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newspaper press; but there is a large and numerous class, aye, the most numerous, especially in the great cities

Hardly a newspaper in the city advocated his election—even the News, the go-the-whole-hog organ of his

As with most Americans, Whitman looked to the president more than any other leader, both to deal with

the great questions of the day and to embody the ideals and aspirations of Americans past, present,

Whitman had ever heard of him.The early presidents, especially Washington, Jefferson and Jackson, were

Whitman's parents, in common with many Americans of their time, named three of their sons after George

American Giant: Walt Whitman and His Times. New York: Harper, 1941. Presidents, United States

in the ranks of the Democratic party; for Douglas cannot afford to lose the support of the South in 1860

the North had rendered him unavailable as a candidate; and that if he wishes for better success in 1860

For instance, a Temperance man will prove to you beyond a doubt that nearly half the adults in the city

Premonition was published as the introductory poem to the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass under the title

verso of leaf 15 and part of leaf 16 appears a draft of what would become section 11 of Calamus in the 1860

works are reflections on the end of life or the afterlife.The remainder of Whitman's pre-Leaves poems were

Most of the poems were published in various New York area newspapers and magazines.

In the 1860 edition of Leaves it was revised and retitled "Europe, The 72d and 73d Years of These States

sentimental in nature and imitative of William Cullen Bryant and other popular nineteenth-century American

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921. Pre-Leaves Poems

Likewise, when the upper text feels compelled to carve out an ideal American plan for moral democracy

publication into a shadowy existence that effectively obscured its place as a pioneering manifesto of American

In this text of the Preface, punctuation was normalized, and with Whitman's consent deletions were made

in the 1856 and 1860 editions of Leaves of Grass.

Now the time has come for the American bard to come forth and write the poetry of his nation and its

American Bard. The Original Preface to Leaves of Grass Arranged in Verse.

texts still bore the imprint "Leaves of Grass" on their title pages, but their rhetorical energies were

as the "composite nation" (741) which welcomed with tolerance all immigrants to be assimilated as Americans

The poet was thus enabled to welcome the renovated compact of United States which Americans could increasingly

The notion of American nationality, as the culmination of Western history, reverberates throughout the

both sides, in campaigns or contests, or after them, or in hospitals or fields south of Washington City

The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature.

The largeness of nature or the nation were monstrous without a corresponding largeness and generosity

—As if it were necessary to trot back generation after generation to the eastern records!

The American poets are to enclose old and new for America is the race of races.

For such the expression of the American poet is to be transcendant and new.

Steven P.Schneider"Prairie-Grass Dividing, The" (1860)"Prairie-Grass Dividing, The" (1860)"The Prairie-Grass

such sweeping praise may have had a hand in the slaughter of the buffalo or the killing of Native Americans

describes in Democratic Vistas as "the counterbalance and offset of our materialistic and vulgar American

The Prairie in Nineteenth-Century American Poetry. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1994.Whitman, Walt.

"Prairie-Grass Dividing, The" (1860)

In 1860 Whitman designated it section 25 of Calamus, transforming the title into a new first line and

with which he regarded the western landscape and the men and women who erected homes, towns, and cities

is not so much a hymn to beauty, innocence, or creative fertility as it is a hymn in praise of population

A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude, Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and

A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude, Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and

And Howard Gillman's insights on American political history and pragmatic philosophy were instrumental

American democratic values and ideals.

were able to translate their ideals into successful public policy.

signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir."

If so, the seeds of doubt were probably latent in Whitman's poetics from the start.

At heart an American chauvinist much in the Whitman mold, Pound "equated his own hope for an American

Risorgimento with Whitman's faith in man's [especially the American's] ability to realize his divine

Cantos—that one could sing one's self as a national and even universal paradigm, and "that a modern American

"Clothing the American Adam: Pound's Tailoring of Walt Whitman." Ezra Pound Among the Poets. Ed.

most obvious Whitmanian heteronym and the author of the ode "Saudação a Walt Whitman," presents the American

with Whitman's after the publication of Toda a América (1926), an attempt to enlarge Whitman's Americanism

Essays were written and collections of poems were translated and published to support both views.

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1995.Andrade, Mário de. Poesias Completas. Ed. D.Z. Manfio.

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1992. 167–181.____. "The Whitman/Pessoa Connection."

