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Search : William White

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Correspondence of Walt Whitman, The (1961–1977)

  • Creator(s): Costanzo, Angelo
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The letters to his longtime friends and admirers, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Douglas O'Connor

Organicism

  • Creator(s): Costanzo, Angelo
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In a lecture on William Shakespeare's work, the British romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, rejected

flight of mating eagles.The first scholar to write at length about Whitman's organic principle was William

London: Martin Secker, 1914.Kennedy, William Sloane. Reminiscences of Walt Whitman.

The Furtive Hen and the Cat Whose Tail Was Too Long: On Whitman's Traces

  • Date: 2020
  • Creator(s): Corona, Mario
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been stricken with paralysis: he appears "at first sight quite an old man, with long grey, almost white

England in their integrity, and not only in the necessarily anaesthetized anthology provided in 1868 by William

another office, thanks to the intervention of friends, especially the writer and fellow civil servant William

tapping (with impeccably sassy aplomb) from a very high Old World source indeed, nothing less than William

William Thayer and Charles Eldridge were enterprising young men, eager to qualify themselves on the conservative

Williams, Captain John

  • Creator(s): Cooper, Stephen A.
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Stephen A.CooperWilliams, Captain JohnWilliams, Captain John Captain John Williams, great-grandfather

As a young man Williams served under John Paul Jones on the Bon Homme Richard; notably, he fought in

Williams's daughter, Naomi ("Amy") Williams Van Velsor, told Whitman of his great-grandfather's sea adventures

Williams, Captain John

Smith, Alexander (ca. 1830–1867)

  • Creator(s): Cooper, Stephen A.
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in Kilmarnock, Smith mainly educated himself by reading Sir Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, William

William Sinclair. Edinburgh: Nimmo, 1909. Zweig, Paul. Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet.

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: August 1860
  • Creator(s): Conway, Moncure D.
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The early lilacs became part of this child; And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

"Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher" (1891)

  • Creator(s): Collmer, Robert G.
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(1856) by William Henry Smith.

the ostent"—the universal spirit that breathes throughout nature and persons.BibliographyFriedman, William

Whitman’s Drift

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Cohen, Matt
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For help with chapter 1, I am indebted to William L.

DB William White, ed., Walt Whitman: Daybooks and Notebooks. 3 vols.

William G.

William H.

, William Allen, 57 “Verses Written at the Grave of white settlement myth, 184, 251n116 McIntosh” (Posey

Charlotte St. Clair to Walt Whitman, 6 April 1866

  • Date: April 6, 1866
  • Creator(s): Charlotte St. Clair
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Whitman Sir I rec'd a letter from Mr William of Bascom 242 F Street stating that our testimony did not

Charles William Dalmon to Walt Whitman, 27 September 1888

  • Date: September 27, 1888
  • Creator(s): Charles William Dalmon
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I am Your's Charles William Dalmon c/o Duggan & Co 34 James Street Liverpool England Charles William

Charles Warren Stoddard to Walt Whitman, 8 February 1867

  • Date: February 8, 1867
  • Creator(s): Charles Warren Stoddard
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Amongst the blushes on her cheek Her small, white hand reposes: I am a shepherd, for I seek That wilful

Charles Warren Stoddard to Walt Whitman, 14 June 1880

  • Date: June 14, 1880
  • Creator(s): Charles Warren Stoddard
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more— the Autograph "Behold this swarthy face, this unrefined face—these gray eyes, This beard—the white

Charles W. Eldridge to Walt Whitman, 2 May 1876

  • Date: May 2, 1876
  • Creator(s): Charles W. Eldridge
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May 2. 1876 Dear Walt: Enclosed I send you a copy of a letter received by William.

You had better accept their invitation—How did you like Williams William's article?

Charles W. Eldridge to Walt Whitman, 8 October 1889

  • Date: October 8, 1889
  • Creator(s): Charles Eldridge | Charles W. Eldridge
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Especially the Boston Transcripts, Critics, Liberty &c—I am glad to see the notices of William that appear

Charles W. Eldridge to Walt Whitman, 11 February 1887

  • Date: February 11, 1887
  • Creator(s): Charles Eldridge | Charles W. Eldridge
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Pasadena, California February 11, 1887 Dear Walt, William and I are here at Dr. Channing's home.

