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New York Sept 14 '83 My dear Sir; Dr.
I am at present very busy as I want to complete my critical history of American literature as soon as
Mendocino Co., California Aug. 2. 1877 Walt Whitman My beloved.
I know it was especially for me You will take my kisses and love as from me that knows you and can never
John Burroughs more than any one anyone that I know, fitly expresses my thought of you.
never met that seemed to have the faintest understanding of you so I keep you all to myself locked in my
perhaps to receive a note from one whose name even you do not know, but I have long had you down in my
heart as one of my friends, and will tell you all about how I came to write to you now.
Last week I had a letter from my friend Miss M. E.
Often when I am reading it I take the words right home to my heart, and feel stronger and better for
friend forever, though I may never see his face, and this must be my excuse now.
11.27—1891 My dear friend Walt Whitman, I want, before you go beyond reach of such messages, to send
you my love and admiration and thanks.
Bless you, dear Walt,—& I wish that I might bear all your bodily pain & weakness upon my own strong young
My dear Uncle Walt: I thought you would like to see your little Kittie's face so send my photograph wishing
(from my dear friend, Little Kitty (14 yr's old) daughter of my friend Johnston the jeweler—with very
Whitman says "no one will get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance, or
After celebrating and singing himself, he continues: "I loafe, and invite my soul."
My dear Sir.
has hitherto hindered me from sending a frank message of love and thanks to you, in the thought that my
That overwhelming outburst of spirit was the first thing to stamp my nature.
My first coherent memory is of the Brooklyn 14 th Regiment recruiting on Fort Green in 1861.
At the time, I was teaching at the College of William & Mary, and one of my graduate students, Charles
In my view, Primary Source Media would have been much better off to use SGML, a recognized international
Iowa cooperated because my co-director, Ed Folsom, edits the journal and controls copyright.
more audacious artistic uses of Whitman is the Flash animation " Walt Whitman " by performance artist My
One day in 1995 Charles Green and another graduate student, David Donlon, strolled into my office and
Susan Belasco, my colleague at the University of Nebraska, has made significant strides in presenting
My advice to Whitman scholars would be to hang on to your electronic rights.
This idea also appeals to me because of my academic place , the University of Nebraska.
Whitman said to one of his early German translators: "It has not been for my country alone—ambitious
The final aim of the United States of America is the solidarity of the world One purpose of my chants
texts are becoming fundamentally or solely "literary-encoders" and "literary-librarians," then, despite my
He once said that "arose out of my life in Brooklyn and New York from 1838 to 1853, absorbing a million
ultimately is folded into the or remains a separate, stand-alone collection, it certainly grew out of my
After the publication of the 1881-1882 , Whitman remarked, "All this is not only my obligation to Henry
It should be noted that my view of differs here from that of some commentators.
My thinking on a set of interrelated issues—what is it we should be editing?
He once said that "arose out of my life in Brooklyn and New York from 1838 to 1853, absorbing a million
Based on my experience with this project, it is a responsibility not quickly or easily met. developed
(I wouldn't be surprised, conversely, if my historian friends regard the as a long footnote on war-time
My own contribution will be an analysis of the Armory Square Hospital Gazette .
(This broad view of editing is one I endorse and underpins my remarks throughout this essay.)
In my view, specialists are less critical in transcription than in project conceptualization, annotation
after his claim to be "untranslatable": "I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, / I sound my
overstaid fraction" "the circle of obis" or, as Whitman says near the end of "Song of Myself": "I effuse my
Jeopardizes Degree by Refusing to Perform Whitman," The Chronicle of Higher Education 25 July 2013. 23 My
My remarks here repurpose and reaffirm (in a much broader context now of Whitman Archive work on Whitman's
annotations) my earlier treatment in Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (New Haven: Yale
When I am in a room with people, if I am free from speculating on creations of my own brain, then, not
could be offered for them, as the Magazine has been neglected of late, and has only recently come into my
I would send you a volume of poems of my own, but they are very juvenile; and I would rather not be known
My wife & I would both be delighted if you could come and stay with us so long as might suit you.
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
single line or verse picked out here and there from the midst of his descriptions:— "Evening—me in my
room—the setting sun, The setting summer sun shining in my open windows window , showing the swarm of
take one breath from my tremulous lips; Take one tear, dropped aside as I go, for thought of you, Dead
I meant that you should discover me so, by my faint indirections; And I, when I meet you, mean to discover
Thee, seated coil'd in evil times, my Country, with craft and black dismay—with every meanness, treason
—are but parts of the Venture which my Poems entirely are. (11) It is this type of indirection that
poems (five) contained in the 1876 Leaves: four intercalated poems and the title page's "Come, said my
these documents his deep and abiding fascination with the place that he repeatedly called, simply, "my
"I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city," that poem begins: and behold!
there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient, I see that the word of my
For example, this manuscript is seemingly the first time that Whitman refers to New York as "my city.
my city!" And its fifth and final usage in 1860 comes in the volume's concluding poem, "So long!"
. . and I split off with the radicals, which led to rows with the boss and 'the party,' and I lost my
I thank my daughter, Myrth Killingsworth, an ecocritic in her own right, for being my writing companion
On hikes in the Smoky Mountains, one of my regular companions was my friend and major professor F.
Professor Miller directed my dissertation, which ultimately led to my first book, Whitman's Poetry of
just as I was saying good-bye to DeWolfe Miller and my friends in Tennessee and heading west where my
bare-stript heart, And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.
