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Search : William White

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Parodies

  • Creator(s): Andriano, Joseph
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Intermediate Geography" (Falk 138).Some parodies were downright mean-spirited, like Richard Grant White's

But mainly White views Whitman as a drunken, disreputable boaster reveling in physical corruption—"Of

White especially takes umbrage at Whitman's vision "Of the beauty of flat-nosed, pock-marked" Africans

White's, is Helen Gray Cone's verse dialogue, "Narcissus in Camden: A Classical Dialogue of the Year

New York: Scribner's, 1922.Zaranka, William, ed. The Brand-X Anthology of Poetry.

Periodicals Devoted to Whitman

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
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White also oversaw the production of several special issues and publications, including Walt Whitman

1982 Wayne State University Press abruptly withdrew its support of the Review, and White and Feinberg

White until it was discontinued after the 1985 issue.

In Japan, William L.

New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 1992.White, William.

Personae

  • Creator(s): French, R.W.
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Aging prematurely, he now became the Good Gray Poet of William O'Connor's polemical pamphlet published

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1955.Kaplan, Justin. Walt Whitman: A Life.

Boston: Twayne, 1990.O'Connor, William. The Good Gray Poet: A Vindication.

Pfaff's Restaurant

  • Creator(s): Yannella, Donald
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Among the most visible were King Clapp and the queen, Ada Clare, Fitz-James O'Brien, George Arnold, William

promoted free love—and validated and encouraged many of Whitman's predilections.BibliographyHowells, William

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.PannapackerPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaKnown as the Quaker City and

Talcott Williams, a journalist for the Philadelphia Press (1881–1912), managed to get the Boston prohibition

Photographs and Photographers

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
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and after the battles; he also bathed his war poems in moonlight, reminiscent of the dark black-and-white

Phrenology

  • Creator(s): Wrobel, Arthur
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that nature emphatically chose him for the profession of poet, more so than Oliver Wendell Holmes, William

"Pioneers! O Pioneers!" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Mignon, Charles W.
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980. "Pioneers!

Poetic Theory

  • Creator(s): Johnstone, Robert
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(William Carlos Williams credits Whitman with foreshadowing the "variable foot," though it is difficult

, and literary poesis is best expressed by a devout and subtle reader of Whitman, the philosopher William

New York: Library of America, 1983.James, William.

Political Views

  • Creator(s): Hirschhorn, Bernard
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An ardent Jacksonian Democrat, he revered William Leggett, the party's foremost spokesman in the 1830s

Democratic presidential candidate Martin Van Buren, who lost his re-election bid to Whig candidate William

the Wilmot Proviso, but he remained loyal.Whitman defended the rights and dignity of free male labor—white

of the people of the Union, Whitman was not prepared to accept the political and social equality of white

Popular Culture, Whitman and

  • Creator(s): Reynolds, David S.
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Whitman started out largely as a writer of gloom and skepticism, in the vein of popular poets like William

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

"Prayer of Columbus" (1874)

  • Creator(s): Stuckey-French, Ned C.
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Gilded Age, when in 1872 his opposition to black suffrage cost him his important friendship with William

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.

Preface to As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free (1872)

  • Creator(s): Mancuso, Luke
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citizens underscores the popular displeasure with the contemporary squabbles between races, in the white

"Sleepers, The" (1855)

  • Creator(s): Hatlen, Burton
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New York: William Sloane Associates, 1955.Durand, Régis.

Society for the Suppression of Vice

  • Creator(s): Andriano, Joseph
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By 1882 his influence and power were so pervasive that several of Whitman's friends (e.g., William Douglas

that Comstock finally "retire[d] with his tail intensely curved inwards" (Correspondence 3:338–339).William

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor.

"Song at Sunset" (1860)

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

"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.____.

"Song of the Universal" (1876)

  • Creator(s): Knapp, Ronald W.
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New York: William Sloane Associates, 1955.Miller, James E., Jr.

Spain and Spanish America, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): Zapata-Whelan, Carol M.
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Roger Asselineau and William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1972. 41–42.Nolan, James.

Roger Asselineau and William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1972. 9–12.

