41. Whitman And Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson's July 21, 1855 letter praising Leaves of Grass , and scholarly criticism concerning that letter. http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/fdw/volume1/belasco/whitman-emerson.htm

WALT WHITMAN AND RALPH WALDO EMERSON This section of the site includes two letters, one by Emerson and one by Whitman that became a part of the second edition of Leaves of Grass . This exchange began as a private note of encouragement from Emerson, a well-known poet and lecturer, to an obscure journalist at the beginning of his poetic career. The following letter to Whitman from Ralph Waldo Emerson, 21 July 1855 is among the most famous letters ever written to an aspiring writer. Here Emerson suggests the complex foreground that preceded the publication of Leaves of Grass . Without asking Emerson's permission, Whitman gave this private letter to Charles Dana for publication in the New York Tribune on October, 1855. DEAR SIRI am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of "LEAVES OF GRASS." I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. It meets the demand I am always making of what seemed the sterile and stingy nature, as if too much handiwork, or too much lymph in the temperament, were making our western wits fat and mean.

42. About Walt Whitman The Life and Work of walt whitman. whitman messageboard, complete textof whitman's books Click Here. About walt whitman. Works Online. http://www.underthesun.cc/Classics/Whitman/

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43. Walt Whitman - Biography And Poems By AmericanPoems.com Etext of works and brief biography. http://www.AmericanPoems.com/poets/waltwhitman/

Walt Whitman Navigation Biography of Walt Whitman Poems by Whitman Books by Whitman Biography of Walt Whitman 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.

44. Whitman, Walt - University Of Maryland whitman, walt. Leaves Of Grass Poet At Work, Recovered Notebooks fromthe Thomas Bigg Harned walt whitman Collection The walt whitman http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/ReadingRoom/Poetry/Whitman/

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45. Walt Whitman The Western Canon (1994) that no Western poet, in the past century and half, noteven 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, as the son of a Quaker carpenter. Whitman's mother was descended from Dutch farmers. In Whitman's childhood there were slaves employed upon the farm. Whitman was early filled with a love of nature. He read classics in his youth and was inspired from such writers as Goethe, Hegel, Carlyle and Emerson . Whitman left school early to become a printer's apprentice. He also worked as a teacher and journeyman printer in 1835. After that he held a great variety of jobs while writing and editing for several periodicals

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47. Walt Whitman At LiteratureClassics.com -- Essays, Resources Essays on whitman's works, along with a selection of quotes and links. http://www.literatureclassics.com/authors/Whitman

Part of the Classics Network , a leading provider of online resources for the humanities. Literature Classics.com Philosophy Classics.com —Advertisement Home Help Login Contact 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 This page is maintained by our Editorial Team. Become an

48. The Library Of America - Whitman, Walt Poetry And Prose Poetry and Prose whitman, walt, Purchase this book http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=76

49. Online Course Companion: Literature Online Introduces the man and his writings. Provides an overview of his early years, his literary career, and his legacy. http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/kennedycompact_awl/chapter40

50. PAL: Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Where are we going walt whitman? The doors close in an hour. ed. walt whitmanwalt whitman's autograph revision of the analysis of Leaves of grass. http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/whitman.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide Paul P. Reuben Chapter 4: Early Nineteenth Century: Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819-March 26, 1892) Library of Congress WW Home Page Leaves of Grass The WW Hypertext Archive Searchable 1891 ... Home Page (Photo source: The Whitman Project Old Walt Old Walt Whitman Went finding and seeking, Finding less than sought Seeking more than found, Every detail minding Of the seeking or the finding. Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding. Langston Hughes, 1954 from A Supermarket in California Where are we going Walt Whitman? The doors close in an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight? (I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.) Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses, we'll both be

51. Constructing Walt Whitman Constructing walt whitman The Critics Contend with the Good G(r)ay Poet. 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.

