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William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 15–16 August 1890
Yours, Very Respectfuly, WILLIAM L. DeLACEY, Poughkeepsie, New York. William L.
blue sky—a grand sight—& the beautiful yachts & pleasure boats, lots & lots of them, with immense white
Daily Morning Chronicle of August 7, 1870, noted an accident on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad at White
Sol has struggled to pierce—with a touch of frost at nights covering every thing with its beautiful white
a big old ship's cabin" with its literary chaos —really kosmos to you—its stove its "bed with snow white
Ingersoll, Sloane Kennedy, David McKay, Talcott Williams Bernard O'Dowd, Melbourne R Pearsall Smith London
Frost had ornamented our windows with his inimitably beautiful pr & hung our hedges & trees with his white
Morning magnificent—Easterly wind, bright sunshine, & blue sky with white clouds.
sea The corn now 3 feet high is in full ear the fields are all bordered with wildflowers—yellow & white
old mother endlessly crying for her castaways" ["]sways to & fro singing her husky song" the "milk white
Johnston quotes the phrase "milk-white combs careering" from Whitman's poem "Patroling Barnegat," which
well—glum weather, however—I am sitting here by the oak fire comfortable— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William
Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 20–21 January 1891
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, February 1891
Kennedy William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, After 28 May 1891
Kennedy William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [After 25 November 1890]
Thompson (an elderly, white bearded man, with healthy fresh complexion, clear honest grey eyes, & cordial
Rechel-White, "Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894)," (Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, eds. J.R.
Foote George William Foote to Walt Whitman, [February or March 1878]
sick so marthe had A doctor she was quite bad for two or three days she was as yellow as gold the white
a raise of some new summer clothes, real nice—thin black pants & vest, a blue flannel suit, & some white
He used various names to refer to the farm, including White Horse, Timber Creek, and Kirkwood.
.— Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, John Burroughs, William D.
all-color'd chrysanthemums this season hereabout—you must have a splendid show of them—the yellow (canary) & white
following grippe, over 50, has had a funeral ceremony & burial to-day—I sent a little ivy woven anchor & white
Whitman Whitman wrote this letter to Bucke on the back of a December 27, 1889, letter he received from William
I am sorry to tell you that after all my careful economy & saving, the various things into which William
I have had no manner of rest since William had the first attack a year ago last January, & I am really
You are mistaken, dear Walt, in saying that I have not written you since dear William's death.
A day or two before William passed away he awoke from a nap & asked me "if Walt had gone?"
If ever the people that owe money to William would pay me, I should not be so worried about my daily
Your hair cannot be much more white than it was in the long ago.
Rechel-White, "Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894)," (Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, eds. J.R.
Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 16–17 February [1889]
looked a moment at the blaze of the great wood fire, ran his forefinger and left through the heavy white
Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, [1867?]
Attorney General's Office Washington , 18 Dear William— Come down a moment & have lunch with me—a biscuit
Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, [1867?]
Attorney General's Office , Washington 186 William: The " Citizen " has the Carol complete, & exactly
Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, [1867?]
William—bring in, in your letter to Mr. Rossetti. I met Mr. Whitman a few evenings since.
Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, [January 1868]
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.
ultimate transformation of the Preface into poetry was not, however, Whitman's; it came in 1982 when William
this summary may suggest, Whitman's 1855 Preface deserves comparison with the works of Robert Burns, William
Blake, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and, of course, Emerson.In 1855, the Preface
Walt Whitman Review 10 (1964): 51–60.Everson, William. American Bard.
1842 issue of The New World.Whitman's earliest poetry was sentimental in nature and imitative of William
Walt Whitman was further influenced by the writing of William Leggett of the New York Evening Post, who
Grant, who would be Johnson's successor in the White House, and thought him "the noblest Roman of them
New York: Knopf, 1995.Thayer, William Roscoe. "Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman."
Founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, who wished to acknowledge divine assistance in his forced relocation
& smart, but too constrained & bookish for a free old hawk like me" (61).BibliographyMcLoughlin, William
New York: New York, 1961.Woodward, William, and Edward F. Sanderson.
New Haven: Yale UP, 1955.Finkel, William L.
William A.PannapackerPutnam's MonthlyPutnam's MonthlyFounded in New York by George Palmer Putnam and
In January 1868 Putnam's new series contained an effort by William D.
Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor.
enjoyed free-ranging conversations with local Quaker acquaintances.His maternal grandmother, Naomi Williams
(Van Velsor), brought Quaker culture from the Williams home when she married Cornelius Van Velsor.
culture whose chief contribution to democracy lay in the past.In 1889 one of Whitman's supporters, William
Unpublished manuscript, 1995.Kennedy, William Sloane. "Quaker Traits of Walt Whitman."
Grass reflects his humanitarian belief in the value of all human beings, his deepest sympathy was with white
important issue for Whitman because of its potentially devastating effect on the status and livelihood of white
Leaves of Grass is compared to the work of Whitman's poetic contemporaries—John Greenleaf Whittier, William
what he called his "daily food" (4:67).Of other British writers, three were particularly important: William
for whom Whitman had high regard, despite his differences from them in style and substance, were William
Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.
Paul Zweig notes, for both Whitman and later realists like Frank Norris and Theodore Dreiser (and William
Howells, William Dean. "First Impressions of Literary New York."
Martin, and William W. Reitzel, traveled to the Colorado Rockies in September of 1879.
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
persona would have posed a direct affront to the sensibilities of a contemporary reviewer such as William
Reynolds discusses Whitman's actions around the same time, when he sent a letter to William D.
the "Calamus" (1860) poems, and the narrator of "Song of Myself" (1855) empathizes with blacks and whites
In White Summer Lightnings (1908) Balmont sees the earth-titan Whitman as "building" utopian future cities
Swinburne's perspective (but that is a puzzle: in William Blake Swinburne praises Whitman highly).
Roger Asselineau and William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1972. 24–26.Bidney, Martin.
Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980.