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Be it as if I were with you, & here upon the paper I send you one as a token of my dearest love.

a great interest, by sundry turns of talk, on all she said.W. thought: "Now is the time for the American

There were two boys. W. at that, "If I had only known, I should have sent two pieces.

I was compelled to [take] many car rides in my transit to "the city."

man will be none the less right because he is denied by a hundred generations, whose coronal fronts were

stirred by long accounts in morning papers of the Danmark, abandoned at sea, and come upon by the City

I told him of something somebody had heard from Gilchrist—that the speakers were "all duffers" and would

The great prayers were little doers.

"Yes, indeed—there are several sisters of them, they were over there together.

Encourage American labor, the cry.

the address from such a source on the events of the war, and especially on the greatest of modern American

Some of the fellows in the city seem to think the Critic can be subsidized.

that if he or any one else expected common etiquette from you, after having read Leaves of Grass they were

progretionists are put on the back ground by some who have been by them pronounces pharasees and hypocrates, Were

I am not blaming the good people who inflicted the tortures, if they thought they were sending a brother

interests of Man as he is, and not the dogmas of any set of men only see how I am running on, as if I were

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was an American poet and essayist who began the Transcendentalist movement

Unitarian Church, and he became the president of the United States Sanitary Commission during the American

Lorenzo Niles Fowler (1811–1896) and Orson Squire Fowler (1809–1887) were brothers from Cohocton, New

They established a Phrenological Cabinet in Clinton Hall in New York City in 1842, where Whitman received

I received yours of the 29th last evening and hasten to comply with your request. a friend in the City

will send you a check today for fifty Dollars Hector would be very glad to do it, but he left the City

inspiration knows the best, but I with all my ultra radicalism would be delighted if some of the expressions were

Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888) was an American educator, abolitionist, and father of Louisa May Alcott

Our little Walter has been very sick since I saw you we were afraid we would lose him but is just well

During the American Civil War, Avery was a colonel of the Eighth Regiment of the New York State Militia

Only 300 copies were printed, and Whitman signed the title page of each one.

dreams, Nothing happens, or ever has happened, or ever can happen, but the vital laws are enough, None were

or will be hurried—none were or will be retarded; A vast clear scheme—each learner learning it for himself

The poems were bound into the 1888 reprint of Leaves of Grass as an annex, and appeared again in the

In the years from 1860 to 1881 Whitman had revised, added, excluded, and rearranged the poems of Leaves

sickness as an element, I never spoke a word until the first of the poems I call Sands at Seventy were

He realized that if he were to be true to his own stated goal of reflecting the life of an old man in

particulars" that make Leaves of Grass "the most peculiar and noteworthy monument amid the work of American

Sandburg's third point is that Leaves is "the most intensely personal book in American literature" and

Fifth, Sandburg asserts that no other American poet except Poe has achieved the worldwide stature that

Whitman has, nor—Sandburg's sixth point—has any other American book as ardent a following in America

The Continuity of American Poetry. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1961. Sandburg, Carl. Introduction.

Her iconoclastic themes in her novels were only enhanced by her unconventional behavior: leaving her

Sanborn first encountered Walt Whitman on 4 April 1860 in a courtroom in Boston, where Sanborn had been

Whitman would later say that he came to make sure that, if Sanborn were convicted, he—Whitman—might take

Alvin Adams (1804–1877) started the company when he began carrying letters and parcels between the cities

Wallace last night who told me how ill you were.

African Americans could join the Union army beginning in July 1862 when Lincoln signed the Militia Act

Though they received older uniforms, worse equipment, and lower pay than white soldiers, and were barred

from becoming officers, African Americans joined the effort and helped make the Civil War unmistakably

African Americans could join the Union army beginning in July 1862 when Lincoln signed the Militia Act

Though they received older uniforms, worse equipment, and lower pay than white soldiers, and were barred

from becoming officers, African Americans joined the effort and helped make the Civil War unmistakably

89 Walt Whitman Esq Dear Sir I have rec d . with very great pleasure the copy of yr. works w h you were

the hope that yr. days may yet "be long in the land" to whose literature you have given the true American

I am collecting Photos of distinguished Americans & would be glad to get one of yours, if it can be got

SUBDIVIDER AND OWNER OF CITY & SUBURBAN PROPERTY. S. E. COR. DEARBORN & RANDOLPH STS.

Your patriotic & noble lines are most worthy the attention of the American people.

public library (I think at Minneapolis and Cincinnati) a volume of biography, it seems to me now there were

English, Foreign, American, and Colonial Booksellers and Publishers.

He noted, however, that most book dealers were unwilling to sell Whitman's books, either because of inadequate

In my opinion, it marks a new era in American Literature; and is to stand out more and more prominently

, as time advances, as the distinctively American book Most Respectfully, S.

Receiving its present title in 1860, the piece underwent minor revisions throughout the different editions

In the interest of aesthetic and thematic unity, Whitman dropped the American "genre painting" scene

soil that underlines the raised "perpendicular hand" (added in 1860).

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1995. 1–10.González de la Garza, Mauricio.

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1992.Miller, James E., Jr. A Critical Guide to "Leaves of Grass."

