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Search : William White

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Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-1891

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): J. Jonston, M.D. | J. W. Wallace
Text:

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

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

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

Talcott Press Williams, Newspaper Office,Philadelphia.

Alma, 136 O'Connor, William D., 45, 77, 100, ; Mrs.

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890–1891: First Visit to Camden, September 8th and 9th

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): J. W. Wallace
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His great head seen almost in profile, with its lofty and rounded dome, his long white hair and beard

O'Connor—the widow of Whitman's brilliant friends William O'Connor—had also been spending a few days

He Is Ignored at Home

  • Date: 13 October 1889
  • Creator(s): J. W. K.
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The half light from the window fell upon his long, white hair and his grizzled white beard and brown,

Walt. Whitman: Interview with the Author of "Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 5 June 1880
  • Creator(s): J. L. Payne
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His hair is long and like his whiskers is of snowy whiteness.

His white shirt was cut in true sailor style, opening low down upon his breast, and with the collar rolled

The whole dress with the white flowing hair and whiskers were suggestive of a nature that one is afterwards

Walt Whitman: The Athletic Bard Paralyzed and in a Rocking Chair

  • Date: 21 May 1876
  • Creator(s): J. B. S.
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Long white hair, a long white beard and moustache, a florid face with spirited blue eyes, a gigantic

On a distant sofa lay the broad-brimmed white hat which he has worn for nearly a quarter of a century

Walt Whitman: The Poet Chats on the Haps and Mishaps of Life

  • Date: 3 March 1880
  • Creator(s): Issac R. Pennypacker
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I see he is above the average height, that his hair and beard are long and white as snow, and afterward

body in the style of garments which poets affect, and his expanse of shirt bosom, fastened with a white

Isabella A. White to Walt Whitman, 6 October 1874

  • Date: October 6, 1874
  • Creator(s): Isabella A. White
Text:

things since, but would be glad if you would have them removed soon Yours Respectfully Mrs Isabella A White

White Oct. 74 Isabella A. White to Walt Whitman, 6 October 1874

Isabella A. White to Walt Whitman, 29 July 1874

  • Date: July 29, 1874
  • Creator(s): Isabella A. White
Text:

White Mrs. White July 29 Isabella A. White to Walt Whitman, 29 July 1874

Whitman Speaks to a New Generation

  • Creator(s): Institute of Museum and Library Service
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then again in the 1876 and 1881-1882 (and following) editions, as well as—in a cropped version—in William

William Reeder, Philadelphia. Courtesy Library of Congress.

Cosmic Consciousness

  • Creator(s): Ignoffo, Matthew
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that he himself attained Cosmic Consciousness early in the spring of 1873 while reading the works of William

"Dirge for Two Veterans" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Ignoffo, Matthew
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Granada: Universidad de Granada, 1992. 33–43.Burrison, William.

"Lo, Victress on the Peaks" (1865–1866)

  • Creator(s): Ignoffo, Matthew
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Granada: Universidad de Granada, 1992. 33–43.Burrison, William.

Stoddard, Richard Henry (1825–1903)

  • Creator(s): Hynes, Jennifer A.
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In his satirical review of William Douglas O'Connor's The Good Gray Poet in the Round Table, Stoddard

Whitman speculated that Stoddard and New York Tribune drama critic William Winter had collaborated on

O'Connor, William. The Good Gray Poet: A Vindication. New York: Bunce and Huntington, 1866.

Rev. of The Good Gray Poet, by William Douglas O'Connor. Round Table 3 (1866): 37. Whitman, Walt.

Wright, Frances (Fanny) (1795–1852)

  • Creator(s): Hynes, Jennifer A.
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New York: Bliss and White, 1825. ———. Life, Letters, and Lectures, 1834–1844. New York: Arno, 1972.

Specimen Days [1882]

  • Creator(s): Hutchinson, George and David Drews
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BibliographyAarnes, William.

Racial Attitudes

  • Creator(s): Hutchinson, George and David Drews
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DrewsHutchinsonRacial AttitudesRacial AttitudesWhitman has commonly been perceived as one of the few white

truth is that Whitman in person largely, though confusedly and idiosyncratically, internalized typical white

nationalist terms, opposing "the great cause of American White Work and Working people" to "the Black

Elsewhere he refers to slave labor as a "black tide" threatening white workingmen.

