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Search : William White

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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.

Transnational Modernity and the Italian Reinvention of Walt Whitman, 1870-1945

  • Date: 2021
  • Creator(s): Bernardini, Caterina
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and from two collections of essays, Walt Whitman in Europe Today, edited by Roger Asselineau and William

Carlos Williams.

He soon met nu- merousAmericanwriters,includingCarlSandburg,LolaRidge,William Carlos Williams, and Alfred

See Rossetti’s letter to Whitman of March 31, 1872, in Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti,

See Humorous Poems Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti (London: E.

Howells, William Dean (1837–1920)

  • Creator(s): Berkove, Lawrence I.
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Lawrence I.BerkoveHowells, William Dean (1837–1920)Howells, William Dean (1837–1920) William Dean Howells

The Realist at War: The Mature Years, 1885–1920, of William Dean Howells.

The Road to Realism: The Early Years, 1837–1885, of William Dean Howells.

Howells, William Dean. Selected Literary Criticism, Volume 1:1859–1885. Ed.

Howells, William Dean (1837–1920)

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

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: December 1875
  • Creator(s): Bayne, Peter
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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

Whitman's Complete Works

  • Date: 3 January 1889
  • Creator(s): Baxter, Sylvester
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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.

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.

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]

Ashton, J. Hubley (1836–1907)

  • Creator(s): Bawcom, Amy M.
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] 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.

Epic Structure

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
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Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982.Walker, Jeffrey.

"L. of G.'s Purport" (1891)

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
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New York: New York UP, 1986.Moore, William L. "L. of G.'

William White. Supplement to the Walt Whitman Review.

Heroes and Heroines

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
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Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982.Whitman, Walt.

"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.

"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._____.

"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.

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.

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.

Whitman in France and Belgium

  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
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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).

Humor

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

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

Africa, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
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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.

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

Death

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
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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)

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. ____.

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

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

Studies Among the Leaves

  • Date: January 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and nar- row narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

calmness and beauty of person; The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, yellow and white

Our Book Table

  • Date: 27 February 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers.

Then he is "Pleased with primitive tunes of the choir of the white- washed white-washed church," And

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 15 March 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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shirt collar flat and broad, countenance of swarthy transparent red, beard short and well mottled with white

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

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1 April 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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fruitstand . . . . . . the beef on the butcher's stall, The bread and cakes in the bakery . . . . . . the white

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 13 November 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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White and beautiful are the faces around me…the heads are bared of their fire-caps.

The New Poets

  • Date: 19 May 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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we had conquered— The captain on the quarter-deck, coldly giving his orders through a countenance white

Near by, the corpse of the child that served in the cabin, The dead face of an old salt, with long white

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 7 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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I depart as air—I shake my white locks at the run-away sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it

William Wycherley (1641-1716) was an English playwright whose plays juxtaposed deep-seated Puritanism

In 1841 Macaulay offered a scathing assessment of William Wycherley's work. Leaves of Grass

Leaves Of Grass

  • Date: 7 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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western persimmon—over the long-leaved corn—over the deli- cate delicate blue-flowered flax, Over the white

Leaves Of Grass

  • Date: 14 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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red shirt—the pervading hush is for my sake, Painless after all I lie, exhausted but not so unhappy, White

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 8 December 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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It is called 'Harrington'; but it ought to be styled, 'A Glorification of Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd

Walt Whitman.—Second Notice

  • Date: 29 March 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti John Camden Hotten.

William Michael Rossetti's edition of Poems by Walt Whitman (1868) included approximately half the poems

Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) produced a famous expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's work entitled

Poems by Walt Whitman

  • Date: 19 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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William Michael Rossetti has been for some time what may be called a disciple of Whitman.

Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti —J.C. Hotten.

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 2 May 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti London: John Camden Hotten. 1868.

Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901) was a British poet, novelist and dramatist.

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 July 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration

The sum of all known reverence I add up in you, whoever you are; The President is there in the White

afar at sunset—the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, light falling on roofs and gables of white

Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti Hotten: Piccadilly.

Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) was an English physician who famously published an expurgated edition of William

Walt Whitman's Claim to Be Considered a Great Poet

  • Date: 26 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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William Hurrell Mallock (1849-1923) was an English author.

The Poetry of the Future

  • Date: 19 January 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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In the dooryard fronting an old farmhouse near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing

Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white, or white come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

All About Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 November 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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William Henry Seward (1801-1872) was a U.S. politician and an antislavery activist.

William Walker (1824-1860) was an American adventurer and soldier who attempted to conquer several Latin

Queen Nathalie.—Walt Whitman.—The Young Emperor.

  • Date: September 1891
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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soil's May-utterance here (Smelling of countless blessings, prayers, and old-time thanks)— A bunch of white

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