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Six sections of this book first appeared as newspaper pieces in 1874, and then were collected and revised

despair went through his side from him , when he saw that the black dressed mourners who stood nearest were

Brigham Young had abdicated, and that Governor Cumming, at last dates, was thirty miles from Salt Lake City

Even the strongest Lecomptonists admit, sotto voce , that the issue in 1860 is between the two D's—Douglas

Every Congressman from New York city, and every Tammany man who visits Washington during the next session

original sequence Live Oak, with Moss (with ornamental Roman numeral), it became section 23 of Calamus in 1860

one week's issue of patents from the National Patent office at Washington illustrates America and American

—(Remember the show at the Crystal Palace, and the American Institute Fairs.)

Gallegher, Alleghany City, Pa. Needles for sewing: Benjamin Garvey, New York, N. Y.

The lines were later incorporated as lines 6, 7, 8, and 9 in L. of G.'

At Whitman's death, his photographs were divided—along with his manuscripts, correspondence, notebooks

never precisely what they portrayed but instead were distillations of reality—ideas about things.

Painted portraits were for the privileged classes, and even the wealthy did not have their portraits

Photographs were, precisely, moments along life's continuum, were stuck time, were in fact the sticking

with Whitman and with nineteenth century American photography were queried about their holdings of Whitman

Wheat," this exquisite lyric meditation on death was number 4 in the "Leaves of Grass" cluster in the 1860

metamorphosis" suggests a dynamic metaphor for the transformative powers of nature, for what Whitman called American

Think of the time when you were not yet born; Think of times you stood at the side of the dying; Think

seem to meabout 1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf13 cm x 11.5 cm; This manuscript is a draft of lines that were

published in Chants Democratic, number 13, in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

however, the lines on this manuscript are a draft of the section of the poem that was deleted after the 1860

Conrad M.Sienkiewicz"These I Singing in Spring" (1860)"These I Singing in Spring" (1860)"These I Singing

in Spring" was first published in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

American Studies 19.2 (1978): 5–22.Killingsworth, M. Jimmie.

The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry. Austin: U of Texas P, 1979.Whitman, Walt.

"These I Singing in Spring" (1860)

The pages were folded and pinned together to form a small pamphlet.

The lines on page 1 became verses 1-8 of section 4 of Calamus. in 1860; page 2 ("Solitary, smelling the

I have felt that real poetry did not depend on rhyme metre accent &c; that if all those qualities were

poetry to me but when I tried to put it in regular harmonious order hoop it round like a barrel, as it were

I was not brave as were you and besides I am not great.

How proud we were of our brave heroes then Who fought the cause to gain they believed right.

The holiday was first observed on May 30, 1868, with African Americans taking a leading role.

characterized as the finest in the country, and showed that when our extraordinary manufacturing facilities were

developed, that then and not till then would Brooklyn attain that commanding position in point of population

All our hopes and prospects were dependent upon a water supply, and the speaker was unwilling to permit

While we were about it, he went in for doing the thing up right.

and Always Goes Forth, Forever and Forever" in 1856, and grouped in the "Leaves of Grass" cluster in 1860

The statement that "all the changes of city and country" became "part of him" signals his growing powers

His questionings are not resolved, but his departure from home, through the bustling city, affords him

American Quarterly 18 (1966): 655-666. ____. Walt Whitman and the Body Beautiful.

, And the tidy and fresh-cheek'd girls—and the barefoot negro boy and girl, And all the changes of city

And the tidy and fresh-cheek'd girls, and the barefoot negro boy and girl, And all the changes of city

And the tidy and fresh-cheek'd girls, and the barefoot negro boy and girl, And all the changes of city

leafhandwritten; A small scrap of prose that would make its way into a footnote for Carlyle From American

Although Edward Grier states that the handwriting on the scrap indicates a date in the 1860s, the essay

Transcribed from digital images of the original that were posted to Sotheby's website.

.; ✓; Transcribed from digital images of the original that were posted to Sotheby's website.; On the

—These truths lie at the are the foundation of American politics: Whitman probably drafted this manuscript

consistent with the free spirit of this age, and with the American truths of politics?

poems about "the passion of Woman-Love," along with a few trial lines, all apparently related to the 1860

the essay first published as The Poetry of the Future in the February 12, 1881, issue of the North American

.00012xxx.00560[Then Another and very grave point]1890–1891prose1 leafhandwritten; A partial draft of American

, which appeared in the March 1891 issue of North American Review, as Have We a National Literature?

M.MeyerTheaters and Opera HousesTheaters and Opera HousesThroughout his career, the theater and the opera were

These establishments, located in New York City, included the Astor Place Opera House, the Bowery Theater

In 1849 the rivalry between British actor William Charles Macready and the American star Edwin Forrest

American Drama. Vol. 8 of The Revels History of Drama in English.

