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where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother; After roaming many lands—lover of populous

pave- ments pavements ; Dweller in Mannahatta, my city—or on southern sa- vannas savannas ; Or a soldier

in my poems, that with you is heroism, upon land and sea; And I will report all heroism from an American

ideal of manly love, indicating it in me; I will therefore let flame from me the burning fires that were

the Kansas, count- less countless herds of buffalo, feeding on short curly grass; See, in my poems, cities

where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother, After roaming many lands, lover of populous

pavements, Dweller in Mannahatta my city, or on southern savannas, Or a soldier camp'd or carrying my

poems that with you is hero- ism heroism upon land and sea, And I will report all heroism from an American

love, indi- cating indicating it in me, I will therefore let flame from me the burning fires that were

, the electric telegraph stretching across the continent, See, through Atlantica's depths pulses American

where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother, After roaming many lands, lover of populous

pavements, Dweller in Mannahatta my city, or on southern savannas, Or a soldier camp'd or carrying my

poems that with you is hero- ism heroism upon land and sea, And I will report all heroism from an American

love, indi- cating indicating it in me, I will therefore let flame from me the burning fires that were

, the electric telegraph stretching across the continent, See, through Atlantica's depths pulses American

where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother; After roaming many lands—lover of populous

pave- ments pavements ; Dweller in Mannahatta, city of ships, my city—or on southern savannas; Or a

put in my poems, that with you is heroism, upon land and sea—And I will report all heroism from an American

ideal of manly love, indicating it in me; I will therefore let flame from me the burning fires that were

the Kanzas, count- less countless herds of buffalo, feeding on short curly grass; See, in my poems, cities

nor related to the Oration—but rather the Star , and that "Ode" which was first palmed by it on the city

Varet street actually poisoned 12 head of ducks and geese in one morning, and their rotten carcases were

The Stafford family, however, were pleased to see the well-known man act as mentor to their son and gladly

George and Susan Stafford were the parents of Harry Stafford, a young man Whitman met and befriended

Harry's parents were tenant farmers in Laurel Springs, outside of Glendale, near Camden, New Jersey.

United States military took command of the post under the terms of the Louisiana Purchase, but the city

Louis's population was more than three hundred thousand, making it the fourth largest city in the United

Lines from the manuscript were included in the first poem in that edition, eventually titled Song of

; He complains with sarcastic voice of my lagging I feel apt to clip it, and go; I am W W— — the American

Lines from the manuscript were included in the first poem in that edition, eventually titled "Song of

Lines from the manuscript were included in the first poem in that edition, eventually titled "Song of

, which appeared in the poem that eventually would be titled "Song of Myself": "Walt Whitman, an American

The first line of this poem was added in 1860, and became the poem's title in 1867.Without the opening

adulthood.Whitman had marked line 10 for deletion in his Blue Book (Whitman's personal copy of the 1860

of the poet's role in Leaves of Grass, whereby the poet's persona, his language, his actions, etc., were

Whitman's poetry emerges, in his desire to demonstrate and enact this process.Many later poets and writers were

Episcopalian Grace Church was the first major commission of American architect James Renwick, Jr. (1818

crowd was fashionable, and in numbers sufficient to resemble a rout among the very choicest of the city

Is that to be compared for a moment with the tall-spired temples of our great cities, where "the pride

Pierson, Jr., American Buildings and Their Architects: Technology and the Picturesque: The Corporate

and the Early Gothic Styles (Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, 1980), 159–171. lift man into a complacent

.; Episcopalian Grace Church was the first major commission of American architect James Renwick, Jr.

Pierson, Jr., American Buildings and Their Architects: Technology and the Picturesque: The Corporate

and the Early Gothic Styles (Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, 1980), 159–171.; Whitman continues

Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps were first bound with Leaves of Grass in 1867.

The title note, (Washington City, 1865.), was added in 1871."

will identify the Spirit of War to future generations as a record and a warning of this precious American

American Transcendental Quarterly 51 (1981): 211–223.Cannon, Agnes Dicken.

American Quarterly 23 (1971): 181–201.Whitman, Walt.

(Washington City, 1865.) SPIRIT whose work is done! spirit of dreadful hours!

(Washington City, 1865.) SPIRIT whose work is done—spirit of dreadful hours!

