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"We Americans devote an official day to it every year; yet I sometimes fear the real article is almost

of women and women's rights, she was also interested in the place of literature and the arts in American

Parton's biography of Andrew Jackson (1860) is considered a classic of nineteenth-century historical

Hamilton included him in the fifth and last volume of his vast collection of parodies of English and American

Hamilton pointed out that most of the parodies of Whitman were unfair because so few people had actually

American Literature in Parody. New York: Twayne, 1955.Hamilton, Walter, ed.

Parodies of the Works of English and American Authors. 1888. Vol. 5.

New York: American Library Service, 1923.Wells, Carolyn, ed. A Parody Anthology.

Parks are required, of all cities, least in a suburban city like Brooklyn; and of all locations Ridgewood

Cypress Hills and Evergreens —which will when finished be park enough for ten times our present population

The 14th and 12th wards of the city are the localities were parks should be made, some quarter century

present and until that period we have quite as much open space and as many breathing spots as our population

5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, a collection of people began to congregate in the Park, Most likely City

Hall Park, near the intersection of Broadway and Park Row in lower Manhattan, just south of New York City

Purdy (birth and death dates unknown) served on the New York City council as President of the Board of

Valentine, Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York for 1853 [New York City: McSpedon & Baker

A great portion of the audience were women.

.; Most likely City Hall Park, near the intersection of Broadway and Park Row in lower Manhattan, just

south of New York City Hall.; Elijah F.

Purdy (birth and death dates unknown) served on the New York City council as President of the Board of

Valentine, Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York for 1853 [New York City: McSpedon & Baker

In 1842, he was listed in the New York City directory as being a coal inspector or coal measurer, but

In Studies in Classic American Literature D.H.

Studies in Classic American Literature.

American Literature 4 (1932): 3–21.Whitman, Walt. Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts. Ed.

nature, muted outlines and a "richness of coloring" adjusted to the scene's temporal requirements were

Like the larger and more established American Art Union, whose president in the mid-1840s was Whitman's

to specific paintings, the last a work by American landscape painter George Inness.After the Civil War

popular with the American public, who, like Whitman, were attracted by the works' moral and ethical

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921. Painters and Painting

The poet's vision of an American spiritual democracy is historically rooted in Paine's example of political

Sense, which sold as many as 150,000 copies and exerted an immeasurable influence on the cause for American

The same year Paine initiated a series of essays titled The American Crisis (1776–1783) which helped

The work's challenge to Christian superstition and biblical authority alienated many Americans, and upon

Both men were sympathetic to Quakerism, which provided them not only with a suspicion of priests, but

Hindoo Brighton, England Aug. 25, 1879 My dear Sir, your four books, two photos and papers which you were

Oysters in Old Rome OYSTERS IN OLD ROME— The Roman ladies were so enamored with oysters, that they were

drained Europe of her blood and her treasures, that the nations sympathetically, mechanically as it were

England, in spite of her debt, and the miseries of a vast portion of her population, has increased her

From 1839–1842 England and the Qing dynasty of China were engaged in what was known as the First Opium

The United States and England were, at this time, engaged in an ongoing dispute over the border between

See Howard Jones, To the Webster-Ashburton Treaty: A Study in Anglo-American Relations, 1793–1843 (Chapel

From 1839–1842 England and the Qing dynasty of China were engaged in what was known as the First Opium

A line from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1, line 270.; The United States and England were

See Howard Jones, To the Webster-Ashburton Treaty: A Study in Anglo-American Relations, 1793–1843 (Chapel

1865 Drum-Taps collection, many of the poem's lines had been published in "Calamus" number 5 in the 1860

process by consulting Walt Whitman's Blue Book, the facsimile edition of Whitman's personal copy of the 1860

," was an extremely optimistic, almost utopian celebration of the possibilities of American democracy

In it the bold poetic persona of the 1860 Leaves promises to inculcate "a new friendship" that will enable

Leaves of Grass: Facsimile of the 1860 Text. Ed. Roy Harvey Pearce.

(Were you looking to be held together by the lawyers? Or by an agreement on a paper? or by arms?

(Were you looking to be held together by lawyers? Or by an agreement on a paper? or by arms?

(Were you looking to be held together by lawyers? Or by an agreement on a paper? or by arms?

Were you looking to be held together by the lawyers? Or by an agreement on a paper? or by arms?

