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Search : William White

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Cluster: By the Roadside. (1891)

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

For shame old maniacs—bring down those toss'd arms, and let your white hair be, Here gape your great

Whitman Speaks to a New Generation

  • Creator(s): Institute of Museum and Library Service
Text:

then again in the 1876 and 1881-1882 (and following) editions, as well as—in a cropped version—in William

William Reeder, Philadelphia. Courtesy Library of Congress.

Saturday, February 2, 1889

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

"I'd like to have pictures of William, John, you fellows, as good as this: it would make quite a gallery

W. said: "William's the one I want most to hear from but he is as still as the grave."

Cluster: Calamus. (1871)

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

and out, Not the air, delicious and dry, the air of the ripe sum- mer summer , bears lightly along white

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

Cluster: Calamus. (1881)

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

sea-waves hurry in and out, Not the air delicious and dry, the air of ripe summer, bears lightly along white

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

Cluster: Calamus. (1891)

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

sea-waves hurry in and out, Not the air delicious and dry, the air of ripe summer, bears lightly along white

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

Friday, April 5, 1889

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

Then he said: "Read William's letters: they're more refreshing." Washington, D.C., April 14, 1888.

I hope you have not been writing anything in praise of that old dead werewolf, Emperor William.

He then said: "There's William's other letter: do you intend to read that?" I did.Washington, D.

[New York Atlas, 17 October 1858]

  • Date: 17 October 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William E. Finkel traces these writings to R. T.

advantages are here concentrated . . .") are taken, with only minor changes in wording, from John William

William Gilmore Simms relates this maxim as one of Weems' favorites.

Fred B. Vaughan to Walt Whitman, 30 April 1860

  • Date: April 30, 1860
  • Creator(s): Fred B. Vaughan
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1: 238–239.

The Child and the Profligate

  • Date: October 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

These versions are described in William G.

She who sat on the door step was a widow; her neat white cap covered locks of gray, and her dress, though

Friday, October 12th, 1888.

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

"No—I do not: and yet William is right, too.

Monday, October 29, 1888.

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

W. says: "Maurice is too conclusive by far: let's take another guess, a good guess, for William: I don't

Friday, September 20, 1889

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

Williams'—she is going—I thought I would bring it in for you to see."

Monday, November 11, 1889

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

He was a wonderfully fluent man—had something of William O'Connor's fluency—something of his very figure

Tuesday, August 7, 1888.

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

W. does not acquiesce in the recent revival of Bewick and William Blake.

Wednesday, June 20, 1888.

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

Press again W. said: "Smith is the sort of man I find it hard to include even in my philosophy, but Williams

Wednesday, March 2, 1892

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

Clifford gone to work for Lippincott's, Harry Walsh gone West, William Walsh reported to have left the

Monday, November 24, 1890

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

O'Connor told him to whom she had submitted William's book? "No, she did not tell me."

Monday, August 11, 1890

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

Woodbury, who is an undergraduate of Williams College, came under the benign personal influence of the

Thursday, July 30, 1891

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

Current Literature also says this: "William E.

Monday, March 30, 1891

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

magazine, "I have been reading this—it came from Wallace—the National Review, containing an article by William

Wednesday, April 29, 1891

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

"I read that second part of William's piece with the same care as the first.

Friday, August 28, 1891

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

And William—after all our greatest light, our own right hand!"

About "The Last of the Sacred Army"

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

The editors published works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Cullen Bryant, and Henry

[Reader, we fear you have]

  • Date: 6 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

New York City at 31 years old, making him the youngest individual to ever receive the appointment (William

New Publications

  • Date: 14 March 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

By William Hazlitt . Second Series. New York: Wiley & Putnam.

