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SOME POETICAL COMPARISONS BETWEEN COUNTRY AND CITY.—THE OLD COUPLE ON SHELTER ISLAND.

Yet were we a coarse and unhewn structure of humanity without them.

I noticed large numbers of cows in the neighboring fields: were they hers?

Yes, they produced well; the apples were sold.

Divers fatting hogs, in the pens; they also were designed for market.

Nobody knows, I think, what really good fish are, as you get them from your city markets.

It hath the same relation to the city served fish as the pure breath of some whole-toothed country girl

Sybaris, a city-state founded in 720 BCE in what is now southern Italy.

By 1860, there were three hotels on the island, and in 1870 the construction of Government Harbor, on

I suspect those two Tribunes were completely got by rote.

.; Sybaris, a city-state founded in 720 BCE in what is now southern Italy.

By 1860, there were three hotels on the island, and in 1870 the construction of Government Harbor, on

K ANSAS CITY O .—6–15 West Ninth Street. L OUISVILLE , K Y .—300 West Walnut Street.

cm, leaf 2 11 x 16 cm; This poem, numbered 82 in pencil, became main section 8 of Enfans d'Adam in 1860

MY MORNING'S ROMANZA. 1 Now list to my morning's romanza—I tell the signs of the Answerer; To the cities

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

things in their attitudes; He puts to-day out of himself, with plasticity and love; He places his own city

NOW list to my morning's romanza; To the cities and farms I sing, as they spread in the sunshine before

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

things in their attitudes; He puts to-day out of himself, with plasticity and love; He places his own city

He urges eminent visitors to the United States not to be deluded by the effete Americans who entertain

them in elevated segments of society: the real American genius is in the common people.

Robert Burns, however, speaks to the American spirit, for he loved the plough and knew the working man

In "The Bible as Poetry," Whitman finds the roots of American democracy in the Old and New Testament.

American and the importance of the overlooked Spanish influence.

values the poem too highly and that it cannot in any sense be taken as the voice of a representative American

Whitman has always seemed very un-American in many of his traits, notably in his acceptance of gifts

Whitman says, in a manner which, if irony were not a mode rather foreign to him, we should consider ironical

We should be very much surprised if they were not. William O'Connor and Dr.

Glance o'er Travel'd Roads" amounts to an acknowledgment by Walt Whitman himself, not that his critics were

the rising and sinking waves—over the myriad fields and the prairies wide: Over the dense-packed cities

so—was indeed not in the original "Leaves of Grass," as it appeared more than thirty years ago, nor were

I too am untranslatable' look about him, more developed even perhaps in age than when those words were

The poems were published first in Lippincott's Magazine, November, 1887. November Boughs

The four poems that comprised "November Boughs" in Lippincott's Magazine were reprinted in the "Sands

Fifth American edition, from the third London edition, greatly improved by the Author.

John Keese (1805–1856) was an American auctioneer, editor, and publisher.

See A History of the Parish of Trinity Church in the City of New York (New York: G. P.

History of the AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

D., author of 'Sketches of American History.' Harpers, 82 Cliff st., N. Y.

.; John Keese (1805–1856) was an American auctioneer, editor, and publisher.; John Gadsby Chapman (1808

–1889) was an American artist known for his painting Baptism of Pocahontas (1840) for the United States

Gift books were not normally very religious but The Opal contained many contributions from clergymen

Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1813–1871) was an American essayist, critic, and writer from Boston. Rev.

See A History of the Parish of Trinity Church in the City of New York (New York: G. P.

lines unpublished in Whitman's life, but which appeared in other manuscript drafts with lines that were

The lines that appear in this manuscript were published posthumously as part of a poem titled Supplement

lines unpublished in Whitman's life, but which appeared in other manuscript drafts with lines that were

The lines that appear in this manuscript were published posthumously as part of a poem titled "Supplement

Joel Myerson (New York: Garland, 1993), 2:624; and Major American Authors on CD-Rom: Walt Whitman (Westport

lines unpublished in Whitman's life, but which appeared in other manuscript drafts with lines that were

The lines that appear in this manuscript were published posthumously as part of a poem titled "Supplement

Joel Myerson (New York: Garland, 1993), 2:624; and Major American Authors on CD-Rom: Walt Whitman (Westport

The city photographers like things toned down, polished, in the mode."

and 1870s, photographing much of the city.

