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You must be quite a little better than you were this time last year and I do not now see why you should

Bucke and his brother-in-law William John Gurd were designing a gas and fluid meter to be patented in

The notes and addresses that were delivered at Whitman's seventieth birthday celebration in Camden, on

May 31, 1889, were collected and edited by Horace Traubel.

Ingersoll, and there were also speeches by the physicians Richard Maurice Bucke and Silas Weir Mitchell

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

Whether he could write poetry or not, he deserved the thanks of all true Americans for dealing metrical

Dear Sir— The writer desires to get up a course of lectures & readings to be given in this city this

This edition of Leaves presented many of the poems from the 1881 edition—although about one hundred were

Whitman received another ten guineas for each book, and they were both in print through at least 1902

whom to vote or which school to attend.Classical rhetoricians, such as Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero, were

So a person may simultaneously identify herself as an American, a rugby player, an economist, a woman

Unlike historicist approaches, which are primarily concerned with readers who were contemporaries with

In 1848, Whitman accepted a position at the New Orleans Crescent, moving to the city at a time of intense

states overthrew their leaders, and over fifty smaller revolutions broke out.Although the revolutions were

He even included biblical allusions in "Resurgemus" to highlight his belief that the revolutions were

renamed "Poem of The Dead Young Men of Europe, The 72d and 73d Years of These States" in 1856, and in 1860

European Revolutions and the American Literary Renaissance. New Haven: Yale UP, 1988.Whitman, Walt.

Delhi still holds out, but Cawnpore, a city upon which the fate of the North West depended, has been

mentioned that the revival movement which has attained such importance in New York, has extended to this city

The only fault observable in the arrangements was that the seats were placed too close to each other

The participators, however, were mostly laymen—who, with others of the audience, comprised many of the

As we have said, they were pointed, brief, impressive and effective—but apart from the occasion and circumstances

Porter’s remarks were designed to show the nature, reality, and importance of the object which had called

The Union Prayer Meeting begun three weeks ago in this city is continued this week in the Reformed Dutch

An American bard at last!

Where is the vehement growth of our cities?

Walt Whitman was born on Long Island, on the hills about thirty miles from the greatest American city

From the American Phrenological Journal. AN ENGLISH AND AN AMERICAN POET. .

"Were the dark ages poetical?" it will be asked.

Whitman's poetry is like no other that ever was written—boldly conceived, bluntly expressed, purely American

Half-Paralytic"—these and other titles for his bundle of jottings, made during and after the war, were

Whitman's liking; and in his criticism of modern society, although at bottom he believes that the American

—these, with a few inevitable reserves, were all acceptable to, and accepted by, the author of Leaves

There were two or three I shall probably never forget.

Elsewhere there is eloquent recognition of the work done for American literature by Longfellow, Bryant

The first writings of Carlyle and Emerson were despised and rejected; and yet these very writings have

had so profound an influence in forming the thought of our period, that it were impossible to imagine

It seems as if, so far, there were some natural repugnance between a literary and professional life,

A large part of the volume is occupied by Whitman's diary during the American War.

Some of the sketches were written as letters to friends during the war and afterwards.

My father's side—probably the fifth generation from the first English arrivals in New England—were at

The theatre, too, he delighted in, and saw all the great actors and singers, American or European, in

native Americans.

Second, there were in the Northern army men from every State in the Union, without exception.

Garfield said, "Do gentlemen know that (leaving out all the border States) there were fifty regiments

The popular American humorist Artemus Ward (1834-1867) (pseudonym of Charles Farrar Browne) influenced

It is curious that the writings of the "Poet of Democracy" have had to wait so long before they were

family and ancestors; notes of his experiences during the Civil War, contributed at the time they were

The "familiar letter" method has advantages of its own, "portraying American eyesights and incidents

The great cities reek with respectable as much as non-respectable robbery and scoundrelism.

the spirit of civilized communism and socialism is not far enough removed from the minds of our American

But his greatest grievance is that there is no American literature, as such.