Franklin B. Sanborn to Walt Whitman, 21 July 1881

  • Date: July 21, 1881
  • Creator(s): Franklin B. Sanborn
Text:

July and October, to be issued in September and October; and orders for these numbers may be sent to WILLIAM

Australia and New Zealand, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): McLeod, Alan L.
Text:

traditional forms—especially the quatrain and the rhymed couplet.A Scottish visitor to Australia, William

Correspondence of Walt Whitman, The (1961–1977)

  • Creator(s): Costanzo, Angelo
Text:

The letters to his longtime friends and admirers, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Douglas O'Connor

Walt Whitman to William Michael Rossetti, 30 January 1872

  • Date: January 30, 1872
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Price Kathryn Kruger Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to William Michael Rossetti

Tuesday, February 26, 1889

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

Bucke said: "William does not boost himself enough: he helps everybody but himself."

"What do you see ahead for William?" W. asked.

Sunday, December 30, 1888.

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

This is the best translation: there is no other approaching it: it is by George William Curtis' wife's

criticisms of value, should such appear.I have not yet seen the February Fortnightly, nor the book William

Sunday, January 6, 1889.

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

Williams,Attorney General.IXDepartment of Justice,Washington, June 30, 1874.

Williams,Attorney General.I asked W.: "Are they all the documents in the matter?"

Thursday, January 31, 1889

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

He asked me: "You have not so far met William?

heard from him, what was the matter: she felt the seriousness of his condition: but she said that William

Monday, September 21, 1891

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

names them, too, and "letters underfoot"—they so often are picked from the floor), a letter from William

Even William wondered that he was so wholly ignored, & he was very modest about any claim.Did Walt enjoy

Fifty-first New-York City Veterans

  • Date: 29 October 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

often without food to eat or water to drink, all those parts of Stafford, Culpepper Culpeper , Prince William

On the fall of that stronghold they were pushed off under S HERMAN Union Major-General William Tecumseh

Cluster: Whispers of Heavenly Death. (1881)

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

A huge sob—a few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—and then the women gone, Sinking there while the

Cluster: Whispers of Heavenly Death. (1891)

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

A huge sob—a few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—and then the women gone, Sinking there while the

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

Cluster: Calamus. (1867)

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

hurry in and out, Not the air, delicious and dry, the air of the ripe summer, bears lightly along white

BEHOLD this swarthy face, this unrefined face—these gray eyes, This beard—the white wool, unclipt upon

Interpretation of the Poetry of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1930
  • Creator(s): Pavese, Cesare
Text:

In his History of American Literature, William P.

dressed in white and olive-skinned girls with beautiful white teeth and flowers in their hair.

You don’t mess with William Kennedy!

Kennedy, William S. Fight of a Book for the World.

Kennedy, William S. Reminiscences of Walt Whitman. London: Alexander Gardner, 1896.

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 12 December 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879) was an English mathematician who also wrote on philosophy.

Saturday, October 20, 1888.

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

B. for Talcott Williams—endorsed it.

Sunday, May 18, 1889

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

And there is Frank Williams, too—and the wife: Oh! the wife has been very good to me!

Thursday, May 17, 1888.

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

all the claims of my friends, especially at the fund from abroad, of which he said once to Talcott Williams

Monday, June 25, 1888.

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

One was a William Rossetti letter. First he said: "Let me see it."

Monday, July 2, 1888.

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

William O'Connor used to say: 'Be careful, Walt, that in your revolt you do not go to the other extreme

Thursday, January 14, 1892

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

"Was it William Walsh? I suppose it likely. Favorable? Oh! I guess it was Walsh.

William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 31 March [1872]

  • Date: March 31, [1872]
  • Creator(s): William Michael Rossetti
Text:

William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 31 March [1872]

Walt Whitman and the Earth: A Study in Ecopoetics

  • Date: 2004
  • Creator(s): Killingsworth, M. Jimmie
Text:

The environmental historian William Cronon, on whom Buell relies, is no doubt right in suggesting that

The spider of Jonathan Edwards, the waterfall of Henry Vaughan, the waterfowl of William Cullen Bryant

And as to you corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses

And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers, Darker than the colorless beards of

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