Frank Pearsall : b. 1841 in New York City.

Phillips (1843–1911) and William Curtis Taylor (1825–1905) ever were partners.

His unique photos were signed with the trademark large Sarony red script signature and were immediately

About a thousand copies were printed, which were sold in less than a year.

The Van Velsors were noted people for horses.

The clothes were mainly homespun. Journeys were made by both men and women on horseback.

Books were scarce.

Some of the men were dying.

John Burroughs's "Notes on Walt Whitman" was first published in American News in 1867.

Of the 1,300 items included, about half were not previously published, but even the ones that can be

Furness, ed., Walt Whitman's Workshop [1928]) were never before edited so meticulously or presented so

being moved because of fear of aerial bombardment from Japan (it was not until the crates were opened

in 1944 that the Library of Congress discovered they were missing).

American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 18 (1985): 271-277. Whitman, Walt. Daybooks and Notebooks. Ed.

2-3New York City notebookloc.05080xxx.00982Notebook Walt Whitman1857-1861prose22 leaveshandwritten; Two

number 27 and 29) of this manuscript notebook contain notes on the Old Military Garden in New York City

2-3New York City notebookloc.00348xxx.00994xxx.01169Notebook Walt Whitman1857-1862prosepoetry32 leaveshandwritten

The lines were edited and published posthumously as The Two Vaults.

contains the notes (see surfaces 23 to 44 and 47 to 59) about the Jamaica Presbyterian bicentennial which were

Whitman in the article Important Ecclesiastical Gathering at Jamaica, L.I. published in the Brooklyn City

2Notebooks, 1860-1861loc.00029xxx.00131Notebook, 1860-18611860-1861prosepoetryhandwritten61 leaves; An

relates to poems ultimately titled Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, By Blue Ontario's Shore, The City

Some of the trial verses in this notebook were published posthumously as [I Stand and Look], Ship of

Notebook, 1860-1861

These four poems were reprinted in the Sands at Seventy annex to Leaves of Grass (1888).

2[1860], Boston notebookloc.04605xxx.00981Note Book1860prosepoetry34 leaveshandwritten; A notebook from

Whitman's trip to Boston in March through May of 1860.

from his visit, the first two leaves (surfaces 3 and 4) contain notes related to the printing of the 1860

Lines from this manuscript were used in the preface to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass.

Lines from this manuscript were used in the preface to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass.

composition, but it was probably written before or early in 1855.; Sentences from this manuscript were

.00232Not to DazzleBefore or early in 1855number of leaves unknownprosepoetry; Lines from this manuscript were

Senators Dickinson, Norris and others also apologized for their pro-slavery course by making out they were

JackField"Not Heaving from my Ribb'd Breast Only" (1860)"Not Heaving from my Ribb'd Breast Only" (1860

poem—number 6 in the "Calamus" sequence—was part of the first appearance of the "Calamus" cluster in the 1860

"Not Heaving" was written after Whitman mailed the 1860 manuscript to the Rome brothers for typesetting

in 1859, and some time before his arrival in Boston in March 1860 to oversee the printing by Thayer

"Not Heaving from my Ribb'd Breast Only" (1860)

RichardRaleigh"Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes" (1860)"Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes" (1860)Appearing

All twelve poems of the sequence were included among the forty-five poems of the 1860 "Calamus," but

taken from the sequence and dropped after 1860.

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1992. 185–205.Whitman, Walt. Walt Whitman's Poems. Ed.

"Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes" (1860)

the essay first published as The Poetry of the Future in the February 12, 1881, issue of the North American

American Quarterly 27 (1975): 561–574. Norton, Charles Eliot. A Leaf of Grass from Shady Hill. Ed.

.— A paper has been read before the American Geographical and Statistical Society, upon the Polar Discoveries

The North American Review, New York. Editorial Department Jany 10/91. Walt Whitman, Esq.

The North American Review to Walt Whitman, 10 January 1891

See The North American Review 125 (March 1891), 332–338.

William A.PannapackerNorth American Review, TheNorth American Review, TheA miscellany of politics, economics

North American Review 104 (1867): 301–303.Lowell, James Russell.

