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Receiving its present title in 1860, the piece underwent minor revisions throughout the different editions

In the interest of aesthetic and thematic unity, Whitman dropped the American "genre painting" scene

soil that underlines the raised "perpendicular hand" (added in 1860).

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1995. 1–10.González de la Garza, Mauricio.

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1992.Miller, James E., Jr. A Critical Guide to "Leaves of Grass."

Alegría notes that Whitman's philosophical, religious, and political ideas were not fully understood

Mexico City: Ediciones Studium, 1954.Allen, Gay Wilson, and Ed Folsom, eds.

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1995.Chocano, José Santos. Oro de Indias. Vol. 1.

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1995. 118–126.____. "We Live in a Whitmanesque Age."

Poet-Chief: The Native American Poetics of Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda.

The poet of brotherhood has been taken to task for his problematic stances on slavery, Native Americans

The poet of the body and of the soul, the "solitary singer" of the en-masse, the American Adam of archaisms

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1994.Klammer, Martin.

Studies in Classic American Literature. 1923.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1951.Miller, James E., Jr. A Critical Guide to "Leaves of Grass."

Carol M.Zapata-Whelan"For You O Democracy" (1860)"For You O Democracy" (1860)"For You O Democracy," written

between 1859 and 1860, is a well-known "Calamus" poem originally printed in the 1860 edition of Leaves

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1994.Miller, James E., Jr. A Critical Guide to "Leaves of Grass."

Whitman's Manuscripts: "Leaves of Grass" (1860). Ed. Fredson Bowers. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1955.

"For You O Democracy" (1860)

Herrick and Ropes had famously decided that he was "the laziest fellow who ever undertook to edit a city

quit the paper, after which he publicly declared Herrick and Ropes "two as dirty fellows, as ever were

the poet writes "Manly Health and Training" not only as a paean to the potential of the everyday American

The Bohemians were nonconforming, frequently intellectual, engaged in the arts, and in opposition to

Among the most visible were King Clapp and the queen, Ada Clare, Fitz-James O'Brien, George Arnold, William

Whitman appears more a version of an 1890s gentleman than the free and imposing figure he had cut in the 1860s

from the good fellowship and fun, was the constant focus offered by the Saturday Press, especially in 1860

Pfaff's and its habitués offered an unconventional life style—for instance, they were among the many

Duyckinck and Cornelius Mathews, the Young Americans supported the common man, democracy, and reform.

most concerned with encouraging and promoting American writers.

American Literary Magazines: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921.Yannella, Donald. "Cornelius Mathews."

Studies in the American Renaissance: 1978. Ed. Joel Myerson. Boston: Twayne, 1978. 207–258.

Whitman and the good-humored, jolly Gray were close from before the Civil War; their principal connection

classics, studied medicine, worked in South Carolina as a compositor, and went to Kansas when matters were

Raymond's New York Times through most of the 1860s, having started there around 1858.

American Literature 30 (1959): 425–449. Hyman, Martin D.

American Literature 39 (1968): 547–553. Swinton, John (1829–1901)

They were dedicated to Locofoco political radicalism and literary nationalism.

There is good reason to believe that Whitman and Mathews were acquainted both because of their ideological

Mathews addressed New York City Nativists—he was vice president of the organization, according to the

American Literary Magazines: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. New York: Greenwood, 1986.

American Literary Critics and Scholars, 1850–1880. Vol. 64 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed.

Augustus (1816–1878) Whitman and Evert Augustus Duyckinck, near contemporaries, nationalistic Young Americans

It is true that Duyckinck and his brother's most enduring work, the Cyclopaedia of American Literature

was well along in production in 1855 when the first edition of Leaves appeared, and the same plates were

Whitman recalled having met Evert Duyckinck and his brother, George: "they were both 'gentlemanly men

American Literary Magazines: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. New York: Greenwood, 1986.

in the volume, and he also received more space than any other poet in the ten-volume Library of American

An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside, 1900. ———, ed.

A Library of American Literature: From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. 10 vols.

These plates were included in a lot of plates sometime ago mortgaged to Isaac Tower for money we raised

Eldridge, the Boston publishing firm responsible for the third edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1860

religious, scientific, medical, sexual, and gender orthodoxies in order to hasten the coming of the City

into an unofficial clearinghouse for the writings of radical reformers, it is no wonder that they were

American Quarterly 18 (1966): 655–666.____. "A Reading of Whitman's 'Faces.'"

