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Search : William White

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Advice to Strangers

  • Date: 23 August 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

partitions allowed secreted criminals to rummage through the client's clothes while he slept" (Shane White

, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson, Graham White, Playing the Numbers [Harvard University Press, 2010

Annotations Text:

partitions allowed secreted criminals to rummage through the client's clothes while he slept" (Shane White

, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson, Graham White, Playing the Numbers [Harvard University Press, 2010

Paumanok

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

copy.loc.00259xxx.00312Paumanokabout 1888poetryhandwritten1 leaf12 x 21 cm; Written in ink on a sheet of white

Poem

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

titled "Song of Myself," first published as the first poem in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass: "The white-topped

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 8 February 1892

  • Date: February 8, 1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Walt Whitman to Katharine Hillard, 15 February 1876

  • Date: February 15, 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

His daughters were Margaret White Lesley Bush-Brown and Mary Lesley Ames (both mentioned in Whitman's

Susan Stafford to Walt Whitman, 4 April 1878

  • Date: April 4, 1878
  • Creator(s): Susan Stafford
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1:35.

Women as a Theme in Whitman's Writing

  • Creator(s): Ceniza, Sherry
Text:

accomplishing his aims, to portray "democratic" women, as well as men, black, brown, and red as well as white

create an expansive space for women, something very much against the grain of his times, at least for white

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

Debris 10

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Debris 10 ONE sweeps by, old, with black eyes, and profuse white hair, He has the simple magnificence

The Indians in American Art

  • Date: After January 1, 1856; January 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Thomas B. Harned, 10 May 1889

  • Date: May 10, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Tom: If you will, fill the brown bottle with sherry for me, and the small white bottle with Cognac.

Tuesday, August 25, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

That the horror of slavery was not in what it did for the nigger but in what it produced of the whites

For we quite clearly saw that the white South, if the thing continued, would go to the devil—could not

And, "We had stormy times then, but William and I always thought ours the most comprehensive—what would

Walt Whitman to Edward Carpenter, 28 May 1889

  • Date: May 28, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

for your love & remembrance & faith & liberality—And thanks with same to Bessie & Isabella Ford & William

Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 23 September [1870]

  • Date: September 23, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The river & bay get more & more beautiful, under these splendid September skies, the green waves & white

foam relieved by the white sails of the crowds of ships & sail craft—for the shipping interest is brisker

World, Take Good Notice.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

WORLD, take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-eight

World Take Good Notice.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

WORLD take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-eight

World Take Good Notice.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

WORLD take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-eight

World, Take Good Notice

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

WORLD, take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-six

Walt Whitman to Emily Ingram, 20 March 1890

  • Date: March 20, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Camden PM March 20 '90 Thanks for the beautiful Bermuda white lilies wh' arrived in perfect order & are

Heart Rending

  • Date: 5 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

opinion of the living and working conditions of England in the New York Aurora editorials "Black and White

In "Black and White Slaves" he writes, "In England, nine-tenths of the population do not enjoy the common

Annotations Text:

opinion of the living and working conditions of England in the New York Aurora editorials "Black and White

In "Black and White Slaves" he writes, "In England, nine-tenths of the population do not enjoy the common

IV.—Broadway

  • Date: 9 August 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Routledge, 1998], 104–105). uniformed in brick-dusty shirts and overalls, battered hats, and shoes white

Pickering, 1835), xxx. did before the Conquerer's Whitman refers to William the Conqueror (1028—1087

Harold II was killed in the quick Norman victory and William was subsequently crowned King of England

Rollo was not completely unconnected to these events, because William I was one of his direct descendants

for example, Wace, Master Wace, His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest from the Roman de Rou (London: William

Friday, February 1, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

["I wish it did, William," interrupted W., "but I'm afraid it does not."]

William will have to step down and out for good. ["Good-bye, William!"

["A very low hand, William, if we tell the truth: a damned low hand!"]

William handles that better than anyone else.

["I enjoy William's epithets without always agreeing with him.

"March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown, A" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Schwiebert, John E.
Text:

Whitman bases the poem on an account of the battle of White Oaks Church as related to him by a soldier

bloody forms of dead and wounded soldiers, among them a lad "shot in the abdomen" and with a face "white

distinctness every syllable the flounderer

  • Date: 1840s or early 1850s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

every syllable the flounderer spoke, up to his hips in the snow, and blinded by the cutting sharp white

crystals making that made the air densely one opaque white.

Hands Round

  • Date: Between 1865 and 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Onward, on, Circling, circling, moving roundward & onward As our hands we grasp for the Union all Red, white

, blue to eastward , western westward Red, white, blue, to the sou northern , southern with the breezes

Autobiographia: Starting Newspapers (Another Account)

  • Date: 1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

How it made my heart double-beat to see my piece on the pretty white paper, in nice type.

It was far more primitive and ancient then my Camden friend William Kurtz's place up on Federal street

About "The Fireman's Dream: With the Story of His Strange Companion. A Tale of Fantasie."

  • Date: 2015
  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock
Text:

An article in The Sunday Times printed on March 30, 1851, stated that Whitman and William J.

