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Search : William White

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Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. 1866 - 1869

  • Date: ca. 1866 - 1869
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
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Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. 1866 - 1869 This or two other photos (zzz.00055, zzz.00138) may be

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

  • Date: ca. late 1860s
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
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Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?

, then it is from after 1865, when Kurtz first opened his New York studio.For more information on William

Walt Whitman by Mathew Brady? or William Kurtz?, ca. 1863 - 1867

  • Date: ca. 1863 - 1867
  • Creator(s): Brady, Mathew B. | Kurtz, William
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or William Kurtz?

, ca. 1863 - 1867 For more information on Mathew Brady and William Kurtz, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers

Walt Whitman with Katharine "Kitty" Devereux Johnston and Harold "Harry" Hugh Johnston by William Kurtz, July 1878

  • Date: July 1878
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
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Walt Whitman with Katharine "Kitty" Devereux Johnston and Harold "Harry" Hugh Johnston by William Kurtz

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

Walt Whitman with Katharine "Kitty" Devereux Johnston and Harold "Harry" Hugh Johnston by William Kurtz, July 1878

  • Date: July 1878
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
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Walt Whitman with Katharine "Kitty" Devereux Johnston and Harold "Harry" Hugh Johnston by William Kurtz

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

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. 1865 - 1873

  • Date: ca. 1865 - 1873
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
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Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. 1865 - 1873 Clara Barrus said that this photograph was "taken by Kurtz

the pose showed Whitman “as most of his friends knew him—wearing a hack suit, a slouch hat on his white

printed over and over, often with the caption “Walt Whitman in his Prime.”For more information on William

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."

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.

"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

Internet, Whitman on the

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
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Jointly sponsored by the College of William and Mary, the University of Iowa, and the Institute for Advanced

White, William (1910–1995)

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
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Donald D.KummingsWhite, William (1910–1995)White, William (1910–1995)From the 1950s to the 1990s, William

White was a strong presence in literary studies in general and in Whitman studies in particular.

Housman, Sir William Osler, Ernest Hemingway, and Nathanael West.

"William White, 1910–1995." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 12 (1995): 205–208.

White, William (1910–1995)

Walt Whitman by William Kuebler, Jr.?, Louis Kuebler?, ca. 1889

  • Date: ca. 1889
  • Creator(s): Kuebler, William, Jr. | Kuebler, Louis | Kuebler Photography
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Walt Whitman by William Kuebler, Jr.?, Louis Kuebler?

Kuebler Photography, at 1204 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, was co-owned and operated by brothers William

According to the 1890 Philadelphia city directory, William, Jr. lived at 864 41st Street, and Louis lived

—also the address of William, Sr., an optician.

William Rudolph O'Donovan explained that "the great difficulty was the hair—to give the sense of its

A Whitman Chronology

  • Date: 1998
  • Creator(s): Krieg, Joann P.
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Blod gett, Arthur Golden, and William White.)

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1978. EPF Early Poetry and Fiction.Ed.

William B.

White, William. "An Unknowri Check for Ed Whitman's Board." Walt Whitman Review 22 (June 1976): 91.

William, 85 Cottage Fund, 130, 156 Chapin, William, 73 Cox, G.

Long Island, New York

  • Creator(s): Krieg, Joann P.
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Three Voices from Paumanok: The Influence of Long Island on James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant

Walt Whitman & the Irish

  • Date: 2000
  • Creator(s): Krieg, Joann P.
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The unnamed author, whom Whitman seems to assume his readers will know, was William Carleton (1794–1869

Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy ), has been seconded by literary critics of the caliber of William

Rolleston, William Butler Yeats, and others in furthering an appreciation of Whitman among Europeans.

William M.

For some years William Tweed wielded great power in the state legislature.

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837–1909)

  • Creator(s): Kozlowski, Alan E.
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His William Blake (1868) includes a favorable comparison of Blake and Whitman, noting their identical

Noting that they both have flaws, Swinburne calls William Blake's work more profound but finds Whitman's

Published in 1887, "Whitmania" is a far cry from the admiration expressed in William Blake.

London: White, 1872. ———. "Whitmania." Fortnightly Review ns 42 (1887): 170–176.

William Blake: A Critical Essay. London: Hotten, 1868. Rpt. in Walt Whitman: The Critical Heritage.