.— Yesterday was an eventful day in New York city politics.

and wrote police and coroner's stories for the New York Sun.Several of his early poems and stories were

By 1857 Whitman could note in the Daily Times that there were some three to five million spiritualists

The expressions of religion and morality in Whitman's early magazine writings were largely conventional

Among his models for the brashly independent but fundamentally sound American, he turned to the Bowery

Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville.

Wendell Phillips’s satire was as truthful as amusing when he said—“Put an American baby six months old

the whole by calling them together in a meeting, when a magniloquent preamble and two resolutions were

about the vessel on her homeward trip, that the excellent provisions to which the resolution referred were

Southerner calls a meeting of his fellow travellers from that section—at which we are told speeches were

is a place where poor devils much do congregate, we proceed at once to say that, in any event, no city

think, too, there is wisdom in what Conkling says of the late contest at the polls, that the people were

Other influences on Walt Whitman's politics were the panics of 1819, 1837, 1857, and 1873, which triggered

of the Democratic party culminated in the disruption of American democracy.

New York: Museum of the City of New York, 1992. 4–5.____. Whitman the Political Poet.

Main Currents in American Thought: The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America. Vol. 3.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921.Zweig, Paul. Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet.

probably from conscientious motives, separated themselves from a political organisation to which they were

The Democratic party hold a mass ratification meeting in the City Hall Park on Wednesday (to-morrow)

The call is signed by the sub-committee of the City Committee—though one would think the County Committee

By this means the City Committee men secure the power of framing the resolutions to be adopted by the

Driggs is on the committee of arrangements, we can see how this superseding of the County by the City

Moderate men among the Republicans as well as Americans think Mr.

Whitman's tenure at the Brooklyn Daily Times paralleled the seemingly inexorable breakdown of the American

broad-based prosperity, a position he used to successfully secure the presidency in the election of 1860

As Whitman recalled to Horace Traubel in 1889 , "we were originally Democrats, but when the time came

we went over with a vengeance: it was no role, no play, for us: we were at once what the church would

Politics Journal of American History 2023 110 3 419–48 Lause, Mark A.

It is a frequent remark that we Americans do not give enough encouragement to the fine arts.

Lithographs are images drawn on finely polished limestone that were then run through special printing

The first color lithographs (chromos) in America were printed in Boston in 1840.

The works were generally sold through auction houses, fancy goods stores, or distributed by image peddlers

Yet the average intellect and education of the American people is ahead of all other parts of the world

Lithographs are images drawn on finely polished limestone that were then run through special printing

The first color lithographs (chromos) in America were printed in Boston in 1840.

The works were generally sold through auction houses, fancy goods stores, or distributed by image peddlers

Michele Bogart, "The Development of a Popular Market for Sculpture in America: 1850–1880," Journal of American

Some of his poems were not translated until the twenty-first century, and others still remain unknown

Międzyrzecki's translation of "Poets to Come" appeared in a collection of American poetry meaningfully

Both translators were active in the first decade of the new millennium—Boczkowski published his first

While there were no real problems with translating the dynamics of the latter—rendered as pędzę nazad

Only by reading the 1860 edition, which has never been translated into Polish, could a Polish reader

object of this call was kept secret even from the officers themselves, and it was understood that they were

At the hour appointed, however, each of the Captains were presented with a copy of Mr.

range of contexts" and there "is evidence he befriended some of the officers he met; [as such] they were

Times served as Whitman's primary, though not exclusive, employer between the second (1856) and third (1860

Whitman's writings on policing for the Brooklyn Daily Times come at a crucial moment in the history of American

While this transition was relatively smooth in Brooklyn, it led to outright rioting in New York City,

Few Impressions of Walt Whitman The Conservator June 1896 57 Greenspan, Ezra Walt Whitman and the American

The returns of the Captains who have submitted to the new law were first sent in, and as they were addressed

to the right person in the estimation of the Deputy, they were received as usual.

The returns were destroyed in the same manner as the others. Capt.