You will excuse my putting Esqr after your name—I consider it would be out of place; and a mere empty
An interesting change in line 7 appears for the first time in 1881: the words "I take for my love some
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. Boston: Beacon, 1985.Chase, Richard.
My husband, John, has been as supportive in this as in all my ventures.
It includes the metered (atypical for Whit man) "0 Captain! My Captain!"
My Captain!" appears in the Sat urdayPress. 16 NOVEMBER.
After the lecture he is presented with a bouquet of lilacs and then reads "0 Captain! My Captain!"
My Captain," 70, Mask," 109 71, 54 "Out of May's Shows Se "O d e.- By Walter Whit lected,"161 "Out of
stuffed canary which in life had brought him much pleasure and which he made the subject of a poem, "My
Specimen Days (1882) Whitman says of the region where he was born, "the successive growth-stages of my
The voyage itself appears again and again, in the narrative style of "Old Salt Kossabone" and "O Captain
My Captain!
I can't think of the author's name—my memory plays me such shabby tricks these days—(though I should
The overall need for a work such as this became clear to me in 1996 when I was asked by my friend and
To my surprise, I found no definitive published scholarship on which to draw except for studies that
My task has been to interest both groups while filling in, to the best of my ability, gaps that may exist
face is ash-color'd, my sinews gnarl . . . away from me people retreat.
it, in comparison, seem but a mere "mask of materials" or "show of appearance" ("Scented Herbage of My
death as meaning "precisely the same" and as being "folded inseparably together" ("Scented Herbage of My
In the stillness in the autumn moonbeams his face was inclined toward me, / And his arm lay around my
My first instinct about all that Symonds writes is violently reactionary—is strong and brutal for no,
Then the thought intervenes that I maybe do not know all my own meanings" (With Walt Whitman 1:76–77)
that when he spoke of immortality he meant "identity—the survival of the personal soul—your survival, my
God, love, and death become virtually synonymous.The second entry in "Calamus," "Scented Herbage of My
impending death as but one of his soul's many incarnations and promotions: "I receive now again of my
many translations, from my avataras ascending, while others doubtless await me" ("So Long!").
especially profound or "real" form of experience which develops or "identifies" his soul: "O the joy of my
My soul vibrated back to me from them . . .
The real life of my senses and flesh transcending my senses and flesh" ("Song of Joys").This sense of
"History of My Whitman Studies." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9 (1991): 91–100. Blair, Stanley S.
connections between literature and psychology, as do his two biographies: Melville (1975) and Salem Is My
"My Discovery and Exploration of the Whitman Continent (1941–1991)."
little Harry . . . is a fine, good bright child, not very rugged, but gets along very well—I take him in my
"Uncle Walt," and he found them "model children lively & free & children" who "form a great part of my
little Harry . . . is a fine, good bright child, not very rugged, but gets along very well—I take him in my
"Uncle Walt," and he found them "model children lively & free & children" who "form a great part of my
Sep. 16th 189 1 My Dear Walt Whitman For the sake of the good your works & life have done me I should
the sea—but—I found a family affair, which caused me some astonishment & some pain which took up all my
Mr Whitman, Dear Sir, My friend & yours Mr Joaquin Miller tells me that the best way to gratify a long-cherished
greatest men of our age both abroad & at home; & when I remember your work during our dreadful war, my
heart as well as my pride is touched, & I cannot though a stranger to you, forbear presenting to the
true man a nobler title even than that of the true poet, my profoundest respect & admiration— With sincere
January 29th 1891 My dear Sir If there is a wounding word in the "Overland" article in which I speak
Walt Whitman My dear friend, much do I regret to hear of your increased illness—yet, let us hope for
My dear Madam Kindly send apace—address as asked for on Enclosed sheet.
in reading "John Russell Youngs reminiscences of Walt Whitman " as published in last evn'gs Paper, my
Such we shall pray & hope for—I have always longed to hear you recite "Captain, Oh, My Captain," & may
Whitman's poem "O Captain! My Captain!
"O Captain! My Captain!"
For more information on the poem, see Gregory Eiselein, "'O Captain! My Captain!'
Whitman Esq Feb 24.1890 My dear, venerable friend It was my intention to have noted my recent call upon
you, with my expressions of the great pleasure that visit had given me, but I have been prevented doing
so, from having taken cold in my eyes, subjecting me to a sort of vagabond life for the past week.
delighted to have you acknowledge this note, if you feel, it will not be a task— Accept dear friend, my
Whitman 1740 N. 15th st.Phila My father was John F.
Walt Whitman Esq— 2337 N. 18th St, Phila Nov 3rd— My dear, dear friend I am so charmed with the account
two congenial, noble men — I myself feel honored to have known you & proudly regard you, as one of my
childrens names & a member of the Whitman family, whom my noble, grand, old father-in-law would have
Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Thursday, September 12, 1889 and Saturday, September 14, 1889: "My
My dear friend I am too sorry that you are not well enough to see me, but I trust I may be able to do
old shoe with me, with which I wanted to inspire you to write me some verses — It was once worn by my
much.— May our Heavenly Father spare both you & I for sometime yet Truly your friend Lavinia F Whitman My
24 May 1889 My sir.
I pray then you to rec to my a copy.
dur- ing my absence.
I have lost my wits . . . .
I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer grass.
roof, my doors, my hearth and home How sweet again to see the light and thee!
gab and my loitering.”
My dear sir, I was very glad to hear of the receipt of the check I sent you & to know that it had already
system, but without effect— I have received twenty dollars here to be forwarded to you, ($10 cash from my
My dear sir, Having an opportunity to send by Miss Lowe the $20. From H. Lee, & B.