"Spirit That Form'd This Scene" (1881)

  • Creator(s): Oates, David
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alliteration; those between develop artful changes on the basic three-beat line.BibliographyAarnes, William

Stoicism

  • Creator(s): Hutchinson, George
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It was to become particularly important to Marcus Aurelius in the period of Rome's decline, to William

Style and Technique(s)

  • Creator(s): Warren, James Perrin
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hieroglyphic,And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,Growing among black folks as among white

Theaters and Opera Houses

  • Creator(s): Meyer, Susan M.
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In 1849 the rivalry between British actor William Charles Macready and the American star Edwin Forrest

The Olympic Theater opened in 1837 and then came under the management of William Mitchell in 1839 through

bad seasons, Palmo lost control of the Opera House, and the theater languished until taken over by William

"This Compost" (1856)

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

"Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood" (1872)

  • Creator(s): Losey, Jay
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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._____.

"Thought of Columbus, A" (1892)

  • Creator(s): Stuckey-French, Ned
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.

"To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod" (1865–1866)

  • Creator(s): Olson, Steven
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.

"To the States, To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Smeller, Carl
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The poem's parenthetical concluding lines offer a milder version of the essay's call for young, white

"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.

"To You [whoever you are...]" (1856)

  • Creator(s): Mulcaire, Terry
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nimbus of gold-color'd light," around the head of each "you" that he addresses.In Pragmatism (1907) William

Bucknell Review 28.1 (1983): 121–143.James, William.

Travels, Whitman's

  • Creator(s): Field, Jack
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William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978.____. Prose Works 1892. Ed.

"Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Lulloff, William G.
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William G.Lulloff"Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night" (1865)"Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field

"We Two Boys Together Clinging" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Smeller, Carl
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activeness also recalls the wrestling apprentices in "I Sing the Body Electric" (1855), the kind of young white

"We Two, How Long We were Fool'd" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Klawitter, George
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

West Jersey Press

  • Creator(s): Matteson, John T.
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life of their author" (qtd. in Reynolds 516).The day the article appeared, Whitman sent a copy to William

Whigs

  • Creator(s): Hatch, Frederick
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William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978. Whigs

White, William (1910–1995)

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
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Donald D.KummingsWhite, William (1910–1995)White, William (1910–1995)From the 1950s to the 1990s, William

White was a strong presence in literary studies in general and in Whitman studies in particular.

Housman, Sir William Osler, Ernest Hemingway, and Nathanael West.

"William White, 1910–1995." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 12 (1995): 205–208.

White, William (1910–1995)

Wilmot Proviso (1846)

  • Creator(s): Klammer, Martin
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solidly within the Free Soil camp and showed his thinking on slavery to be motivated more by concern for white

echo the Free-Soilers' position that the introduction of slavery would discourage, if not prohibit, white

prototypical Free-Soiler and characterizes the debate as an issue not of race but of class between white

While Whitman's position follows the Free-Soilers' emphasis on white labor and not on moral opposition

to slavery, Whitman, unlike many Free-Soilers, does not evoke white anxiety about associating with blacks

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.____.

"World Below the Brine, The" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Wohlpart, A. James
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American Transcendental Quarterly 53 (1982): 49–66.Freedman, William A.

"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.____.

Perry, Bliss (1860–1954)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
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Perry, Bliss (1860–1954) Bliss Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and graduated from Williams

Stedman, John Burroughs, Talcott Williams, J.T.

Introduction to Horace Traubel

  • Creator(s): Matt Cohen
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(William Sloane Kennedy, for example, wrote that Whitman would "probably have desired to have him privately

Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 3–5 August [1878]

  • Date: August 3–5
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Down at White Horse At the Staffords'— Aug 3 My dear Herb I came down here yesterday afternoon in the

Walt Whitman to James W. Wallace, 19–20 July 1891

  • Date: July 19–20, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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: of me period f'm '60 to '70 (the war time) & was the favorite of Wm & Mrs: O'Connor —the head on white

Walt Whitman to William Michael Rossetti, [April (?) 1875]

  • Date: April(?) 1875
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to William

"walter dear": The Letters from Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Her Son Walt

  • Creator(s): Wesley Raabe
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the publication of the 1860 through his Civil War hospital work, during Reconstruction when first William

Amy Williams was descended from a sea-faring family: Louisa's maternal grandfather John Williams and

Like Walt, she may have "internalized typical white racial attitudes of his time, place, and class,"

She weighed the merits of William D.

Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti (London: Hotten, 1868).

The 1855 Leaves of Grass: A Bibliography of Copies

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William F.

William E.

William Michael Rossetti W. B.

William F. Channing William D. O'Connor Ellen M.

William B.

Tuesday, November 13, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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how William would delight to hear you say that!

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