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The parcels were sent to Whitman's old address in the Attorney General's Office in Washington before

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

Petersen who is an infinitely greater talent has got no entrance into this periodical [The North American

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

The least benevolent of them are, you will allow, far more benevolent than your homely American criticisms

original nation of the far West. 5) I am very glad to be furnished with new materials concerning the American

completely translated to you. 8) Has this translation of your book into Danish not been spoken of in the American

The magazine became successful by reprinting British novels before eventually publishing American authors

Six of Whitman's poems were published there between 1874 and 1892.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), better know by his pen name, Mark Twain, was an American humorist

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

I went amazed during some days and still the great impressions are haunting me, as were I on the ocean

I should like to write an article on "American Fancy" comparating comparing the grotesque humor that

own papers are some times bringing such specimens of wit and humour humor extracted fra from the American

But if you were seeing a cow in an apple-tree plucking apples with the tail: that would be a phenomenon

The New York Commercial Advertiser was an evening American newspaper.

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

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

Harper's Weekly was notable for its Civil War coverage and began publishing American writers in the ensuing

appeared in the September 28, 1861 issue of the newspaper, and two poems by Whitman were first published

My thoughts were with on the 4th.

Should you know some good memoirs and relations of contemporaries about the Anglo-American work?

friends, they have themselves a democratic mind and grant you much more than the editors of the American

nearly comical", writes a young married lady to me, "to see the critics cut and crisp the broad American

The Weekly Tribune enjoyed widespread distribution, with a circulation of 200,000 in 1860.

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

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

Religion, in which he argued (against the Hegelian model) that religious faith and scientific knowledge were

An American gentleman told me, that you were going to England? Is it true?

The King and the Crown Prince were in the church, reporters for foreign papers, also from America, swarmed

In June I met with professors and teachers of the university who in all earnest were Buddhists, believers

Francis Bret Harte (1836–1902) was an American author who wrote on California pioneering efforts.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), better know by his pen name, Mark Twain, was an American humorist

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

seeking refreshment between the pines of Thüringerwald, living among a very amiable and childlike population

crest of this huge and soft German body; but the body is so soft indeed, that one should think, there were

ruffianly and brutal villains, such is the extent to which political chicanery is carried on in our great cities

The ring was formed, the principals stripped, and the chivalric combatants were ready for the mill.

Some four rounds were fought when the Police arrived and arrested some twenty of the spectators, while

The principals were stripped and eager for the fray, when the unstrategic approach of Captain Shaurman

They were locked up for examination. This is the finale of this disgraceful affair.

That such a spirit is unfortunately prevalent in our large cities, and we refer more particularly to

New York streets are almost as dangerous to travel at night as if there were no city government at all

, and the place were given up to the tender mercies of prowling marauders and assassins.

An idea has gotten possession of this class that laws were made like promises and pie-crusts, for the

An American poet may read Rousseau, but shall never imitate hi m .— He is a curious study, and will cause

After many wanderings, the last ten years of Rousseau's life, were in and around Paris.

Rousseau's Confessions— Swinton's translation, fall of 1856 were in 1766, Rousseau, 5 6 4 years old,

within a month of each other. finishing stroke George Steers's lead ☞ Remember in those days there were

majority of his poems: he praises both heterosexual and homosexual love in the "Children of Adam" (1860

) and the "Calamus" (1860) poems, and the narrator of "Song of Myself" (1855) empathizes with blacks

IrvingBakerRoughsRoughsAspiring to produce the first distinctly American poetry, Whitman modeled Leaves

bold announcement of himself in the first three editions of Leaves of Grass as "Walt Whitman, an American

disturbed by the violent tendencies of the roughs, claims that Whitman places the term between "American

and, in general, the rejection of the persona was a reaction to criticism from his reviewers, who were

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1989.Reynolds, David. Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography.

Rossetti's edition contained about one half of the 1867 text; the poems included were printed without

omissions or emendations, though a few changes were made in the text of the Preface.

