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Search : William White

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Personal Memories of Walt Whitman

  • Date: November 1891
  • Creator(s): Alma Calder Johnston
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sunshine, the trees of Central park, opposite our door, for a background, a baby boy in his arms, his white

Rushing through intervening doors and passages, I found Walt Whitman standing ashy white, and the huge

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

Whitman: A Study

  • Date: 1902
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
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The grown impression he early made upon such men as Emerson, Thoreau, William O Connor, Mr.

"Fihim better than last With pretty well, looking year. 54 WHITMAN his light-gray suit, and white

W. drives briskly, and salutes every person we meet, little and black and male and female. big, white

The upper over The eyelids droop considerably the eyeballs. which are hidden by the thick, white lips

XXVII William Rossetti his has a certain says language ultimate quality.

Wednesday, May 22, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Frank Williams said to me yesterday that he supposed Stedman was still "disgruntled."

Saturday, November 16, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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O'Connor had not said anything today about William's stories, but he was "in favor of having them put

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.

Saturday, June 23, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I quoted Kennedy's letter to me, received today, in which he accused Frank Williams of "plagiarizing"

Wednesday, October 14, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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But of William Rossetti I feel certain: he is as warm today as in the long ago—shows no diminution of

Wednesday, November 18, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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[William Sloane Kennedy] But W. in nowise cooled, "The fires still burn for him."

Saturday, December 5, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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And William, too, with his lips of fire! Many's the hot word of all that, back in Washington!"

Tuesday, November 4, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Williams today; they had asked after W. and now he asked after them.

Thursday, February 26, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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laughed and "didn't wonder" he would add no outright criticism, and I was glad he did not.Frank Williams

About "Lingave's Temptation"

  • Date: 2015
  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock
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Williams (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2010), 1862.

About "The Angel of Tears"

  • Date: 2015
  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock
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The editors published works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Cullen Bryant, and Henry

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 3]

  • Date: 28 March 1840
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Levine, "William Shakespeare and the American People: A Study in Cultural Transformation," The American

Some Thoughts about This Matter of the Washington Monument

  • Date: 18 October 1847
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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commemorate such a character as WASHINGTON On Whitman's connections to and fondness for Washington, see William

Literary Notices

  • Date: 19 May 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Magazine, edited by Lawrence Labree, included engravings after paintings by such American artists as William

Walt Whitman to Martha Whitman, 2–4 January 1863

  • Date: January 2–4, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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A friend of mine, William D.

Joseph W. Thompson to Walt Whitman, 20 January 1880

  • Date: January 20, 1880
  • Creator(s): James W. Thompson | Joseph W. Thompson
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I want you, if you will, to write in the book "Ethel Thompson from Joseph William Thompson, December

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 12 September [1873]

  • Date: September 12, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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William A. Boyden, of that city.

William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 8 December 1867

  • Date: December 8, 1867
  • Creator(s): William Michael Rossetti
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William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 8 December 1867

A Visit to Walt Whitman

  • Date: November 1909
  • Creator(s): William Hawley Smith
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William Hawley Smith Our transcription is based on a photocopy of an original issue.

Stoicism

  • Creator(s): Hutchinson, George
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It was to become particularly important to Marcus Aurelius in the period of Rome's decline, to William

Humor

  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
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William Makepeace Thackeray even defined eighteenth-century humor as "wit and love" (270).

Italy, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): Sanfilip, Thomas
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Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1955. 189–198.Raffaniello, William.

Health

  • Creator(s): Sanfilip, Thomas
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Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler: A Poet and His Physician. Toronto: ECW, 1995.Traubel, Horace.

Walt Whitman & the World

  • Date: 1995
  • Creator(s): Allen, Gay Wilson | Folsom, Ed
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This is what William Carlos Williams learned from Whitman, the natural cadence, the flow ofbreath as

Roger Asselineau and William White, eds.Walt Whitman in Europe Today (Detroit: Wayne State University

See Roger Asselineau and William White, eds., Walt Whitman in Europe Today (De troit: Wayne State University

See Asselineau and White, Walt Whitman, 1B-19. 1B.William White, ed., The Bicentennial Walt Whitman (

Mariolina Meliado-Freeth, "Walt Whitman in Italy," in Roger Asselineau and William White, eds., Walt

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 8 June 1867
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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During this period he was on familiar terms of acquaintance with William Cullen Bryant, and the two were

William Hepworth Dixon (1821–1879) was a British journalist and editor of the Athenæum from 1853–1869

Tuesday, July 31, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William might now go to his journey's end uninterrupted."