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor. College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1978. 

Stoicism

  • Creator(s): Hutchinson, George
Text:

It was to become particularly important to Marcus Aurelius in the period of Rome's decline, to William

Civil War, The [1861–1865]

  • Creator(s): Hutchinson, George
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Here he settled into a rooming house where an acquaintance, William Douglas O'Connor, was staying with

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.

Indian Affairs, Bureau of

  • Creator(s): Huffstetler, Edward W.
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officials, was suited to Whitman's needs at the time, and he was well-liked by his immediate superior William

A Hoosier's Opinion Of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 11 August 1860
  • Creator(s): Howells, William Dean
Text:

Jove's trick on Europa refers to the myth in which Zeus disguised himself as a tame, white-colored bull

Annotations Text:

.; Jove's trick on Europa refers to the myth in which Zeus disguised himself as a tame, white-colored

Walt Whitman by V.W. Horton(?) of J. Gurney and Son, 1871

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Horton, V.W. | Gurney & Son
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William thought it "a trifle weak", but I don't think so. I can't always be a roaring lion!'"

Horace Traubel to Walt Whitman, 3 July 1879

  • Date: July 3, 1879
  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel
Text:

William Black is good, usually, in the respect, though apt to overdo.

Henry Clapp, Jr. to Walt Whitman, 12 May 1860

  • Date: May 12, 1860
  • Creator(s): Henry Clapp, Jr. | Horace Traubel
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fearful road to that great castle "success" which looms up in the dim religious distance, and from which white-winged

George H. Williams to Walt Whitman, 10 March 1873

  • Date: March 10, 1873
  • Creator(s): George H. Williams | Horace Traubel
Text:

Williams, Attorney General. George H. Williams to Walt Whitman, 10 March 1873

Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 2 March 1884

  • Date: March 2, 1884
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter | Horace Traubel
Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George (1827–1892) and Susan Stafford (1833–1910), were tenant farmers at White Horse

Horace Tarr to Walt Whitman, 1 December 1890

  • Date: December 1, 1890
  • Creator(s): Horace Tarr
Annotations Text:

White & Company, 1904], 7:206).

Camden’s Compliment to Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1889
  • Creator(s): Horace L. Traubel
Text:

FRANCIS HOWARD WILLIAMS: Germantown.

Sloane Kennedy, 58 William M.

Cockrill, 66 William Dean Howells, 62 JuliusChambers, 67 John G.Whittier, 62 George William Curtis, 67

William M. Salter: Chicago, May 21, 1889.

William C. Gannett: Hinsdale, III.,May 20, 1889.

In RE Walt Whitman: Walt Whitman at Date

  • Date: 1893
  • Creator(s): Horace L. Traubel
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on his way without coat, vest, or suspenders, distinguished from afar by the glimpse of a spotless white

I went to him once with William M. Salter.

He likes William Legget's formula, that "the world is governed too much."

In RE Walt Whitman: Round Table with Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1893
  • Creator(s): Horace L. Traubel
Text:

Harned, Francis Howard Williams, Horace L. Traubel, Harrison S. Morris, Talcott Williams, John H.

Mitchell, William Reeder, Daniel Gongaker, Geoffrey Buckwalter, William Ingram, Carl Edelheim, G.W.

Williams ( F.

Williams .— Mr.

—Talcott WilliamsWilliams! Whitman .— Get up, Talcott—show yourself!

Walt Whitman by Samuel Hollyer, engraving of a daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison (original lost), 1854

  • Date: July 1854
  • Creator(s): Hollyer, Samuel | Harrison, Gabriel
Text:

Grass, then again in the 1876 and 1881–1882 (and following) editions, as well as—in a cropped version—William

Some of Whitman's friends did not share his enthusiasm for the image; William Sloane Kennedy, for example

William O'Connor liked it, Whitman said, "because of its portrayal of the proletarian—the carpenter,

Romanticism

  • Creator(s): Hodder, Harbour Fraser
Text:

and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were the chief analysts of the creative imagination, while Coleridge, William

Blake, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats were its poetic exemplars.In

Brockden Brown, the frontier romances of James Fenimore Cooper, and the elegiac nature poetry of William

1904), "America's Mightiest Inheritance" (1856), "Slang in America" (1885), and his ghostwriting for William