North American Review 107 (Oct. 1868): 660–663.____.

North American Review 103 (Oct. 1866): 611–612.Mott, Frank Luther. "The North American Review."

North American Review, The

named—as close to the ferries, for example; but not on any account the sweeping ordinance, now among the city

What proportion of the city ordinances do you suppose to be rigidly carried out? One in ten?

is based on Thomas Ollive Mabbott, "Walt Whitman Edits the Sunday Times, July, 1842-June, 1843, American

321860, "War Memoranda," draftloc.00920xxx.00894[No poem sings]1860–1876prose1 leafhandwrittenprinted

The speeches in its favor were delivered to empty benches; and it was eventually left to its fate, without

leave to live, as of no not as of right of its own, but by special favor; snufflin snivelling how it were

—I should be assured certain enough that those attributes were not in me.— Although it may balk and tremble

—Nature is not a young fellow * In the city when the streets have been long neglected, they heap up banks

Stout parties were observed to look preternaturally solemn about the middle of Bangbible’s discourse

themselves, half an hour after, that they had not been asleep; and the interesting images of their father were

observed to wriggle about as if that portion of their anatomy unusually wanting in winged cherubs were

my clothes were stolen while I was abed, Now I am thrust forth, where shall I run?

from east to west as they lie unclothed, The Asiatic and African are hand in hand, the European and American

This poem became section 15 of the cluster Leaves of Grass in 1860.

actual life, Schiller the ideal Goethe mixes both actual and ideal Niebelungen Lied—scene much in the city

Leaving hard work out of the Books, and I have thought that were bigger fools than me making a living

What about Such houses as we were talking about and if it Should be made agreeable for me to take up

I am completely in the dark as to 'what such houses as we were talking about,' are—upon the whole not

speaks thus of the terrible privations which the filibuster force must have undergone before they were

Dogs, cats and other animals were sometimes killed to furnish a novelty.

It is estimated that during two years, of 2,500 men enlisted or holding commissions, about 1,000 were

killed or died of their wounds or sickness, about 700 deserted, 250 were discharged, 435 were at Rivas

Niagara, perhaps the most easily recognized sublime artifact of the nineteenth-century American landscape

.; Revised as "A Broadway Pageant (Reception Japanese Embassy, June 16, 1860)" in Drum-Taps (1865) and

.; This poem later appeared as "A Word Out of the Sea," Leaves of Grass (1860); as "Out of the Cradle

," Leaves of Grass (1881–82).; This poem later appeared as "Chants Democratic 7," Leaves of Grass (1860

Antecedents," Leaves of Grass (1867).; This poem later appeared as "Calamus No. 17," Leaves of Grass (1860

India," Leaves of Grass (1871-72).; This poem later appeared as "Calamus No. 40," Leaves of Grass (1860

They later appeared separately as (in order of appearance): 1) "Calamus No. 21" in Leaves of Grass (1860

Webster Dictionary (1840), "plume" means "to pride; to value; to boast" (Noah Webster, John Walker, An American

Whitman's sarcastic comment is poking fun at the self-perceived influence of New York City sixpenny dailies

, which were the more expensive subscription newspapers.

deign to notice the pennies, and two pennies At this time, the sixpenny dailies, or six-penny papers, were

Penny papers, however, were small, poorly printed, and sold on the street.

Webster Dictionary (1840), "plume" means "to pride; to value; to boast" (Noah Webster, John Walker, An American

1840], 753).; Whitman's sarcastic comment is poking fun at the self-perceived influence of New York City

sixpenny dailies, which were the more expensive subscription newspapers.; At this time, the sixpenny

dailies, or six-penny papers, were often distributed through subscription.

Penny papers, however, were small, poorly printed, and sold on the street.

their yellow pages, we see in their dingy type the forms and phrases of persons and things as they were

It would be hard to say what were the St.

are three or four notices of coffee houses—a term now almost out of use in New York—and one of the City

Among other things we noticed were the names of streets now obsolete or that have been re-baptized.

The Patent Medicines were not yet in all their glory, but those who wanted to poison themselves with

When a notable person arrives in any of our cities, he is set upon, pursued day and night, and not permitted

For all this, if the job were well done, and the narration well made, might be commendable.