I believe William knows a good lot more than Donnelly about the subject—draws deeper water."

Monday, September 10th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Bartol, William P. Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Ole Bull, L. N. Fairchild, Albert B. Otis, A friend, W. D.

G. van Renssalaer (New York), Charles Eliot Norton, George Fred Williams, J. R. Chadwick, (Mr.)

Thursday, January 10, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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He said: "It did not come through the mail: William must have handed it to me or sent it by a messenger

draw lines: I don't: only, some of the fellows do these things in totals and some do them in halves: William

Saturday, February 9, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William can sit up: he can read: but it seems he cannot write: some forms of paralysis affect the nerves

He acknowledged it: "I am brooding over William: I can't shake the cloud off: I want to go to him: yet

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

Wicked Architecture

  • Date: 19 July 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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being, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, to command," Whitman quotes, albeit with some alteration, William

See George Searle Phillips, Memoirs of William Wordsworth (London: Partridge and Oakey, 1852), 197–8.

City Photographs—No. III

  • Date: 29 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Colden, the Hones, Whitehead and Valentine Hicks, William and James Jauncey, the Kortwrights, Livingstons

Dunlap, William Dunlap (1766–1839) was a painter who was also famous for writing History of the Rise

German-speaking Countries, Whitman in the

  • Creator(s): Grünzweig, Walter
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He read William M.

German-American researcher and educator Karl Knortz and the Irish-nationalist philologist Thomas William

Report of the Special Committee

  • Date: After March 26, 1849; 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Thomas P. Teale
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opportunity to get a foothold in Brooklyn, and in this year they entered into negotiations with one William

The deed of conveyance is dated the 12th day of October, 1694, and is from William Morris to the Corporation

This patent was to Sarah Rapelje, daughter of George Jansen De Rapelje, the first white settler on Long

Sarah twenty morgen (forty acres) of land at the Waale-Boght, in consideration of her being the first white

William Smith appear for them.

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 26 March 1892

  • Date: March 26, 1892
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Annotations Text:

John White Alexander (1856–1915) was an American painter and illustrator, well known for his portraits

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [20 June 1867]

  • Date: June 20, 1867
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Annotations Text:

Beecher is Eunice White Beecher, the wife of Henry Ward Beecher, a Congregational clergyman who accepted

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 18 April 1891

  • Date: April 18, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

John White Alexander (1856–1915) was an American painter and illustrator, well known for his portraits

Notes on Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
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The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

I step softly over to him, and find by his card that he is named William Cone, of the 1st Maine cavalry

Crossing the fields in summer he would gather a great bunch of dandelion blossoms, and red and white

For my enemy is dead—a man divine as myself is dead; I look where he lies, white-faced and still, in

the coffin—I draw near; I bend down, and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin."

Leaves Of Grass

  • Date: 14 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

red shirt—the pervading hush is for my sake, Painless after all I lie, exhausted but not so unhappy, White

Sunday, May 26, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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—and then on the plate where there was the monotony of white flowers, he carelessly placed a soft red

Friday, June 8, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"The white ones have no flavor.

An Old Brooklyn Landmark Going

  • Date: 10 October 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Then among the crowd you would see the tall stout shoulders of Joseph Sprague, with his white head; Before

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 8]

  • Date: 20 October 1840
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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delightfully variegated with rolls and slight elevations of land: on the highest of these I beheld a white

Health Hints

  • Date: 11 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We allude to weizen or wheat beer, now generally known as Berlin white beer, from its pale color."

Style and Technique(s)

  • Creator(s): Warren, James Perrin
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hieroglyphic,And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,Growing among black folks as among white

Imagination and Fact

  • Date: 1852 or later; January 1852; Unknown
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | ["W.D."] | Anonymous
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from the empty bosom of the grove I hear a sob, as one forlorn might pine— The white-limbed beauty of

Where round their fingers winding the white slips That crown his forehead, on the grandsire's knees,

Swimming Against the Current

  • Date: 10 June 1860
  • Creator(s): Heenan, Adah Isaacs Menken
Text:

William Seward, Charles Sumner, and Elijah Parish Lovejoy, were all famous anti-slavery advocates.

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