I brought William out here from Washington in the hope that the climate might arrest the progress of

William and I received here (forwarded from Washington) letters from Mr.

William was unable to answer, much to his regret, but I did the best I could on my own account.

Charles W. Eldridge to Walt Whitman, 13 July 1889

  • Date: July 13, 1889
  • Creator(s): Charles Eldridge | Charles W. Eldridge
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.— The death of William O'Connor though long anticipated, was a great shock when the news came.

Charles W. Eldridge to Walt Whitman, 22 September 1883

  • Date: September 22, 1883
  • Creator(s): Charles W. Eldridge
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false statements about you at which your friends were naturally indignant, but I am surprised that William

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, December 1866

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

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, 16 March 1885

  • Date: March 16, 1885
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
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butcher etc—$149.00— Hard winter: 20 below zero, two nights ago—freezing without intermission—lake a white

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, 19 February 1885

  • Date: February 19, 1885
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
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: I meet wit h much sympathy among people but times are hard: The landscape is truly enshrouding a white

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, 29 July [1891]

  • Date: July 29, [1891]
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
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How dreadfull she looks— wan and allmost entirely help less her thin gray—allmost white hair.

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, 29 December, 1890

  • Date: December 29, 1890
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
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Clearest sky I ever saw—norwest quite purple—Snow white on roofs and posts—Lake steaming, seething, cold-compressed—freezing—unusual

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, 3 May [1890]

  • Date: May 3, [1890]
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
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studies closely— Hard times with me for money— I sent a painting to New York—to Aquila, Rich, 84 William

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

India, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): Chari, V.K.
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William Norman Guthrie, in Walt Whitman the Camden Sage (1897), thought that the study of the Gita was

Mysticism

  • Creator(s): Chari, V.K.
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This image was first promoted by Whitman's own friends and disciples—Richard Maurice Bucke, William Douglas

O'Connor, William Sloane Kennedy, and Edward Carpenter—and corroborated by recent scholars, both Western

William James in The Varieties of Religious Experience analyzes this phenomenon and cites Whitman as

Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1986.James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience. 1902.

"Centenarian's Story, The" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Chandran, K. Narayana
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narratives are appropriately analytical, factual, and self-reflexive by turns.BibliographyBurrison, William

Women as a Theme in Whitman's Writing

  • Creator(s): Ceniza, Sherry
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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.____.

Canada, Whitman's Reception in

  • Creator(s): Cederstrom, Lorelei
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William Sloane Kennedy. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1904. Canada, Whitman's Reception in

London, Ontario, Canada

  • Creator(s): Cederstrom, Lorelei
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William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978.____. Specimen Days. Vol. 1 of Prose Works 1892.

Cassius M. Clay to Walt Whitman, 9 July 1887

  • Date: July 9, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cassius M. Clay
Text:

White Hall, Ky. 7-9-1887 My dear Mr.

Annotations Text:

The envelope also includes the following return address: C, Clay: White Hall, Ky.

Cassius M. Clay to Walt Whitman, 6 January 1891

  • Date: January 6, 1891
  • Creator(s): Cassius M. Clay
Text:

White Hall, Ky.

I remain yours truly Cassius Marcellus Clay Walt Whitman Esq. see | notes | April 1 st | 1891 White Hall

Annotations Text:

On the lower left Clay has written: "White Hall: | ky. | C. Clay."

'November Boughs'

  • Date: April 1889
  • Creator(s): Carpenter, Edward
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old man, through crippled somewhat in his gait by paralysis, well over six feet in height, with long white

Calvin H. Greene to Walt Whitman, 18 May 1891

  • Date: May 18, 1891
  • Creator(s): Calvin H. Greene
Text:

My children and grand-children—my white hair and beard, My largeness, calmness, majesty, out of the long

Review of Specimen Days and Collect

  • Date: July 1883
  • Creator(s): Call, Wathen Mark Wilks
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gentlemen know that (leaving out all the border States) there were fifty regiments and seven companies of white

C. B. Burr to Walt Whitman, 22 January 1881

  • Date: January 22, 1881
  • Creator(s): C. B. Burr
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 1:220).

"Song at Sunset" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Butler, Frederick J.
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Blodgett, Sculley Bradley, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 2.

