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Search : William White

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Beloved Walt Whitman: An Ambrosial Night with his Devoted Friends and Admirers

  • Date: 26 October 1890
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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He realized one's ideal of the Old Man of the Seat—long, white beard, "breaking in venerable flood upon

his breast," unkempt locks as white as snow tumbling over ear and temple, and half-dimmed, mild eyes

The writers in their white aprons flitted about on the edge of the listening group like semi-ghosts.

It's so sort of cold, so white. I don't like it." Walt nodded his head slowly.

[party, a night of]

  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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looked a moment at the blaze of the great wood fire, ran his forefinger and left through the heavy white

Walt Whitman: Visit to the Good Gray Poet at His Place of Abode

  • Date: 23 April 1887
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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A face somewhat lightened by a mild gray eye, but made forbidding, with a suit of pure white hair which

wanders as a familiar figure through the streets of Camden, where he is respected, wearing a gray or white

The Poet's Livery

  • Date: 15 September 1885
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Clemens (Mark Twain), Charles Dudley Warner, John Boyle O'Reilly, William J.

Elkins, Charles Emory Smith, Talcott Williams, of Philadelphia; William D.

Stuart, William W. Justice, John Harker, of Exina, Canada, and R. M. Buck, M. D., and Dr.

Personal: Whitman

  • Date: 16 August 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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We are glad to find the old poet in good health, and although his hair is white his heart seems to be

Arnold and Walt Whitman

  • Date: 26 September 1889
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Shipley, William M. Singerly and L. Clark Davis.

The half light from the window fell upon his brown face and long white beard, and flowing white hair,

Whitman's November

  • Date: 27 August 1888
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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empty, and the frame of which has lacked the picturesque, kindly face, with its background of flowing white

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

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

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

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

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?

A Defence of the Christian Doctrines of the Society of Friends

  • Date: After 1838; 1825
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
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William Penn, in his "Testimony to the truth as held by the people called Quakers,"written in 1698, says

"— Elias Hicks' letter to William B.

The next quotation, on page 72 of the pamphlet, is taken from William Penn's "Guide Mistaken, and Temporizing

To which distinction of persons William Penn replies– "As for his strange distinction of the Deity, which

[Here William Penn introduces M 298 inference, I say, is as irrational, as it would be for any to conclude

Robert Southey

  • Date: After 1847; February 1851; September 25, 1847
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
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Robert Southey, working out his own original nature honestly, is entitled to as much respect as William

The Slavonians and Eastern Europe

  • Date: August 1849 or later; August 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
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That kingdom, the creation of the successive Fredericks and Frederick-Williams of the House of Hohen-Zollern

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,

Ascent of Mount Popocatapetl

  • Date: After March 23, 1854; 23 March 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Gerard Noel | Anonymous
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Mexico, and looking down on the twin volcano (I forget the Mexican name, but in English it means the White

Longfellow's Poets and Poetry of Europe

  • Date: After December 1, 1846; December 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
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high: Gently she clasped it to her snowy breast, While I, in rapture lost, stood musing by: Then her white

He is a precursor

  • Date: 1847 or later; May 1847; date unknown
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | George Hogarth | Anonymous
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speak of them than if we had read more, as hands that are but a little soiled are fitter to lay on white

"Once," says Swedenborg, "Mary, the mother of God, passed by, and appeared clothed in white raiment."

The Indians in American Art

  • Date: After January 1, 1856; January 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
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else in the other extreme, hung about with skulls, scalps, and the half-devoured fragments of the white

the costumed European less; for it cannot be hidden that it is the seductive blandishments of the white

West knew the Indians when comparatively untainted by the white man's vices.

seated on one side of the house, and the English on the other, who, after lecturing them upon the white

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
Text:

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)

'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
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

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. ____.

Whitman in France and Belgium

  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
Text:

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).

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

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

Humor

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

Africa, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
Text:

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.

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.

Heroes and Heroines

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

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

"Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling" (1881)

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980._____.

"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.

"Old Age's Lambent Peaks" (1888)

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
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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, 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]

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.

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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