have had the fashionable Complaint. the Gripp. the Boarder in the

said was acquainted with your brothers family. her Sister lived in my house at one time, nice family William

Margaretta L. and William A. Avery to Walt Whitman, 1 March 1892

  • Date: March 1, 1892
  • Creator(s): Margaretta L. and William A. Avery
Text:

Margaretta & William A. Avery. Margaretta L. and William A. Avery to Walt Whitman, 1 March 1892

Margaretta and William A. Avery to Walt Whitman, 16 September 1891

  • Date: September 16, 1891
  • Creator(s): Margaretta and William A. Avery
Text:

Sep 16/91 Margaretta and William A. Avery to Walt Whitman, 16 September 1891

Margaret Stillwell to Walt Whitman, 25 October 1863

  • Date: October 25, 1863
  • Creator(s): Margaret Stillwell
Text:

friends if not we ask the favour of you to inquire i suppose John was buried not far from Culpeper William

Preface to As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free (1872)

  • Creator(s): Mancuso, Luke
Text:

citizens underscores the popular displeasure with the contemporary squabbles between races, in the white

Leaves of Grass, 1867 edition

  • Creator(s): Mancuso, Luke
Text:

at least four different formats of the text were available from the presses of a New York printer, William

debuted the poem "Tears," which offers the enigmatic spectacle of a weeping "muffled" figure on a "white

Given the color coding ("white"/"shade") and the undeniable remorse expressed in this text, "Tears" may

sentimental "lump" suddenly takes on a threatening persona and wills a strong storm to engulf the "white

With the legislative tide turning toward "equal protection" for black and white citizens, Whitman coerced

Leaves of Grass, 1871–72 edition

  • Creator(s): Mancuso, Luke
Text:

recognize her finds its analogue in the historical agitation in 1871–1872 over the inability of the white

The insurrection of African-American struggles for recognition, as well as the revolt of Southern whites

of Grass can be read as an (unconscious) resistance of Whitman's egalitarian solidarity against the white

Reconstruction

  • Creator(s): Mancuso, Luke
Text:

closest personal friend who was a streetcar conductor and former Confederate soldier, as well as William

Burroughs published the second Whitman biography, Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (1867), and William

The Pragmatic Whitman

  • Date: 2002
  • Creator(s): Mack, Stephen John
Text:

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

philosophical tradition of American pragmatism, especially such pragmatists as Ralph Waldo Emerson, William

And so, mindful of William James's great pragmatic insight that "truth happens to an idea," I will test

Like William James's pragmatic theory of truth, Whitman's conception of judgment endlessly defers any

William James famously claimed that pragmatism is not a philosophy but a methodology only, not a closed

Walt Whitman

  • Date: December 1882
  • Creator(s): Macaulay, G. C.
Text:

Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

the child, gliding down to the beach, had stood with bare feet, the wind wafting his hair, with 'the white

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark brown fields uprisen, Passing the apple-tree blows of white

Whitman in the British Isles

  • Creator(s): M. Wynn Thomas
Text:

See, for instance, Swinburne's discussion of Whitman in William Blake: A Critical Essay (London: John

Hyder, "Swinburne's 'Changes of Aspect' and Short Notes," PLMA 58 (March 1943): 241; William J.

(Edinburgh: William Brown, 1884); originally published in the Round Table Series 4. 13.

This is what William Carlos Williams learned from Whitman, the natural cadence, the flow of breath as

William Carlos Williams once praised a poem by Marianne Moore as an anthology of transit, presumably

"Come Up from the Fields Father" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Lulloff, William G.
Text:

William G.Lulloff"Come Up from the Fields Father" (1865)"Come Up from the Fields Father" (1865)The poem

Franklin Evans; or The Inebriate

  • Creator(s): Lulloff, William G.
Text:

William G.LulloffFranklin Evans; or The InebriateFranklin Evans; or The InebriateWalt Whitman's temperance

William G. Lulloff Bibliography Allen, Gay Wilson.

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

  • Creator(s): Lulloff, William G.
Text:

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

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

  • Creator(s): Lulloff, William G.
Text:

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

"Mannahatta [I was asking...]" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Lulloff, William G.
Text:

William G.Lulloff"Mannahatta [I was asking...]" (1860)"Mannahatta [I was asking...]" (1860)Walt Whitman's

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Vol. 6. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982.Whitman, Walt.

"Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Lulloff, William G.
Text:

William G.Lulloff"Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night" (1865)"Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field

Buffalo Free Soil Convention (1848)

  • Creator(s): Lueth, Elmar S.
Text:

viewed the extension of slavery as detrimental to American democracy and as unfair competition for white

Biographies

  • Creator(s): Loving, Jerome
Text:

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo [1809–1882]

  • Creator(s): Loving, Jerome
Text:

hint of Emerson's sermons, lectures, and essays.After graduation Emerson assisted his older brother William

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, 10 November [1868]

  • Date: November 10, 1868
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

poor little fellow i miss him very much they had the funeral last he was put in a casket lined with white

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [16 or 23 October 1867?]

  • Date: October 16 or 23, 1867?
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

sick so marthe had A doctor she was quite bad for two or three days she was as yellow as gold the white

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [20 June 1867]

  • Date: June 20, 1867
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Annotations Text:

Beecher is Eunice White Beecher, the wife of Henry Ward Beecher, a Congregational clergyman who accepted

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [2 May 1867]

  • Date: May 2, 1867
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Annotations Text:

Eunice White Beecher was the wife of Henry Ward Beecher, the Congregational clergyman who accepted the

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

  • Creator(s): Lott, Deshae E.
Text:

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.

