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Leaves of Grass, 1881–82 edition

  • Creator(s): Renner, Dennis K.
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Introduction.

Bradley, Blodgett, Golden, and White. Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1980. xv–xxv.

Leaves of Grass, 1891–92 edition

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

Long Islander

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

Native Americans [Indians]

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
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formative years of Leaves of Grass, many of the most explosive Western battles between natives and whites

Tale of the Western Frontier," about a deformed and treacherous amalgam of the worst qualities of the white

the far west, the bride was a red girl" (section 10)—a scene that has been read as suggestive of the white

the present day, have propensities, monstrous and treacherous, that make them unfit to be left in white

New York City

  • Creator(s): Thomas, M. Wynn
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Sharpe, William Chapman. Unreal Cities. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1990. Spann, E.K.

Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [1984]

  • Creator(s): Andriano, Joseph
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comprises all of Whitman's notebooks and unpublished prose manuscripts except those published in William

White's Daybooks and Notebooks (1978).

it is of limited interest and value (e.g., Whitman's factual notes on geography in volume 5); even William

White questioned whether lists of melons and other meaningless or only partially legible fragments should

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978. ____.

O'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]

  • Creator(s): Lott, Deshae E.
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Deshae E.LottO'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]O'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]Walt Whitman met

William Douglas O'Connor in 1860 at the short-lived firm of Thayer and Eldridge, which that year published

William Douglas O'Connor: Walt Whitman's Chosen Knight. Athens: Ohio UP, 1985.Loving, Jerome.

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor.

O'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]

Opera and Opera Singers

  • Creator(s): Stauffer, Donald Barlow
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,' with Donizetti's 'Lucia' or 'Favorita' or 'Lucrezia,' and Auber's 'Massaniello,' or Rossini's 'William

He had little interest in what the critic Richard Grant White called "the thin, throaty, French way of

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. 

Reconstruction

  • Creator(s): Mancuso, Luke
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closest personal friend who was a streetcar conductor and former Confederate soldier, as well as William

Burroughs published the second Whitman biography, Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (1867), and William

Redpath, James [1833–1891]

  • Creator(s): LeMaster, J.R.
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Although he remained a moderate, Whitman befriended such radical writers as Redpath and William Douglas

Rossetti, William Michael [1829–1915]

  • Creator(s): Smith, Sherwood
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SherwoodSmithRossetti, William Michael [1829–1915]Rossetti, William Michael [1829–1915]One of Whitman's

most important European editors, critics, and supporters, William Michael Rossetti, brother of Dante

Rossetti, William Michael. The Diary of W.M. Rossetti, 1870-1873. Ed. Odette Bornand.

Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti. Ed. Roger W. Peattie.

Rossetti, William Michael [1829–1915]

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After graduation Emerson assisted his older brother William in the operation of a girls' school in Boston

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1955. Erkkila, Betsy. Whitman the Political Poet .

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo [1809–1882]

  • Creator(s): Loving, Jerome
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hint of Emerson's sermons, lectures, and essays.After graduation Emerson assisted his older brother William

Democratic Vistas [1871]

  • Creator(s): Wrobel, Arthur
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New York: William Sloane Associates, 1955.Erkkila, Betsy. Whitman the Political Poet.

Thursday, August 2, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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brief experience in the South—an intimate experience while it lasted—was convinced that the 'poor white

The horrible patois attributed to the 'poor white' there in the South (and not to them only—to Western

Friday, August 3, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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The great country, in fact, is the country of free labor—of free laborers: negro, white, Chinese, or

Everything is white with snow but the sun has been clear and dazzling all day.

Sunday, August 5, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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is of a disposition to look with something of favor on my work—which I might say, quoting one of William's

Monday, August 6, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William is always wideawake—always plants both of his two eyes on life.

Bucke's letters often go off into words—off into the air—but William is always true to the scent of himself

Tuesday, August 7, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. does not acquiesce in the recent revival of Bewick and William Blake.

Thurdsay, August 9, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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wonder what Leaves of Grass would have been if I had been born of some other mother and had never met William

Friday, August 10, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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The other jewels were letters from William Michael Rossetti and Mrs.

Watson Gilder to W. and a never-delivered letter from William Swinton to Charles Sumner "to introduce

Richard talked about you with William M.

While I was reading the Swinton letter W. said: "William just let himself go—kept nothing vital back.

Would you have supposed the school-bookman—Swinton—William—could ever so forget himself—wax so eloquent

Saturday, August 11, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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explains all I wish explained: is personal, confessional: a variegated product, in fact—streaks of white

Sunday, August 12, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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the Hicks and said: "It makes him look like a cross between an Injun and a Nigger, without a drop of white

Tuesday, August 14, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Talcott Williams. Also give me a five pound note to have cashed for him.

