21. Walt Whitman - Introduction walt whitman and the. Development of Leaves of Grass When walt whitman published his first edition of Leaves of Grass on or around the fourth day of July in 1855 http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/amlit/whitman.html

Walt Whitman and the Development of Leaves of Grass originally displayed March-April 1992 curated by Anthony Szczesiul hypertext development by Jason A. Pierce Walt Whitman in 1887. Photograph by George C. Cox, New York. Hits since 1 June 1998: Introduction When Walt Whitman published his first edition of Leaves of Grass on or around the fourth day of July in 1855, he believed he was embarking on a personal literary journey of national significance. Setting out to define the American experience, Whitman consciously hoped to answer Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1843 essay, "The Poet," which called for a truly original national poet, one who would sing of the new country in a new voice. The undertaking required unlimited optimism, especially considering the fact that Whitman had published only a small handful of poems prior to 1855; however, Whitman felt confident that the time was ripe and that the people would embrace him. This optimism and confidence resulted largely from his awareness of the tremendous changes in the American literary world that had taken place during his lifetime. At the time of Whitman's birth in 1819, the Constitution and the democratic ideas upon which this country was founded were only a generation old; America was a land of seemingly unlimited space, resources, and possibilities, yet a land with no cultural roots to call its own. In 1820, a year after Whitman's birth, Sydney Smith of Britain's

22. Constructing Walt Whitman Constructing walt whitman The Critics Contend With the Good G(r)ay Poet. The Hague Mouton, 1975. whitman, walt. Leaves of Grass. 1900 Edition. http://sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu/~jmitchel/walt.htm

Constructing Walt Whitman: The Critics Contend With the Good G(r)ay Poet I have chosen to limit this study to the reactions of Whitman's admirers for the simple reason that the opinions of his detractors have remained static. Early critics, like later ones, violently objected to Whitman's technique and subject matter. Among them was Henry James, who at the age of 22 wrote a vicious attack on Whitman, but later came to appreciate his work and to regret deeply the "little atrocity" that he "perpetrated (on W.W.) in the gross impudence of youth" (Allen Solitary Singer 578n). (For an interesting discussion of how James' change of heart paralleled the development of his own identity, see Savoy.) Many, many others, notably Secretary of the Interior James Harlan and Boston district attorney Oliver Stevens, have been content to dismiss the poet as simply a libertine or pervert (Reynolds 455, 540). These same reactions are common enough today. Betsy Erkkila relates the case of a public service announcement dealing with Whitman's sexual orientation (in an attempt to offer support to lesbian and gay teenagers) that was refused by all six Philadelphia television stations, in two cases on the advice of the director of the Walt Whitman Poetry Center, who feared that the announcement would be "detrimental" to the Center's educational efforts.

23. Walt Whitman Arts Center Located in Camden, New Jersey, the Center hosts poetry readings, slams, and other literary events. The events calendar is regularly updated. http://www.waltwhitmancenter.org

Walt Whitman Arts Center Home Our Purpose Becoming a Member Contact Us ... Directions Welcome to the home page of the Walt Whitman Arts Center web site. The Walt Whitman Arts Center is dedicated to providing quality arts programming to the Delaware Valley region. To learn more about the Walt Whitman Arts Center, membership and events, click the links at left. Please click the Contact Us link at left to offer comments about our web site. Don't forget to join our mailing list. Just submit your email address below. The Walt Whitman Arts Center is located on the campus of Rutgers University-Camden. In accordance with The New Jersey State Council On The Arts and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Walt Whitman Arts Center is handicapped and/or wheelchair accessible. If you need assistance, please call 856-964-8300. Join the mailing list Email:

24. The Walt Whitman Archive The walt whitman Archive is a scholarly resource codirected by Dr. Ed Folsom (U. Iowa) and Dr. Kenneth M. Price (U Nebraska-Lincoln). http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/whitman

25. Leaves Of Grass Index Return to Archive Index. walt whitman s Leaves of Grass. http://www.whitmanarchive.org/archive1/works/leaves/

Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass An introduction to Whitman's Leaves of Grass will soon be available.

26. Walt Whitman At LiteratureClassics.com -- Essays, Resources walt whitman free essays, eTexts, resources and links from LiteratureClassics.com. Sign up to The Daily Muse for free. walt whitman. 1819 - 1892 *. http://www.literatureclassics.com/authors/Whitman/