San Francisco. 5 I see the tracks of the rail-roads of the earth; I see them welding State to State, city

to city, through North America; I see them in Great Britain, I see them in Europe; I see them in Asia

I see the cities of the earth, and make myself at ran- dom random a part of them; I am a real Parisian

Christiania or Stockholm—or in Siberian Irkutsk—or in some street in Iceland; I descend upon all those cities

What cities the light or warmth penetrates, I penetrate those cities myself; All islands to which birds

what persons and cities are here? Who are the infants, some playing, some slumbering?

I see the cities of the earth and make myself at random a part of them, I am a real Parisian, I am a

Christiania or Stockholm, or in Siberian Irkutsk, or in some street in Iceland, I descend upon all those cities

What cities the light or warmth penetrates I penetrate those cities myself, All islands to which birds

I see the tracks of the rail-roads of the earth, I see them welding State to State, city to city, through

I see the cities of the earth, and make myself at ran- dom random a part of them, I am a real Parisian

Christiania or Stockholm—or in Siberian Irkutsk—or in some street in Iceland; I descend upon all those cities

What cities the light or warmth penetrates, I pen- etrate penetrate those cities myself, 22* All islands

what persons and cities are here? Who are the infants, some playing, some slumbering?

I see the cities of the earth and make myself at random a part of them, I am a real Parisian, I am a

Christiania or Stockholm, or in Siberian Irkutsk, or in some street in Iceland, I descend upon all those cities

What cities the light or warmth penetrates I penetrate those cities myself, All islands to which birds

F 5 I see the tracks of the rail-roads of the earth; I see them welding State to State, city to city,

I see the cities of the earth, and make myself at random a part of them; I am a real Parisian; I am a

Christiania or Stockholm—or in Siberian Irkutsk—or in some street in Iceland; I descend upon all those cities

What cities the light or warmth penetrates, I pen- etrate penetrate those cities myself; All islands

Times , writing from Salt Lake City under date of July 3d, gives an interesting description of an interview

He charged us of the great Eastern cities with being as much polygamists as the Saints—“the only difference

In the great city of New York there are thousands of vile haunts where innocence is robbed of its bloom

The reference to the "Russian serf" was dropped from the poem after the 1860 edition. Russian serfs

—It seems that the Russian empire, with a population of from 50 to 60 millions, has 40 millions of serfs

on wrapper stock for the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass (Whitman's Manuscripts, Leaves of Grass, 1860

on wrapper stock for the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass (Whitman's Manuscripts, Leaves of Grass, 1860

has been felt most notably by the futurists Velimir Khlebnikov and Vladimir Mayakovsky.The third (1860

When part of this review was translated and published in the American journal Critic (16 June 1883),

poems of 1860 illuminate the Russian revolution of 1905.Russian futurists enjoyed Whitman.

Other poets of the period who learned from Whitman were Mikhail Larionov and Ivan Oredezh.D.S.

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1995.Basic, Sonja. "Walt Whitman in Yugoslavia."

He was taken to the drug store adjacent, where his wounds were dressed, and he was sent to the City Hospital

Whitman reworked some of those ideas on ornament and they appeared in the poem Says in the 1860–1861

or allusion to them whatever, except as they relate to the new, present things—to our country—to American

Whitman reworked some of those ideas on ornament and they appear in the poem "Says" in the 1860 edition

Whitman reworked some of those ideas on ornament and they appear in the poem "Says" in the 1860 edition

. ix).; Whitman reworked some of those ideas on ornament and they appear in the poem "Says" in the 1860

for ornaments nothing outre can be allowed, / And that anything is most beautiful without ornament" (1860

Several phrases of the prose on the verso were probably later used, in somewhat revised form, in the

: "The best I had done seemed to me blank and suspicious, / My great thoughts, as I supposed them, were

A father A mother as well as father, a child as well as a man; A N ot only an American, but an African

rings expand outward and outward Several phrases of this prose were probably later used, in somewhat

: "The best I had done seemed to me blank and suspicious, / My great thoughts, as I supposed them, were

EdFolsomRukeyser, Muriel (1913–1980)Rukeyser, Muriel (1913–1980) Muriel Rukeyser was an important figure in American

city into a solitude of mourning and of ruins!

Notwithstanding this, the Turks were beaten by the Russians, and the man who then predicted the fall

We were slaves, we might command; but we only wish to be free, and liberty is but justice. 79 Mollas,

they were committed by those men, who, descending from their cages, thus indemnified themselves for

the Fortunate Islands, the abode of eternal spring; and beyond were the hyperborean regions, placed

with trees— all prove beyond cavil the existence, ages since, in the Western World, of powerful, populous

It deals with high official private life during the most momentous period in American History, and is

Your postal card was already forwarded to me here in this little Swedish city the 4 and to day I received

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

Traubel left behind enough manuscripts for six more volumes of the series, the final two of which were

Schmidt called "my old friend and countryman," corresponded with Schmidt after he left Denmark in 1860

still at present I have in many days not an only leisure-hour, and all this business is not in your american

I have received to two or three american papers from you;—of course you have duly received from me a

If my article on you should appear in any american magazine, I should like to have sent a copy.

"Northamerican North American Review" Jan , has had an article on Bj Bjornson by Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen

The North American Review was the first literary magazine in the United States.

entitled "Björnstjerne Björnson as a Dramatist," was published in the January 1873 edition of the North American

accusations of homosexuality; accusations that Petersen was inappropriately involved with schoolchildren were

Schmidt called "my old friend and countryman," corresponded with Schmidt after he left Denmark in 1860

A great deal of Englishmen and some Americans are travelling here in Norway.