Thursday, August 16, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Even Williams, Talcott, seems to have given in to the pressure—the hue and cry of the provincials—yet

Friday, August 17, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Then said as to the Cox portraits: "Advise Coates to go to see William Carey—no doubt Coates is often

Sunday, August 19, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William has more right words for right places in him than any man I know of in America."

Monday, August 20, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William would call me by a few strong names and then go to work again with his heresy.

John and William are very different men.

John is a placid landscape—William is a landscape in a storm.

William is quite different: he whips me with cords—he makes all my flesh tingle—he is like a soldier

home with either—equally at home—but on the whole William mixes best with my blood."

Tuesday, August 21, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William mentions you.

William will die with a hurrah on his lips."

William always has the effect of the open air upon me," said W.

"Next to getting out of my room here is to stay in my room and get a letter from William.

I don't know which contains the most open air—William or out-doors.

Wednesday, August 22, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William Winter has been making a speech in England defending America against the negations of Arnold.

belonging to the oldest school of any in England—to the great foundation of the strong priest and ruler, William

Thursday, August 23, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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After that, William ShaksperShakespeare is no more for me—for me, at least.

Friday, August 24, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Cute thinkers have said (Williams Legett—one of the best of 'em: Leggett, of the Post, who always said

Friday, August 31, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Read what he says of William." Bucke had written: "I had a letter from O'Connor.

that and more: like a grandest fellow as he is: words are so weak and William is so strong!"

McPhelim seems to have an idea that Charles O'Connor and our William O'Connor are the same person.

been reading in a paper about a big free trade meeting in New York addressed by Henry George and William

Sons of the big men are rarely big: it would be curious if William Lloyd Garrison two should get as famous

Saturday, September 1, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Affectionately,William D.

O'Connor.Here is what W. said of O'Connor: "William is the last of his race—no one is left but William

Burroughs thinks William too strenuous—keyed up monotonously too high—but I do not.

To me William is self-justified in the truest sense of the word.

William's onslaught is terrifying—it always means business."

Monday, September 3, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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It is a strong defense: William says of it himself: 'Walt, it puts them all to flight!'

find another kind of humor, a humor more remote (subtle, illusive, not present)—the sort of humor William

Sunday, April 29, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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You object to the Emperor Frederick William? Well—object: objection is right, too.

Monday, April 30, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Monday, April 30, 1888.W. said: "I want you to have this letter of William's for your archives.

It would be valuable enough if it was only William's—but it happens to be more than that.

He encloses a letter from George William Curtis—it makes good history.

William elicited a noble reply.

Part of it is very fine.I wonder if young William Allingham wrote it?

Thursday, May 3, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. said: "My attention was first called to him by William O'Connor, who may have met him personally—I

Monday, May 7, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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was at the regimental hospital, at a place called Baltimore Corners, down not very many miles from White

Tuesday, May 8, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William used to say the Leaves would before their work was done make all tongues of the earth their tongue

Talcott Williams sent a clip of it over to W. with this message: "I know you will be interested in this

Wednesday, May 9, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William O'Connor used to say this was rather a contradiction between my life and my philosophy.

Thursday, May 10, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. gave me two letters—one from William Rossetti and one from Edward Dowden—and said of them: "They are

Friday, May 11, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William O'Connor was a storm-blast for Bacon.

I never saw anybody stand up against William when he really got going: he was like a flood: he was loaded

with knowledge—yes, with knowledge: and knowledge with William was never useless—he knew what to do

Saturday, May 12, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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By the way, the little Twilight poem, like his Emperor William poem, brought him some excited correspondence

Sunday, May 13, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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The easiest thing to do with a man like William O'Connor when he gets a-going about Bacon is to do nothing—to

"Not at all—I should not be prepared to go as far as that: I only say they were not written by William

Monday, May 14, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William O'Connor's explanation of Rabelais was, that he became disgusted with the cant of intellect,

Thursday, May 17, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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all the claims of my friends, especially at the fund from abroad, of which he said once to Talcott Williams

Saturday, May 19, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"It does a fellow good to receive such notes: William is always so breezy, so cute.

By the way, Horace, here is an old letter of William's I have saved for you."

What I mean is this—that William is a great scholar—has the whole business in his fingers—can reel off

William is a constant marvel to me—like the sun each morning, like the stars every night: he never grows

the days pass, the years pass, by and bye William will pass, I am afraid, with the work undone.

Sunday, May 20, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"I have some books and papers to send by you, William," he said.

In reply to a question W. said he had never read William Morris' Earthly Paradise.

Take the Emperor Frederick William—I have wished him to live—for years—to live to do his work, which

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