And what American blood does not tingle at witnessing this wretched maligner, who publishes the whig

Bride]1856 or laterpoetryprintedhandwritten1 leaf; A clipping of an article entitled "The Indian in American

Related to Them, with a piece of paper pasted to the bottom containing an idea for a poem about Native Americans

Soon, the city will begin to fill up, and the fashionables, who are even now beginning to find their

, sea bathing, etc., are made, at present, altogether too inaccessible to the great bulk of our population

To show that his censures on this species of literature were merited, he read an extract from a Sunday

principles subversive of society and morality, which now constitute its chief charm to the vulgar, were

The mass of these people are not Americans, but natives of the British Isles.

Their apostles are busily at work in those quarters, and the streams of Mormon Emigration to the Holy City

, via our eastern cities, show with what results.

They had their established organs which defended their cause vigorously and were as loud-mouthed and

Persons accustomed to well-drained towns and cities, where these exhalations are less perilous than in

the Democracy exhibited for their organ in their nomination of a Superintendent of the Poor, when we were

[The Newark Mercury says] The Newark Mercury says, there are in that city, at the present time, some

The population of Newark is about 50,000, and when we consider that many of those who are out of work

have families depending upon them, we can image to what a state of penury and misery the population

of that city will soon be reduced, with so large a proportion of its numbers thrown out of employment

and that there was very little chance of the men obtaining work elsewhere, he concluded that they were

We have noticed in several of the public schools of this city, that drawing is among the studies pursued

Many drawing books of the period were part of a larger democratic effort to cultivate the taste of the

Marzio, The Art Crusade: An Analysis of American Drawing Manuals, 1820–1860 (Washington: Smithsonian

.; Many drawing books of the period were part of a larger democratic effort to cultivate the taste of

Marzio, The Art Crusade: An Analysis of American Drawing Manuals, 1820–1860 (Washington: Smithsonian

cannot be extravagant, we fear, to assume that at least twenty-five thousand people, residents of the cities

concede that it is greatly exaggerated—was it ever yet known that the treasuries of our public charities were

burthened with a surplus, or that the means and ministrations of private benevolence were too profuse

excellent, and the athletic and agile performances of about sixty adults, and thirty lads, who took part, were

Near by were a pile of corrected proof-sheets bearing the heading "Leaves of Grass."

His ruddy features were almost concealed by his white hair and beard.

making the book is to give A Recognition of All Elements compacted in one— e pluribus unum , as it were

I have also accepted as a theme the modern business life, the streets of cities, trade, expresses, the

"Of the American poets," he said, "I would place Emerson first, then Bryant, Longfellow and Whittier.

[The German Turners of this] ☞The German Turners of this city intend giving a Grand Exhibition of Gymnastic

Gymnasium in South 4th street, last evening, was attended by a large number of ladies and gentlemen, who were

The exercises were opened by a short address from one of the members, explanatory of the position and

The members of the Turnverein of this city followed with a variety of feats and performances on the single

Pierce of this City, Mr. Vanbleck of California, and others, whose names we did not learn.

Pierce’s performance on the hanging ropes, were some of the best gymnastic exercises we ever witnessed

The tendency even of the emigration westward is to settle in towns and cities—to inhabit or found urban

, rather than to populate rural localities.

There is an unhealthy love for city life and city dissipation engendered in the mind of youth, which

It would be much preferable if less pork and more mutton were raised in many agricultural localities.

would be far less want and distress in our large cities than there now is.

and Germany, during the past century, is such that, while formerly one out of every thirty of the population

If the one half of the Eagle’s pretensions were valid, it would not need so often to assure the public

TheDisenthralledHostsofFreedom” IowaWhitmanSeries EdFolsom,serieseditor university of iowa press ,iowa city

Wilentz shows how “the versions of American republicanism multiplied, as men of different backgrounds

“TheChicagoConvention,”Buffalo(NY)MorningExpress,May16, 1860,p.2,col.1.

:H.Dayton,1860.

“Whitmanin1850:ThreeUncollectedArticles.”American Literature19,no.4(January1948):301–17.

One imagines the millennium would be at hand if a Bible were in every household, or a church or a school

Kalbfleisch all lightermen were prohibited from entering the city except to discharge their cargoes.

establishment, foot of Division avenue, and the varnish manufactory in the 8th ward as nuisances, were

nyp.00514xxx.00524[The best of the two Introductions]1860–1865prose8 leaveshandwritten; One of a series

of draft introductions Whitman prepared for Leaves of Grass, but which were never printed during Whitman's

until collected by Clifton Joseph Furness in Walt Whitman's Workshop (1928), portions of this draft were

On the verso is a fragment of an apparent letter, which Edwin Haviland Miller dates August 1860, to Thayer

Aurora has been roaring very loudly and ably, though somewhat savagely, on behalf of the Native Americans

"Native American" here refers to a nativist party of American-born Protestants whose policies were primarily

The first native American party in New York appeared under the name "American Republican Party" in 1843

Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship: A Collection of Articles from the Journal of American

Let us have a Native American party.

.; "Native American" here refers to a nativist party of American-born Protestants whose policies were

The first native American party in New York appeared under the name "American Republican Party" in 1843

Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship: A Collection of Articles from the Journal of American

epistle the reading of which would delay the consummation of the edacious treason till all the meats were