Start your day with a thought-provoking quote from the world's greatest thinkers and writers. Sign up to The Daily Muse for free. Walt Whitman American poet and journalist, most famous for his controversial but technically brilliant early poetry American poet, journalist and essayist, best known for LEAVES OF GRASS (1855), which was occasionally banned, and the poems 'I Sing the Body Electric' and 'Song of Myself.' Whitman incorporated natural speech rhythms into poetry. He disregarded metre, but the overall effect has a melodic character. Harold Bloom has stated in The Western Canon (1994) that "no Western poet, in the past century and half, not even Browning, or Leopardi or Baudelaire, overshadows Walt Whitman or Emily Dickinson." "Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and joy and knowledge that pass all... [ read entire biography Source Petri Liukkonen WHITMAN, WALT (1819—1892), American poet, was born at West Hills, on Long Island, New York, on the 31st of May 1819. His ancestry was mingled English and Holland Dutch, and had flourished upon Long Island more than 150 years—long enough to have taken deep root in the soil and to have developed, in its farmers and seafaring men, many strong family traits. His father, Walter Whitman, was a farmer and carpenter; his mother, Louisa Van Velsor, was the granddaughter of a sea captain. There do not app... [ read entire biography Source External Publication These essays offer analysis of the author's life and works. Many of them have been submitted by users, and are assigned an Editorial Rating on a scale from one to five stars to assist you in evaluating their worth.

27. Reminiscences Of Walt Whitman - 02.06 1902 Atlantic Monthly article by John Townsend Trowbridge. http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/poetry/whitman/walt.htm

As originally published in The Atlantic Monthly February 1902 Reminiscences of Walt Whitman by John Townsend Trowbridge I Then, one day, I was stopped on Washington Street by a friend who made this startling announcement: "Walt Whitman is in town; I have seen him!" When I asked where, he replied: "At the stereotype foundry, just around the corner. Come along! I'll take you to him." The author of Leaves of Grass had loomed so large in my imagination as to seem almost superhuman; and I was filled with some such feeling of wonder and astonishment as if I had been invited to meet Socrates or King Solomon. We found a large, gray-haired and gray-bearded, plainly dressed man, reading proof-sheets at a desk in a little dingy office, with a lank, unwholesome-looking lad at his elbow, listlessly watching him. The man was Whitman, and the proofs were those of his new edition. There was a scarcity of chairs, and Whitman, rising to receive us, offered me his; but we all remained standing except the sickly looking lad, who kept his seat until Whitman turned to him and said, "You'd better go now; I'll see you this evening." After he had gone out, Whitman explained: "He is a friendless boy I found at my boarding place. I am trying to cheer him up and strengthen him with my magnetism." My readers may think this a practical but curiously prosaic illustration of these powerful lines in the early poems: "To any one dying, thither I speed and twist the knob of the door.

28. Redirect: Error 404 The Poet At Work Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned walt whitman Collection offers access to four walt whitman notebooks and cardboard butterfly that disappeared from the Library of http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wwhome.html

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29. Infinitum Poetry Presents A Unique Collection Of Poets And Poetry, Short Stories Poetry by well known poets, their biographies, and short stories by the site owner. Poets include Robert Frost, walt whitman, William Wordsworth, Robert W. Service, Maya Angelou, and Anne Sexton. http://www.geocities.com/infinitum_poetry/

Home Poetry Short Stories Quotes ... Contact Search Infinitum var t=0; Tell-A-Friend "Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits." That's how Christopher Marlowe described poetry in his Prologue to Tamburlaine. "Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment." (Carl Sandburg) "Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music." (H.L. Mencken) When Webster's defines poetry it speaks in terms of rhythm, feelings, spirit. Like music, a good poem makes us think or feel something, sends out wispy reminders of something we've known or maybe just imagined. It is language of the soul.

30. Walt Whitman Home Page The Poet At Work Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned walt whitman Collection offers access to four walt whitman notebooks and cardboard butterfly http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wwhtml/wwhome.html

The Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Library of Congress Click here to go to the Notebooks and Butterfly This collection offers access to the four Walt Whitman Notebooks and a cardboard butterfly that disappeared from the Library of Congress in 1942. They were returned on February 24, 1995. The mission of the Library of Congress is to make its resources available and useful to Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. The goal of the Library's National Digital Library Program is to offer broad public access to a wide range of historical and cultural documents as a contribution to education and lifelong learning. The Library of Congress presents these documents as part of the record of the past. These primary historical documents reflect the attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs of different times. The Library of Congress does not endorse the views expressed in these collections, which may contain materials offensive to some readers. LC's Missing Whitman Notes Found in N.Y.