Whitman, Hannah Brush (1753–1834)

  • Creator(s): Kohn, Denise
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She told Walt about his unconventional great-grandmother, Sarah White Whitman, who chewed tobacco and

"I Dream'd in a Dream" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Knapp, Ronald W.
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New York: William Sloane Associates, 1955.Kuebrich, David.

"Song of the Universal" (1876)

  • Creator(s): Knapp, Ronald W.
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New York: William Sloane Associates, 1955.Miller, James E., Jr.

"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. ____.

"As Adam Early in the Morning" (1860)

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

"Native Moments" (1860)

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

"We Two, How Long We were Fool'd" (1860)

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

Compromise of 1850

  • Creator(s): Klammer, Martin
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Free-Soilers who opposed the extension of slavery on the principle that it would discourage the migration of white

Free Soil Party

  • Creator(s): Klammer, Martin
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abolitionists, who opposed slavery on moral grounds, most Free-Soilers opposed slavery because they felt that white

In representing antislavery as an issue of self-interest to whites, free-soilism made antislavery for

made clear that Whitman opposed the extension of slavery because he cared about the opportunities for white

Slavery and Abolitionism

  • Creator(s): Klammer, Martin
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texts show that he had little tolerance for abolitionism, that he thought blacks were inferior to whites

Congress, that the introduction of slavery into new territories would discourage, if not prohibit, whites

from migrating to those areas because white labor could not economically compete with slave labor and

"Examine these limbs, red, black or white," ("I Sing," section 7) Whitman says of the auctioned slave

all without its redeeming points" (I Sit 88), and in 1858 he editorializes: "Who believes that the Whites

"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

Wilmot Proviso (1846)

  • Creator(s): Klammer, Martin
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solidly within the Free Soil camp and showed his thinking on slavery to be motivated more by concern for white

echo the Free-Soilers' position that the introduction of slavery would discourage, if not prohibit, white

prototypical Free-Soiler and characterizes the debate as an issue not of race but of class between white

While Whitman's position follows the Free-Soilers' emphasis on white labor and not on moral opposition

to slavery, Whitman, unlike many Free-Soilers, does not evoke white anxiety about associating with blacks

"Long, Too Long America" (1865)

  • Creator(s): King, Jerry F.
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poem gained popularity and was read or recited at many anti-Vietnam war meetings.BibliographyCoyle, William

Scholarship, Trends in Whitman

  • Creator(s): Killingsworth, M. Jimmie
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The first defender was William Douglas O'Connor, whose famous 1866 pamphlet The Good Gray Poet argued

bibliographical scholarship, the same cumulative effect has been achieved, thanks to such scholars as William

White, Arthur Golden, Scott Giantvalley, Donald Kummings, Joel Myerson, and the various editors of the

Self-Reviews of the 1855 Leaves, Whitman's Anonymous

  • Creator(s): Killingsworth, M. Jimmie
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In a review of the 1856 Leaves, William Swinton of the New York Times identified Whitman's hand in the

"Whitman and William Swinton." American Literature 30 (1959): 425–449.Holloway, Emory.

Walt Whitman and the Earth: A Study in Ecopoetics

  • Date: 2004
  • Creator(s): Killingsworth, M. Jimmie
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The environmental historian William Cronon, on whom Buell relies, is no doubt right in suggesting that

The spider of Jonathan Edwards, the waterfall of Henry Vaughan, the waterfowl of William Cullen Bryant

And as to you corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses

And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers, Darker than the colorless beards of

Whitman Reads New York

  • Creator(s): Kevin McMullen
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rebel against their owners, setting fire to a building near Broadway, and threatening to kill any whites

Three beads of black and six of white were equivalent, among the English, to a penny, and among the Dutch

Here the aboriginal money circulated,—small polished shells, some white, some black, strung on the sinews

Three beads of this black money, and six of white, were equivalent to an English penny, or a Dutch stuyver

Walter, William T. "Long Island." In , edited by Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley, 3–14.

Leaves of Grass, 1876, Author's Edition

  • Creator(s): Keuling-Stout, Frances E.
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 17 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Kent, William Charles Mark
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Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti One Vol., pp. 406. J.C. Hotten.

To William Michael Rossetti, as the selecter of these poems, we are not simply, in old-fashioned phrase

That immortal house, more than all the rows of dwellings ever built, Or white domed white-domed Capitol

William Wordsworth was reputedly fond of the lesser celandine and it inspired him to write three poems

William Cowper (1731-1800) was a popular English poet of his time.

