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Contradiction

  • Creator(s): Zapata-Whelan, Carol M.
Text:

Malcolm Cowley saw the poet's ideas as pell-mell driftwood in a flooding river. D.H.

"Salut au Monde!"(1856)

  • Creator(s): Zapata-Whelan, Carol M.
Text:

Along with historical summaries and sky-view grids of railroads and rivers, he records the Cossack's

Whitman Noir: Black America & the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Wilson, Ivy G.
Text:

And, as Phillips illuminates in his essay, the function of the East River as thelocusclassicusinWhitman

(Whitman writes, “Just as you are refresh’d by the gladness of the river, and the bright flow, I was

probes the menacing history of bondage evoked by the river’s continuity with times past: “But there’

But Komunyakaa’s river carries haunting, unsolicited memories his speaker would rather not remember:

The East River, a locus classicus of Whitman’s work, is recon- textualized in order to circumscribe a

A Visit to Walt Whitman

  • Date: Thursday, October 18, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Summers, M. P.
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was on a clear, bright, sunny day in the month of September that I crossed by the ferry the Delaware river

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Walt Whitman's domicile isa littleold-fashioned present frame house, situated about from the Delaware River

am sick.' "] April 27,'87. " " Drove down yesterday four miles to BillyThompson's on the Delaware river

I will send you (or word allI hear or get. of) I have been out to-day noon in wheel chair to the river

These stocks original tinge and saturate the billows of humanity through generations, as great rivers

Before the slow roll of the river of the majestic DRIFT AND CUMULUS. 123 come the toss and turbulence

The Fight of a Book for the World

  • Date: 1926
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Rivers, and is published by Geo. Allen & Co., London.

He is a great river, which appears with its life blood diminished, but only be- cause itis irrigating

'(fand 76 From Pent-up Aching Rivers ...

W. describinghisSaguenay River tripwith Dr. Bucke, seesame forAug. 26, 1880.

Phelps, William Rivers, W. Lyon, loi. C, 119. Phillips, Le Roy, 16, note. Roberts, Harry, 253.

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman: Memories, Letters, Etc.

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Lawrence River, which eh had seen during the past summer.

present domicile is a little old-fashioned frame house, situated about gun-shot from the Delaware River

acquaintance says:— "Whitman gets out of doors regularly in fair weather, much enjoys the Delaware River

from him that 'that miserable wretch, the mayor of this town, has forbidden the boys to bathe in the river

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 18 October 1889

  • Date: October 18, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

They call the Missouri river terraces "benches" out there she says.

The Walt Whitman Archive: The Body of Work Electric

  • Creator(s): William Pannapacker
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Rivers) not included under "Disciples" (see below).

Anna Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings

  • Date: 1887
  • Creator(s): Herbert Harlakendend Gilchrist | Anna Gilchrist | William Michael Rossetti
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After all, the sunny, fertile, plain for me, with gentle hills around, with a woody deep, calm river

Seven weeks have glided by as swiftly and noiselesslyas a river through sunshine, not through shade.

And how does the River look?

But the New England valley has one advantage over theweald of Sussex in itsbroad and beautiful river,

with Indian name, Connecticut Quon- — nektacut, the long river— which winds through it.

William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 31 March [1872]

  • Date: March 31, [1872]
  • Creator(s): William Michael Rossetti
Text:

directness of observation & purpose, by the painters: sometimes, instead of walking, we row up the river

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 28 June 1885
  • Creator(s): William H. Ballou
Text:

"I write three hours per day, haunt the Delaware River most of the time, am a good liver, not a teetotaler

Walt Whitman and the Tennyson Visit

  • Date: 3 July 1885
  • Creator(s): William H. Ballou
Text:

"I write three hours a day, haunt the Delaware river much of the time, am a good liver and not a teetotaler

William E. Vandemark to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1863

  • Date: November 2, 1863
  • Creator(s): William E. Vandemark
Text:

he will get elected for he is a good union man— i am in the hospittle on davids island up the east river

Suppressing Walt Whitman.

