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Search : William White

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Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 15 December 1882

  • Date: December 15, 1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 2:310).

In the garden

  • Date: late 1850s
Text:

1850spoetryhandwritten1 leaf8.5 x 10 cm pasted to 20 x 16 cm; A composite leaf consisting of two pieces of white

[Earth]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

-51uva.00312xxx.00066xxx.00099[Earth]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf14.5 x 9.5 cm; On one leaf of white

W. A. Field to Hamilton Fish, 30 June 1869

  • Date: June 30, 1869
  • Creator(s): W. A. Field | Walt Whitman
Text:

communicated to the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of the Navy has been requested to keep the "Whiting

"Excelsior" (1856)

  • Creator(s): Rechel-White, Julie A.
Text:

Julie A.Rechel-White"Excelsior" (1856)"Excelsior" (1856)"Excelsior" appeared in the 1856 Leaves as "Poem

Texas Studies in Literature and Language 17 (1976): 777–785.Rechel-White, Julie A.

Saturday, March 16, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

s letters was one from Gleeson White (England). No one knew him.

A London woman's paper asked White to do the job. It was an article in a series—Writers Oversea.

I said: "I know: William spoke of them: Nelly showed me a pile of them together on his desk: he says

rather think not: he does not read the Greek itself; of course this does not mean that he's ignorant: William

W. asked me to repeat what William had said of him in Washington.

City of my walks and joys

  • Date: late 1850s
Text:

1850spoetryhandwritten1 leaf8.5 x 10 cm pasted to 20 x 16 cm; On a composite leaf consisting of two pieces of white

[Sometimes]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

51uva.00328xxx.00066xxx.00103[Sometimes]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9.5 cm; On one leaf of white

[How can there be immortality]

  • Date: about 1855
Text:

]about 1855poetryhandwritten1 leaf4.5 x 14.5 cm; These lines, appearing on a very small section of white

Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963)

  • Creator(s): Gutman, Huck
Text:

HuckGutmanWilliams, William Carlos (1883–1963)Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963) The influence of Walt

Whitman's poetic practice on William Carlos Williams was both seminal and immensely rich.

William Carlos Williams: An American Artist. New York: Oxford UP, 1970. Tapscott, Stephen.

American Beauty: William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman. New York: Columbia UP, 1984.

Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963)

[I dreamed in a dream of a]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00066xxx.00100[I dreamed in a dream of a]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf9.5 x 9 cm; On one leaf of white

[To the young man]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00337xxx.00066xxx.00104[To the young man]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9 cm; On one leaf of white

[O you whom I often and silently come where you are]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

often and silently come where you are]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf14.5 x 9 cm; On one leaf of white

Thoughts 5

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

O the huge sob—A few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—And then the women gone, Sinking there, while

Calamus 19

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Behold this swarthy and unrefined face—these gray eyes, This beard—the white wool, unclipt upon my neck

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 2 June 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

squash, crooked-necked crook- ed-necked squash, cowcumber, beets, pars- nip parsnip , carrot, turnip, white

the slow, lumbering cart, blood-dabbled and grease dropping, bears away from the slaughter-house, a white-armed

white- armed boy sitting on top of it, shouting Hi!

And I swear that I don't see why a man in gold spectacles and a white cravat stuck up in a library, stuck

Saturday, September 8th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

The American white and the Southern black will mix but not ally.

Now, the Southern white does not encourage such intermixtures: there are psychological, physiological

They are a study, too—the poor whites South: lank, sallow coughing, spitting, with no bellies (and bellies

Swinburne's new book upon William Blake, poet and artist—a great but neglected genius who was counted

Richard Parker's Widow

  • Date: April 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Neale, Narrative of the Mutiny at Nore (London: William Tegg, 1861).

toast, Mabbott (p. 122) remarks that Pelham (and sundry sources) state that Parker drank a glass of white

Annotations Text:

toast, Mabbott (p. 122) remarks that Pelham (and sundry sources) state that Parker drank a glass of white

Introduction to the 1855 Leaves of Grass Variorum

  • Creator(s): Nicole Gray
Text:

Based on the binder's records, William White argues that the total edition consisted of 795 copies, an

Williams & Co. to Mr. B. E. Perry.

Blodgett, Harold, Sculley Bradley, Arthur Golden, and William White, eds.

White, William. "The First (1855) 'Leaves of Grass': How Many Copies?"

White, William, ed. . 3 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1978. Whitman, Walt.

