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Search : William White

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A Place for Humility: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Gerhardt, Christine
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And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird

Charles Reagan Wilson and William R. Ferris.

William Cronon. Washington, DC: Library of America, 1997. Mulder, William.

Charles Reagan Wilson and William R. Ferris.

Charles Reagan Wilson and William R. Ferris.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 24 August 1890

  • Date: August 24, 1890
  • 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 and His Poems

  • Date: September 1855
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
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He does not separate the learned from the unlearned, the Northerner from the Southerner, the white from

Sunday, August 12, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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the Hicks and said: "It makes him look like a cross between an Injun and a Nigger, without a drop of white

Number IV

  • Date: 4 November 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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East New York, spread out as flat as a pancake—Cypress Hills Cemetery, with its white-painted tower,

Number III

  • Date: 28 October 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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are tenacious of the place, and the places, from the brown sand of Napeague Beach, far east, to the white

The Slave Trade

  • Date: 2 August 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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of the miserable chattels, lamenting their savage homes, and wondering to each other whither their white

Salut Au Monde!

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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and the bay of Biscay, The clear-sunn'd Mediterranean, and from one to another of its islands, The White

Salut Au Monde!

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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and the bay of Biscay, The clear-sunn'd Mediterranean, and from one to another of its islands, The White

Songs Oversea

  • Date: 21 October 1876
  • Creator(s): McCarthy, J. H.
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Walt Whitman has been often, and with justice, compared to the painter—poet—prophet William Blake; like

Whitman's "November Boughs"

  • Date: 15 November 1888
  • Creator(s): Garland, Hamlin
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In calculating the decision of the world upon his book, he says William O'Connor and Dr.

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Other correspondents include Anne Burrows Gilchrist, Thomas Biggs Harned, William Sloane Kennedy, James

Friday, September 21st, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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might not be a good form of Title-page:"Walt Whitman's Poems Selected from the American Editions By William

Thursday, May 23, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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So far Gilchrist, Clifford, Frank Williams and Harned are sure.

Friday, June 7, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Promised, also to prepare books for Harned, Gilchrist and Frank Williams.

Sunday, August 19, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William has more right words for right places in him than any man I know of in America."

Thursday, May 3, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. said: "My attention was first called to him by William O'Connor, who may have met him personally—I

Wednesday, May 9, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William O'Connor used to say this was rather a contradiction between my life and my philosophy.

Monday, June 11, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Talcott Williams was over. Some reporters.

Tuesday, July 3, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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It's the same old town—only different.My brother William sailed for Port Royal ten days ago—to be present

Saturday, October 3, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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This was William Potter of Philadelphia, who was one of Wanamaker's delegates to the Congress—one of

Tuesday, March 22, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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He murmured a "good morning," but I decided not to press my presence.Talcott Williams writes with his

Friday, January 22, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Told him of William Sharp (English), now in town, who had come to me with a card from Stedman on which

Tuesday, January 26, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Williams. "Bless her good heart!" said W.

Tuesday, November 3, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Much touched when I told him of the death of Frank Williams' mother. "I am trying to remember her.

Tuesday, November 17, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I saw Gray (one of William Gray & Sons) today. He is expert in granite and will go out for us.

Tuesday, August 26, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Said Frank Williams had been in today. "For a few minutes—en route to Atlantic City."

Monday, February 23, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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should be able to give the best that his lustrous genius afforded to a grand eulogy of the colossal William

About "The Tomb-Blossoms"

  • Date: 2015
  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock
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The editors published works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Cullen Bryant, and Henry

Brooklyniana, No. 11

  • Date: 15 February 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

Proud Music of the Storm.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Sister of loftiest gods, Alboni's self I hear.) 4 I hear those odes, symphonies, operas, I hear in the William

Proud Music of the Storm.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Sister of loftiest gods, Alboni's self I hear.) 4 I hear those odes, symphonies, operas, I hear in the William

William M. Payne to Walt Whitman, April 7 1889

  • Date: April 7, 1889
  • Creator(s): William M. Payne
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William M. Payne to Walt Whitman, April 7 1889

Thomas W. H. Rolleston to Walt Whitman, 10 February [1881]

  • Date: February 10, 1881
  • Creator(s): Thomas W. H. Rolleston
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—I am, sir, William Rolleston. thrown into a panic of such proceedings.

Wednesday, February 27, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. said: "William may not be optimistic but he is courageous: he is grit itself: typically Irish in the

it is poor O'Connor who should have the nurse, not me: poor William: he deserves it, I do not."

Friday, March 8, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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mine do now: to you, to William, to all of them!"]

essential change: John is not so outright, so unreserved, so irrevocable, so without exceptions, as William

Tuesday, December 18, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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It looks to me as if William was in for some extreme decision before long—I don't think he can last this

Then: "I am depending upon you to in the main keep our folks informed how I am—John, William, Kennedy

Constructing the German Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1995
  • Creator(s): Grünzweig, Walter
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Kennedy, William O'Connor also wrote of personal contacts with Knortz.

-On the white, fleshy chest. . . . From the dark red-blonde flood of hair. . . .

William M. Rossetti (London: John Camden Hot ten, 1868).

William D.

William O'Connor to William Sloan Kennedy, 9 April 1886, Whitman Collec tion, Special Collections, VanPelt

Whitman’s “Live Oak with Moss”

  • Date: 1992
  • Creator(s): Helms, Alan
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To take only one example, shortly after Whitman was fired, William D.

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

Introduction

  • Creator(s): Jerome M. Loving
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On December 2, 1866, William O'Connor—another of Whitman's close friends—had written a long review in

two officers in the Fifty-First Regiment (who had not been captured at Poplar Grove), Lieutenant William

of Congress)—essentially paraphrased a letter (date unknown) addressed to Babcock from Lieutenant William

Walt Whitman wrote to William O'Connor and his wife on March 26 that George was in what I would almost

And when the initials G.W.W. stood on a pipe in white paint, the inhabitants of Boston and New York were

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

Whitman's New Book

  • Date: 15 October 1882
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Sylvester Baxter
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tree itself; everybody knows that the cedar is a healthy, cheap, democratic wood, streaked red and white—an

The Death of Wind-Foot

  • Date: June 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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HREE hundred years ago—so heard I the tale, not long since, from the mouth of one educated like a white

The Love of the Four Students

  • Date: December 9, 1843
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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We took our seats round the same clean white table, and received our liquor in the same bright tankards

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 21 January 1891

  • Date: January 21, 1891
  • 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 Richard Maurice Bucke, 28–29 August [1890]

  • Date: August 28–29, [1890]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Rechel-White, "Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894)," (Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, eds. J.R.

The Gospel According to Walt Whitman

  • Date: 25 January 1889
  • Creator(s): Wilde, Oscar
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William Rossetti's attempt to Bowdlerize and expurgate his song.

Tuesday, December 11, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Also Talcott Williams. Much talk of W. Gilchrist took part in the discussion.

Thursday, October 18, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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It would be strange, so strange, if William should beat me out after all.'"

Saturday, May 11, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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But if you write remember the idea I started last evening—that William was a chosen knight—was selected

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