  • Date: April 22, 1876
  • Creator(s): William Douglass O'Connor
Text:

poet describes the grand and terrible dalliance of two eagles, high shift in the bright air, abovea river

The Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 1866 (republished 1883)
  • Creator(s): William Douglas O'Connor
Text:

hereafter and to the latest ages, when Bull Run and Shiloh and Port Hudson, when Vicksburg and Stone River

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 30 October 1881
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Sylvester Baxter
Text:

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains from home, Singing all time, minding

Whitman's New Book

  • Date: 15 October 1882
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Sylvester Baxter
Text:

spent in the open air down in the country in the woods and fields, and by a secluded little New Jersey river

Starr'd Nights…Mulleins…A Sun-Bath—Nakedness…Human and Heroic New York…Hours for the Soul…Delaware River—Days

Walt Whitmans Werk [1922]

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 | Reisiger, Hans, 1884–1968
Text:

Nacht darauf führt Washington den Rest seiner geschlagenen Truppen im Schutze des Nebels über den East River

Long Island, während der folgenden Jahre anschwellen und sich mit dem gegenüber, jenseits des East River

Walt Whitman, a Brooklyn Boy

  • Date: 29 September 1855
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
Text:

full-blooded, six feet high, a good feeder, never once using medicine, drinking water only—a swimmer in the river

Whitman among the Bohemians

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Levin, Joanna | Whitley, Edward
Text:

He would have met another Brooklynite who managed the leap over the East River and found success in the

duringWhitman’s tenure; both sites were located nearWil- liamsburg’s two ferry landings on the East River

Let us hope that he will indulge us with a hymn to the aresnicated Undin of the rejuvenating river.”

The Genius of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 20 March 1880
  • Creator(s): White, W. Hale
Text:

the pale green leaves of the trees prolific, In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

"walter dear": The Letters from Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Her Son Walt

  • Creator(s): Wesley Raabe
Text:

Vorhees, and a train disaster known as the "Hudson River Horror."

Imagination and Fact

  • Date: 1852 or later; January 1852; Unknown
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | ["W.D."] | Anonymous
Text:

were sacred to the universal Pan—his fauns, sylvans and satyrs; every oak had its hamadryad, every river

The mountains, rivers, forests, and the elements that gird them round about, would be only blank conditions

The former may be as fair or fairer to see; but, as "A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose

Walter Whitman Storms to Walt Whitman, 20 April 1875

  • Date: April 20, 1875
  • Creator(s): Walter Whitman Storms
Text:

The East River bridge does not seem to be getting on very fast I believe the piers are not quite finished

Walter Whitman Reynolds to Walt Whitman, 16 November [1869]

  • Date: November 16, [1869]
  • Creator(s): Walter Whitman Reynolds
Text:

raised after the Holidays father has just received Employment In the pipe yard foot of 24th St of East River

Walter Whitman Reynolds to Walt Whitman, 9 February 1870

  • Date: February 9, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walter Whitman Reynolds
Text:

East river.

Whitman in the German-Speaking Countries

  • Creator(s): Walter Grünzweig
Text:

Following the Ohio River along the newly settled states of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois, still

This river, which together with its tributaries supplies half of the arable land of the United States

contradicting any Zeitgeist, just like myself, I see the skyline of the large banks in Frankfurt on the river

Walter Godey to Walt Whitman, 1 June 1874

  • Date: June 1, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walter Godey
Text:

I passed a very pleasant day up the River Saturday—fishing—the day proved to be warm and after several

Walt Whitman Home Again

  • Date: 7 January 1880
  • Creator(s): Anonymous | Walt Whitman?
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objects of especial attention have been the Rocky Mountains, the Great Plains and the Mississippi River

Gems from Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Elizabeth Porter Gould | Walt Whitman and Elizabeth Porter Gould
Text:

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

Memoranda During the War

  • Date: 1875–1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

even take one in my hand, without the actual army sights and hot emotions of the time rushing like a river

with them about each one, in every part of the United States, and many of the engagements on the rivers

Still sweeping the eye around down the river toward Alexandria, we see, to the right, the locality where

And how full of breadth is the scenery, everywhere with distant mountains, everywhere convenient rivers

There were nearly 200 of them, come up yesterday by boat from James River.

