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An 1855-56 Notebook toward the Second Edition of Leaves of Grass

Book by Walt Whitman; Southern Illinois University Press, 1959

Subjects:

Whitman, Walt--1819-1892--Leaves Of Grass

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Sun-Down Poem Crossing...lectures, notes of purpose and...the 1856 Leaves of Grass . Internal...used in Leaves of Grass . The Manhattan...cancelled. Poem or passage...the 1860 poem To One...not in Leaves of Grass , and separated...
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Whitman, Slavery, and the Emergence of Leaves of Grass

Book by Martin Klammer; Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, Literature And Society--United States--History--19th Century, Race Relations In Literature, Slavery In Literature, Whitman, Walt--1819-1892--Leaves Of Grass, Whitman, Walt--1819-1892--Political And Social Views

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...poets," one whom "Negroes should read and remember." Leaves of Grass , Hughes wrote, "contains the greatest poetic statements...equality of all people; he asserted of a passage from the poem "Says" that "certainly there has been no clearer statement...
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Leaves of Grass

Book by Walt Whitman; Modern Library, 1921

Subjects:

Poetry

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This personalized group of poems arranged autobiographically has influenced generations of American poets.
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The Frailest Leaves: Whitman's Poetic Technique and Style in the Short Poem

Book by John E. Schwiebert; Peter Lang, 1992

Subjects:

Poetics, Whitman, Walt--1819-1892--Literary Style, Whitman, Walt--1819-1892--Technique

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...hundreds of poems in Leaves of Grass as a single "poem." 8 Finally...the poems of Leaves of Grass --and beyond. 13 A poem, he insists, is...could speak of Leaves of Grass as a single "poem" implies an attitude...
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Metaphors in Grass' Die Blechtrommel

Book by Antoinette T. Delaney; Peter Lang, 2004

Subjects:

Grass, Geunter--1927---Blechtrommel

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...71). Gretchen finally opens her heart to Oskar in the same way she unravels a skein of yarn to create lovingly a knitted object. Agnes usually leaves Oskar with Marcus at his toyshop during her usual visits with Jan in the city. Oskar observes...

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"Restless Explorations": Whitman's Evolving Spiritual Vision in Leaves of Grass

Journal article by Ernest Smith; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 43, 2007

Subjects:

American poetry--Criticism and interpretation, American poetry--Works, Leaves of Grass (Poetry collection)--Criticism and interpretation, Whitman, Walt--Criticism and interpretation, Whitman, Walt--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the understanding of Leaves of Grass" ("Death" 168). The poem that would come to...the materials for the poem. Eventually Whitman...Paumanok" just ahead of "Song of Myself" in his final arrangement of Leaves of Grass, a pair of extended...
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Whitman and his Doubles: Division and Union in Leaves of Grass and Its Critics

Journal article by Mark Maslan; American Literary History, Vol. 6, 1994

Subjects:

American Literature--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Erkkila believes, Leaves of Grass was born (11). According...homosexuality, in a poem devoted to overcoming...1855 edition of Leaves of Grass . Her point, however...comment on the 1860 poem So Long! : "Refusing...
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"A Thousand Willing Forms": The Evolution of Whitman's Wounded Bodies

Journal article by Leslie Jamison; Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 35, 2007

Subjects:

American literature (Early national period)--Criticism and interpretation, American literature (Early national period)--Influence, American literature (Early national period)--Works, American literature--1783-1850, American literature--Criticism and interpretation, American literature--Influence, American literature--Works, Leaves of Grass (Book)--Influence, Whitman, Walt--Criticism and interpretation, Whitman, Walt--Influence, Whitman, Walt--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...beneath the crude surfaces of his prose. In the 1855 Leaves of Grass, Whitman frames the wounded body as a locus for radical...wounded slave," his speaker famously declares in the poem that would become "Song of Myself," "I wince at the bite...
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Bilingualism and Identity in Julia Alvarez's Poem "Bilingual Sestina"

Journal article by Catharine E. Wall; MELUS, Vol. 28, 2003

Subjects:

Alvarez, Julia--Criticism and interpretation, Bilingual Sestina (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Poetry--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...language" (133). A final example leaves no possible doubt about the interplay of language and place as an aesthetic...The Other Side. (11) In one poem, for example, a new lover spends...numbering / the stars, the blades of grass." Later in life, the presence...
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A Proverb Poem by Refiki

Journal article by A.L. Macfie, F. Macfie; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 60, 2001

Subjects:

Poetry--Turkey, Proverbs--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Turkey--Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...A building without a foundation is soon demolished. Stanza 17: Deveyi yardan ucuran bit tutam ottur. For a tuft of grass the camel fell over the cliff. Stanza 18: Bulbulu altin kafese koymuslar "A vatanim" demis. Though the nightingale...