American Literature 56 (1984): 379–395.____. Walt Whitman and the Body Beautiful.

American Literature 2 (1931): 350–384.Reiss, Edmund. "Whitman's Debt to Animal Magnetism."

Early in 1846 he had clipped and heavily underlined an article from the American Review entitled "Phrenology

Poet," in the October 1855 issue of the American Phrenological Journal; and sent out review copies,

It should be added, however, that the phrenologists were eclectic, much as were the other pseudo-scientists

American Quarterly 18 (1966): 655–666.____. "A Reading of Whitman's 'Faces.'"

American Literature 2 (1931): 350–384.Kaplan, Justin. Walt Whitman: A Life.

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1994. 105–119.Chase, Richard. Walt Whitman Reconsidered.

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1994. 88–102.Grier, Edward F.

American Literature 23 (1951): 332–350.Mancuso, Luke.

American Worlds Since Emerson. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1988.Scholnick, Robert J.

Democratic Vistas: 1860–1880. New York: George Braziller, 1970.Warren, James Perrin.

Indeed, Whitman came to maturity during a particularly rich period of American religious oratory.

Mesmerists maintained that all things were animated by an electric fluid or, as it was sometimes called

Whitman's persona took form in response not just to the American political scene of his early maturity

Both types of painting were comfortingly realistic and uncritical; they were designed for a popular mass

The most popular American prose poetry before Whitman was written by Martin Farquhar Tupper.

the Exposition' [1871]This poem was written for the fortieth National Industrial Exposition of the American

Whitman was solicited by the American Institute Board of Managers a month prior to the event.

With the exception of "Out of the Cradle" and "As I Ebb'd," both of which were composed in 1859 and went

American Transcendental Quarterly 53 (1982): 49–66.LaRue, Robert.

American Transcendental Quarterly 53 (1982): 49–66.Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Ed.

"Patroling Barnegat" was originally published in June 1880 in The American and then reprinted in April

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1994. 240–250.Fast, Robin Riley.

American Transcendental Quarterly 53 (1982): 49–66.French, R.W.

JamesWohlpart"World Below the Brine, The" (1860)"World Below the Brine, The" (1860)Receiving its present

World Below the Brine" was originally published in the "Leaves of Grass" cluster as number 16 in the 1860

American Transcendental Quarterly 53 (1982): 49–66.Freedman, William A.

"World Below the Brine, The" (1860)

American Edition 5 (1891), 11.

Hensley "I dream'd a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth

, I dreamed that was the new city of friends."

Whitman's lines are end-stopped; groupings of clauses or phrases (not feet) constitute lines; lines were

American Prosody. New York: American, 1935. Bradley, Sculley.

American Literature 10 (1939): 437–459. Finch, Annie.

The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1993.

"The Identity of American Free Verse: The Prosodic Study of Whitman's 'Lilacs.'"

A large share of the artifacts were funerary and hence celebrated beliefs and values surrounding life

Egyptian tombs were filled with objects used in everyday life; the interiors contained pictures and images

American Hieroglyphics: The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance.

Myth and Literature in the American Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1978.Tapscott, Stephen J.

American Literature 50 (1978): 49–73.Whitman, Walt.

forerunner, Whitman saw Egypt as alive, energetic, freedom-loving, and great—an older kindred of the American

City” (1860).

He appointed African Americans to high administrative posts, and during his term blacks were elected

Arguments have been made that “Once I Pass’d through a Populous City”—a key poem that reworks the New

In Ellison’s estimation, the contours of the “Negro American idiom” were to be found everywhere in US

Whitman, “Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City,” in Poetry and Prose, 266; Yusef Komunyakaa, “Praise

Kinder Karr, in "A Friendship and a Photograph: Sophia Williams, Talcott Williams, and Walt Whitman" (American

Both were frequent visitors to Whitman’s Mickle Street home in Camden in the 1880s.

They were friends of Thomas Eakins, who painted both their portraits.

Thayer Thayer & Eldridge | June 11 1860 William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 5 June 1860

Eldridge, the Boston publishing firm responsible for the third edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1860

Thayer & Eldridge had reprinted his novel Amy Lee early in 1860.

The review Thayer and Eldridge sent to Whitman appeared in the Boston Banner of Light (2 June 1860).

