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combination of "Love" and "Dilation or Pride" is also articulated in Chants Democratic (No. 4) in the 1860

combination of "Love" and "Dilation or Pride" is also articulated in "Chants Democratic" (No. 4) in the 1860

Leaves of Grass, later titled "Our Old Feuillage": "Encircling all, vast-darting up and wide, the American

JohnRietz"My Picture-Gallery" (1880)"My Picture-Gallery" (1880)First published in The American in 1880

exercise from the early 1850s, "Pictures" shows Whitman experimenting with many of the elements that were

After further revision Whitman published these verses in the October 30, 1880 issue of The American under

Lines similar to the last several in this manuscript were also reworked in the notebook Talbot Wilson

Lines similar to the last several in this manuscript were also reworked in the notebook "Talbot Wilson

Lines similar to the last several in this manuscript were also reworked in the notebook "Talbot Wilson

ProQuest's American Periodical Series database indicates a publication date of March 27, 1844 for Whitman's

What would you say, dear reader, were I to claim the nearest relationship to George Washington, Thomas

The names of these children may refer to those of three of Whitman's brothers, who were named after heroes

It was not a sad thing—we wept not, nor were our hearts heavy.

ProQuest's American Periodical Series database indicates a publication date of March 27, 1844 for Whitman's

Publishing, 1998).; The names of these children may refer to those of three of Whitman's brothers, who were

doubt that the object to which it is devoted is a good one and that such a Hall is much needed in this city

For instance, probably the earliest and the first American use of Whitman was by Frederic Louis Ritter

Words for the last movement were drawn from "Passage to India."

Single songs, written in 1957, were later collected into "Five Poems of Walt Whitman" in 1970.

New Grove Dictionary of American Music. London: Macmillan, 1986.Hovland, Michael.

Musical Settings of American Poetry: A Bibliography.

concert halls and theaters in New York and Brooklyn provide much information about the history of American

Were it not for opera, he maintained, "I could never have written Leaves of Grass" (qtd. in Trowbridge

In the American opera the story and libretto must be the body of the performance.

Musical Settings of American Poetry: A Bibliography. New York: Greenwood, 1986.Kaplan, Justin.

Musical Influence on American Poetry. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1956.Strassburg, Robert.

young but thriving Society to the favorable consideration of all who have the true interests of our city

At the close of their last concert season; they were enabled to liquidate all debts and the treasurer

or special permits for any business, whatever. no matter what. tr down ( —Whatever The control the City

Ted Genoways [Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004], 7:145).

cases requires skill more or less mechanical, which technical skill is often called 'art' as if there were

They were made in 1809, or about that time, and are contained in three volumes, lettered 'Siddons,' which

Exalted prophetic tone, as if the whole future were present to her soul.

UPPOSE an English Prime Minister were to persuade himself and a large section of the public that the

every circumstance of cruelty and indignity which could add bitterness to death; and suppose a bill were

A line has been drawn through "New wark," and the city of Camden has been added on the envelope.

New York City This undated, partial letter from Mrs. John R. Gardner has been crossed out.

Dear Sir, I have always felt that you were a relative of mine, and on the strength of that, am going

Descendants in 1832, that traced his genealogy through Abijah Whitman's son John, who came to the American

Mann’s theory were correct.

I think after your visit to him that his hold on life seemed to give way and his yearnings were all accomplished

He used to say—"I don't believe I can die" when his sufferings were so great—it seemed as if his release

and in pastel and my daughter is going to do a pen and ink sketch I shall paint the house where you were

If this were the case, we had been a nation of poets.

But in those cases in which these expressions were written out and printed with all due regard to prosody

Of course the city of Manhattan, as Mr.

This were indeed a wise precaution on his part if the intelligence were only submissive!

In another you call upon the city of New York to incarnate you, as you have incarnated it.

of facts and events, copies of important documents, etc.), compiled into book-length volumes which were

Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780-1857) was a popular and influential French poet and songwriter whose lyrics were

WHAT HE HAS TO SAY—ESTHETIC TAFFY FOR THE AMERICANS—THEY LOVE THE TRUE AND THE BEAUTIFUL—MR.

