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Search : William White

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Poetic Theory

  • Creator(s): Johnstone, Robert
Text:

(William Carlos Williams credits Whitman with foreshadowing the "variable foot," though it is difficult

, and literary poesis is best expressed by a devout and subtle reader of Whitman, the philosopher William

New York: Library of America, 1983.James, William.

John William Lloyd to Walt Whitman, 1 December 1891

  • Date: December 1, 1891
  • Creator(s): John William Lloyd
Text:

J Wm Lloyd John William Lloyd to Walt Whitman, 1 December 1891

John William Lloyd to Walt Whitman, 30 November 1891

  • Date: November 30, 1891
  • Creator(s): John William Lloyd
Text:

John William Lloyd to Walt Whitman, 30 November 1891

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman

  • Date: February 1902
  • Creator(s): John Townsend Trowbridge
Text:

One of the most prized of these was William Douglas O'Connor.

William Rossetti, who edited a volume of selections from Leaves of Grass for the British public, pointed

Had William Shakespeare left any authentic writings as empty of thought and imagination, and void of

John Swinton to Walt Whitman, 25 February 1863

  • Date: February 25, 1863
  • Creator(s): John Swinton | Horace Traubel
Text:

My brother William sailed for Port Royal ten days ago—to be present at the attack on Charleston—if it

John Scott and J. P. Williams to Walt Whitman, 24 May 1867

  • Date: May 24, 1867
  • Creator(s): John Scott and J. P. Williams | John Scott and J.P. Williams
Text:

New York, May 24 th 186 7 To Scott & Williams, Dr. (Late, WM. E.

Nassau & William.

Williams to Walt Whitman, 24 May 1867

Men and Memories

  • Date: 16 January 1892
  • Creator(s): John Russell Young
Text:

One White House story comes to me of his leaving Lincoln in wrath, "slamming the doors behind him" because

I look where he lies, white-faced and still in the coffin, and draw near.

Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.

Our Pete hit in a cavalry skirmish and to die; the boy shot in the abdomen, "face as white as a lily;

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 10 May 1875

  • Date: May 10, 1875
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

card sometimes to tell of your health and happiness—There is not much political difference—with a white-hot

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 3 April [1875]

  • Date: April 3, [1875]
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

V., —me not —me not cheat—me not beg—me not tell lies back black lies white lies" is all to me es man

yes it be yes and when me say no it be no—dats p fun sometime but me tant help it—me will to some " white

what em good for but torn and totton for chibalry chivalry white mans ?

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 7 October 1874

  • Date: October 7, 1874
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

The white population predominates here enough to free us from the unpleasantness experienced in other

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890–1891: Visit to Brooklyn

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): John Johnston
Text:

several of the other pilots mentioned there—John Cole, pilot of the Union, who was a pilot still; George White

, Luther Smith, and Bill White, who died suddenly and alone at his post, in the very chair in which I

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890–1891: In Camden

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): John Johnston
Text:

linen with a great wide collar edged with white lace—the shirt buttoned about midway down his breast

The eyebrows are thick and shaggy with strong white hair, very highly arched and standing a long way

The full lips are partly hidden by the thick, white moustache.

Near the bed, under the blinded-up window, is the washstand—a plain wooden one, with a white wash-jug

Your William Black & Sons, of Edinburgh, produce some splendidly printed works.

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890–1891: In Camden, October 15th to 24th

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): John Johnston | J. W. Wallace
Text:

He wrote a Life of William Blake, the artist, in this way.

One day William O'Connor and I were coming along and we met Gurowski.

Richelieu is very old, bent, with white hair and beard, and he coughs 'ugh! ugh!

After leaving her I met Horace by appointment and we called on Talcott Williams at the Press office.

Frank Williams and we four." W. "And what did you do?" I said we had had dinner and talked, etc. W.

