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"One day in the summer we were riding in the horsecars about Washington, and General Garfield came in

Yet there were grim and repellant traits in Walt Whitman.

Stedman and his family were seated in the opposite box. Others present were Samuel L. Clemens, H.

His attitude and that of Lincoln were identical.

In the war "my sympathies were aroused to their utmost pitch, and I found that mine were equaled by the

Afterwards a few visitors were admitted to see him.

Stedman and his family were seated in the opposite box. Others present were Samuel L. Clemens, H.

These attacks ofthe were Walt press probably regarded by Whitman much as the sailors were by Voltaire's

The subject of each is the city morgue, Reading the American poem, you are melted to tears, your deepest

fancy your Oh, women were the prizeforyou !

But the humiliated they were acquitted.

The man was Whitman, and the proofs were those of his new edition.

of magnificent distances" also a city of astonishing architectural contrasts.

These were his war pieces, the Drum Taps, then nearly ready for publication.

Whitman and Chase were the two men I saw most of, at that time, in Washington.

There were two of these, and they were especially interesting to me, as I knew something of the disturbed

duk.00029xxx.00048xxx.00121MS q 27Remembrances I plant American groundBetween 1850 and 1855poetry1 leafhandwritten

On the reverse (duk.00884) is a list of rivers, lakes, and cities that likely contributed to Poem of

Salutation in the 1856 edition of Leaves.; duk.00884 Remembrances I plant American ground

Remembrances I plant American ground with, for you young men Lessons to think, I diffuse scatter in the

Written on the back of this leaf is a list of rivers, lakes, and cities that may have contributed to

Remembrances I plant American ground

.; Written on the back of this leaf is a list of rivers, lakes, and cities that may have contributed

and 1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf8 x 15.5 cm; This manuscript was probably written between 1850 and 1860

The lines are similar in subject to lines in the poem To One Shortly To Die, first published in the 1860

Fragmentary lines written on the back of this manuscript leaf (uva.00561) were used in the poem eventually

.— This manuscript was probably written between 1850 and 1860.

lines are similar in subject to lines in the poem "To One Shortly to Die," first published in the 1860

Fragmentary lines written on the back of this manuscript leaf were used in the poem eventually titled

This manuscript was probably written between 1850 and 1860.

lines are similar in subject to lines in the poem "To One Shortly to Die," first published in the 1860

manuscript are similar in subject to lines in the poem "To One Shortly to Die," first published in the 1860

for instance, the line: "You are to die—Let others tell you what they please, I cannot prevaricate" (1860

from digital images of the original.; Fragmentary lines written on the back of this manuscript leaf were

Pieces of rib bones were found measuring nine inches broad.

Four teeth were brought up to Jamaica for inspection, one measuring 17½ inches around, with roots 6½

On the reverse is a partial draft of the 1860 poem Calamus 9, which was dropped from subsequent editions

Some early readers and critics were in ardent agreement, considering Whitman the prophet of a new religion

Sermons and religious tracts, while less influential than in the colonial period, were still important

A Religious History of the American People. New Haven: Yale UP, 1972.Allen, Gay Wilson.

The Oriental Religions and American Thought: Nineteenth-Century Explorations.

Minor Prophecy: Walt Whitman's New American Religion.

the claims of the genre Culturists]undatedprosehandwritten1 leaf; One leaf with notes about how American

Selections and subjects from this notebook were used in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, including

The first several lines of the poem (not including this line) were revised and published in The American

clipped-out segment of leaf002v, which continues onto the page that remains here, includes lines that were

Myself and Mine": "Let others praise eminent men and hold up peace—I hold up agitation and conflict" (1860

The first several lines of the poem (not including this line) were revised and published in The American

and the neighbor must fetch out a cup and go half halves; for both loved tea, and had no money, and were

Selections and subjects from this notebook were used in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, including

Selections and subjects from this notebook were used in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, including

We heard a little while ago that you were seriously ill, but hope you are now much better.