31. Main A meditation on the harmony and creativity of nature, using Mandelbrot images, music, and the poetry of walt whitman. http://members.aol.com/jlenw/index.htm

A Meditation on the Mandelbrot Set, via Walt Whitman An Undertaking The pages attached to this site are intended to provide a little interlude of nourishment for your eyes, ears and mind. When you click here or on the image to the left, you'll see a brief prologue and then be taken on a series of visits to places in the world of the Mandelbrot Set. Each visit is enhanced, I hope, by passages from Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass", and by evocative music from composers on the web. At the end, there's a little epilogue to ease you back into the everyday world. I hope you happen to be visiting on a day when you're not too rushed. The pictures and music do take a while to load. On top of which, I am trying to entice you to linger with them a while. With any luck, at least one or two of the pages will speak to you. Just a word of regret - if your screen resolution is higher than 800 x 600, the images and text are going to be quite small. I hope you can enjoy your visit regardless. An Explanation The Mandelbrot Set emerges from the behavior of a famously simple mathematical function. The Set itself is like a black hole in the abstract space it inhabits. Most of that space is a vast, featureless void. But the points near the boundary of the Set are torn between the temptation to join the Set and the lure of infinity. When their behavior is coded in colors, the result is a beautiful filigree of infinite depth and complexity.

32. Walt Whitman - Poems And Biography By AmericanPoems.com Biography of walt whitman. walt whitman (1819 1892). walt whitman was born on May 31, 1819, on the West Hills of Long Island, New York. 14. walt whitman. 15. http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/waltwhitman/

Poets Discussion Forum Poem of the Day Top 40 Poems ... Search Today is May 28th, 2004 - the site contains 32 poets and 4491 poems. Biography of Walt Whitman Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, on the West Hills of Long Island, New York. His mother, Louisa Van Velsor, of Dutch descent and Quaker faith, whom he adored, was barely literate. She never read his poetry, but gave him unconditional love. His father of English lineage, was a carpenter and builder of houses, and a stern disciplinarian. His main claim to fame was his friendship with Tom Paine, whose pamphlet Common Sense (1776), urging the colonists to throw off English domination was in his sparse library. It is doubtful that his father read any of his son's poetry, or would have understood it if he had. The senior Walt was too burdened with the struggle to support his ever-growing family of nine children, four of whom were handicapped. Young Walt, the second of nine, was withdrawn from public school at the age of eleven to help support the family. At the age of twelve he started to learn the printer's trade, and fell in love with the written and printed word. He was mainly self-taught. He read voraciously, and became acquainted with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare and Scott early in life. He knew the Bible thoroughly, and as a God-intoxicated poet, desired to inaugurate a religion uniting all of humanity in bonds of friendship. In 1836, at the age of 17, he began his career as an innovative teacher in the one-room school houses of Long Island. He permitted his students to call him by his first name, and devised learning games for them in arithmetic and spelling. He continued to teach school until 1841, when he turned to journalism as a full-time career. He soon became editor for a number of Brooklyn and New York papers. From 1846 to 1847 Whitman was the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Whitman went to New Orleans in 1848, where he was editor for a brief time of the "New Orleans Crescent". In that city he had become fascinated with the French language. Many of his poems contain words of French derivation. It was in New Orleans that he experienced at first hand the viciousness of slavery in the slave markets of that city.

33. Walt Whitman High School Alumni Directory - Huntington Station, New York Alumni directory. http://www.waltwhitmanhighschool.com/

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34. Walt Whitman The Western Canon (1994) that no Western poet, in the past century and half, not even Browning, or Leopardi or Baudelaire, overshadows walt whitman or Emily http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wwhitman.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback Walt(er) Whitman (1819-1892) American poet, journalist and essayist, best known for LEAVES OF GRASS (1855), which was occasionally banned, and the poems 'I Sing the Body Electric' and 'Song of Myself.' Whitman incorporated natural speech rhythms into poetry. He disregarded metre, but the overall effect has a melodic character. Harold Bloom has stated in The Western Canon (1994) that "no Western poet, in the past century and half, not even Browning, or Leopardi or Baudelaire, overshadows Walt Whitman or Emily Dickinson." "Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and joy and knowledge that pass all the art and argument of the earth; And I know that the hand of God is the elderhand of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the eldest brother of my own, And that all men ever born are also my brothers... and the women my sisters and lovers." (from 'Song of Myself') Walt Whitman was born in Long Island, New York, the son of a Quaker carpenter. Whitman's mother was descended from Dutch farmers. In Whitman's childhood there were slaves employed on the farm. Whitman was early on filled with a love of nature. He read classics in his youth and was inspired by writers such as Goethe, Hegel, Carlyle and

35. Defending Walt Whitman, By Sherman Alexie Reprint of poem in the Beloit Poetry Journal http://www.bpj.org/walt.html

DEFENDING WALT WHITMAN by Sherman Alexie Basketball is like this for young Indian boys, all arms and legs and serious stomach muscles. Every body is brown! These are the twentieth-century warriors who will never kill, although a few sat quietly in the deserts of Kuwait, waiting for orders to do something, to do something. God, there is nothing as beautiful as a jumpshot on a reservation summer basketball court where the ball is moist with sweat, and makes a sound when it swishes through the net that causes Walt Whitman to weep because it is so perfect. There are veterans of foreign wars here although their bodies are still dominated by collarbones and knees, although their bodies still respond in the ways that bodies are supposed to respond when we are young. Every body is brown! Look there, that boy can run up and down this court forever. He can leap for a rebound with his back arched like a salmon, all meat and bone