John J. Barker to Walt Whitman, 19 June 1863

  • Date: June 19, 1863
  • Creator(s): John J. Barker
Text:

Jest like a privet and as study as a Jug JC sebrig is fist lutenent B B Jones is a lutenent brother william

John J. Barker to Walt Whitman, 5 June 1863

  • Date: June 5, 1863
  • Creator(s): John J. Barker
Text:

unted an wee have got the pras of the finest regment in these pats My Capten Skaggs is ded brother william

John Camden Hotten to Walt Whitman, 5 February 1868

  • Date: February 5, 1868
  • Creator(s): John Camden Hotten
Text:

Swinburne's new book upon William Blake , poet and artist—a great but neglected genius who was counted

Whitman: A Study

  • Date: 1902
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

The grown impression he early made upon such men as Emerson, Thoreau, William O Connor, Mr.

"Fihim better than last With pretty well, looking year. 54 WHITMAN his light-gray suit, and white

W. drives briskly, and salutes every person we meet, little and black and male and female. big, white

The upper over The eyelids droop considerably the eyeballs. which are hidden by the thick, white lips

XXVII William Rossetti his has a certain says language ultimate quality.

Notes on Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

I step softly over to him, and find by his card that he is named William Cone, of the 1st Maine cavalry

Crossing the fields in summer he would gather a great bunch of dandelion blossoms, and red and white

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 coffin."

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 13 January 1879

  • Date: January 13, 1879
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

Trout 30 6 Birds & Birds 16 7 A Bed of Boughs 30 8 Birds nesting 10 9 The Halcyon in Canada 44 10 A White

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 27 August 1889

  • Date: August 27, 1889
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

rec'd a letter from you at Hobart which I sent on to Buck Bucke , with one from Eldridge, I read Williams

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 17 August 1883

  • Date: August 17, 1883
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

Wm O'Connors William O'Connor's letter is a treat, with a little too much seasoning.

If W m William would only practice a little more self-denial, he would be much more effective.

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 4 May 1890

  • Date: May 4, 1890
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

I return dear Williams Donnelly pamphlet.

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 13 January 1888

  • Date: January 13, 1888
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

A steady snow fall here to-day, the river a white plain.

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 30 October 1871

  • Date: October 30, 1871
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

I hope you & William will be among them.

I wrote quite a long letter to William which I hope he received.

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 29 December 1879

  • Date: December 29, 1879
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Annotations Text:

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

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 21 December 1886

  • Date: December 21, 1886
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

This morning Doctor Bucke sends me Williams letter.

It makes me groan in spirit to think of Williams condition.

Walt Whitman: A Study

  • Date: 1893
  • Creator(s): John Addington Symonds
Text:

NIMMO KING WILLIAM STRAND 14 STREET, MDCCCXCI1I 3331 S>2 AUG 2 i. 921411 PREFACE This hardly needs an

figure,six feet high, costumed in or blue grey, with drab hat, broad shirt collar, fulland with grey-white

And here I may recall President Lincoln's remark on seeing Whitman of House :" from the windows the White

William O'Connor, of Douglas Washington, who had learned to appreciate Walt as a friend, and to admire

Introduction

  • Creator(s): Jerome M. Loving
Text:

On December 2, 1866, William O'Connor—another of Whitman's close friends—had written a long review in

two officers in the Fifty-First Regiment (who had not been captured at Poplar Grove), Lieutenant William

of Congress)—essentially paraphrased a letter (date unknown) addressed to Babcock from Lieutenant William

Walt Whitman wrote to William O'Connor and his wife on March 26 that George was in what I would almost

And when the initials G.W.W. stood on a pipe in white paint, the inhabitants of Boston and New York were

Our New York Letter: Jennie June's Weekly Jottings

  • Date: 17 March 1877
  • Creator(s): Jennie June
Text:

Both men look older than they are, for the massive head of on all gray, and the other all white.

his time with some English friends, the family of the late Alexander Gilchrist, the biographer of William

The biography of William Blake was completed by his wife, who wrote a preface, which is said to be the

Taylor, Father (Edward Thompson) (1793–1871)

  • Creator(s): Jellicorse, John Lee
Text:

William Ellery Channing, Charles Dickens, Jenny Lind, Harriet Martineau, and countless others chorused

White, 1906. 464. Whitman, Walt. Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. Vol. 2.

Literariness

  • Creator(s): Jellicorse, John Lee
Text:

Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1971. 4–11.Thayer, William Roscoe.

The Lounger

  • Date: 29 November 1891
  • Creator(s): Jeannette Gilder
Text:

At the curbstone is a block of white marble with the initials 'W.

