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Search : William White

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[You bards of ages hence]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 8 x 9 cm; leaf 2 14.5 x 9.5 cm pasted to 5.5 x 9.5 cm; On two sections of white

Year of Meteors (1859-60)

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

signs; I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad; I would sing how an old man, tall, with white

Year of Meteors.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I would sing how an old man, tall, with white hair, mounted the scaffold in Virginia; (I was at hand—silent

Year of Meteors.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

signs, I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad, I would sing how an old man, tall, with white

Year of Meteors.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

signs, I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad, I would sing how an old man, tall, with white

Wright, Frances (Fanny) (1795–1852)

  • Creator(s): Hynes, Jennifer A.
Text:

New York: Bliss and White, 1825. ———. Life, Letters, and Lectures, 1834–1844. New York: Arno, 1972.

"Wound-Dresser, The" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

World, Take Good Notice.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

WORLD, take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-eight

World Take Good Notice.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

WORLD take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-eight

World Take Good Notice.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

WORLD take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-eight

World, Take Good Notice

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

WORLD, take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-six

"World Below the Brine, The" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Wohlpart, A. James
Text:

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

The World Below the Brine.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

and seeds, the thick tangle, openings, and pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white

The World Below the Brine.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

and seeds, the thick tangle, openings, and pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white

A Word Out of the Sea

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Winds blow South, or winds blow North, Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

shadows, Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts, The white

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! Loud! Loud I call to you my love!

A Word Out of the Sea

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Winds blow South, or winds blow North, Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

shadows, Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts, The white

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

wooding at night

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—he was called "Doctor"; wore a white cravat; was deaf, tall, apparently rheumatic, and slept most of

Women as a Theme in Whitman's Writing

  • Creator(s): Ceniza, Sherry
Text:

accomplishing his aims, to portray "democratic" women, as well as men, black, brown, and red as well as white

create an expansive space for women, something very much against the grain of his times, at least for white

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

women

  • Date: Between about 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Democratic" poem of the 1860 edition of eventually titled "Our Old Feuillage," in which Whitman writes of "White

T bluey spoon-drift, like a white race-horse of brine, speeds before me This section bears some resemblance

The village on the highland, seen from afar at sunset—the sun sh ining on the red white or brown gables

red, white or brown the ferry boat ever plying forever and ever over the river This passage was used

A Woman's Estimate of Walt Whitman

  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist [unsigned in original]
Text:

what is unsuitable is also unintelligible to her; and, if no dark shadow from without be cast on the white

In a letter on July 19, 1869, William Michael Rossetti had urged Gilchrist to "suppress" her name; see

The Letters of William Michael Rossetti , ed.

writing positively of it in his December 9, 1869 letter to Rossetti and in his May 11, 1870 letter to William

Woman in the Pulpit—Sermon by Mrs. Lydia Jenkins, Last Night

  • Date: 6 September 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

She was simply but becomingly dressed in white, relieved by black lace, and her appearance altogether

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 9)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

, Charles H., 205 Rolleston, Thomas William Hazen, 434-435 Rossetti, William Michael, 565-66 Salter,

The noble William!"

William H.

And a good lick for William in it? William O'Connor?"

William Winter."

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 8)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

William Reeder.

William was his rudder.

The great William!"

I can see William all through it.

Here was a sheet, too (William L.

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 7)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

We are grateful to William White, the editor of volume 6, who, regretting that he was unable to complete

William D.

Poor William! Great William!"

William! William O'Connor.

William Lloyd.

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 6)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Frank Williams in to see me today.

"No—it is not very rare—but it is beautiful, a pure whitewhite as alum.

What case under heaven but in the hands of a cute lawyer may not evidence white black and black white

And now that William is no more—now that William is gone—gone forever, from physical sight—the great,

surpassing William!

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 5)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

No reply as yet from William Carey.

Said Frank Williams was over today.

William R.

That was the one William Swinton most affected—most read. You know about William Swinton?

—found it white? White quartz, eh? Very pretty? No inscription? No monument of any kind?"

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 4)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

William will have to step down and out for good. ["Good-bye, William!"

Bucke and William and I were face to face. William looked up at us.

Then again: "But William? what of William?

William!"

"About William?"

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 3)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Yours respectfully,William H.

apper, indisputably for white."

He answered: "To William: I wanted William to see it: he has followed things so closely.

Yes: that 'sthat's William—the undaunted William: the fiery friend and lover."

Then exclaimed: "O William! William! If only our former days and nights could be renewed!

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 2)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

That's what Talcott Williams says. He was here today with Mrs. Williams."

"Some kind words from my friend William Carey there—William Carey.

William mentions you.

Affectionately,William D.

Talcott Williams over today.

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 1)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

William elicited a noble reply.

"The white ones have no flavor.

"There's WilliamWilliam O'Connor—he's alive, too: God bless William! And your mother? You, too?

"John and William." "John and William who?" "O'Connor—Burroughs.

But William?—never! never!"

With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

thy varied strange suggestions, (I see and plainly list thy talk and conference here,) Thy troops of white-maned

With husky‑haughty lips, O Sea!