The man describes himself as "white by education and Indian by birth."

Splendid Churches

  • Date: 9 March 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

With its distinctive white marble exterior and Gothic Revival design, Grace Church occupied a dramatic

On the significance of Upjohn's architecture see especially William H.

Annotations Text:

With its distinctive white marble exterior and Gothic Revival design, Grace Church occupied a dramatic

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 30 December 1864

  • Date: December 30, 1864
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Text:

Reddest murder is white to an act like this and its folly is equal to its crime.

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 30 December 1864

Reading, Whitman's

  • Creator(s): French, R.W.
Text:

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.

Out of May's Shows Selected.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

golden, transparent haze of the warm afternoon sun; The aspiring lilac bushes with profuse purple or white

Walt Whitman to Stephen J. W. Tabor, 31 October 1871

  • Date: October 31, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:61).

Walt Whitman to Thayer & Eldridge, August 1860

  • Date: August 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

draft.This fragment is written on the verso of a poem manuscript, "The ball-room was swept and the floor white

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 19 January [1877]

  • Date: January 19, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White horse N J Jan 19 My dear friend I jaunted down here last evening, to spend a couple of days.

Friday, May 10, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

"William is dead," he remarked, "you saw?" And then: "It was in the papers.

off the edges as closely as they will admit—use your own taste and judg- ment—I like a little more white

Poor William! Poor me! And yet," W. said again, "yet I can understand him.

W. said: "I never look for anything but what a lot of white paper turns up." This paper was ruled.

Harned for his drink, had defined his desires on a little card, and closed with this: "My dear friend William

Come Up From the Fields Father

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Fast as she can she hurries—something ominous— her steps trembling; She does not tarry to smooth her white

the single figure to me, Amid all teeming and wealthy Ohio, with all its cities and farms, Sickly white

Walt Whitman to Henry Hurt, 2 October [1868]

  • Date: October 2, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

will amuse you—I was there two hours—it was instructive but disgusting—I saw one of the handsomest white

girls there I ever saw, only about 18—blacks & white are all intermingled— The following are responsible

Debris 14

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them, You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white

Walt Whitman to John White Alexander, 20 February 1886

  • Date: February 20, 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

file, as noted: Grace Thomas Nima Najafi Kianfar Elizabeth Lorang Kyle Barton Walt Whitman to John White

Walt Whitman to Dr. John Johnston, 26 February 1891

  • Date: February 26, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

tea—Suppose you have March Lippincott's —Best thanks to you & dear J W W[allace] for Review, Black & White

Autobiographical Data

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Winter of 1840, went to white stone, and was there till next spring.— Went to New York in May 1841, and

Edward the Confessor, a Saxon, king.— Harold, son of a nobleman.— His pretensions were opposed by William

, Duke of Normandy.— The crown had been left William by Edward the Confessor.— Pope in favor of William

William entered England, fought Harold, defeated him, and gained the crown.

William the Conqueror 1087 William Rufus, son " 1100 Henry I.

Labor and Laboring Classes

  • Creator(s): Thomas, M. Wynn
Text:

These included Tom Paine, Fanny Wright, Robert Dale Owen, and William Leggett, all of whom preached that

(in Franklin Evans [1842]) the prevailing antislavery and anti-black philosophy characteristic of white

Here again, his main concern was to protect the status and the rights of white labor (male and female

Leaves of Grass, 1881–82 edition

  • Creator(s): Renner, Dennis K.
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Introduction.

Bradley, Blodgett, Golden, and White. Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1980. xv–xxv.

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 3 April [1875]

  • Date: April 3, [1875]
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

V., —me not —me not cheat—me not beg—me not tell lies back black lies white lies" is all to me es man

yes it be yes and when me say no it be no—dats p fun sometime but me tant help it—me will to some " white

what em good for but torn and totton for chibalry chivalry white mans ?

[This moment as I sit alone]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00331xxx.00066xxx.00089[This moment as I sit alone]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leafcm; On one leaf of white

Behold This Swarthy Face.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

BEHOLD this swarthy face—these gray eyes, This beard—the white wool, unclipt upon my neck, My brown hands

Behold This Swarthy Face.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

BEHOLD this swarthy face, these gray eyes, This beard, the white wool unclipt upon my neck, My brown

Behold This Swarthy Face.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

BEHOLD this swarthy face, these gray eyes, This beard, the white wool unclipt upon my neck, My brown

Walt Whitman to Thomas B. Harned, 9 June 1889

  • Date: June 9, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

drank the whole bottle (except a little swig I insisted on Ed taking for going for it) had it in a big white

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 1 May [1877]

  • Date: May 1, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Camden May 1 My dear friend I have come up from White Horse, & think of visiting you tomorrow Wednesday—towards

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, December 1866

  • Date: December 1866
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Text:

Richard Grant White has but paid just sympathy to a true poet "Swinburne"; The criticism is a "Poem,"

Annotations Text:

Drum-Taps written by John Burroughs and a review of Algernon Charles Swinburne's work by Richard Grant White

Richard Grant White (1822–1885) was a prominent Shakespeare scholar and journalist from New York.

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