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Search : William White

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"The Good Gray Poet"

  • Date: 24 August 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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His ruddy features were almost concealed by his white hair and beard.

Every Day Talk: Walt Whitman's Story of the Purpose of His Writings—Odds and Ends

  • Date: 7 September 1888
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Long white hair, long white beard and mustache, a florid face, with blue eyes alive with fire, a gigantic

His old white hat lies on a chair.

Whitman's Natal Day

  • Date: 1 June 1889
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Francis Howard Williams, of this city, in words of eloquence, treated "The Past and Present."

Throughout the speech-making Poet Whitman reclined in his easy chair sniffing at a big white rose, and

Reminiscences of Whitman

  • Date: 11 April 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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He had on a short black tailor jacket—no vest, wide turn-over collar, white shirt, broad sailor black

Two Visitors

  • Date: 13 September 1879
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Walt Whitman is a man well advanced in years and his snow-white hair and the long white beard which grows

Men and Things

  • Date: 21 October 1885
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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The famous white hat sat on the top of his thick snowy hair, and the flickering gaslights played in unromantic

Untitled

  • Date: 19 June 1885
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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It illuminated a large and well rounded head sprinkled with snow white hair; eyebrows high and arching

mustache that conceals the upper lip is silvery and the beard that falls to his broad breast has the white

Walt Whitman: His Ideas About the Future of American Literature

  • Date: 17 October 1879
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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His long, snow-white hair flows down and mingles with his fleecy beard, giving him a venerable expression

Wilde and Whitman

  • Date: 19 January 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Orwitz, of Baltimore, Professor Gross's daughter, William Henry Rawle, F.

Walt Whitman: A Glimpse at a Poet in His Lair

  • Date: 24 February 1876
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Brooklyn there must be a Plymouth Church, and a distinguished though somewhat doubtful clergyman, and a white-souled

As he passed the window a white-haired, pleasant-faced old gentleman looked out of it; and the face looked

It was as white as snow, and gave the poet the appearance of one of the old patriarchs in the Bible.

Walt Whitman's Needs

  • Date: 16 December 1886
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Tipping back in his chair in an easy manner, while he pushed his white locks back from his brow, the

Walt Whitman on Himself

  • Date: 8 June 1890
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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spot near the Market Street Ferry, where he can see the boats coming in and enjoy the sight of the white

Francis Howard Williams of Germantown wrote me the other day something that pleased me very much.

Walt Whitman in Huntington

  • Date: 5 August 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Spring; Benjamin Doty, of same place; in West Hills, Lemuel Carll, John Chichester, Miss Jane Rome, William

Walt Whitman's Dying Hours

  • Date: 13 February 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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transparent haze of the warm after- afternoon noon sun; The aspiring lilac bushes with profuse purple or white

Indeed, his face seems almost ruddy in contrast with the snowy whiteness of his hair and beard.

Williams— It has become almost fashion to say that Walt Whitman lacks form, and that his method of expressing

Whitman on Grant

  • Date: 26 July 1885
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Reclining in his easy chair, arrayed in loose-fitting trousers of some plain gray goods and a spotless white

The poet's sleeves were rolled above the elbows, exposing a pair of arms white as a woman's, but symmetrical

Walt Whitman's Work

  • Date: 6 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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He wears a great cape overcoat of soft gray cloth, which falls below the knees, and a broad-brimmed white

felt hat almost as wide as the strong shoulders, over w hich a wild growth of white hair and beard blown

An Old Poet's Reception

  • Date: 15 April 1887
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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His long white hair and full white beard and mustache, which entirely shaded his lips, and his heavy

white eyebrows, characteristic of a man of magnetism, set off his massive face and gave him a look of

He is William Duckett. In an hour Mr.

White. He is an architect and the son of Richard Grant White. Then Mr.

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:417–421;.

Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:417–421;.

Day with Walt Whitman

  • Date: 8 November 1891
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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himself many details of the sick room—the ashen face against the pillow, the wasted hand, the long white

The cold, white mantel is massed with photographs. Faces of friends, evidently.

The woodwork is sombre white, and the paint is cracked badly in many places and is peeling off.

It was marked with a white tidy. Then more heaps of papers.

White curtains were drawn part way down.

An Impression of Walt Whitman

  • Date: June 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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vis-à-vis the ample figure of the poet clad in light gray linen, his wide rolling shirt collar and long white

Our Boston Literary Letter

  • Date: 10 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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most novel and interesting long article in the number is Mrs Talbot's felicitous translation of Dr William

Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly, human, With your woolly-white and turbaned head, and bare

Walt Whitman Cheerful

  • Date: 26 January 1890
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Whitman sadly, that William D. O'Connor of the Treasury Department is dead?

Asa K. Butts to Walt Whitman, 29 September 1876

  • Date: September 29, 1876
  • Creator(s): Asa K. Butts
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Pultry, 67 Williams st street However select any fair man & I'll pay the gelt to test the thing whether

Death

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980. Death

"Faces" (1855)

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
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sometimes enigmatic, lyric is a testimonial to Whitman's faith in mankind and his belief that "red, white

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1980. "Faces" (1855)

Leaves of Grass, 1856 edition

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1980. ____.

