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Jane Tunis Poultney Bigelow (1829–1889) was the wife of John Bigelow, former American minister to France

of poet and editor Richard Watson Gilder, was a painter as well as the founder of the Society of American

Joaquin Miller was the pen name of Cincinnatus Heine Miller (1837–1913), an American poet nicknamed "

An aspiring physician, Beatrice took the needed preparatory classes but was barred (as were all women

seldom now, for indeed to be near you, even in that way would do me good—often & often do I wish we were

from Edward Carpenter the other day brought by a lady who had been living near him at Sheffield—an American

She told me her little girls were so fond of Carpenter he of them—he is first rate with children.

On July 12, 1874, he wrote for the first time to Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground

An aspiring physician, Beatrice took the needed preparatory classes but was barred (as were all women

Wyatt Eaton (1849–1896), an American portrait and figure painter, organized the Society of American Artists

If only we were at 22nd St. to welcome you back & talk it all over at tea! Ah, those evenings!

An aspiring physician, Beatrice took the needed preparatory classes but was barred (as were all women

On July 12, 1874, he wrote for the first time to Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground

Harry's parents, George (1827–1892) and Susan Stafford (1833–1910), were tenant farmers at White Horse

Mannahatta Whitman (1860–1886) was Walt Whitman's niece.

hope —till Herby went south again—that I should have a letter from you, in answer to mine, saying you were

An aspiring physician, Beatrice took the needed preparatory classes but was barred (as were all women

Mannahatta Whitman (1860–1886) was Walt Whitman's niece.

—but Giddy begins to long for city life again. And then to New York about the 5th Nov November .

Welcome are American friends!

A carpenter near us has a sky-lark in a cage which sings as jubilantly as if it were mounting into the

She, like my mother's sister, are to me fine, lovable samples of American women—in whom, I mean, I detect

, like the distinctive aroma of a flower, something special—that is American—a decisive new quality to

I also saw this summer two women doctors who were very kind & good friends to my darling Bee— Drs.

We have had pleasant glimpses of several American friends this summer—of Kate Hillard for instance, who

But I turn many wistful thoughts toward America, and were not I & mine bound here by unseverable ties

Quite a sprinkling of American friends—some new ones this spring—among them Mr. & Mrs.

Joseph Pennell (1857–1926) was an American etcher and lithographer, who produced a number of books in

collaboration with his wife, Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1855–1936), an American writer; the Pennells

lived mostly in London, where they were friends of James McNeill Whistler, whose biography they wrote

Peter Lesley (1819–1903), a state geologist at the University of Pennsylvania and secretary of the American

should have been so cruelly unjust to himself as a husband—that remorse, those bitter self-reproaches, were

undeserved, were altogether morbid: he was not only an infinitely better husband than she was wife:

On July 12, 1874, he wrote for the first time to Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground

His writings on Carlyle were quite controversial and heated debate arose over Froude's inclusion of personal

Mannahatta Whitman (1860–1886) was Walt Whitman's niece.

almost or quite strangers to us, asking questions on this subject; and we hoped & thought that if this were

Hence the paragraph was put into the Athenaeum which I send with this, and we were proceeding to organize

subscription list is being formed in England with a view to presenting a free-will offering to the American

Perhaps you will have seen in the American papers that Sidney Thomas, the cousin with whom Percy was

For Whitman's writings on Carlyle, see "Death of Thomas Carlyle" and "Carlyle from American Points of

His aims were noble, his heart a deep beautiful true Poet's heart, but he had not the Poet's great brain

And I knew this was true, felt as if my nature were poor & barren beside his.

If God were to say to me—see—"he that you love you shall not be given to in this life—he is going to

May & June I was longing so inexpressibly to write I resolutely restrained myself, believing if I were

But it has been very bitter & hateful to me this not standing to what I have said as it were, with my

say to yourself "perhaps this is the voice of my mate" & would seek me a little to make sure if it were

in vain for a letter—O the anguish at times, the scalding tears, the feeling within as if my heart were

that I should set out with a cheerful heart on that errand if I knew the first breath I drew on American

About half of the poems from the 1867 American edition of Leaves of Grass were removed for the British

Walt Whitman had two nieces: Manahatta "Hattie" (1860–1886) and Jessie Louisa "Sis" Whitman (1863–1957

Hattie and Jessie were both favorites of their uncle Walt.

Pliny Earle (1809–1892) was an American physician and psychiatrist.

Earle was also a founding member of the American Medical Association, the New York Academy of Medicine

1884, when George and Louisa moved to a farm outside of Camden and Whitman decided to stay in the city

Mannahatta Whitman (1860–1886) was Walt Whitman's niece.