In one, among the city streets a laborer's home appear'd, After his day's work done, cleanly, sweet-air'd

suite of noble rooms, 'Mid plenteous books and journals, paintings on the walls, fine statuettes, Were

All, all the shows of laboring life, City and country, women's, men's and children's, Their wants provided

In one, among the city streets a laborer's home appear'd, After his day's work done, cleanly, sweet-air'd

suite of noble rooms, 'Mid plenteous books and journals, paintings on the walls, fine statuettes, Were

All, all the shows of laboring life, City and country, women's, men's and children's, Their wants provided

Daily Commercial published an attack upon the poem a few days later, the Saturday Press of 7 January 1860

justifies the poem and his craft and prophesies a new edition of Leaves of Grass, what would become the 1860

Whitman and the American Idiom. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1991. Black, Stephen.

barefoot, Down from the shower'd halo, Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and twisting as if they were

barefoot, Down from the shower'd halo, Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and twisting as if they were

Some of the men were dying.

Many wounded were with us on cars and boat. The cars were just common platform ones.

At Aquia Creek Landing were numbers of wounded going North.

Any one of these hospitals is a little city in itself.

Miles O'Reilly's pieces were also great favorites.

On July 7, Confederates anchored two torpedoes off Aquia Creek, marking the first time they were used

It was fought between Union General Grant and Confederate General Lee; the results of the battle were

Joseph's Convent School located in New York City's Central Park.; The Brooklyn City Hospital, unlike

works are finished, and the "liquid tide" runs through them, we shall not only have enough to supply a city

of 230,000 inhabitants—our present population, be it remembered—but the works can easily be added to

, to make a capacity for a city of a million people.

Ray, a boss builder of this city.

Also known as the First Battle of Rappahannock Station, there were a couple of hundred casualties, and

It was fought between Grant and Lee; the results were inconclusive. fighting, and loss severe.

Grant and Meade fought Lee; the results were inconclusive. loss slight. May 26.

Grant and Meade fought Lee; the results were inconclusive. loss slight. June 2.

Also known as the First Battle of Rappahannock Station, there were a couple of hundred casualties, and

It was fought between Grant and Lee; the results were inconclusive.; In the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse

Grant's Overland Campaign, Grant joined with Major General George Meade to fight Lee; the results were

Grant and Meade fought Lee; the results were inconclusive.; Whitman apparently refers here to the Battle

Grant and Meade fought Lee; the results were inconclusive.; The Battle of Bethesda Church was another

these things in New York may be imagined from an instance related last night at a meeting in that city

This is quite characteristic of the loose manner in which such appointments are made in that city.

Our Board of Education is composed of men of character and standing in the community, who were chosen

no interest of any kind save to do what their consciences tell them is best for the interest of the city

Let us repeat that we are proud of the manner in which the system is carried on in our good City of Brooklyn

Then said the lady Brunhilde, "Nay, The King, your brother, is most noble—If none were living but you

BurtonHatlen"Our Old Feuillage" (1860)"Our Old Feuillage" (1860)"Our Old Feuillage" was apparently written

would be eighty years), a phrase that Whitman changed to "eighty-third year of these States" in the 1860

The catalogue begins with a bird's eye perspective of the North American continent.

American Transcendentalist Quarterly ns 6 (1992): 189–211.Thomas, M. Wynn.

"Our Old Feuillage" (1860)

28Our Old Feuillage (1860).

Feuillagebetween 1876-1881poetryhandwritten6 leaves20.5 x 12.5 cm; A bound copy of six leaves (the poem American

range and diversity—always the continent of Democracy; Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities

floes, White drift spooning ahead where the ship in the tempest dashes, On solid land what is done in cities

fiddle, others sit on the gunwale smoking and talking; Late in the afternoon the mocking-bird, the American

rude carts, cotton bales piled on banks and wharves; Encircling all, vast-darting up and wide, the American

and down, casting swift shadows in specks on the opposite wall where the shine is; The athletic American

range and diversity—always the continent of Democracy; Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities

floes, White drift spooning ahead where the ship in the tempest dashes, On solid land what is done in cities

fiddle, others sit on the gunwale smoking and talking; Late in the afternoon the mocking-bird, the American

rude carts, cotton bales piled on banks and wharves; Encircling all, vast-darting up and wide, the American

and down, casting swift shadows in specks on the opposite wall where the shine is; The athletic American

They were very sad. No welcome had the poet for Art or Face, but to Death his door flew open wide.

passing the memory of any now living among us, that the line of fortified posts and entrenchments were

On the same neighborhood were thrown up hasty entrenchments during the last war,—the men and boys of

These Powder Houses were covered with slate, and were the only edifices in the neighborhood—being placed

appropriated to a free city Burial Yard, or Potter's Field.