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Defeating the Poem

Magazine article by Dennis Donoghue; New Criterion, Vol. 24, April 2006

Subjects:

Poetry--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Entire Library

...ran from Whitmans Leaves of Grass (1855) to Eliots...end with Ashberys poem because I felt...Wife: A Letter" "a poem some lines of which had been...The leaves fall early this...Over the grass in the West garden...
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A Poem: Dooryard Flower

Magazine article by Ellen Bryant Voigt; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 283, March 1999

Collections: Entire Library

A Poem: Dooryard Flower...the short green early grass, erupted bulbs planted...before we came, the edge of where a garden once...actually made from adapted leaves), and more right this...stalk in a fountain of leaves, no stiff cornets of...
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Sins & Sensibility

Magazine article by William Logan; New Criterion, Vol. 17, December 1998

Subjects:

A Working Girl Can't Win (Poem)--Works, Babylon in a Jar (Poem)--Works, Blizzard of One (Poem)--Works, Hay (Poem)--Works, Poetry--Works, Sweet Machine (Poem)--Works, Ten Commandments (Poem)--Works, The Bird Catcher (Poem)--Works

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...enter you and Im the grass...of petals out of which...gifts might lead. A poem in the voice of a...that he leaves on a quest for a talking...of Whitmans copy of Leaves of Grass in his desk at the...
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God's Chatter

Magazine article by William Logan; New Criterion, Vol. 25, December 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Firstborn (Book)--Book reviews, God's Silence (Book)--Book reviews, Horse Latitudes (Book)--Book reviews, Man and Camel (Book)--Book reviews, Native Guard (Book)--Book reviews, Ommateum, with Doxology (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...overwrought sequence, "Poem after the Seven...the last words of Christ), commissioned...printers bill for Leaves of Grass out of his own...short and the poem nearly endless...out the door of the glassware...that, after Leaves of Grass, Ommateum may...
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Marching with Walt Whitman

Magazine article by Gary Schmidgall; The Advocate, April 30, 2000

Subjects:

Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Whitman, Walt--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Entire Library

...first three words in the first poem of the first Leaves of Grass edition of 1855 are all that...teachings." Unlike the Pentagon, Leaves of Grass, Whitman insisted, "has room...are essentially the greatest poem." I have no doubt that he would...

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Dry of Wit, Man on Deadline Ponders Unmow'd Leaves of Grass

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 28, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...could I answer the child?" wondered Walt Whitman in a poem from his "Leaves of Grass" volume. "I do not know what it is any more than he...summer grass. Whitman strove to capture the essence of grass in words. We simply forgot what grass looked like...
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Nurse to Injured, Poet of Battlefield

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 10, 2005

Subjects:

Leaves of Grass (Poetry collection), Nurses, Poets, Whitman, Walt

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Department of the Interior, but a superior referred to "Leaves of Grass" (1855) as "indecent," and its author, offended, got...Also shortly after Lincolns death, he penned another poem, which would be included in "Sequel to Drum Taps" (1865-66...
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We Were Full of Fire; PRESIDENT'S VERDICT ON AFFAIR WITH MONICA

Newspaper article by Mark Dowdney Foreign; The Mirror (London, England), September 12, 1998

Subjects:

Lewinsky, Monica

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Lewinskys first gift to him was a matted poem given by her and other White House...that he sent to the archives instead of keeping. On November 20 - five...special edition of Walt Whitmans Leaves of Grass. Ms Lewinsky construed it as a...
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Washington as Seen through Whitman's Eyes; Poet's Letters during 10-Year Stay Serve as Guide

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 13, 2004

Subjects:

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, Whitman, Walt

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...cast bronze, and copper balustrade, with excerpt from a poem by Walt Whitman. - Lisa Rauschart, with Kim Roberts...Ralph Vaughan Williams, with texts from Walt Whitmans "Leaves of Grass." Robert Shafer, conductor; Maire OBrien, soprano; Gordon...
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Journey into Souls of Two Excellent Men; Admirers from a Distance

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 14, 2004

Subjects:

Whitman, Walt

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...inventions. This was, Mr. Epstein says, a kind of prose poem; it also reflected much research by Lincoln. He worked...for the presidency. It seems at least possible that "Leaves of Grass" had as great an effect on Lincolns fine use of language...

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Whitman, Walt

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...volume of 12 poems, Leaves of Grass, which he had begun...the volume included the poem later known as "Song...1871, and his last long poem, "Passage to India...published in the 1871 edition of Leaves of Grass. From 1884 until his...

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