An aspiring physician, Beatrice took the needed preparatory classes but was barred (as were all women

If it were not for the "two little breaths of words" I should be content with a vague yet none the less

William Rossetti and I were talking of it.

An aspiring physician, Beatrice took the needed preparatory classes but was barred (as were all women

On July 12, 1874, he wrote for the first time to Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground

I am very glad you have written these clear strong words for the North American.

friend, "Bumble-bees & Bird Music" safe to hand this morning—does me good—makes me feel exactly as if I were

Sea rolling up on broad smooth sands there, but with treacherous reefs just beyond on which there were

And the castle on its wooded height in the very midst—& the great cavern below that runs through the city

Drink is the giant evil of the city as of the north generally—Such a sensible rugged healthy looking

If Per were here he would return your friendly message. Bees best love.

Even now do I go with and heartily believe in the North American Review article.

friends, one of them a native of Ceylon of the Tamil race, and all admirers and lovers of your Poems, were

it is that one resents that mere accident of slight bodily infirmity being thrust forward as if it were

Giddy sends her kindest remembrances and says she would not wonder if she were to drift back again to

what this lady had written should be published for the benefit of English, and more especially of American

course, that all the pieces are equal in power and beauty, but that all are vital; they grew—they were

to concentrate within himself her life, and, when she kindled with anger against her children who were

And, if he were not bold and true to the utmost, and did not own in himself the threads of darkness mixed

of all, he were not the one we have waited for so long.

approximately half the poems found in the 1867 Leaves of Grass (poems that might have offended English readers were

Valentine's Night," will be given in this city on February 14. 1891, for the benefit of the Aguilar Free

the hope that the Library's good work in disseminating the best literature among the poor of this city

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), better know by his pen name, Mark Twain, was an American humorist

Brander Matthews (1852–1929) was a prolific American writer and critic who wrote novels, plays, short

He published many volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were

(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885) and A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to

Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) was an American author, best known for his utopian science fiction novel,

surrounded by blatherers, and always impregnable—the perpetual coming of immigrants—the wharf-hemmed cities

all climates and the uttermost parts—the noble character of the young mechanics, and of all free American

enterprise—the perfect equality of the female with the male—the large amativeness—the fluid movement of the population

," &c.** "For such the expression of the American poet is to be transcendent and new."

Alexander Wilson (1766-1813) and John James Audobon (1785-1851) were both acclaimed ornithologists and

Alexander Wilson (1766-1813) and John James Audobon (1785-1851) were both acclaimed ornithologists and

Schiller, had fulfilled their tasks and gone to other spheres; and all that remained with few exceptions, were

They stand, as it were, on clear mountains of intellectual elevation, and with keenest perception discern

He wears strange garb, cut and made by himself, as gracefully as a South American cavalier his poncho

A portion of that thought which broods over the American nation, is here seized and bodied forth by a

bibliographical data is missing; reprinted in Whitman, Leaves of Grass Imprints(Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860

bibliographical data is missing; reprinted in Whitman, Leaves of Grass Imprints(Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860

If I were to suspect death, I should die now.

I knew a man…he was a common farmer… he was the father of five sons…and in them were the fathers of sons

…and in them were the fathers of sons.

and visit him to see…He was wise also, He was six feet tall…he was over eighty years old…his sons were

the body of the work, wholly ignorant of the writer's name, profession, or age— "Walt Whitman, an American

These anxious longings of the soul as for an unknown good were to his mind the indication of slumbering

doubt [sic] because, "unlike one of the roughs," he failed to remark how "placid and self-contained" were

When we read that eulogy we were satisfied that this volume would prove to us a sealed book, and that

George Robins Gliddon (1809-1857) was an American Egyptologist who published several works on Egyptian

The Bowery Boys was a nativist, anti-Catholic, and anti-Irish gang based in New York City; they participated

of departed spirits, he weighs the hearts of the dead.; George Robins Gliddon (1809-1857) was an American

believe, of the famous Whitman's poems, which made such a flutter among the "gray goose quills" of this city

But the author reasoning that the spirit of the American people, nay, of any people is chiefly represented

His own picture: "Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a Kosmos, Disorderly, fleshy, sensual

They live in other young men, O kings, They live in brothers, again ready to defy you: They were purified

by death…They were taught and exalted.

He has pasted in the first page a number of notices extracted with the scissors from American newspapers

and therefore we shall confine ourselves to laying before our readers, first, the opinions of the American

The relation of the two classes of extracts is curiously illustrative of contemporary American criticism

I rubbed my eyes a little, to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is

All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own, Else it were time lost listening to me.

says Mr Emerson in the printed letter sent to us,—"I rubbed my eyes a little, to see if this sunbeam were

On the other hand, according to an American review that flatters Mr Whitman, this kosmos is "a compound

All I mark as my own, you shall offset it with your own, Else it were time lost listening to me.

Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos, Disorderly fleshy and sensual . . . . eating

If nothing lay more developed the quahaug and its callous shell were enough.

the name of this erratic and newest wonder; but at page 29 we find that he is— Walt Whitman, an American

The words 'an American' are a surplusage, 'one of the roughs' too painfully apparent; but what is intended

The chance of this might be formidable were it not ridiculous.

The American critics are, in the main, pleased with this man because he is self-reliant, and because

All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own, Else it were time lost listening to me.

The showman and entertainer Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) emphasized in his American Museum (purchased

and indorsed by the said Emerson, who swallows down Whitman's vulgarity and beastliness as if they were

Almost at the first page we opened we lighted upon the confession that the author was "W , an American

These were accompanied by a printed copy of an extravagant letter of praise addressed by Mr.

This doctrine is exemplified in the book by a panorama as it were of pictures, each of which is shared

If I were to suspect death I should die now.

by death…They were taught and exalted.

Anacreon (582 BC-485 BC) was an ancient Green lyric poet whose most popular poems were celebrations of

Year 85 of the States—1860-61. 1 vol., pp. 456.

His writings were neither poetry nor prose, but a curious medley, a mixture of quaint utterances and

people were to be enlightened and civilized and cultivated up to the proper standard, by virtue of his

How the floridness of the materials of cities shriv- els shrivels before a man's or woman's look!

The comedic works of François Rabelais (c. 1490-1553) were known for their risqué quality.

The comedic works of François Rabelais (c. 1490-1553) were known for their risqué quality.

inflexible as it is—forms, after all, the truest illustration, if not representative, of the real American

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

Among American authors there is one named Walt Whitman, who, in 1855, first issued a small quarto volume

city, and brought up in Brooklyn and in New York.

They are certainly filled with an American spirit, breathe the American air, and assert the fullest American

Year 85 of the States (1860—61). London: Trübner & Co.

cantos were published in 1773.

The first three cantos of his epic poem, The Messiah (Der Messias), were published in 1749; the final

cantos were published in 1773.

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

Leaves of Grass (Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, year 85 of the States—1860–61. London: Trübner.)

On that occasion we were spared the trouble of setting forth the new poet's merits, as he or his publisher

was good enough to paste into his presentation-copy a number of criticisms from American periodicals

We are almost ashamed to ask the question—but do American ladies read Mr. Whitman?

A sort of catalogue of scenes of American life, which, according to Mr.

London: Trübner and Co. 1860.

Leaves of Grass Boston: Thayer and Eldridge. 1860–61. pp.456.

Walt Whitman is sane enough to do the poetry for an American newspaper or two: from whose columns these

supposed to answer this question: All I mark as my own, you shall offset it with your own, Else it were

Presently he dissects his own individuality a little more closely: Walt Whitman, an American, one of

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

Of the few poets born in America, not one is distinctively American in his poetry; all are exotics, and

or making love like Diogenes coram populo—with his own lines for inscription:— "Walt Whitman, an American

of the unquenchable creed, namely, egotism," will not find it a very hard task to teach the young American

than they were, And that today is what it should be— and that America is, And that today and America

fellow Dutchman, Jan Matthys, along with other Anabaptists, briefly established a theocracy in the city

fellow Dutchman, Jan Matthys, along with other Anabaptists, briefly established a theocracy in the city

The Münster Rebellion ended when Protestant and Catholic armies took over the city; van Leiden was executed

Emerson, and we looked over the volume of one who has been declared about 'to inaugurate a new era in American

those faultless monsters, whom the world ne'er saw, whose 'mission' it is to comfort the sable population

Sir Rohan's Ghost: A Romance (1860) was written by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford.

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

Sir Rohan's Ghost: A Romance (1860) was written by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford.

not grounded in our soil; even though American in their reference, they were foreign to our New World

were not the outgrowth of that new movement in civilization which America inaugurates.

Still the poet may be said to be more truly artistic than if he were more ostensibly so.

The Indian Hunter by John Quincy Adams Ward (1860) is a bronze sculpture of a young Native American hunter

and his dog noted for its naturalist style and its American theme.

The Indian Hunter by John Quincy Adams Ward (1860) is a bronze sculpture of a young Native American hunter

and his dog noted for its naturalist style and its American theme.

(vide Sunday Times , March 3rd, 1867) we called the attention of our readers to the works of an American

them, when the first feelings of dislike, which the violation of all received models had occasioned were

American life and institutions have impregnated Whitman's soul.

American air has saturated his lungs.

He is an American, Manhattanese, a democrat.

approximately half the poems found in the 1867 Leaves of Grass (poems that might have offended English readers were