36. From Revolution To Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline Of American Literature: Dem An Outline of American Literature. by Kathryn VanSpanckeren. The Romantic Period, 18201860 Essayists and Poets walt whitman (1819-1892). *** Index ***. http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/whitman.htm

FRtR Outlines American Literature Democratic Origins and Revolutionary Writers, 1776-1820: Writers of fiction: Walt Whitman (1819-1892) An Outline of American Literature by Kathryn VanSpanckeren The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Essayists and Poets: Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Index Born on Long Island, New York, Walt Whitman was a part-time carpenter and man of the people, whose brilliant, innovative work expressed the country's democratic spirit. Whitman was largely self-taught; he left school at the age of 11 to go to work, missing the sort of traditional education that made most American Leaves of Grass (1855), which he rewrote and revised throughout his life, contains "Song of Myself," the most stunningly original poem ever written by an American. The enthusiastic praise that Emerson and a few others heaped on this daring volume confirmed Whitman in his poetic vocation, although the book was not a popular success. A visionary book celebrating all creation, Leaves of Grass was inspired largely by Emerson's writings, especially his essay "The Poet," which predicted a robust, open-hearted, universal kind of poet uncannily like Whitman himself. The poem's innovative, unrhymed, free-verse form, open celebration of sexuality, vibrant democratic sensibility, and extreme Romantic assertion that the poet's self was one with the poem, the universe, and the reader permanently altered the course of American poetry. Leaves of Grass is as vast, energetic, and natural as the American continent; it was the epic generations of American critics had been calling for, although they did not recognize it. Movement ripples through "Song of Myself" like restless music:

37. Www.LeavesofGrass.org Analysis of walt whitman's quaker paradox including aspects related to a Quaker doctrine and homosexual experience. http://www.leavesofgrass.org

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38. Walt Whitman Community School Private, alternative secondary school which emphasizes an acceptance of sexual orientation diversity. Includes events, enrollment, and fundraising. http://www.waltwhitmanschool.org/

PO Box 181781 Dallas, Texas 75218 USA Phone: 214-660-4500 or Fax: 214-660-4501 The Walt Whitman Community School of Dallas, Texas is a private, alternative secondary school which emphasizes an acceptance of sexual orientation diversity. Updated 2 March 2004 Walt Whitman Community School Supporters- Winfree Academy Charter Schools has chosen to rescind its recent agreement to affiliate with Walt Whitman Community School. We are shocked and saddened by this unexpected decision. Because of this very unfortunate set of circumstances we cannot plan to open Walt Whitman for the 2004-2005 school year. The Walt Whitman Community School Foundation continues to exist and the board is considering our next move. The Foundation continues to support the 2004 GAYla Prom, though WWCS will no longer serve as beneficiary of the Prom. We remain grateful to all of you for your kindness, generosity and dedication to this important cause over the past six and a half years.

39. Home -- Walt Whitman High School Includes information on academic departments, student life, athletics, and events. http://www.waltwhitman.edu/

Pride + Determination = Success Upcoming School Meetings/Events Semester Exams Summer School Athletic News Page ... 2004-2005 MCPS School Year Calendar Academic Departments Math Semester Exam Review Packets PTSA Information Whitnet Parents, want to stay informed about events at Whitman? Join Whitnet, the PTSA mailing list. To sign up, email whitnet1@earthlink.net with your student's name, grade level, home phone number, parent's name, and parent's email address. You must have a student currently enrolled at Whitman to subscribe. Most Valuable Viking Award This award recognizes Whitman students or groups who participate, contribute, and actively and positively impact the Whitman Community. Students, teachers, counselors, and administrators can nominate a student or group of students. Nomination Form (MS Word file 26 KB) School Activities The Black and White Online Whitman SGA Whitman Club Directory Career Information Center

40. Whitman, Walt US People Word Wise Science Math Sports Cool Stuff Games and Quizzes Homework Center Funbrain Site Map. encyclopediaEncyclopedia whitman, walt. http://www.factmonster.com/cgi-bin/id/A0852157.html

Encyclopedia Whitman, Walt Whitman, Walt (Walter Whitman), , American poet, b. West Hills, N.Y. Considered by many to be the greatest of all American poets, Walt Whitman celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy and the brotherhood of man. His Leaves of Grass, unconventional in both content and technique, is probably the most influential volume of poems in the history of American literature. Sections in this article: Introduction Early Life Leaves of Grass Later Life and Works Assessment ... Bibliography The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Whitman, Sarah Helen (Power) Whitney, Asa Print this page Cite this page AD AD AD ADS Link to Fact Monster Add Fact Monster search to your site ... Privacy Brought to you by:

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