Part of it was, in due time, filled up by the city, and forms the present City Park, with its northerly

As to us city folks, the few coolish hours we have experiences will put us in mind of overcoats, coal

of harvesting the grain, the corn, the buckwheat, ½c.; months, indeed, for the rambler out of the city—true

There has been no prevalent sickness in city or country—no serious distress or disturbance; but on the

Would the city be a bit the worse if these six were utterly blotted out of existence?

or if they were furloughed? or if they were steeped in perpetual slumber?

There is now a fair prospect that the Spanish American republics will be compelled to satisfactorily

necessary to lay desolate every foot of soil now governed by these tyrants to avenge the blood of Americans

The European powers are informed that the day has gone by for them to interfere with American affairs

America, will find that the edict has gone forth and will be maintained, and he who interferes in American

There seems to be a disposition on the part of the American people to enquire into the Foreign policy

The justice of a claim of an American citizen against a Foreign power has had no influence at Washington

relative to the contemplated sale of Guyana to England for the purpose of crushing out the claims of American

has completed the report called for by a resolution of Senator Benjamin, relative to the claims of American

The time is rapidly approaching when the American people will adopt a foreign policy which will be effectual

From the first we have labored to keep pace with the growth of the city, and during no year, we flatter

The club is organised on the principle of the Union, National, and other clubs of New York city.

command of the best materials, and the most critically overlooked workmen—no work more worthy a proud, populous

, ambitious and opulent city, full of the spirit and the means to do as much as any city upon earth has

do we think there has ever been anything superior in ancient times; the Roman Aqueducts and Cloacæ were

home to our immediate presence, we have such a work, in its sort the peer of the best of any other city

We have drank in all part of North American, at Niagara, at the Straits of Machinaw, the Missouri, the

Edward Ferrero, a dance instructor at West Point before the war, was a famous Italian-American leader

After the war he continued teaching dance lessons at the ballroom of Tammany Hall in New York City.

Even at the very outset our Brooklyn boys gave the best account of themselves, and were the first ashore

On the 8th, also, the battle of Roanoke continuing, they were among the first in the charge, and the

These were his last words. His death was instantaneous. A PARTING REMARK.

.; Edward Ferrero, a dance instructor at West Point before the war, was a famous Italian-American leader

After the war he continued teaching dance lessons at the ballroom of Tammany Hall in New York City.;

In that city they have had a Philosophical society for some years, and now Griggs & Co, the principal

The papers in the volume were chiefly written in Canada since Mr Smith has lived there, and several of

They were collected into a book in Canada, but subsequently taken by the publishing house of Macmillan

The American features are not all that the æsthetic fancy craves, but they are not so hopelessly lost

If it were possible to see the genius of a great people throwing itself now into this form, now into

believe, of the famous Whitman's poems, which made such a flutter among the "gray goose quills" of this city

But the author reasoning that the spirit of the American people, nay, of any people is chiefly represented

His own picture: "Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a Kosmos, Disorderly, fleshy, sensual

They live in other young men, O kings, They live in brothers, again ready to defy you: They were purified

by death…They were taught and exalted.

Louis, Indianapolis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Iowa City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Raleigh, Savannah, Charleston

, Mobile, New Orleans, Galveston, Brownsville, San Francisco, Havana, and a thousand equal cities, present

advertised in our columns; in fact, the remark has often been made to us, that the columns of our paper were

basement portion of the premises, at which some fifteen hundred of the press and publishing fraternity were

Toasts were drank, songs sung, speeches made, and a good time generally was had.

Among those who were noticeable were Dr. McKinzie and Dr.

1879 or early 1880, just after Whitman's trip to the western U.S. in 1879 (The Correspondence [Iowa City

University of Iowa Press, 2004], 57), it seems more likely that the draft letter is probably from 1860

supplied—the great West especially—with copious thousands of copies" (New York Saturday Press [7 January 1860

1879 or early 1880, just after Whitman's trip to the western U.S. in 1879 (The Correspondence [Iowa City

University of Iowa Press, 2004], 57), it seems more likely that the draft letter is probably from 1860

supplied—the great West especially—with copious thousands of copies" (New York Saturday Press [7 January 1860

The notes found on the first leaf were used in Preface, 1876, to the two-volume Centennial Edition of

Both of these pieces were eventually included in Complete Prose Works (1892).

to Come," "When I Heard at the Close of Day," and "Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun," all of which were

American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Business of Ticknor and Fields.

elegiac poem, Whitman vividly reconstructs half a century later Osceola's historic death as if he were

work at the Indian Bureau in Washington, D.C., in 1865 helped him to understand the plight of the American