But Artemus Ward is as redolent of the American soil as Walt Whitman, and while he is not, in any sense

But granted that we have no distinctive American literature, with the exception of Walt Whitman himself

Into this volume he has gathered fragments of writing, some of which were produced as long ago as 1860

, and all of which are illustrative of his thoughts and his experiences in the woods and the city, in

, The best farms—others toiling and planting, and he unavoidably reaps, The noblest and costliest cities—others

feeling are caught, and of the grand yet melancholy suggestiveness which sets the whole picture, as it were

Is he American? Is he new? Is he rousing? Does he feel, and make me feel?"

That he is American in one sense we must admit.

He is American as certain forms of rowdyism and vulgarity, excrescences on American institutions, are

American.

But that he is American in the sense of being representative of American taste, intellect, or cultivation

Upon one we find this faultless epigram on "The Bravest Soldiers": "Brave, brave were the soldiers (high

Sands at Seventy" contain no word that is objectionable as certain passages of the "Leaves of Grass" were

Yet, as these latter are nearly all very brief, many of them not exceeding a dozen lines each, there

If it were spread out as often is done, the poetry alone would fill a thin volume, while another could

Whitman's parents were "Hicksite" Quakers; and Whitman himself, in his early days, saw something of the

Two lines called "The Bravest Soldiers" are characteristic: "Brave, brave were the soldiers (high named

Walt Whitman continued steadily through '63, '64, and '65, to visit the sick and wounded of the American

armies, both on the field and in the hospitals in and around Washington city.

Some were scratched down from narratives he heard and itemized while watching, or writing, or leading

or Southey—ever depicted the woes of war so powerfully and touchingly as Walt Whitman does, as it were

It was in the same battle both were hit.

and in England, a perfect specimen of choice typography,) came forth in Boston, the current year, 1860

Thus the book is a gospel of self-assertion and self-reliance for every American reader—which is the

. $1.00); the dainty American reissue of George Meredith's subtile sonnet sequence, 'Modern Love" (with

These works of two American and one English poet represent a great deal that is most salient in modern

As to the poems, Emerson long ago said they were poetry; Tennyson, Swinburne, not to speak of vapid critics

Much every day were there room to say it. Short and clear let the words be.

We answer, that what these all were to the distinctive spirit of their generations, though in utter contrast

Julia Ann Moore (1847-1920), an American poet, was dubbed the "Sweet Singer of Michigan" by James F.

.; Julia Ann Moore (1847-1920), an American poet, was dubbed the "Sweet Singer of Michigan" by James

Bryant, Lowell, and a host of others, but it must be admitted that little or nothing distinctively American

Each though is, as it were, a leaf or blade therof which he offers to the reader.

Far from looking upon this immeasurable universe as the stakes, as it were, of an eternal game of Whist

I DREAMED IN A DREAM I dreamed in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the

It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city And in all their looks and words.

upon the angry bull, the majority of cultivated minds begin to see that Walt Whitman is the most American

of poets and one of the brightest lights of American literature.

Without attempting to argue the point it may be said that were all records of America destroyed and Walt

Dire were the grimaces of the mourners in high places, and dire are their grimaces still.

There were plenty of criticisms to make, even after one had finished crying Oh!

stoppage and never can be stoppage, If I, you, and the worlds, and all beneath or upon their surfaces, Were

from the modern Athens he now appears undimmed and, it is to be hoped, victorious in the neighbor city

adding stroke after stroke, part after part, as serenely and good-naturedly as if the rest of mankind were

been building so long is a man—a new democratic man, whom he believes to be typical of the future American

Song of the Broad Axe' and 'To Working-Men' comprise most of those poems which, in other editions, were

inflexible as it is—forms, after all, the truest illustration, if not representative, of the real American

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

Leaves of Grass Boston: Thayer and Eldridge. 1860–61. pp.456.