'There Was a Child Went Forth' [1855]

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
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observes a colorful array of plant and animal life, including the grass, "early lilacs," the ovoid "white

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Vol. 6. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982. 

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1980.

"Song of the Open Road" (1856)

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

"This Compost" (1856)

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

"Wound-Dresser, The" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

Whitman in France and Belgium

  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
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See Roger Asselineau and William White, eds., Walt Whitman in Europe Today (Detroit: Wayne State University

William White, ed., The Bicentennial Walt Whitman (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1976), 14.

Asselineau and White, , 19.

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and

Roger Asselineau and William White, eds., (Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1972).

Humor

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

Foreign Language Borrowings

  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
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whose coauthorship he never recognized: Rambles Among Words, published under the name of his friend William

Africa, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
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Asselineau, Roger, and William White, eds. Walt Whitman in Europe Today.

William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1976. 27. Senhor, Léopold Sédar.

Roger Asselineau and William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1972. 33. Smuts, Jan Christian.

The Evolution of Walt Whitman: An Expanded Edition

  • Date: 1999
  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
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Eldridge also introduced him to William D.

William Robinson, Brooklyn lad (Socratic nose) Aug.

Zunder, "William B.

White, "Thoreau's Opinion of Whitman," NEQ, VIII (June I935) 262-264.

Butler, I 5 Winter, William, Io5, 308 Williams, Francis Heward, 269 Zola, Emile, 248 Williams, Talcott

Whitman & Dickinson: A Colloquy

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Athenot, Éric | Miller, Cristanne
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William Douglas O’Connor, Three Tales (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892).

William James famously analyzes the corporeality of feeling in his 1884 “What Is an Emotion?”

William James, “What Is an Emotion?” Mind 9, no. 34 (April 1884): 188–205.

William White, vol. 3 (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 816.

White, “Emily Dickinson’sExistentialDramas,” in The CambridgeCompanionto Emily Dickinson, ed.

The Poetry of the Period

  • Date: October 1869
  • Creator(s): Austin, Alfred
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William Bell Scott , a name perhaps not very familiar to most of our readers, but which Mr.

William Bell Scott, British poet and artist, introduced Rossetti to the 1855 Leaves of Grass.

Roughs

  • Creator(s): Baker, Danielle L. and Donald C. Irving
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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.

Epic Structure

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
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Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982.Walker, Jeffrey.

"L. of G.'s Purport" (1891)

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
Text:

New York: New York UP, 1986.Moore, William L. "L. of G.'

William White. Supplement to the Walt Whitman Review.

Heroes and Heroines

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
Text:

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982.Whitman, Walt.

"Old Age's Lambent Peaks" (1888)

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980.

"Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling" (1881)

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980._____.

"To the Sun-Set Breeze" (1890)

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
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Correspondent Breeze," by Dwight Kalita, who connects it to the poems of other romantic poets, notably William

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980.

Van Velsor, Cornelius (1768–1837)

  • Creator(s): Bawcom, Amy M.
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The Major married Naomi (Amy) Williams and, after her death, remarried.

Van Velsor, Naomi [Amy] Williams [d. 1826]

  • Creator(s): Bawcom, Amy M.
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Amy M.BawcomVan Velsor, Naomi [Amy] Williams [d. 1826]Van Velsor, Naomi [Amy] Williams [d. 1826]Affectionately

known as "Amy," Naomi Williams was Whitman's maternal grandmother.

in section 35 of "Song of Myself," Whitman recounts a tale involving Amy's father, Captain John Williams

Van Velsor, Naomi [Amy] Williams [d. 1826]

Ashton, J. Hubley (1836–1907)

  • Creator(s): Bawcom, Amy M.
Text:

] Hubley Ashton was one of the founders of the American Bar Association and a long-time friend of William

his interventions on Whitman's behalf were all due to the promptings of the poet's devoted friend William

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor. College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1978.

Whitman's Complete Works

  • Date: 3 January 1889
  • Creator(s): Baxter, Sylvester
Text:

cover is a plain one, with marbled sides and back of dark olive, with the title pasted on in plain white

says one white-haired old fellow remonstratingly to another in a budget of letters I read last night.

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: December 1875
  • Creator(s): Bayne, Peter
Text:

exceptions whose appreciation distinguishes the thinker from the dogmatist: intense black and glaring white

and all hearts thrill at the thought of murdered Naboth and his sons, and of Lear hanging over the white

women, or from offspring taken out of their mother's laps, This grass is very dark to be from the white

Here goes:— "Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead works, the sugar-house, steam-saws, the grist-mills, and

Scottish poet (1777–1844), writer of the long narrative poem Gertrude of Wyoming William Morris, "The

Beatrice Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 16 February 1879

  • Date: February 16, 1879
  • Creator(s): Beatrice Gilchrist
Annotations Text:

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

Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays

  • Date: 2007
  • Creator(s): Belasco, Susan | Folsom, Ed | Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

William White, 3 vols. [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:263). 28.

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 3:676. 15.

White, William. “More about the ‘Publication’ of the First Leaves of Grass.”

White, William. “The First (1855) Leaves of Grass: How Many Cop- ies?”

White, William. “An Unknown Whitman ms on the 1855 Leaves.”

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