Political Views

  • Creator(s): Hirschhorn, Bernard
Text:

An ardent Jacksonian Democrat, he revered William Leggett, the party's foremost spokesman in the 1830s

Democratic presidential candidate Martin Van Buren, who lost his re-election bid to Whig candidate William

the Wilmot Proviso, but he remained loyal.Whitman defended the rights and dignity of free male labor—white

of the people of the Union, Whitman was not prepared to accept the political and social equality of white

"Memories of President Lincoln" (1881–1882)

  • Creator(s): Hirschhorn, Bernard
Text:

Cuomo [1990]).BibliographyCoyle, William, ed. The Poet and the President: Whitman's Lincoln Poems.

Critics, Whitman's

  • Creator(s): Hindus, Milton
Text:

makes their spluttering, abusive reaction almost an even match for the unrestrained hero worship of William

Douglas O'Connor and William Sloane Kennedy.

Review of Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps

  • Date: January 1867
  • Creator(s): Hill, A. S.
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ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen now lean and tattered tatter'd , seated on the ground, Her old white

Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878)

  • Creator(s): Higgins, Andrew C.
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Andrew C.HigginsBryant, William Cullen (1794–1878)Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878) William Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant. New York: Scribner's, 1971. Bryant, William Cullen.

The Letters of William Cullen Bryant. Ed. William Cullen Bryant II and Thomas G. Voss. 2 vols.

The Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant. Ed. Parke Godwin. 2 vols.

Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878)

Douglass, Frederick (1818–1895)

  • Creator(s): Higgins, Andrew C.
Text:

1838 to the North, where he became active in the abolitionist movement, working with people like William

that required them to rethink their approach to life, literature, and politics.Bibliography Andrews, William

McFeely, William S. Frederick Douglass. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991. Sundquist, Eric J., ed.

Excerpt from Chapter 19 of Anne Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings

  • Date: 1887
  • Creator(s): Herbert Harlakenden Gilchrist
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"I have sometimes felt a little vexed that the good William should have failed to see anything in the

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 8 July 1888

  • Date: July 8, 1888
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

William Rossetti is far from well & is away at Ventnor recruiting.

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 5 June 1881

  • Date: June 5, 1881
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

William Rossetti is writing a hundred sonnets—writes one a day; one about John Brown is not bad: and

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 29 April 1883

  • Date: April 29, 1883
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

stained with many a wet chase, his great whip tucked under his arm whilst buttoning on his left glove, white

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 16 October 1886

  • Date: October 16, 1886
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

Your last letter to William M. Rossetti is to be facsimiled as before.

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 20 August 1882

  • Date: August 20, 1882
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

heard a scuffle in the belfry, I turned and saw a big raw country-bumpkin boy hastily donning his white

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 10 October 1887

  • Date: October 10, 1887
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

I have asked him to call on Talcott Williams, perhaps you will give him a "leg up" among newspaper men

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 25 January 1886

  • Date: January 25, 1886
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

acquaintances and friends, including amongst others Mr and Mrs Carlyle, George Eliot, George Henry Lewes, William

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 5 September 1885

  • Date: September 5, 1885
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

A week ago William Rossetti sent off to you £21.2.0 and £1. sent by Aldrich; this latter is in the form

William Rossetti and your friends generally were very pleased and glad to get your letter (William Rossetti

William Rossetti sent you the £21.2.0. through the post office .

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 15 January 1882

  • Date: January 15, 1882
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

jove though we havent haven't seen the sun here for one, two, three, four days: a solid impenetrable white

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 16 August 1882

  • Date: August 16, 1882
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

depend upon it William Blake's maxim is a sound one, "First thoughts in Art, second in other matters.

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 27 May 1887

  • Date: May 27, 1887
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Annotations Text:

The Germanic was a steamer passenger ship built in 1874 by the White Star Line in Belfast; it made frequent

Henry S. Tuke to Walt Whitman, 9 March 1891

  • Date: March 9, 1891
  • Creator(s): Henry S. Tuke
Text:

book sent March 24 Swanpool Falmouth Cornwall England— March•9•1891• Dear Sir My friend Mr Gleeson White

Annotations Text:

Gleeson White, an Englishman Whitman described as a "middle-aged man very gentlemanly & pleasant," visited

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:575.

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