AMERICANS SHOULD NOT COPY. "Would the standard be the same for all countries?" "By no means.

The Americans should not copy the decorations of England.

American decoration should be entirely different from that of England r any other country.

the presence of which is most to be feared, and the use of lead pipe may prove more hurtful than in cities

are many families and much furniture coming this way and there is very little of an exodus from the city

So far as we can learn, there never was a former year when anything like so many houses were engaged

connection to state, that ere the sun goes down to-night there will literally be thousands added to the population

That great American institution, the First of May, already begins to make itself felt.

This poem became section 20 of Chants Democratic in 1860, with leaf 1 corresponding to verses 1-6 and

Although Whitman never published any of these notes in his lifetime, they were used, in some cases word

of motherhood to restore those collective spiritual values which might reintegrate the tormented American

Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies. Ed. Betsy Erkkila and Jay Grossman.

Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies. Ed. Betsy Erkkila and Jay Grossman.

The Empire of the Mother: American Writing about Domesticity 1830–1860.

"The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820–1860." American Quarterly 18 (1966): 151–174. Motherhood

behold death and destruction, contagion and cholera, and a thousand other evils, threatened to the city

from the existence of a sunken lot away at Bushwick or somewhere else beyond the line of population;

but a great, reeking, stinking canal, extending right up into the centre center of the city, escapes

receptacle of all the sewage, distillery swill, and other abominations, of the central part of the city

sentences pencilled at the top of the page contributed to the poem Myself and Mine, first published in 1860

rivers, forests , —all are Not distant caverns, volcanoes, cataracts, curious islands, birds, foreign cities

[Most of the pipes in] ☞Most of the pipes in this District were filled with water and preparations to

clean and test the same were made yesterday.

In some of the streets the hydrants were allowed to run for a short time to the great satisfaction of

citizens, who were thereby assured that the water was "there."

Ultimately, to save the 16th ward from being submerged, they were obliged to shut the water off at the

prose piece that appears to represent an early draft of "Unnamed Lands," a poem published first in the 1860

The poem was first titled, Poem of Walt Whitman, an American, in the 1856 edition, and Whitman shortened

the title to Walt Whitman in 1860–1861.

doubtless the case The The most immense share part of a A ncient History is altogether unknown ,— There were

Powerful, busy, and populous, and powerful nations, existed, on all the continents of the earth, at

busy populous and powerful nations on all the continents of the earth ; and doubtless for the certain

surely empires, cities cities, states pastoral tribes and uncivilized hordes upon the earth.

— 189 the feeling of war and war and justice and who were witty and wise, —and who were brutish and undeveloped—and

includes ideas and phrases that resemble those used in "Unnamed Lands," a poem published first in the 1860

The manuscript was therefore probably written between 1855 and 1860, and at one time likely formed part

See, for instance, the lines: "What vast-built cities—What orderly republics—What pastoral tribes and

phrenology, / What of liberty and slavery among them—What they thought of death and the Soul, / Who were

, / Some prowling through woods—Some living peaceably on farms, laboring, reaping, filling barns" (1860

fragment appears to be part of a draft of the essay, written by Whitman, titled An English and an American

Whitman published the essay anonymously in the American Phrenological Journal in October 1855, and he

.— and American the last first degree, through nature, them in erence which repeatable terrible license

It appears to be part of a draft of a review essay by Whitman titled "An English and an American Poet

Whitman published the essay anonymously in the American Phrenological Journal in October 1855, and he

It appears to be part of a draft of a review essay by Whitman titled "An English and an American Poet

Whitman published the essay anonymously in the American Phrenological Journal in October 1855, and he

fragment appears to be part of a draft of the essay, written by Whitman, titled "An English and an American

Whitman published the essay anonymously in the American Phrenological Journal in October 1855, and he

Poetry, to Tennyson and his British and American eleves, is a gentleman of the first degree, boating,

fairly neat and on the verso on the fourth leaf Whitman has written "Proofs," indicating that these were

appeared in Our Wounded and Sick Soldiers, published in the New York Times on 11 December 1864, and were

He later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer.