For a complete list of revisions to the language of the Franklin Evans version of the story that were

Early Youth" section of Specimen Days and Collect (1882), these two paragraphs of narrative framing were

He seemed to be looked upon by the others as a sort of prompter, from whom they were to take cue.

A second, third and fourth time were the glasses filled, and the effect thereof began to be perceived

At the end of that hour, the words "perhaps when you arrive she may be dead ," were not effaced from

For a complete list of revisions to the language of the Franklin Evans version of the story that were

Early Youth" section of Specimen Days and Collect (1882), these two paragraphs of narrative framing were

Meetings in which speakers described their conversion experiences were an important part of the Washington

If our city would send to the national legislature two mechanics, one merchant, and one man of moderate

Our city, in its political bearings and influence, has a great control over a large portion of the Union

"We've Been Here Before: William Henry Harrison Showed Rich Presidential Candidates How to Win," American

"We've Been Here Before: William Henry Harrison Showed Rich Presidential Candidates How to Win," American

J.R.LeMasterRedpath, James [1833–1891]Redpath, James [1833–1891]In a time when lyceums were failing,

Abolitionist author of The Public Life of Captain John Brown and editor of the North American Review,

Redpath was a writer for the firm of Thayer and Eldridge, who were closely identified with abolition.

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1990. Redpath, James [1833–1891]

[Impromptu on Buffalo City's monument to, and re-burial of the old Iroquois orator, October 9, 1884.]

Conrad M.Sienkiewicz"Recorders Ages Hence" (1860)"Recorders Ages Hence" (1860)"Recorders Ages Hence"

was first published in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

American Studies 19.2 (1978): 5–22.Killingsworth, M. Jimmie.

The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry. Austin: U of Texas P, 1979.Whitman, Walt.

"Recorders Ages Hence" (1860)

the sick, sick dread lest the one he lov'd might secretly be indifferent to him, Whose happiest days were

the sick, sick dread lest the one he lov'd might secretly be indifferent to him, Whose happiest days were

the sick, sick dread lest the one he lov'd might secretly be indifferent to him, Whose happiest days were

the sick, sick dread lest the one he lov'd might secretly be indifferent to him, Whose happiest days were

LukeMancusoReconstructionReconstructionIn many ways, the Reconstruction years (1863–1877) were a time

A year later, American naturalist John Burroughs published the second Whitman biography, Notes on Walt

democracy and backward to the Civil War as the impetus for the growth of American promise.

Though recently critics have recovered the 1855 Leaves, the 1860 Leaves, Drum-Taps, Democratic Vistas

citizenship; and the Fifteenth Amendment (1870), which granted suffrage to African-American males.

appear in section 6 of the final version ofStarting from Paumanok, first published as Proto-Leaf in the 1860

Thomas Proctor of this city, giving some personal recollections of Walt Whitman.

Proctor resided in the same house with Whitman, and their relations were somewhat intimate.

They were translated into all languages; he was ranked with Homer and Virgil; Goethe and Napoleon Bonaparte

were his warm admirers—and the collections of English poetry do not now include a line of his composing

Thomas K.DeanRealismRealism Although entrenched in the "American Renaissance," Whitman wrote through

the period of American realism.

Perhaps the most important literary technique contributing to an American democratic art is the common

The Ferment of Realism: American Literature, 1884–1919. New York: Free Press, 1965. Folsom, Ed.

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1992. 3–15. Zweig, Paul. Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet.

) in the new forty-five poem "Calamus" section of the 1860 .

The ninth poem ("I dreamed in a dream of a city where all the men were like brothers"), consisting of

(among which, revised and reordered, were the "Live Oak" poems).

Martin (Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press, 1992), p. 186.

Ed Folsom (Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press, 1994), p. 175.

3116yal.00324xxx.00861Real American Red Men1870–1872prose2 leaveshandwritten; Draft of a prose piece

Real American Red Men

Real American Red Men

letters, the fact is that from an early age he read widely in many areas: not only in English and American

for Whitman the four best American poets.