"Mystic Trumpeter, The" (1872)

  • Creator(s): Butler, Frederick J.
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980.

Walt Whitman And His 'Drum Taps'

  • Date: 1 December 1866
  • Creator(s): Burroughs, John
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During this period he was on familiar terms of acquaintance with William Cullen Bryant, and the two were

again, this soil'd world; For my enemy is dead a man divine as myself is dead I look where he lies white-faced

and still in the coffin—I draw near I bend Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in

Walt Whitman's Reconstruction: Poetry and Publishing between Memory and History

  • Date: 2011
  • Creator(s): Buinicki, Martin T.
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man should marry the black woman and the white woman the black man. . . .

of the Chicago Tribune, William Cullen Bryant of the New York Evening Post, and Edwin L.

Gilette,William. Retreat from Reconstruction, 1869–1879.

Hesseltine,William B.Ulysses S.Grant, Politician. NewYork: Frederick Ungar, 1957.

Interracialism: Black‑White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law.

Hale, Edward Everett (1822–1909)

  • Creator(s): Buckingham, Willis J.
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Edward Everett (1822–1909)Hale, Edward Everett (1822–1909) About Whitman's age and, according to William

James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience. 1902. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1985.

Walt Whitman

  • Date: November 1867
  • Creator(s): Buchanan, Robert
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As he speaks, we more than once see a man's face at white heat, and a man's hand beating down emphasis

Everson, William (Brother Antoninus) (1912–1994)

  • Creator(s): Britton, Wesley A.
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Wesley A.BrittonEverson, William (Brother Antoninus) (1912–1994)Everson, William (Brother Antoninus)

Everson, William. Birth of a Poet: The Santa Cruz Meditations. Ed. Lee Bartlett.

Everson, William (Brother Antoninus) (1912–1994)

Media Interpretations of Whitman's Life and Works

  • Creator(s): Britton, Wesley A.
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American Bard (1981) features a reading by poet William Everson from his book American Bard (1981), a

Ethiopia Saluting the Colors" on his collection of spirituals entitled Deep River, and Ralph Vaughan Williams

Sculptors and Sculpture

  • Creator(s): Bohan, Ruth L.
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Whitman much preferred Morse's bust to the painted portraits of either John White Alexander or Herbert

In the last year of Whitman's life Samuel Murray and William R.

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

Painters and Painting

  • Creator(s): Bohan, Ruth L.
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larger and more established American Art Union, whose president in the mid-1840s was Whitman's friend, William

A black and white print of Eakins's gripping Gross Clinic, given him by the painter, graced Whitman's

completion of the portrait and painted portraits of several Whitman associates, including Talcott Williams

Two of Eakins's associates, sculptors William R.

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

"Eighteenth Presidency!, The" (1928)

  • Creator(s): Blake, David Haven
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"[A]bolish slavery," he cautioned white American workers, "or it will abolish you" (Whitman 1322).The

Collectors and Collections, Whitman

  • Creator(s): Birney, Alice L.
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Harned group in the Library of Congress.Some other early collectors of note were John Burroughs, William

Buxton Forman, William F. Gable, Alfred F.

Goldsmith, William Sloane Kennedy, Thomas Bird Mosher, John Quinn, William M. Rossetti, Edmund C.

New York, N.Y.; Charles Patterson Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.; William

William White edited the commonplace books and some notebooks in Walt Whitman: Daybooks and Notebooks

Blake, William (1757–1827)

  • Creator(s): Bidney, Martin
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MartinBidneyBlake, William (1757–1827)Blake, William (1757–1827) Introspective psychological mythmaker

and political as well as cosmic visionary, poet-artist William Blake wrote and illustrated verse of

Blake, William. The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Rev. ed. Ed. David V. Erdman.

William Blake and the Moderns. Ed. Robert J. Bertholf and Annette S. Levitt.

Blake, William (1757–1827)

Russia and Other Slavic Countries, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): Bidney, Martin
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In White Summer Lightnings (1908) Balmont sees the earth-titan Whitman as "building" utopian future cities

Swinburne's perspective (but that is a puzzle: in William Blake Swinburne praises Whitman highly).

Roger Asselineau and William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1972. 24–26.Bidney, Martin.

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