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Until you are content to pick poetry out of his pages almost as you pick it out of a Greek play in Bohn

A good deal of this is the result of theory playing its usual vile trick upon the artist.

But the Philistines have been too strong; and, to say truth, Whitman has rather played the fool.

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appearance, which had been uttered several days previous, when Master Caleb gave his flock a holiday, for Peter

just as gleesome, commemorated the bestowal, that morning, of another holiday, for the hanging of Peter

of the stream, to see, reclining there in the sunshine, the shape of the now wan and pallid-faced Peter

with wild and ghastly visage, and with the phrenzied contortions of a madman in his worst paroxysm, Peter

Peter Brown, although he has quite a family of little children, finds time, now and then, to utter eloquent

A poem that has been attributed to Walt Whitman, titled " The Play-Ground " and signed "W.," appears

the master has given us a holiday, next Thursday, because he is going to Peter Brown's wedding!

Peter bid me go and seek him out, and deliver to him a message, written on paper.

"And now you have all of my story—and I must go, for it is time Peter Brown received his answer."

What were Peter's thoughts about? Nothing more or less than love .

'"; A poem that has been attributed to Walt Whitman, titled "The Play-Ground" and signed "W.," appears

Arrow-Tip, suppose you and Peter Brown take the Bend at Oak Creek for your station?"

"I am as weak as a baby," said Peter.

—"They tell me in the village that Peter Brown is murdered by Arrow-Tip!"

"Well, then," continued the other, "the plain truth is, that the Indian would have killed Peter, and

But Peter, having a very thick skull, his life was saved. I saw it myself.

Who could be more happy than Peter Brown's bride?

On the day of the hunting-party, he came there, and though Peter himself was absent, he was invited by

he cried, "Peter Brown is murdered, in the forest, by the Indian, Arrow-Tip!"

Peter Brown was indeed much injured.

sure that the course of 'justice'—were the people allowed to remain with the unquestionable belief of Peter

at this unfortunate juncture that Arrow-Tip was heedless enough to attempt seizing the weapon at Peter's

In the course of the afternoon, Peter Brown, the lately married blacksmith, came over to Thorne's to

"I am told," said Peter, "that there is a fine herd of deer which some of our folks have several times

It happened on the Thursday, when Peter Brown's wedding took place, that Master Caleb and Quincy stole

.— wood-duck on my distan le around. purposes, nd white playing within me the tufted crown intentional

I believe in those winged purposes, / And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me, / And

Fragments of three plays are held in the Hamlin Garland Collection at the University of Southern California

He published only one play, entitled "Under the Wheel: A Modern Play in Six Scenes."

Walt's favorite brother, Jeff played the piano and had a lively sense of humor.

the same here I only want you to be well again I do like that young fellow that is so kind to you, Peter

news and the Shakespeare controversy, agreeing that the Stratford actor was not the author of the plays

Peter Van Egmond. Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1972. Traubel, Horace.

Under the masks of another century we recognize the same human nature which is playing about us to-day

The play was given its first performance on May 7, 1886, in the Grand Theatre, Islington, London, by

Sadakichi (ca. 1867–1944) Like the character he played in the 1924 film The Thief of Bagdad, Whitman

Sadakichi Hartmann played court magician to successive bohemian circles.

to upbraid womankind, it is to the credit of Shakspeare and the women of his time, that in all his plays

Peter Uwe Hohendahl and Sander L. Gilman. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1991. 199–223.

Helena Modjeska (1840–1909) was a well-known Polish actress, particularly famous for playing Shakespearean

it—the affair of Leisler (1691) printer of the "Weekly Journal," (1735)—the trial of its printer, John Peter

When he makes "any kind of a decent deal" at all he just plays with millions—the other fellows witnessing

considerable of the "play" but somewhat less of the millions.

here in London very good-naturedly volunteered to stand to me for a picture of Consuelo & Hayden playing

Wednesday afternoon I played the delightful game of lawn-tennis with them and their friends & the following

day I was asked to go and play tennis at the Rectory two miles off.

You play a prominent part in this picture—seated at table bending over a nosegay of flowers, poetizing

such an one should be clothed in pretty dress has been my first consideration— & cudos necessarily plays

1 His earl ies t printed plays 1597 Romeo & Juliet Richard 3d & Richard 2d Chapman's trans. of Homer,

1596—his sone son Hamnet died, in the 12th year of his age. 1598 To this year, only five of his plays

"To be or not to be" is taken almost verbatim from Plato— —To the Iliad, every one of his best plays

—"What Pope says of some of the Plays of Shakespeare is probably true of all—that they were pieces of

His earliest printed plays

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animal—and left people to infer that he was some such inspired brute as Jove infurried (sic) , when he played

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King Edward VII, Gordon-Cumming was confronted and pressured to sign a document that he would not play

The theatres were played out. Ice-cream gardens did a heavy business.

Here were the calcined bone, fresh from Peter Cooper’s, the feldspar, glittering with mica and newly

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It should then be much out of doors, and should play, dance, sing, and shout as nature dictates.

In a 1946 essay Hughes expressed his belief that, since Whitman had played with slave children in his

Hugo's plays were also enjoying successful performances on the New York stage.

Whitman told Horace Traubel that "Hugo's immortal works were the dramas, the plays, the poems: least

it out vi et armis , the rest of the population of the building grouping around, either to see fair play

Appropriate for a poem about music, the sound effects are multiple, striking, and subtle (e.g., the play

under-hold, the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play

what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed; Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

under-hold, the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play

what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed; Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

hair rumpled over and blind- ing blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play

what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed, Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

hair rumpled over and blind- ing blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play

what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed, Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

naked in the swimming-bath," the "embrace of love and resistance" of two young boy wrestlers, the "play

presents women as exceedingly sexual, for "mad filaments, ungovernable shoots" of erotic attraction play

anticipating the description in the following lines: "The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play

Peter D. Oakey was the successor of Rev. James M. McDonald, mentioned below.

An Abraham Smith is included in a list of men who petitioned Governor Peter Stuyvesant to settle in this

area of Long Island and whom Peter Ross calls “the first citizens of Jamaica” (549).

See Peter Ross, A History of Long Island: from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (New York:

rivulets and bigger streams of literature—there is a splendid lesson that such notes as there is in the play

At the end of that interesting play, which I have seen, a great fellow who is in pursuit of it comes

Who will play his part for him? And Hawthorne—wasn't he expected?

How strange that Shelley and "Leaves of Grass" should play upon him together!

Whitman .—[ To Traubel ].— Did he suppose we intended that he should be left out of the play?

expansive life—a life which, while careless of sub- tleties, has turned unfailing reverence upon the play

For further reading, see Peter Adams, The Bowery Boys: Street Corner Radicals and the Politics of Rebellion

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