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id: 36305
author: Byron, May
title: A Day with Walt Whitman
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  days,--The fervent heat, but so much more endurable in this pure air--the white and pink pond-blossoms, with great heart-shaped leaves, the glassy waters of the creek, the banks, with dense bushery and the picturesque beeches and shade and turf; the tremulous, reedy call of some bird from recesses, breaking the warm, indolent, half-voluptuous silence: the prevailing delicate, yet palpable, spicy, grassy, clovery perfume to my nostrils,--and over all, encircling all, to my sight and soul, the free space of the sky, transparent and blue, (_Specimen Days_,) (_Specimen Days._)


id: 31781
author: Shay, Frank
title: The Bibliography of Walt Whitman
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  Octavo, half-calf, leather label; portrait, Photo'd from life, Sept., '72, Brooklyn, N. Y., by G. F. Pearsall, Fulton St. signed Walt Whitman, born May 31, 1819; title, pp. Octavo maroon cloth, uncut; title stamped in gilt on front cover; portrait, the 70th year, title, contents, (5)-140; advertisement. 1888 Complete (portrait) Poems and Prose of Walt Whitman, 1855-1888.


id: 31027
author: Legler, Henry Eduard
title: Walt Whitman, Yesterday & Today
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  In columns of bantering comment, after parodying his style of all-inclusiveness, the United States Review (1855) characterizes Walt Whitman thus: No skulker or tea-drinking poet is Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman: Yesterday & Today_


id: 34417
author: Ingersoll, Robert Green
title: Walt Whitman: An Address
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  Young and Pollok, Addison and Watts were regarded as great poets. To a testimonial, intended to cheer his declining years, not only in a complimentary sense, came some eighteen hundred or more people to listen to a tribute to the aged poet by Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, such as seldom falls to the lot of living man to hear about himself.


id: 44973
author: Gould, Elizabeth Porter
title: Stray Pebbles from the Shores of Thought
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  Let even wisest questions cease While I breathe in such life and peace This happy, happy hour. It must be so, If such a soul 'midst parting's woe, Could with truth's perfect clearness see The secret of life's mystery; Could _know_ that fullest life of man Needs heaven's light to round God's plan.


id: 38889
author: Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)
title: Literary Shrines: The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors
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  Along the hill-side are the famous Acacia path of Mrs. Hawthorne and other walks planned by the novelist, some of them having been opened by him in the last summer of his life. The interior was cosy and more commodious than the exterior would indicate, and one could readily conceive that the artistic taste and deft fingers of Mrs. Hawthorne might create here the idyllic home her letters portray.


id: 42281
author: Keller, Elizabeth Leavitt
title: Walt Whitman in Mickle Street
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  After the death of Whitman Mrs. Davis resided for a short time at No. 432 Clinton street, Camden, and then she went to live with a wealthy family in New York City. It cannot be denied that a person with these traits of character would be an uncomfortable inmate to have in any home, and with Mr. Whitman this disregard for the convenience of others grew more marked as he advanced in years and deteriorated in body.


id: 35725
author: Whitman, Walt
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  The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion

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  And now that I have lived for eight or nine days amid such scenes as the camps furnish, and had a practical part in it all, and realize the way that hundreds of thousands of good men are now living, and have had to live for a year or more, not only without any of the comforts, but with death and sickness and hard marching and hard fighting (and no success at that) for their continual experience--really nothing we call trouble seems worth talking about. At the time he wrote the 51st was doing provost duty at Lancaster, but would not probably remain so very long--seem to be moving towards southeast Kentucky--had a good camp, and good times generally.


id: 35395
author: Gilchrist, Anne (Anne Burrows)
title: The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman
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  I wish I could send you good letters, dearest Friend, making myself the vehicle of what is stirring around me in life & thought that would interest you; for there is plenty. Dear friend, best love & remembrance to you & to the young folk.


id: 30342
author: Burroughs, John
title: Whitman: A Study
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  When John Brown mounted the scaffold in Virginia, in 1860, the poet says:-- I was at hand, silent I stood with teeth shut close, I watch'd, I stood very near you, old man, when cool and indifferent, but trembling with age and your unheal'd wounds, you mounted the scaffold,-- very near him he stood in spirit; very near him he stood in the person of others, but not in his own proper person. VIII Whitman was of large mould in every way, and of bold, far-reaching schemes, and is very sure to fare better at the hands of large men than of small.


id: 12933
author: Hubbard, Elbert
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title:
  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great

summary:
  THOMAS CARLYLE One comfort is that great men taken up in any way are profitable company. Occasionally these articles were duly fathered by great men, as this gave them the required specific gravity.