To a Cantatrice

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

On one section of the same leaf of white ruled laid paper used for To a Historian, and with another fragment

[scene in the woods on]

  • Date: 1863–1864
Text:

homemade notebook which contains, among other notes, an account of the retreat following the battle of White

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 11 October [1876]

  • Date: October 11, 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Oct 11 p m Dearest friend I am spending a few days down at the old farm, "White Horse" —wandering most

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 27 December 1890

  • Date: December 27, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Camden Sat: pm Dec: 27 '90 Snow storm two days—all white out—of course I am imprison'd—sent off four

Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Walt Whitman to James R. Osgood & Company, 7 June 1881

  • Date: June 7, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

typographical show of my poems—how they shall show (negatively as well as absolutely) on the black & white

Thoughts 5

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

O the huge sob—A few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—And then the women gone, Sinking there, while

The Pallid Wreath.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

is, Let it remain back there on its nail suspended, With pink, blue, yellow, all blanch'd, and the white

Day with Walt Whitman

  • Date: 8 November 1891
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

himself many details of the sick room—the ashen face against the pillow, the wasted hand, the long white

The cold, white mantel is massed with photographs. Faces of friends, evidently.

The woodwork is sombre white, and the paint is cracked badly in many places and is peeling off.

It was marked with a white tidy. Then more heaps of papers.

White curtains were drawn part way down.

“This Mighty Convlusion”: Whitman and Melville Write the Civil War

  • Date: 2019
  • Creator(s): Sten, Christopher | Hoffman, Tyler
Text:

Whitman, letter to William D.

See William H.

William Wordsworth,The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, 394; also at Melville’s Marginalia

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1980. ———.

Williams, Megan Rowley.

[Here the frailest leaves of me]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00095xxx.00105[Here the frailest leaves of me]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9.5 cm; On one leaf of white

halt in the shade

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 23 March [1878]

  • Date: March 23, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

about what I was wanting— Herb, I hope you will lay on while your hand is in & finish the black & white

Leaves of Grass 2

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In the night, in solitude, tears; On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand; Tears—not

Tears.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In the night, in solitude, tears, On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand, Tears

After the Sea-Ship.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

AFTER the sea-ship, after the whistling winds, After the white-gray sails taut to their spars and ropes

Calamus 14

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

hurry in and out, Not the air, delicious and dry, the air of the ripe summer, bears lightly along white

Tears.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In the night, in solitude, tears, On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand, Tears

After the Sea-Ship.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

AFTER the sea-ship, after the whistling winds, After the white-gray sails taut to their spars and ropes

Walt Whitman's New Book

  • Date: 11 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Shepard, Charles E.
Text:

and pealing, Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing, Out in the shadows there, milk-white

wending, Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting, Along the midnight edge, by those milk-white

Of The Weather

  • Date: 27 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In the street the sun beats down in one concentrated glare, beneath which white men wince and wilt.

Now are Spring and Summer Raglans discarded, and white-gossamer fabrics take their place.

The Frazer River Ferment

  • Date: 28 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There were then 4,000,000 adult white men in the Union, of whom 100,000, or one in 40, left for California

On the 1st of April, there were 150,000 adult white men in this State; 12,000 (some say 22,000) or one

Abolitionists Around

  • Date: May 12, 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

He said— “The American Government was a failure, and its dissolution was the question for white men as

country would some day assert their rights and their manhood, Union or no Union; that they would say to white

mass of the people sooner or later decide;—not an isolated association of men and women, black and white

airscud

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

deliciously aching, / Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous . . . . quivering jelly of love . . . white

Anna M. Wilkinson to Walt Whitman, 21 July 1884

  • Date: July 21, 1884
  • Creator(s): Anna M. Wilkinson
Annotations Text:

William White, 2:337).

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 6 February 1891

  • Date: February 6, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

In "The Colonel, at Home, in Sonoma County," (Overland, 17 [February, 1891], 200–208), Laura Lyon White

"Song of the Open Road" (1856)

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

To a new personal admirer

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

admirer1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 13 x 11.5 cm; leaf 2 20 x 16 cm; On two pieces of white

[I saw in Louisiana a]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00066xxx.00087[I saw in Louisiana a]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leaves15 x 9.5 cm; On two leaves of white

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to George S. Boutwell, 3 April 1869

  • Date: April 3, 1869
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

White and Errickson of the First Collection Dist. of Missouri—and to say that I approve of the compromise

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hamilton Fish, 20 April 1870

  • Date: April 20, 1870
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

Chase, seized at the same time with the "Catherine Whiting," and for alleged complicity with her.

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 8 January 1864

  • Date: January 8, 1864
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

The stuff itself is disgusting, the whole of it going to prove that the nigger is better than the white

Annotations Text:

Whitman also rejected arguments for white superiority; he marked an article on "The Slavonians and Eastern

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