Complete Prose Works

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

Delaware River—Days and Nights.....Scenes on Ferry and River—Last Winter's Nights, . . .

DELAWARE RIVER—DAYS AND NIGHTS. April 5, 1879.

HUDSON RIVER SIGHTS.

SWALLOWS ON THE RIVER. Sept. 3 .

UNFULFILL'D WANTS—THE ARKANSAS RIVER.

Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps

  • Date: 1865; 1865–1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

pass through the city, and embark from the wharves; (How good they look, as they tramp down to the river

take a serpentine course—their arms flash in the sun—Hark to the musical clank; Behold the silvery river—in

; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry, lit by torches, hastening the embar- cation embarcation

I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed; Ah, river!

Drum-Taps (1865)

  • Date: 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

pass through the city, and embark from the wharves; (How good they look, as they tramp down to the river

take a serpentine course—their arms flash in the sun—Hark to the musical clank; Behold the silvery river—in

; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry, lit by torches, hastening the embar- cation embarcation

I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed; Ah, river!

Poems by Walt Whitman [1868]

  • Date: 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

His spirit responds to his country's spirit: he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers

What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?

four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see where the

Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

bring your freight, bring your shows, ample and sufficient rivers!

Leaves of Grass. The Poems of Walt Whitman [Selected]

  • Date: 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The river and bay scenery, all about New York island, any time of a fine day—the hurrying, splashing

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?

Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

O boating on the rivers, The voyage down the St.

J. Hubley Ashton to Watterson & Crawford, 24 October 1866

  • Date: October 24, 1866
  • Creator(s): J. Hubley Ashton | Walt Whitman
Text:

sitting in Louisiana, a number of adjudications were had upon libels in rem against steamboats & other river

Henry Stanbery to William Dorsheimer, 23 October 1867

  • Date: October 23, 1867
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

Lawrence River—but to what place I am not informed; but are supposed to be secreted in an Irish settlement

about five miles from the river.

John M. Binckley to Leander Holmes, 4 November 1867

  • Date: November 4, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

Brightley's Digest, 207, provides that if "any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river

be construed as equivalent to "District of Columbia," should a murder be committed on the Potomac river

John M. Binckley to Lyman Trumbull, 12 December 1867

  • Date: December 12, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

If this is all, the Attorney General thinks that an Act simply declaring that the words high seas, river

Henry Stanbery to Ulysses S. Grant, 7 January 1868

  • Date: January 7, 1868
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

Secretary of War to change the location of the Railroad and bridge across Rock Island and the Mississippi river

adjudge it fair and equitable that the Government should build a bridge across the main channel of the river

John M. Binckley to Gideon Welles, 25 April 1868

  • Date: April 25, 1868
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

Resolution was approved authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept League Island on the Delaware River

John M. Binckley to Theodore Phillips, 16 June 1868

  • Date: June 16, 1868
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

communication of the 11th instant, relative to a tract of land remaining unappropriated upon the Mississippi River

W. A. Field to John A. Rawlins, 1 May 1869

  • Date: May 1, 1869
  • Creator(s): W. A. Field | Walt Whitman
Text:

Jefferson county, West Virginia, to recover about twenty-one acres of land, situated on the Potomac river

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to John A. Rawlins, 25 May 1869

  • Date: May 25, 1869
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

of the people of Coeyman's to sue out an injunction against the further prosecution of the Hudson River

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to William T. Sherman, 13 October 1869

  • Date: October 13, 1869
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

Cook, for rent of land at the mouth of Genessee river, New York.

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 25 February 1871

  • Date: February 25, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

navigable waters of Lake Michigan, at Chicago, by the deposition of dredged material from Chicago river

Amos T. Akerman to L. P. Poland, 29 March 1871

  • Date: March 29, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Anderson, the principal surveyor in the District of Ohio, between the Little Miami and Scioto rivers,

Amos T. Akerman to Columbus Delano, 4 April 1871

  • Date: April 4, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Spear as special agent for the Indians at Cheyenne River Agency, Dakota Territory, which were transmitted

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