His body was thinner than I had ever seen it, but the fine head crowned with its white hair was unaltered

Bohemians in America

  • Date: [1882 or before]
  • Creator(s): Jay Charlton
Text:

table Henry Clapp, Walt Whitman, Fitz James O'Brien, Ned Wilkins, George Arnold, Sheppard, Gardette, William

William Winter was its literary critic.

William Winter came from the Cambridge (Mass.) Chronicle in 1859.

Our transcription is based on William Shepard, ed., Pen Pictures of Modern Authors (New York: G. P.

Life Illustrated

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Jason Stacy
Text:

Bibliography Jerome Loving Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself Berkeley University of California Press 1999 William

New York Sunday Dispatch

  • Date: 2015
  • Creator(s): Jason Stacy
Text:

Williamson (1823–1867) and William Burns (1818–1850) founded the Sunday Dispatch in 1846 as a weekly

Williamson and William Burns were arrested sometime before December 11, 1849 as part of a libel suit

New York Evening Post

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Jason Stacy
Text:

founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801 and was edited by abolitionist, poet, and Democratic partisan William

The New York Aurora

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Jason Stacy
Text:

The Maclay Bill was backed by the Whig governor of New York, William Seward, who sought to use the debate

inter-party fight fit loosely with Whitman's loco-foco inclinations, which, following the model of William

Jane Stansberry to Walt Whitman, 15 July 1874

  • Date: July 15, 1874
  • Creator(s): Jane Stansberry
Text:

William Received Some papers From you yesterday Which we All take great In Reading And, Aspecialy especially

We have found out what the Privatians Privations of life is Since we came west we Came Here For williams

William's Health He was very Healthy Before he went to the Army. they Sent him home From Washington

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 11 October 1891

  • Date: October 11, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

("No finer women ever walked this earth than the women of the Williams family" said & repeated old C.V

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 19 June 1891

  • Date: June 19, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

It's strong contrasts of black & white (no half tones) & the peculiar disposition of the lights are very

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 30 June–1 July 1891

  • Date: June 30–July 1, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

Thompson (an elderly, white bearded man, with healthy fresh complexion, clear honest grey eyes, & cordial

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 16 December 1890

  • Date: December 16, 1890
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

In a letter he received from you he saw (and appropriated) a white hair attached to the mucilage of the

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 11–12 September 1890

  • Date: September 11–12, 1890
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman: The Author of "Leaves of Grass" at Home

  • Date: 16 June 1885
  • Creator(s): James Scovel
Text:

Though venerable-looking from his white hair and beard, his paralysis and the extra lameness that has

Moncure Conway and William M.

Lewes, Vernon and Godfrey Lushington, Dante G. and William M. Rossetti, W. B. Scott, C. W.

Walt Whitman: His Life, His Poetry, Himself

  • Date: 23 July 1875
  • Creator(s): J. M. S. | J[ames] M[atlack] S[covel]
Text:

and thus it was that when James Harlan turned him out of the Interior Department, years ago, young William

Walt Whitman: A Symposium in a Sick Room

  • Date: 18 November 1876
  • Creator(s): James Matlack Scovel
Text:

cachet de pain —[the thin wafers hiding calomel]—is the fragrant red-rose and the tube-rose or the pure white

James L. Sill to Walt Whitman, 9 May 1889

  • Date: May 9, 1889
  • Creator(s): James L. Sill
Text:

Dear Walt Whitman: Our good friend William D. O'Connor died this morning about 2 o'clock.

James Hearne to Walt Whitman, 29 December 1880

  • Date: December 29, 1880
  • Creator(s): James Hearne
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 213).

James B. Pond to Walt Whitman, 25 April 1887

  • Date: April 25, 1887
  • Creator(s): James B. Pond
Text:

BLUME, M ISS SETTIE BRADFORD, WILLIAM CALHOUN, MARGARET CUSTER FABIAN, EDWARD LINCOLN, FRANK TAYLOR,

Jacques Reich to Walt Whitman, 12 February 1890

  • Date: February 12, 1890
  • Creator(s): Jacques Reich
Annotations Text:

pk't-b'k L of G. to Bancroft Wash'n" and noted "(rec'd)" when he got Reich's confirmation letter (William White

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