(Washington City, 1865.) SPIRIT whose work is done—spirit of dreadful hours!

powerfully confirmed Whitman's sweeping concept of nature, to which his ideals of democracy and poetry were

"'That Vast Something': A Note on Whitman and the American West."

Spinal idea of a "Lesson" Founding a new American Religion (?

People were not in a humor for oratory and lecturing, and all the Ciceros and Sheridans were compelled

physical debility and the approach of death—and strives to ensure his place in the continuum of American

early life, Whitman emphasizes such events as learning to set type under a man who remembered the American

his life course and the nation's.Finally Whitman emerges into the public world again, experiencing city

The poet envisions the new American poets emerging from the geography of the trans-Mississippi West to

Studies in the American Renaissance. Ed. Joel Myerson. Boston: Twayne, 1982. 401-432. 

The subject here is a mundane city sight: a knife-grinder practicing his trade on a sidewalk, unremarked

archaic, soon-to-be-obsolete craftsman, human fragments nearly lost among the vastness and rush of the city

The scene the poem catches, a closely observed bit of nineteenth-century American life, is itself a sparkle

.00244Sparkles from the Wheel1871poetryhandwritten2 leaves25.5 x 20 cm; First published not in the 1860

WHERE the city's ceaseless crowd moves on the livelong day, Withdrawn I join a group of children watching

WHERE the city's ceaseless crowd moves on the livelong day, Withdrawn I join a group of children watching

The Spanish American Republics THE SPANISH AMERICAN REPUBLICS.

abroad, before we attempt the acquisition of any Territory belonging to any of the Central or South American

Are we willing to take the population of Central America, uneducated as they are, and unfit to judge

Our own people do not seem to know that this is the population that we must take with the Central American

We do not think that we are prepared to annex the Central American republics to this confederacy.

Alegría notes that Whitman's philosophical, religious, and political ideas were not fully understood

Mexico City: Ediciones Studium, 1954.Allen, Gay Wilson, and Ed Folsom, eds.

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1995.Chocano, José Santos. Oro de Indias. Vol. 1.

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1995. 118–126.____. "We Live in a Whitmanesque Age."

Poet-Chief: The Native American Poetics of Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda.

lover" of the universe (715) and that "American bards . . . shall be Kosmos" (718).

"The Influence of Space on the American Imagination."

Essays on American Literature in Honor of Jay B. Hubbell. Ed. Clarence Gohdes.

The Prairie in Nineteenth-Century American Poetry. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1994.Roche, John.

"The Twelfth Newberry Library Conference on American Studies."

The Baltimore Clipper sets up in defence, that however wicked the American-governed city of Baltimore

may be, it is it it it is not so bad as the Republican city of Boston, or the Democratic city of Brooklyn

the ratio of crime is great in proportion to the population than in any of the large cities on our seaboard

than in any other of the five cities which have been mentioned.

We have been used to hear Brooklyn called the City of Churches and its population a most moral and virtuous

eleven of which would eventually form the Southern Confederacy, along with four border states, the American

While Whitman and his brother enjoyed the atmosphere of the famed Southern city, the position at the

Whitman's political views were controversial, and somewhat of an embarrassment to McClure, who became

essentially three: "I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing," "Once I Pass'd through a Populous City,"

South, The American

The other was the belief that the souls which infused the creation were incessantly striving for fuller

God to be a rule unto thyself" ("Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood," section 6).But even if history were

lovingly celebrated the natural world and the human body, he also held that these material realities were

ultimately important only because they were indispensable to the soul's development.

Minor Prophecy: Walt Whitman's New American Religion. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1989.____.

These words were evidently used as Whitman composed When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, first published

Minna Gale (1869–1944) was an American actress known for Shakespearean roles early in her career.

Edwin Thomas Booth (1833–1893) was an American actor, famous for performing Shakespeare in the U.S. and

Lawrence Barrett (1838–1891) was an American stage actor who acted in the repertory company of the Boston

But, if many opposed him, many were of his party, and the most opposite and opposed schools of poetry

Americans question his right to be the typical singer of America.

Yet Walt Whitman has merits that no American prose-writer or poet ever yet had, with virtues and strength

sufficient for claiming laureateship of the great American nation.