According to the Brooklyn city directory for 1863–64, Eugene R.

this Board, at its next meeting, the number of arrests and complaints which have been made in the Cities

They pay us the compliment of saying, that they consider it the best publication in the city.

Were it not that people would cry "tit for tat," we should say what we certainly think, that this good

In 1875, these pieces were gathered and republished as Memoranda During the War.

that appeared at the end of the third installment, informing readers that even though these articles were

Jonathan" stood for the "common" people and embodied conflicting views such as egalitarianism and American

Postal Guide and Official Advertiser 1, no. 1 [Washington D.C., 1850]: 163; Winifred Morgan, An American

Icon: Brother Jonathan and American Identity [London: Associated Press, 1988], 34–36). came out with

However, "Zanoni" was an expanded version of "Zicci," and both were written by Lytton.

Duyckinck, Cyclopedia of American Literature; Embracing Personal and Critical Notes of Authors [New York

Jonathan" stood for the "common" people and embodied conflicting views such as egalitarianism and American

Postal Guide and Official Advertiser 1, no. 1 [Washington D.C., 1850]: 163; Winifred Morgan, An American

Icon: Brother Jonathan and American Identity [London: Associated Press, 1988], 34–36).; Zanoni (1842

However, "Zanoni" was an expanded version of "Zicci," and both were written by Lytton.

Duyckinck, Cyclopedia of American Literature; Embracing Personal and Critical Notes of Authors [New York

Even in ordinary traveling and every-day promenade, our American ladies affect a luxury of costume which

Many of our fashionable ladies here dress as if they were never to go out except to tread on carpets

has vastly increased, and that a regular stampede has taken place which threatens to depopulate the city

the other side of the Rocky Mountains, but that our own States will be more or less affected as they were

The new territory will be populated as if by magic and what is now a wilderness will be thickly studded

with cities and towns.

For more information see Terry Golway, Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American

public printing to an Irishman named Denman, who publishes a Catholic paper, the Truth Teller , in this city

The Corporation Attorney was the individual tasked with handling the city's legal affairs, and at the

Ellison History of the Office of the Corporation Counsel of the City of New York (New York: Martin B.

They threatened, unless these things were promised them, still to stand out, or throw their votes in

For more information see Terry Golway, Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American

The Corporation Attorney was the individual tasked with handling the city's legal affairs, and at the

Ellison History of the Office of the Corporation Counsel of the City of New York (New York: Martin B.

moved to the Mickle Street address listed on the verso of this page on March 26, 1884, so these notes were

moved to the Mickle Street address listed on the verso of this page on March 26, 1884, so these notes were

Fugitive Slave Law, the Shaster, the ark of the covenant, the heart of the political Bible of the American

Then the Deputy Marshal and his eleven resisted, with revolvers and "muscle," but were taken notwithstanding

things, the Deputy United States marshal telegraphed to the government at Washington, what calamities were

There were fears that the bad blood and angry passions which this matter was causing would lead to collision

It is an event to which the people of this city have looked with absorbing anxiety, and which the residents

of other cities have regarded with friendly interest.

labored to create the works, to the aldermen who have striven to make the celebration worthy of the city

For all these are citizens of Brooklyn; it is their own city which has been beautified and glorified,

To the delegations from other cities, and the visitors from abroad, we may indeed be grateful.

General Duryea introduced a bill into the Legislature to provide the rites of sepulture for the American

These martyrs to American liberty were the soldiers captured at Fort Washington and who were afterwards

Some idea may be formed of their heroism, fortitude and devotion, when we recall the fact that they were

, at any time that they would abandon the American cause.

The ceremonies on this occasion were of an imposing character; the federal officers were invited to take