52. Whitman's Wartime Washington Discusses the poem and its relation to events and places in the Civil War.Category Arts Literature 19th Century whitman, walt Reviews...... walt whitman 1848. I go around among these sights, among the crowded hospitalsdoing what I can, yet it is a mere drop in the bucket. . walt whitman 1867. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/hospital/whitman.htm

Whitman's Drum Taps and Washington's Civil War Hospitals By: Angel Price Walt Whitman 1848 Campbell Hospital Armory Hospital Before the war began, Washington was a relatively rural town with limited medical accommodations. There were no military hospitals and very few medical facilities. Yet by the end of the Civil War there were approximately fifty hospitals marking the Washington landscape. Their beginnings were in the tents of regiments of soldiers. The regulations provided that there be a hospital tent in proportion to the number of men within each regiment. Whitman writes one of the most accurate descriptions of field hospitals in a letter to his mother in 1864: Soldiers were kept in the field hospitals indefinitely and often sent on to Washington after their conditions had so worsened as to make surviving the trip almost impossible. When the regimental tent was full, a nearby home or building was usually commandeered and converted for medical care. Although intended as temporary units, these regimental tents and field hospitals were soon clustered together to make larger accommodations of hospital camps that eventually spotted the city.8

53. MSN Learning & Research - System Difficulties Encyclopedia article provides an overview of whitman's life and work. http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=04BF4000

54. Walt Whitman's Body Electronic Portrayals of walt whitman from a Long Island perspective. Long Island, NY area.Category Arts Literature whitman, walt Impersonators......Portrayals of walt whitman from a Long Island perspective. Text library.To learn more about walt whitman, follow these links http://members.aol.com/waltwhitmanofli/

Text preference languages other than English... Deutsch Italiano photo by George Mallis WALT WHITMAN RETURNS WELCOME CAMERADOSTHE NAME IS WHITMAN, WALT WHITMANWELL, NOT REALLY. I have loved the poetry of Walt Whitman, studied his life so assiduously (I first bicycled to his birthplace in West Hills, Long Island, New York when I was nine years old in 1939) and now so closely resemble him as he appeared in his "Good Grey Poet" period, that I may be excused for so completely identifying with our greatest poet. My real name is Darrel Blaine Ford, although when young I often used the name Velsor Brush (one of Whitman's early noms de plume). I have lived on Long Island all of my 70 years and have been a teacher and the director of a youth organization. I grew up in close proximity to Whitman "country" (i.e. Huntington and Babylon Townships from the Long Island Sound to the Great South Bay) and one of my teachers was a collateral descendant of Walt. Unlike old Walt, I am a proud father of five and a grandfather. A regular feature will be the Whitman quote of the month. QUOTE OF THE MONTH "Starting from fish-shape Paumanok where I was born

55. Awesome Library - English 300; whitman, walt - Poems (University of Toronto) Provides selected poems.3-00; whitman, walt Biography (Literary Kicks) Provides a short biography. http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/English/Poetry/Poetry.html

Awesome Talking Library Examples ... Keystone Family Protection Here: Home Classroom English > Poetry Poetry Books Blake, William - Collected Poems (Bibliomania) Whitman - Walt: Leaves of Grass 10-00 Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass (Bibliomania) Lesson Plans Limericks - Definition (ThinkQuest.org - Edwards and Tiamson) "A limerick is a very structured poem that can be catagorized as "short but sweet." They are usually humerous, and are composed of 5 lines, in an aacca rhyming pattern." 8-02 Limericks - How to Compose a Limerick (Finley) Describes how to create a limerick. 8-02 Limericks Search (Muggeridge) Provide a search engine for limericks, based on the first line. 8-02 Lists American and English Poetry (Bartleby) 10-00 Literature by Genre (Liu - Voice of the Shuttle) Provides hundreds of resources in drama, fiction, and poetry. Includes resources to improve writing skills. 8-02 Poetry Resources (Ramsey) Provides over two dozen sources of poetry. Words That Rhyme Search (RhymeZone.com) Supply a word and the search engine will try to find words that rhyme with it. 2-00 Materials Verse Composer for Kids (Merriam-Webster) Helps children write verses. 7-02