In 1872 Rossetti published American Poems, "dedicated with homage and love to Walt Whitman," including

Famous personages among the subscribers were John Ruskin, Edmund Gosse, George Saintsbury, Alfred Tennyson

American Poems. London: E. Moxon, 1872. ____, ed. Humorous Poems. London: E. Moxon, 1872. 

The twelve pages of the Preface were set in 10-point type; the 83 pages of poetry, in 12-point type.

The printers provided him with 800 copies in quarto format, and then the sheets were sent to an engraver

While there he also wrote a prose piece about the role of the poet and poetry in American life and included

Walt Whitman and the American Reader. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990. Rubin, Joseph Jay.

At the height of the American romantic period, during a phase of literary emergence known as the American

After the American Revolution, romantic tendencies were nurtured by a realized political democracy, Protestant

The Romantic Foundations of the American Renaissance.

American Renaissance. London: Oxford UP, 1941.Pease, Donald.

"Organic Language Theory in the American Renaissance."

attempting to make the German translation as shocking to German readers as the original had been to Americans

Both conceptions were important for Whitman's German success in the twentieth century.

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1995. Rolleston, Charles Henry.

class orally, rather than from books, and his lessons in reading, writing, arithmetic, and grammar were

we bore our part & I believe acquired ourselves manfully some of our brave fellows fell there. we were

also at the siege & capture of Port Hudson where our Col was wounded & many of our men were killed in

Yours with much respect & in all sincerity Roden Noel I want to get hold of the American Ed. of your

attention of Europe by the sixteenth-century conquistador Coronado, these mountains became part of the American

nineteenth century, but the discovery of gold in Pike's Peak prompted a dramatic increase in the population

This discovery inaugurated a second, larger wave of population growth in the Rockies.

written most of his poetry, but Whitman was impressed by both the beautiful terrain and the hardy population

Coleridge, Lloyd, and Lovell were those who were his first intellectual associates; after a time, Wordsworth

, Lamb, and Cottle were added.

All these were men of a peculiar stamp, some of the highest powers.

fitted for emigration to a new world than they were.

Both Lloyd and Lovell were singular beings.

Clipping on final page appeared in Scientific American, 25 September 1847; here it is pasted on a February

1851 essay on Robert Southey from the American Whig Review.

I wish that we all were near you, if so be that we might make an occasional hour brighter for you & contribute

Her husband is in the new London City Council and is becoming prominent in abilities & in his profession

We are in the pivotal city of the world, within personal knowledge or touch of those who are guiding

Not a few of us have met great audiences with bold words while the depths of purgatory were being stirred

writer and women's suffrage activist who ran for a seat in the British parliament soon after women were

read criticisms reviews of your works & as I half expected none of them had the least idea who you were

I should be charmed to have some little souvenir from an American so good as you.

Later the decree was altered, and O'Reilly was sent to Australia, where he escaped on an American whaler

Whitman in the New York Sonntagsblatt of November 1, 1868, mentioned Freiligrath's admiration for the American

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

There were also speeches by the Canadian physician Richard Maurice Bucke and Silas Weir Mitchell, a writer

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

I see in Bob the noblest specimen—American-flavored—pure out of the soil, spreading, giving, demanding

the inscription— As soon as the book came I read to a party of friends the "Mystic Trumpeter" and we were

With Wales, it contains fifty-two counties, or thirty-seven millions of acres, and a population of about

legislative system till 1800, contains thirty-two counties, or twenty millions of acres, and a population

at a more rapid pace than any other part of the civilised world, some of the states of the North American

Barbadoes, Trinidad, and the other West India colonies, are less populous, the full amount being in each

In Ireland, the population is divided into seven hundred and fifty-two thousand persons in connexion

Parts of the previous 1875 article were used in the 1882 article.

