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Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (hereafter "Lilacs"), "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors," and "O Captain
My Captain!" in the years 1884–1904. Gustav Holst produced a "Walt Whitman Overture" in 1899.
visionary is not necessarily the same as being a prophet, and Whitman was a visionary: "I am afoot with my
Abolitionist author of The Public Life of Captain John Brown and editor of the North American Review,
one day in Boston that Joaquin Miller, whose acquaintance I had gained through a poetical trifle of my
Whitman— I have tried all my life to write for the masses.
A few days later I called upon Whitman, my pockets stuffed with verses.
At its conclusion he smiled forgivingly and asked me to tell him about my grandfather on my mother's
Such a boy, to my mind, is positively nauseating.
But a later letter to Rossetti recanted this position: "I cannot and will not consent, of my own volition
, to countenance an expurgated edition of my pieces" (Whitman 942).
Sir, Permit me to introduce myself to you before I state the purpose of my letter.
etcher and I enclose a few notices from The Times and other journals in case you have never seen any of my
If you have such a photograph will you kindly send it to me—supposing you do not object to my etching
I must ask you to be kind enough to return to me the enclosed notices of my works.
have been able to do the same this year, but I am afraid I cannot, for I have been trying to change my
way of life this year & earn my living differently to what I have done till now, and have not hitherto
So I must content myself with sending the contribution of my friend, increased somewhat by help from
carpenter (an art which I learnt as a boy) & it has done me so much good that I hope to return soon to my
My Captain!” and then a review of Drum-Taps.
“O Captain! My Captain!”
In 1889, he told Traubel, “It’s My Captain again: always My Cap- tain: the school readers have got along
I will not strip the clothes from my body to meet my lover the sea, I will not touch my flesh to the
29, 75–76, 109–10, 159–61, 195; and My Captain!”
announcing his "positive conviction that some of these birds sing and others fly and flirt about here for my
for me, blew into space a thousand cobwebs of genteel and ethical illusion, and, having thus shaken my
Whatever may be said for the genius that created the peculiar style of (and, for my part, I think a great
Yet it would be wrong not to correct my criticism about Whitman's style by pointing out that there are
Me, ruthless and devilish as any, that my wrists are not chain'd with iron or my ankles with iron?
do I exclude you, Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my
"The chief end I purpose to myself in all my labours," wrote Dean Swift, "is to vex the world rather
and flows": "This day, before dawn, I ascended a hill and look'd at the crowded heaven, And I said to my
And my spirit said ' No .'"
suddenly,—reservedly, with a beautiful paucity of communication, even silently, such was its effect on my
Two prose pieces which appeared there under the titles "My Book and I" and "How I made a Book" are now
He said once to my father, 'They talk of the devil—I tell thee, Walter, there is no worse devil than
Now I suppose that you would like to know how I enjoy my self: Well I go out most every day but I do
Hospital at Georgetown, so we aint got so many shoulder strapes hear, but we have got enough yet for my
My leg is rather worse this morning & the Doctor sayes that I must stay in bed to day, so I suppose that
Well I think my letter is getting full long as I must begin to think about closing.
scaffold all up—I have not bin up to the Capitol for some time, but probily I will go up on Monday if my
My Dear Freind Walter.
It is with mutch pleasure that I take my pen in hand to inform you that I am well and that my leg is
I have had a good many of my young friends to see me.
My Father and Mother are well and send their respects to you for Mother says whoeve[r] did me a faivor
I expect that you still visit the Hospital if so give my respects to the boys I have nothing more to
I again take my pen in hand to write a few lines to you to let you know how I am a getting This makes
that Gettysburg Battle. he sais that it was awful, and that he never wants to see the like of it again My
health is verry good, and my leg dos still continue's to mend slowly—but verry slow, the Doctor has
I am enjoying my self as well as I can with my four legs but I cannot go about much yet I am a going
No more at present but good by and write soon with my love to you and all enquiring friends, I remain
Dear Walter As I am not a going out to day I thought that my time could not be better imployed than by
Sawyer to day he is well. he sayes that they have bin on the move so that he could not answer my letter
thing about your letter—he is a going to try to get a pass to come up hear this winter— Conserning my
self I am about old fassion. my leg mends slowly (about as it was when you wer hear) I have bin out
Your memory burns as bright as ever in my heart & allways will, thear is now doubt but some of my corrospondants
I will be thear on the last day of August, if I do not get my furlow extended, whitch I have the hopes
of, for I would most as leave come back to see my old friends as stay at home.
The Doctor that tens me hear wants me for to try and get my furlow extended, for he thinks that my leg
Dear Walter I am enjoying my self fine as well, I think, as any cripple can.
I received a answer to my first letter stating that you wer at home sick.
I have got my discharge from the Hospitals about 3 weeks ago & am now employed in the Provost Marshall
I had a very pleasant time only I broke my leg just as I got ready to come home & had some little difficulty
in getting home without my cruches I got so I could walk quite well on my leg only last week my stump
there has bin two small pieces of bone come out but I think in a little while I will be ready to wear my
My dear Friend Your kind letter came to hand yesterday.