Walt Whitman is sane enough to do the poetry for an American newspaper or two: from whose columns these

supposed to answer this question: All I mark as my own, you shall offset it with your own, Else it were

Presently he dissects his own individuality a little more closely: Walt Whitman, an American, one of

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

Year 85 of the States. (1860–61.)

Here are the incomplete but real utterances of New York city, of the prairies, of the Ohio and Mississippi

,—the volume of American autographs.

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becomes a question how such a book can have acquired a vogue and popularity that could induce an American

will in reputation dearly pay for the fervid encomium with which he introduced the Author to the American

described by the following equation,—as Tupper is to English Humdrum, so is Walt Whitman to the American

Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, year 85 of the States. 1860—61. London: Trübner and Co.

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

Emerson, and we looked over the volume of one who has been declared about 'to inaugurate a new era in American

those faultless monsters, whom the world ne'er saw, whose 'mission' it is to comfort the sable population

Sir Rohan's Ghost: A Romance (1860) was written by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford.

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

Sir Rohan's Ghost: A Romance (1860) was written by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford.

[From the Albion, May 1860.] Messrs.

The above was written, and almost all in type, before we were aware that any similar notice had been

refusal to recognize such a distinction as decent and indecent—is monstrous beyond precedent, and were

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A NEW AMERICAN POEM.

It has been a favorite subject of complaint with English critics and reviewers, in treating of American

We have an American poem. Several of them. Yes, sir. Also a great original representative mind.

She married Heenan in September 1859; it became public knowledge in January 1860.

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the New Nebuchadnezzar" in a list of Henry Clapp's bon mots in the New-York Saturday Press, May 26, 1860

On 16 April 1860, in Farnborough, England, Heenan fought Tom Sayers, the British Champion, in the "World

She married Heenan in September 1859; it became public knowledge in January 1860.

In February 1860 Alexander Menken revealed that he had never divorced Adah and she was publicly reviled

published a number of poems in the Sunday Mercury, including "The Autograph on the Soul" in April 1860

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Boston, Thayer & Eldridge. 1860 Washington, Philp & Solomons.

and the opening words of his critique on the latter were graduated to a point no finer than to say, "

If the Aristarch of "Scotch Reviewers" were still in the flesh, and felt called, in the spirit of the

It were no great wonder, after the success of Walt Whitman, if many persons who have never talked any

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

Year 85 of the States—(1860–61) This is a new edition of the work of Walt Whitman, which some years ago

rampant, but not insufferable, fully believing himself to be a representative man and poet of the American

We should advise nobody to read it unless he were curious in literary monstrosities, and had a stomach

The radical abolitionist sympathies of Thayer & Eldrige, the publishers of the 1860–61 edition of Leaves

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

The radical abolitionist sympathies of Thayer & Eldrige, the publishers of the 1860–61 edition of Leaves

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The book might pass for merely hectoring and ludicrous, if it were not something a great deal more offensive

Punch made sarcastic allusion to it some time ago, as a specimen of American literature.

It is good because it shows that the American mind does not become callous, with all its closeness of

. ***** They were the glory of the race of rangers, Matchless with a horse, a rifle, a song, a supper

if our colors were struck and the fighting done?

Only three guns were in use.

That he was an American, we knew before, for, aside from America, there is no quarter of the universe

he was one of the roughs was also tolerably plain; but that he was a kosmos, is a piece of news we were

Schiller, had fulfilled their tasks and gone to other spheres; and all that remained with few exceptions, were

They stand, as it were, on clear mountains of intellectual elevation, and with keenest perception discern

He wears strange garb, cut and made by himself, as gracefully as a South American cavalier his poncho

A portion of that thought which broods over the American nation, is here seized and bodied forth by a

bibliographical data is missing; reprinted in Whitman, Leaves of Grass Imprints(Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860

bibliographical data is missing; reprinted in Whitman, Leaves of Grass Imprints(Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860

repute, and might, on that account, obtain access to respectable people, unless its real character were

impossible to imagine how any man's fancy could have conceived such a mass of stupid filth, unless he were