O'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]

  • Creator(s): Lott, Deshae E.
Text:

Deshae E.LottO'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]O'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]Walt Whitman met

William Douglas O'Connor in 1860 at the short-lived firm of Thayer and Eldridge, which that year published

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

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

O'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]

"Hand-Mirror, A" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Losey, Jay
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1980.

"Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood" (1872)

  • Creator(s): Losey, Jay
Text:

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

Lionel Johnson to Walt Whitman, 20 October 1885

  • Date: October 20, 1885
  • Creator(s): Lionel Johnson
Text:

belonging to the oldest school of any in England—to the great foundation of the strong priest and ruler, William

Walt Whitman by William J. Linton (engraver), ca. 1871

  • Date: ca. 1871
  • Creator(s): Linton, W. J.
Text:

Walt Whitman by William J.

Freedom

  • Creator(s): Lindner, Carl Martin
Text:

In Whitman's dream of America, all people are equal (men and women, poor and rich, black and white, professor

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: September 1887
  • Creator(s): Lewin, Walter
Text:

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), English novelist, best known for his satirical novel Vanity

Harold Williams. Vol. III. London: Oxford UP, 1963. 102-105.

Dowden, Edward (1843–1913)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

His substantial literary reputation rests upon his prolific writings about William Shakespeare; he also

Conway, Moncure Daniel (1832–1907)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

In 1867 Whitman and Conway corresponded concerning an edition of Whitman's poems which William M.

Eakins, Thomas (1844–1916)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

(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.

Osler, Dr. William (1849–1919)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

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)

Drinkard, Dr. William B. (1842–1877)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

William B. (1842–1877)Drinkard, Dr. William B. (1842–1877) In 1873 Dr.

William Beverly Drinkard of Washington, D.C., treated Whitman when he suffered the first of his paralytic

William B. (1842–1877)

Williams, Talcott (1849–1928)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

Philip W.LeonWilliams, Talcott (1849–1928)Williams, Talcott (1849–1928) Talcott Williams was born in

is the presence of Talcott Williams" (Traubel 341).

In 1887 Williams introduced Eakins to Whitman so that he could paint his portrait.

Talcott Williams: Gentleman of the Fourth Estate. Brooklyn: Robert E. Simpson, 1936.

Williams, Talcott. The Newspaperman. New York: Scribner, 1922. Williams, Talcott (1849–1928)

Perry, Bliss (1860–1954)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

Perry, Bliss (1860–1954) Bliss Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and graduated from Williams

Stedman, John Burroughs, Talcott Williams, J.T.

Walt Whitman

  • Date: August 1900
  • Creator(s): Leon Mead
Text:

Moffit's caravansary, in Bulfinch Place, where William Dean Howells, with his family, and other literary

old rouge, Whitman, I'd give the planet Jupiter, if I owned it, in exchange for your physique, your white

Redpath, James [1833–1891]

  • Creator(s): LeMaster, J.R.
Text:

Although he remained a moderate, Whitman befriended such radical writers as Redpath and William Douglas

Music, Whitman's Influence on

  • Creator(s): Leathers, Lyman L.
Text:

Villiers Stanford, Frederick Delius, Gustav Holst, Cyril Scott, Hamilton Harty, and Ralph Vaughan Williams

using lines from "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," was written in 1903–1904 and Ralph Vaughan Williams

Vaughan Williams also used three poems from "Sea-Drift": "Song for All Seas, All Ships," "On the Beach

of the scope: Otto Luening, lines from "A Song for Occupations" in an a cappella version (1966); William

Walt Whitman & the Class Struggle

  • Date: 2006
  • Creator(s): Lawson, Andrew
Text:

Reprinted in William White, “A Tribute to William Hartshorne: Unrecorded Whitman” (Brooklyn Printer,

John O’Sullivan, “White Slavery,” 260. 85. O’Sullivan, “White Slavery,” 261. 86.

Shane White and Graham White, Stylin’, 74. 43.

White, Shane, and Graham White.

In “A Tribute to William Hartshorne: Unrecorded Whitman.” William White.

Laura Lyon White to Walt Whitman, 29 January 1891

  • Date: January 29, 1891
  • Creator(s): Laura Lyon White
Text:

admiringly reads your writings, and who fancies she feels their spirit Sincerely Yours Laura Lyon White

Laura Lyon White to Walt Whitman, 29 January 1891

Macpherson, James ("Ossian") (1736–1796)

  • Creator(s): Ladd, Andrew
Text:

language heavily influenced major romantic writers in nineteenth-century Europe and America, including William

Swedenborg, Emanuel (1688–1772)

  • Creator(s): Ladd, Andrew
Text:

whether Whitman read Swedenborg or simply was acquainted with him through other sources, most notably William

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?, ca. late 1860s

  • Date: ca. late 1860s
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
Text:

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?

Kurtz's "Rembrandt" style of light and shadow, a style he pioneered in 1867.For more information on William

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. late 1860s

  • Date: ca. late 1860s
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
Text:

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. late 1860s This photo is usually dated 1860, but Kurtz did not open

endorsed by WW: "Walt Whitman 1869" (which Henry Saunders misread as "1860").For more information on William

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?, ca. 1867 - 1870

  • Date: ca. 1867 - 1870
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
Text:

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?

, ca. 1867 - 1870 For more information on William Kurtz, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers."

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz? or Mathew Brady?, ca. late 1860s

  • Date: ca. late 1860s
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William | Brady, Mathew B.
Text:

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz? or Mathew Brady?

In a letter to William Michael Rossetti, Whitman wrote, "I confess to myself a perhaps capricious fondness

For more information on William Kurtz and Mathew Brady, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers."

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