Later, Whitman revised the article again for publication in the North American Review in November 1886

passages are quoted as being the work of an immoral writer, and, altho' although I tried to show they were

ardent supporter of Walt Whitman's works in England (see Harold Blodgett, "Whitman and Buchanan," American

Originally entitled "Enfans d'Adam" in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, this cluster of poems celebrating

The poems, openly "singing the phallus" and the "mystic deliria," were too bold for their time and often

relationship with esteemed writer Ralph Waldo Emerson cooled after he refused Emerson's advice in 1860

Miller, Jr., " 'Children of Adam' [1860]," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R.

Richard Bentley & Son were London publishers.

I wish I were a rich man—I am only an author living by his pen—and you should certainly never want anything

I can conceive you smiling superbly as you survey the gnats of American journalism now hovering round

that you have fulfilled your life, & spoken—in tones no thunder can silence—the beautiful message you were

Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907) was an American abolitionist, minister, and frequent correspondent

" presumably Lincoln's first campaign song, and served as correspondent of the New York World from 1860

He published many volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were

(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885) and A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to

The first chapter of Whitman: A Study and the final revision of the work were completed at Slabsides

John Burroughs, An American Naturalist. Post Mills, Vt.: Chelsea Green, 1992.Whitman, Walt.

consideration of a matter of this kind would be to elicit truth—to get at the facts wherever facts were

the earth and the sea never gave us; Not through the mighty woods we go, but through the mightier cities

What, to pavements and homesteads here—what were those storms of the mountains and sea?

And do you rise higher than ever yet, O days, O cities! Crash heavier, heavier yet, O storms!

prepared in the mountains, absorbs your im- mortal immortal strong nutriment; —Long had I walk'd my cities

ground before me, Continually preceding my steps, turning upon me oft, ironically hissing low; —The cities

the earth and the sea never gave us, Not through the mighty woods we go, but through the mightier cities

What, to pavements and homesteads here, what were those storms of the mountains and sea?

And do you rise higher than ever yet O days, O cities! Crash heavier, heavier yet O storms!

ground before me, Continually preceding my steps, turning upon me oft, ironically hissing low; The cities

wait, I am fully satisfied, I am glutted, I have witness'd the true lightning, I have witness'd my cities

the earth and the sea never gave us, Not through the mighty woods we go, but through the mightier cities

What, to pavements and homesteads here, what were those storms of the mountains and sea?

And do you rise higher than ever yet O days, O cities! Crash heavier, heavier yet O storms!

ground before me, Continually preceding my steps, turning upon me oft, ironically hissing low; The cities

wait, I am fully satisfied, I am glutted, I have witness'd the true lightning, I have witness'd my cities

the earth and the sea never gave us; Not through the mighty woods we go, but through the mightier cities

What, to pavements and homesteads here—what were those storms of the mountains and sea?

And do you rise higher than ever yet, O days, O cities! Crash heavier, heavier yet, O storms!

prepared in the mountains, absorbs your im- mortal immortal strong nutriment; Long had I walk'd my cities

ground before me, Continually preceding my steps, turning upon me oft, ironically hissing low; —The cities

Lurid Starsabout 1865poetry1 leafhandwritten; This is a poem draft, the last three lines of which were

question of the constitutional right of the people to govern themselves—of the inhabitants of this city

now at Albany, understood to be designed to place the control of the water works and sewers of the city

the allegations of unconstitutionality and tyrranical interference with the people's rights which were

The water works were to cost $4,200,000 Including the half million for the closed conduit, they will

probably cost the city a million and a quarter more than that sum by the time they are finished.

An American slave revolt occurred in November 1841 on a United States slave ship called the Creole .

British officials there ruled that the slaves were free upon arrival, and they had the right to use force

to gain freedom because they were held illegally as slaves.

.; An American slave revolt occurred in November 1841 on a United States slave ship called the Creole

British officials there ruled that the slaves were free upon arrival, and they had the right to use force

to gain freedom because they were held illegally as slaves.