Dollars and Sense in Collaborative Digital Scholarship: The Example of the Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive

  • Creator(s): Kenneth M. Price
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At the time, I was teaching at the College of William & Mary, and one of my graduate students, Charles

First at William & Mary and now at Nebraska, I have had one or two students helping me (working a combined

Nelson, and Matt Cohen—were hired into full-time staff positions at William & Mary in Information Technology

"What I Assume You Shall Assume":The Whitman Archive and the Challenge of Integrating Different Open Standards

  • Date: 2004
  • Creator(s): Brett Barney | Kenneth M. Price
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Large-scale digital thematic research collections such as the (as well as the William Blake , Dante Gabriel

The Walt Whitman Archive at Ten: Some Backward Glances and Vistas Ahead

  • Creator(s): Kenneth M. Price
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None of our musings took concrete form, however, until after I had moved to the College of William &

Some of you may know that the brown site featured William Michael Rossetti's Poems by Walt Whitman and

biographical sketches of three of the most important figures—Horace Traubel, John Burroughs, and William

William Thomas, formerly the director of the Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia

All we know for certain about such projects as the The William Blake Archive The Complete Writings and

Electronic Scholarly Editions

  • Creator(s): Kenneth M. Price
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co-edits: "We plow forward with no answer to the haunting question of where and how a project like [ The William

For multimedia artists such as William Blake and Dante Gabriel Rossetti the benefits are clear: much

Electronic editing allows us to avoid choosing, say, the early William Wordsworth or Henry James over

William Horton has written that creators of digital resources may feel tempted to forego the difficult

name techwatch_report_0205> Horton, William (1994).

Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection: What's in a Name?

  • Creator(s): Kenneth M. Price
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William Carlos Williams called the first Leaves "a book as important as we are likely to see in the next

thousand years" (Williams, quoted in Hindus 1955, 3).

One such project, the William Blake Archive , was awarded a prize from the Modern Language Association

William White. New York: New York University Press, 1978. Yakel, Elizabeth.

Civil War Washington, the Walt Whitman Archive, and Some Present Editorial Challenges and Future Possibilities

  • Creator(s): Kenneth M. Price
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American literary and historical studies focuses on canonical writers and political leaders—that is, on white

advice from Brett Barney, Amanda Gailey, Wendy Katz, Elizabeth Lorang, Vanessa Steinroetter, and William

Whitman's pre-Leaves of Grass Marginalia on British Writers

  • Creator(s): Kenneth M. Price
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William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 3:754.

Introduction

  • Creator(s): Dennis Berthold | Kenneth M. Price
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Heyde to Walt Whitman, December 3, 1890 (Trent Collection, William R.

When William Stansberry, a former soldier, wrote Walt and recalled the days in Armory Square Hospital

leading with a rope a fine old cow—a young cow and calf were alongside—under the wagon was a large white

Both Walt and his friend William Douglas O'Connor encouraged Jeff's pursuit of knowledge by sending him

White & Co., 1878-), XXV, 51.

Long Island Democrat

  • Creator(s): Karbiener, Karen
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University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1973.White, William.

Long Island Patriot

  • Creator(s): Karbiener, Karen
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charisma and powerful position, Whitman was more deeply impressed by the Patriot's foreman printer, William

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980.White, William.

"A Tribute to William Hartshorne: Unrecorded Whitman."

Long Island Star

  • Creator(s): Karbiener, Karen
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University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1973.White, William.

Long Islander

  • Creator(s): Karbiener, Karen
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White, William. Walt Whitman's Journalism: A Bibliography. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1969. 

Stafford, Harry Lamb [1858-1918]

  • Creator(s): Kantrowitz, Arnie
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of the most intense relationships of the poet's life.Stafford took Whitman to visit his parents at White

Joseph W. Thompson to Walt Whitman, 20 January 1880

  • Date: January 20, 1880
  • Creator(s): James W. Thompson | Joseph W. Thompson
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I want you, if you will, to write in the book "Ethel Thompson from Joseph William Thompson, December

Joseph B. Marvin to Walt Whitman, 16 February 1887

  • Date: February 16, 1887
  • Creator(s): Joseph B. Marvin
Text:

William Brough, who lives in a costly residence on Farragut Square and is a very pleasant, educated man—evidently

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