56. De JORGE LUIS BORGES A WALT WHITMAN: Translate this page whitman, walt. Hojas de hierba. Edición bilingüe. Traducción y prólogode Jorge. whitman, walt. Hojas de hierba. Traducción de Armando Vasseur. http://fuentes.csh.udg.mx/CUCSH/Sincronia/levy.htm

De JORGE LUIS BORGES a WALT WHITMAN: Ruth Levy Universidad de Guadalajara Julio de 1998 Hojas de hierba de Walt Whitman (1819-1892), Jorge Luis Borges no se justifica, sólo destaca su traducción de otras: " Mientras tanto, no entreveo otra posibilidad que la de una versión como la mía, que oscila entre la interpretación personal y el rigor resignado " (Borges, 1991: p. 11). Para fundamentar mi afirmación, en el título de este breve trabajo, me basaré en la primera estrofa de tres versos del texto original: "Song of myself" de Walt Whitman, incluido en el citado libro Hojas de hierba ; (Whitman, 1991: p. 20) y en las traducciones de Armando Vasseur (Vassseur, 1997: p. 89), León Felipe (Felipe, 1997: p. 25), y Jorge Luis Borges (Borges, 1991: p. 21). Desde la traducción del título "Song of myself" empezamos a notar las diferencias entre los tres porque el sustantivo Song no lleva el artículo y la preposición of significa ‘de’. Vasseur lo traduce como "Del canto de mí mismo"; si con arbitrio él selecciona estrofas, debería ser "De Canto a mí mismo"; pero él agrega el sustantivo contracto. León Felipe sí respeta la omisión del artículo, mas otorga a la preposición

57. Walt Whitman blacktitle.jpg (12329 bytes). walt whitman (18191892). About waltwhitman Biographical Notes by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/whitman/whitman.htm

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) About Walt Whitman: Biographical Notes by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price On "One's Self I Sing" On "I Hear America Singing" On "As Adam Early in the Morning" ... External Links Prepared and Compiled by Ed Folsom, Cary Nelson, and Trish Loughran Return to Modern American Poetry Home Return to Poets Index

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Trace your family history with Ancestry.com All Infoplease All Almanacs General Entertainment Sports Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Infoplease Home Almanacs Atlas Dictionary ... Fact Monster Kids' reference Info:Daily Fun facts Homework Center Newsletter You've got info! Help Site Map Visit related sites from: Family Education Network 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 Whitman, Sarah Helen (Power) Whitman Search Infoplease Info search tips Search Biographies Bio search tips About Us Contact Us Link to Infoplease ... Privacy

59. Walt Whitman - Essays On Poetry walt whitman critical essays on the poetry of walt whitman - essays on waltwhitman. Critical essays on walt whitman's poetry Click here to search http://www.walt-whitman-essays.com/

Critical essays on Walt Whitman's poetry Click here to search... In "Song of Myself," Walt Whitman wrote " I must get what the writing means..." Ironically, students who read his poetry today often feel just as the poet once did...lost... trying in vain to get the meaning of Whitman's writing.. And indeed, critical analysis of poetry requires an extra bit of study, thought, and attention to detail for which many students simply aren't prepared. Walt-Whitman-Essays.Com

60. Main A meditation on the harmony and creativity of nature, using Mandelbrot images, music, and the poetry Category Society Religion and Spirituality Mysticism and Science......A Meditation on the Mandelbrot Set, via walt whitman. An UndertakingThe pages attached to this site are intended to provide a little http://members.aol.com/jlenw/

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 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. 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. If I've done my job, at least one or two will speak to you. I think the display is best at 640 x 480, where it more than fills the screen, but maybe that's just me. 16-bit color is best. 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 almost unaffected by the presence of the Set. But the points near its boundary are torn between the pull of infinity and the pull of the Set. When their behavior is coded in colors, the result is a beautiful filigree of infinite depth and complexity. It has often been said that Nature speaks in the language of mathematics. I suspect that Nature speaks more than one language, but the success of science suggests that mathematics is indeed one of her favorites. The Mandelbrot Set helps us appreciate what a deep and rich language it is.

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