  • Date: Late 1883 or early 1884
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

night I wend thy surf‑beat shore, Imaging to my sense thy varied strange suggestions, Thy troops of white‑maned

Wilmot Proviso (1846)

  • Creator(s): Klammer, Martin
Text:

solidly within the Free Soil camp and showed his thinking on slavery to be motivated more by concern for white

echo the Free-Soilers' position that the introduction of slavery would discourage, if not prohibit, white

prototypical Free-Soiler and characterizes the debate as an issue not of race but of class between white

While Whitman's position follows the Free-Soilers' emphasis on white labor and not on moral opposition

to slavery, Whitman, unlike many Free-Soilers, does not evoke white anxiety about associating with blacks

Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963)

  • Creator(s): Gutman, Huck
Text:

HuckGutmanWilliams, William Carlos (1883–1963)Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963) The influence of Walt

Whitman's poetic practice on William Carlos Williams was both seminal and immensely rich.

William Carlos Williams: An American Artist. New York: Oxford UP, 1970. Tapscott, Stephen.

American Beauty: William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman. New York: Columbia UP, 1984.

Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963)

Williams, Talcott (1849–1928)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

Philip W.LeonWilliams, Talcott (1849–1928)Williams, Talcott (1849–1928) Talcott Williams was born in

is the presence of Talcott Williams" (Traubel 341).

In 1887 Williams introduced Eakins to Whitman so that he could paint his portrait.

Talcott Williams: Gentleman of the Fourth Estate. Brooklyn: Robert E. Simpson, 1936.

Williams, Talcott. The Newspaperman. New York: Scribner, 1922. Williams, Talcott (1849–1928)

Williams, Captain John

  • Creator(s): Cooper, Stephen A.
Text:

Stephen A.CooperWilliams, Captain JohnWilliams, Captain John Captain John Williams, great-grandfather

As a young man Williams served under John Paul Jones on the Bon Homme Richard; notably, he fought in

Williams's daughter, Naomi ("Amy") Williams Van Velsor, told Whitman of his great-grandfather's sea adventures

Williams, Captain John

William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 5 June 1860

  • Date: June 5, 1860
  • Creator(s): William Wilde Thayer
Text:

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

William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 31 August 1862

  • Date: August 31, 1862
  • Creator(s): W. W. Thayer | William Wilde Thayer
Text:

.— Yours Truly William W. Thayer Please direct your letter to me Boston Post Office.

William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 31 August 1862

William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 19 April 1861

  • Date: April 19, 1861
  • Creator(s): W.W. Thayer | William Wilde Thayer
Text:

William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 19 April 1861

William Taylor to Walt Whitman, 9 June 1880

  • Date: June 9, 1880
  • Creator(s): William Taylor
Text:

Sent copy to the Senator, and there was a prompt responce response of the White Plume Plumed Knight,

about the same reason that the crows display in pecking to death one of their kind happening to have a white

If he had been ill-dressed and low-minded, it is hardly probable that the beloved poet, William Cullen

William Taylor to Walt Whitman, 9 June 1880

William Taylor to Walt Whitman, 18 December 1877

  • Date: December 18, 1877
  • Creator(s): William Taylor
Text:

Your Friend Wm Taylor Wm Taylor's letter Woodstown NJ Dec 18 '77 William Taylor to Walt Whitman, 18 December

William T. Stead to Walt Whitman, 7 January 1890

  • Date: January 7, 1890
  • Creator(s): William T. Stead
Text:

I have the honor to be Your obedient servant William T. Stead William T.

William T. Stead to Walt Whitman, 16 February 1891

  • Date: February 16, 1891
  • Creator(s): Wlliam T. Stead | William T. Stead
Text:

I am, Yours truly, W T Stead William T. Stead to Walt Whitman, 16 February 1891

William T. Stead to Walt Whitman, 10 December 1890

  • Date: December 10, 1890
  • Creator(s): William T. Stead
Text:

I am, Yours truly, W T Stead 1890 William T. Stead to Walt Whitman, 10 December 1890

William T. Otto to Walt Whitman, 24 January 1865

  • Date: January 24, 1865
  • Creator(s): William T. Otto | Horace Traubel
Text:

Walt Whitman, Esq. of New York William T. Otto to Walt Whitman, 24 January 1865

William T. Otto to Walt Whitman, 12 January 1865

  • Date: January 12, 1865
  • Creator(s): William T. Otto | Horace Traubel
Text:

William T. Otto to Walt Whitman, 12 January 1865

William T. Otto to Walt Whitman, 11 May 1865

  • Date: May 11, 1865
  • Creator(s): William T. Otto | Horace Traubel
Text:

William T. Otto, Assistant Secretary of the Interior. William T. Otto to Walt Whitman, 11 May 1865

William Stewart to William B. Hill, 26 August 1865

  • Date: August 26, 1865
  • Creator(s): William Stewart | Walt Whitman
Text:

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Stewart to William B.

William Stewart to Walt Whitman, 17 July 1865

  • Date: July 17, 1865
  • Creator(s): William Stewart
Text:

told you Well i must [close] My letter by bidding you good by write soon armory Square hospittle William

William Stewart to W. F. M. Arny, 17 July 1865

  • Date: July 17, 1865
  • Creator(s): William Stewart | Walt Whitman
Text:

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