I never think of you but it makes my heart glad to think that I have bin permited to know one so good
I have got my leg but I think that I will never be able to walk much on it as my stump is so short but
if I cant I can go on my crutches for they appear to be a part of myself for I have bin on them so long
I have not succeeded in getting a position in any of the Depts yet thoug my M.C. tried quite hard Gov
Dear Walter, I take my pen in hand as a final resort to find out where you are. as it appears to me it
will stay untill August I get out now most every day untill six oclock but I never see you I have got my
evening as you usd to do at the old Armory but alas I never see your [old] familliar in the threshold of my
My Dear Friend Walter, Your very kind and long looked for letter of Aug 1st came to hand on the 6th &
Now I will put in a word for myself my leg still continues to mend verry slow but I hope sure, and I
have ben enjoying my self as well as I could with my sore leg I have bin a way on a visit for a week
& I have enjoyed my sel[f] verry much (for a wounded soldier is something hear I tell you) for the people
a copperhead & a Reblle I would shoot the copperhead first, and to tell you the truth I am proud of my
I have lived as yet but eighteen years: yet in all the constant thoughts and acts of my last few years
, your words have been my guides and true oracles.
spirit of self-assertion: but that I should feel shame for myself, were I not to show the reality of my
gratitude to you, even through the weakness of words—you, whom I thankfully acknowledge for my veritable
dont know as she remember me but I do her how could I forget her if you see her pleas tell her I send my
last night we got payed off and to day it is rainey and wet so it quite uncomfortable you must excuse my
have been moving about so I aint had time well no more this time pleas answer this soon as you can my
Watersboro Sept 17th Mr Whitman I take the liberty of addressing you at the request of my cousin Milton
among our sick & wounded soldiers, who indeed must feel very grateful to meet with such a friend as my
My cousin seems to be gaining slowly, & his friends does not think him strong enough to return for two
I think never since that hour can I read my well-worn "Leaves of Grass," without that vague imagined
request, I shall have the name of the man whose writings I most admire, in his own hand, and it will be my
Our delightful Summer is over, my people are in London, and I am back here in Oxford again.
My family live happily in London, though it is always fog there when there is frost—I should think they
But I don't, so I packed up my books and came here.
Alys is going to stay on a month & learn Italian & then in February she is going to Sicily with my mother
All my American friends—young men who have gone in for politics—are working with the Democratic party
I wish I had got this letter off in time to wish you a happy Christmas—but you must accept my somewhat
Crisis" refers to the public scandal that occurred when the Irish soldier and Member of Parliament Captain
It was very amusing—my part was to dance a ballet, which I did, in full ballet costume.
In a week now I go back to Oxford—to Balliol College, for my last year. It is a dear place.
This is my last term at Oxford—that dear place—after that I shall be free, and may turn up in America
I am anxious to try my hand in a modest way at it.
I am taking this summer as a rest, I have finished my work at Oxford, and in the autumn I shall begin
They are all well in England I think—my mother is paying a short Temperance visit to N.Y.
I am paying a visit—it is a vacation—to Benjamin Jowett, the Head of my college, a venerable and dreadful
It makes one realize how much your generation—my father's generation—has done for progress, I only hope
My father is extremely well, and enjoying life. Mrs.
You must pardon my type writer & my gossiping letter, but I wanted you to know tha that I & all of us
Walt Whitman Esteemed Sir, Will you permit me to offer you, as emphasizing my appreciation of the melodies
its every drop distills something of the warm appreciation your exceptional creations have kindled in my
two or three days—so on: we were quite thick then: thick: when I had money it was as freely Bill's as my
two or three days—so on: we were quite thick then: thick: when I had money it was as freely Bill's as my
Room 56 Borden Block, Chicago, Feby 3d 188 7 My dear and honoured Walt Whitman:— It is less than a year
I was attracted by the curious title "Leaves of Grass", opened the book at random, and my eyes met the
In the "Spring Song" and the "Song of the Depths" my orbit responded to the new attracting sun.
Imagine that I have expressed to you my sincere conviction of what I owe.
The essay is my "first effort," at the age of 30.
Dear Sir:— I would be highly pleased to receive your autograph to place in my collection, and hope you
was sick, and when I was taken sick, she very kindly stayed with us, and has taken all the care off my
I found your letter and Mrs Gilchrists and Mr Carpenters on my return, and we were much alarmed at first
I can hardly tell about my trip, but when you return, it will be as well, and you have passed over so
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
not, but if not, it is to be hoped you will now seek that Saviour who stands waiting to receive you— "My
Feb 1868 wensday Wednesday 19 My dear Walter i thought i would just write a few lines and send you marys
wait till next week i dident didn't hardly know how to spare the envelope i have been looking over my
stock and i find i have got three more i suppose you have got my letter to day in answer to yours of
Brooklyn–25 Feb 1868 to attorney general's office wash. my dear Walter i got your letter all safe to
next week) George had to make a paym ent the other day and had to take all he had to make it out) give my
3 March tuesday Tuesday noon My dear walt i have just got your letter with 5 dollars and i got the one
impeachment of Johnson '68 april April 7 My dear walt Walt we are having an awful rain storm and george
i feel better to day than i have for some time i have been troubled with the dissiness dizziness in my
14 May '68 thursday Thursday My dear Walt i write to tell you that janey maquire that is nanc Nancy brothers
1868 tuesday Tuesday 24 march March My dear walter Walter its it's quite a spell since i have written
about the peice piece till i see it and then i had to think where i had heard of it and then it came to my
Brooklyn May th 5 1868 My dear Walt it seemed quite a treat to get your letter you are the only correspondente
to look at any more houses but was going to wait for something to turn up i am quite lame in one of my