Also on that list were Homer and Aeschylus, as well as the Bible.

American Literature 26 (1954): 337–362.Traubel, Horace. With Walt Whitman in Camden. 9 vols.

"An English and an American Poet." Walt Whitman: A Critical Anthology. Ed. Francis Murphy.

Vol. 1 [New York: The American News Company, 1864], 7–11).

Meenagh, "Archbishop John Hughes and the New York Schools Controversy of 1840–43," American Nineteenth

Matsell (1811–1877) was a Democrat who, in 1840, was appointed police commissioner of New York City at

When we came up, they were just in the crisis of their game, and occupying clear across the walk.

And so we concocted this foregoing (what were you about, at half past 8, last night, dear reader?)

Vol. 1 [New York: The American News Company, 1864], 7–11).

Meenagh, "Archbishop John Hughes and the New York Schools Controversy of 1840–43," American Nineteenth

Matsell (1811–1877) was a Democrat who, in 1840, was appointed police commissioner of New York City at

31 years old, making him the youngest individual to ever receive the appointment (William Hunt, American

was noted that the plagiarized piece went "word for word, and line for line; occasionally patches were

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) was an American critic, poet and editor of The Atlantic.

Lord Tennyson lives in the parish in the I. of Wight of which my father is the Rector & that they were

William Dean Howells (1837–1920) was the novelist and "Dean of American Letters" who wrote The Rise of

His novels covered such topics as adultry, domestic violence, and women's rights and were very popular

Many of them were later adapted into silent films.

Reverend Blathwayt was married to Christina Hogarth Blathwayt (1823–1905), and the couple were the parents

Those who were present at the German fete , yesterday, at Myrtle avenue Park, in which the Williamsburgh

convivial and friendly talk with each other, or invested their spare cash at the tempting booths that were

writings are in certain points open to criticism, they yet show extraordinary power, & are more deeply American

seemed the sterile & stingy nature, as if too much handiwork or too much lymph in the temperament were

I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is

which was received by me just on leaving home to go to Canada, & thence to some of your West N.Y. cities

If you wish to live in that least attractive (to me) of cities, I must think you can easily do so.

writings are in certain points open to criticism, they show extraordinary power, & are more deeply American

At the bottom is a longer prose note describing Whitman's goals for a large work about the American West

JonPanishRadicalismRadicalismWhitman's adulthood coincided with an extremely tumultuous time in American

From 1840 onward, politically active Americans like Whitman were energized and agitated not only by the

Disagreements over these and other issues contributed to the increasing fractiousness among Americans

in American democracy and his fear of disunion.

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1994. 172-181.Reynolds, David S.

He has been adopted as a poetic father by poets of Native American, Asian, African, European, and Chicano

As a result, Whitman's racial attitudes were unstable and inconsistent.

In contrast to his belief in the inferiority of African Americans and Native Americans, Whitman viewed

"Walt Whitman and Asian American Writers." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 10 (1993): 179-194. 

Resources for American Literary Study 15 (1985): 205-208. Sill, Geoffrey.

Copies of the volume were withdrawn so that the sequel could be added.

several poems, adding eighteen new poems to those that appeared in Drum-Taps, and all of these poems were

Later, these poems were folded into Leaves of Grass, and by the time the final arrangement of Leaves

Jules Laforgue (1860–1887) was a French free-verse poet born in Uruguay.

"Then there were none of the pecuniary results Brisbane speaks of?"

In the next place I am one of the few in the West, I suppose I am the only one in this city, who has

I think there is no other American poet that has ever soared so high as you do at times, and hence no

world does move, though,” said Gallileo Galileo , after his forced retraction of the heresies, as they were

Rothschild, one of the firm of world-celebrated Bankers, was lately accepted by Parliament from the city

Lecturers, too, on the same important topic occasionally edify country and city audiences, and reap both

extract only one short poem with its characteristic foot-note: FOR QUEEN VICTORIA'S BIRTHDAY An American

—"Very little as we Americans stand this day, with our sixty-five or seventy millions of population,