The review of Leaves of Grass that appeared in the New-York Saturday Press on June 2, 1860, was signed

For Calvin Beach's review of the 1860 Leaves of Grass see "Leaves of Grass."

Eldridge, the Boston publishing firm responsible for the third edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1860

At the time, Thayer and Eldridge were already advertising a new volume of Whitman's poetry entitled The

Banks were distrustful. No one knew how the war would end.

All book firms were 'shaky.' . . .

Anti-slavery people were interested in keeping [Thayer and Eldridge] up, but they were forced to call

Honered Honored Friend— Was beginning to fear you were ill.

New York Tribune to say you were in Canada (not Camden) and intended to remain North some time: then

Even in his younger days, there is the best of evidence that his habits were correct, and his conversation

The "Amens" were uttered by a person immediately to the left of Mr.

Another: Not long since the Inquirer of this city published a lengthy article on cremation, giving interviews

elderly, full-bearded, gray haired artist has for years been frequenting the barrooms and hotels of this city

the REVIEW OF REVIEWS —a copy of which I send you herewith —without any extract from the "North American

The parcel of "North Americans" which ought to have reached London, was lost between Liverpool and London

Whitman's essay "Old Poets" was first published in the November 1890 issue of The North American Review

The North American Review was the first literary magazine in the United States.

I am anxious to put in the second number a similar series of letters from the Leading Americans and I

is living in poverty and retirement at Camden, in the State of New Jersey, over against the Quaker city

All around Washington there were towns, or rather clusters of hospitals, for the sick and wounded.

asked Whitman, pulling himself up at this point, as if he were conscious that he had for the present

However, if I were a young man as you are, I would certainly throw myself into the conflict on the side

Whitman," I here interposed, "that you were writing when I came to see you."

Brooks, Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

Gents: Enclosed I send you Nine, (9) dollars, for subscription to the "Daily American" from Jan'y 28,

Walter Whitman Washington City, D.C. William Stansberry to Walt Whitman, 9 December 1873

The Pennsylvania line traverses twelve of the American States, and has upwards of 7,500 miles of railway

cared for and well paid, and I was told that most of them own their houses, which I saw afterwards were

But when the school-days were over, and the necessities of poverty compelled him, young as he was, to

Whitman, thus encouraged, printed a further enlarged edition in 1860, and was considering the form which

suggestion of one of the secretaries, he was dismissed the service, on the ground that his writings were

Stedman and his family were seated in the opposite box. Others present were Samuel L. Clemens, H.

These attacks ofthe were Walt press probably regarded by Whitman much as the sailors were by Voltaire's

The subject of each is the city morgue, Reading the American poem, you are melted to tears, your deepest

fancy your Oh, women were the prizeforyou !

But the humiliated they were acquitted.

Jefferson, who, strictlyspeaking, were rather the fathers of American democracy than of the vast Continental

Karl Knortz, a German- American scholar of New York City, has had firstand last a good deal to say in

In New York the bells of Trinity spire were instantly rung, a salute fired in City Hall Park, and servicesheld

Titles with no page reference are those of poems occurring in early American editions,which were laterdiscarded

Dead-House, The 284 1871 [City of Friends, The] i860 City of Orgies 105 i860 City of Ships 230 1865

Later the decree was altered, and O'Reilly was sent to Australia, where he escaped on an American whaler

Boston friends were raising money to buy a summer cottage they hoped would improve Whitman's failing

If this humbug government were worth a copper spangle it wd would have settled a handsome pension on

North American Review.

I think (though I am not sure) that an article on it will appear in The American soon, by a couple of

But I have never wondered that you were caviare to the general; because, although I see clearly that

I want all the chief American & especially the English poets to have copies.

his time, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was both a highly popular and highly respected American

When Whitman met Longfellow in June 1876, he was unimpressed: "His manners were stately, conventional—all

I set up every stick of it mesilf indade , & corrected my proofs ( wh. which I'll have you know) were

Later the decree was altered, and O'Reilly was sent to Australia, where he escaped on an American whaler

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

Traubel left behind enough manuscripts for six more volumes of the series, the final two of which were

Bronson Howard (1842–1908) was an American journalist and dramatist, whose work earned him membership

in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Stuart Robson (1836–1903) and William Henry Crane (1845–1928) were American comedic actors who formed

Productions such as Our Bachelors (1878) and Sharps and Flats (1880) were so successful that Bronson

After a second trip to the United States in the summer of 1886, Arnold commented on American life being