Such, hurriedly sketched, were the accompaniments of the death of President Lincoln.

as the final cluster in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, but the sense of conclusion appears in the 1860

" Whitman reveals his conflicting attitudes toward death, a reality he had been conscious of since 1860

These corrections were probably intended for the 1881–82 edition of Leaves of Grass.

poem to be one of his "Centennial Songs," that is, poems written to celebrate one hundred years of American

Henry Seidel Canby notes that Whitman is suggesting that to lack faith in the American dream is to "dream

Walt Whitman: An American. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943.Chase, Richard.

It later became "To the Sayers of Words" (in the 1860 and 1867 editions) and "Carol of Words" (in the

sauroid advances— beings, premonitions, lispings of the future,Behold, these are vast words to be said.(1860

Whitman and the American Idiom. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1991. Griffin, James D.

Leaves of Grass: Facsimile Edition of the 1860 Text. Ed. by Roy Harvey Pearce.

A SONG OF THE ROLLING EARTH. 1 A SONG of the rolling earth, and of words according, Were you thinking

that those were the words, those upright lines?

Were you thinking that those were the words, those delicious sounds out of your friends' mouths?

am a word with them—my qualities interpenetrate with theirs—my name is nothing to them, Though it were

If they had not reference to you in especial what were they then?)

A SONG OF THE ROLLING EARTH. 1 A SONG of the rolling earth, and of words according, Were you thinking

that those were the words, those upright lines?

Were you thinking that those were the words, those delicious sounds out of your friends' mouths?

am a word with them—my qualities interpenetrate with theirs—my name is nothing to them, Though it were

If they had not reference to you in especial what were they then?)

"Redwood-Tree" appeared in volume 2 of Half-Hours with the Best American Authors (4 vols., 1886–1887)

Such imagery reflects that of "Facing West from California's Shores" (1860) and "Passage to India" (1871

Wynn Thomas, a number of writers and painters were concerned about the mass destruction of trees in the

New World, New Earth: Environmental Reform in American Literature from the Puritans through Whitman.

, To India and China and Australia and the thousand island para- dises paradises of the Pacific, Populous

cities, the latest inventions, the steamers on the rivers, the railroads, with many a thrifty farm,

, To India and China and Australia and the thousand island para- dises paradises of the Pacific, Populous

cities, the latest inventions, the steamers on the rivers, the railroads, with many a thrifty farm,

Some pieces which were pasted together have been lifted and photographed separately to show lines obscured

"Poem of The Road," the poem received its present imaginative title in 1867; in 1881 its 224 lines were

gospel of hope, and by its stirring musicality.During the 1850s the open road was a distinctively American

proposed limitless journey, the persona reflects Whitman's known doubts about transforming the flawed American

You flagg'd walks of the cities! you strong curbs at the edges! You ferries!

I think heroic deeds were all conceiv'd in the open air, and all great poems also; I think I could stop

Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me. 6 Now if a thousand perfect men were

to which you were destin'd— you hardly settle yourself to satisfaction, before you are call'd by an

countries, habitus of far- distant far-distant dwellings, Trusters of men and women, observers of cities

You flagg'd walks of the cities! you strong curbs at the edges! You ferries!

I think heroic deeds were all conceiv'd in the open air, and all free poems also, I think I could stop

Whoever accepts me he or she shall be blessed and shall bless me. 6 Now if a thousand perfect men were

many distant countries, habituès of far-distant dwellings, Trusters of men and women, observers of cities

couple, and the fruits of orchards and flowers of gardens, To take to your use out of the compact cities

You flagg'd walks of the cities! you strong curbs at the edges! You ferries!

I think heroic deeds were all conceiv'd in the open air, and all free poems also, I think I could stop

Whoever accepts me he or she shall be blessed and shall bless me. 6 Now if a thousand perfect men were

many distant countries, habituès of far-distant dwellings, Trusters of men and women, observers of cities

couple, and the fruits of orchards and flowers of gardens, To take to your use out of the compact cities

You flagg'd walks of the cities! you strong curbs at the edges! You ferries!

I think heroic deeds were all conceiv'd in the open air; I think I could stop here myself, and do miracles

Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me. 6 Now if a thousand perfect men were

to which you were des- tined destined —you hardly settle yourself to satisfaction, before you are call'd

the fruits of or- chards orchards and flowers of gardens, To take to your use out of the compact cities