Mullin's return were sent in by a Police officer, directed to the "Chief," and as promptly sent back

Case of the 3d, were presented in much the same manner and shared the same fate.

bring the counties adjoining New York within the same measure of police legislation as that of the city

Were the Court of Appeals to decide that question in favor of the Legislature, the point is so clear

But in a republic, the man who would coolly and deliberately plunge a city into anarchy, by refusing

has applied to the Counsel of the Police Board for a compendium of all the ordinances of the two cities

every policeman in New York with a small book containing this collection, so far as relates to that city

The Counsel’s report relative to this city is that “there are no ordinance of the city of Brooklyn particularly

In this “City of Churches” we are a law into ourselves; we have (in most parts of the city, if not in

Robinson was the originator and patentee of the system which has been in operation in this city, and

the new law, and settle it for themselves by ordering the construction of the required works at the city’s

of the General Superintendent may be instantaneously made known at every Station House in the two cities

Without this, the police force of the two cities could never be united in its operation and effectual

Robinson, having now the exclusive control of the telegraph apparatus in both cities, designs to assimilate

the major publishing contexts for Whitman editions in Spanish have been Barcelona, Madrid, Mexico City

Álvaro Armando Vasseur (1878–1969) is the first Latin American known to have translated Walt Whitman's

Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, to two French diplomats, Vasseur was proud of his Latin Americanness, and

In his work, Vasseur appeals to the pride of his fellow Latin Americans by asserting Latin America's

Perhaps in part as a result of fascist censorship, Concha Zardoya eliminates the Latin American bias

Steven P.Schneider"Poets to Come" (1860)"Poets to Come" (1860)"Poets to Come" was first published as

number 14 of "Chants Democratic" in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

opening "Inscriptions" section of Leaves of Grass in 1881.In this poem Whitman addresses future American

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1992.Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Ed. Sculley Bradley and Harold W.

"Poets to Come" (1860)

Several ladies called, and a number of "outsiders," and all were received with due empressment empressement

There were over three hundred visitors in the course of the evening, some from England.

gave some times of his printer life, as a young man (1838 to 1850), and his working in different cities

In the course of the evening various little speeches were made, and Mr.

P HILADELPHIA , September 15 —The last sunbeams were shining through the rustling leaves of the elm trees

side street in Camden this evening, and the last honey bee hovered over the fragrant blossoms that were

Several large sheets of paper were folded up within.

On them were scrawled the names of a number of prominent men in the various walks of life, but not a

"Some of them I do not know; some are very dear friends; a great many other friends were not sent to.

evolution of poetry in America, was written in 1881 and published in the February issue of the North American

process—present its own great literatures (476).Whitman's praise for Shakespeare's profound influence on American

Only then would the universal appeal of American literature rise above the great works of John Milton

"Walt Whitman: Poet of the American Culture-Soul."

The essay appeared in the February 1881 issue of The North American Review.

These corrections were made after the piece's initial publication, and reflect changes that Whitman made

He sees in the American future the grandest realisation of centuries of idealism. . . .

He is the clear forerunner of the great American poet, long longed for, often prophesied."

As if it were necessary to trot back generation after generation to the Eastern records!"

"I will report all heroism from an American point of view." "America always!

I assert that all past days were what they should have been.

writings—and we do not hesitate to say that it is a volume admirably calculated to convince those who were

that the book is not amenable to the laws against sending obscene literature through the mails; and were

and there, With ranging hills on the banks, with many a line against the sky, and shadows, And the city

He could not have been bred anywhere but in a certain part of New York city a generation ago—in any other

And American letters were in a peculiar transition state when he made his first appearance in print,

We were aware of this, and expected in an American poet some one who would sing for us gently, in a minor

And to explain it evident and sufficient causes were producible, and were produced.

American democracy is as yet but half-formed.

But if the American nation is his hero, let it be observed that it is the American nation as the supposed

These were the views of pious persons of the thirteenth century.

the woman of the Indian tribes, are represented in the "Songs of the Sierras" as never before in American

Whitman is uncomfortable with system, and shares with his fellow cultural nationalists the reflex American

Kummings argues, the vernacularism is thorough enough to be prescriptive: the American poet must be a

Whitman's catalogues of American place names, his use of Native American and Spanish words, of street

slang, his coinages, gorge an imperial English in its American moment.

Canadian Review of American Studies 7 (1976): 119–131.Matthiessen, F.O. American Renaissance.

Marina Camboni's translation of the poem that would later become "Poets to Come," as it appears in the 1860

visage, Vous laissant le soin de poser et de résoudre le problème, Attendant de vous l'essentiel. (1860

volver luego la cara y dejaros la prueba y la definición, esperando de vosotros lo más importante. 1860

volver luego la cara y dejaros la prueba y la definición, esperando de vosotros lo más importante. 1860