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“Every thing is literally photographed. Nothing is poeticized.”
McClatchy, ‘An American Bard at 150’
“In these Leaves,” Whitman said, “every thing is literally photographed. Nothing is poeticized.”—J,D. McClatchy, The New York Sun
Posted here (World document above):
“An American Bard at 150”
By J.D. McClatchy
The New York Sun
April 1, 2005
J. D. McClatchy (1945-2018) was an American poet, opera librettist, and literary critic.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
July 2023
Ivo Andrič, “Volt Vitmen”
Posted here, in both the original Serbo-Croatian and in English translation — as separate documents — is the following:
Ivo Andrič
“Volt Vitmen (1819-1892)”
Knijževni jug (Zagreb) 4 (August 1, 1919): 49-55
With respect to the translation from Serbo-Croatian into English, I found one such translation on the internet (which may have been done with Google Translate) and made my own corrections and improvements.
Ivo Andrič (1892–1975) was a Yugoslavian novelist and poet. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961.
— posted by Roger W Smith
June 2023
Each object exhibits a beauty.
cover, Leaves of Grass, first (1855) edition; an exact copy republished by The Eakins Press, New York (1966)
Each precise object or condition or combination or process exhibits a beauty. . . . the multiplication table its—old age its—the carpenter’s trade its—the grand-opera its … the hugehulled cleanshaped New-York clipper at sea under steam or full sail gleams with unmatched beauty. . . .
— Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass, first edition (1855)
— posted by Roger W. Smith
June 2023
cider making
At the cider-mill, tasting the sweets of the brown
mash, sucking the juice through a straw
— Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”
William Sidney Mount, “Cider-Making”
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June 2023
“Thoreau, Whitman, and the Matter of New York”
Tyree, ‘Thoreau, Whitman, and the Matter of New York’
Posted here (PDF above):
J. M. Tyree, “Thoreau, Whitman, and the Matter of New York,” New England Review, Vol. 27, No. 1 (2006), pp. 61-75
— posted by Roger W. Smith
May 2023
John Townsend Trowbridge, “Walt Whitman”
‘Walt Whitman – With Glimpses of Chase and O’Connor’
Posted here (PDF above) is Chapter XII (“Walt Whitman—With Glimpses of [Salmon P.] Chase and [William D.] O’Connor”) from
John Townsend Trowbridge, My Own Story: Recollections of Noted Persons (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903)
John Townsend Trowbridge (1827-1916) was an American author and novelist. He lived for most of his adult life in Arlington, Massachusetts. Trowbridge was a friend of Mark Twain and Walt Whitman.
Also posted here:
John T. Trowbridge obituary, Boston Globe, February 13, 1916
J. T. Trowbridge obituary, Chicago Tribune, February 13, 1916
“Trowbridge and Whitman,” Boston Globe, February 20, 1916
‘Trowbridge and Whitman’ – Boston Globe 2-20-1916
— posted by Roger W. Smith
May 2023
Robert G. Ingersoll, Mark Twain, and Walt Whitman
Robert G. Ingersoll, ‘Mark Twain and Walt Whitman’
Posted here (PDF above) :
“Mark Twain and Walt Whitman”
a chapter from Orvin Larson’s biography American Infidel: Robert G. Ingersoll (New York: The Citadel Press, 1962)
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) was an American lawyer, writer, and orator. Known as “the Great Agnostic,” he achieved prominence as a lecturer who questioned the tenets of orthodox religion,
— Roger W, Smith
May 2023
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See also:
Robert G. Ingersoll, “Address at the Funeral of Walt Whitman”
Robert G. Ingersoll, “Address at the Funeral of Walt Whitman”
“the true way, the way of nature”
from
Richard Maurice Bucke, “Memories of Walt Whitman,” Walt Whitman Fellowship Papers 6 (September 1894), pp. 42-43
Bucke’s paper was read at meeting of the Walt Whitman Fellowship in Philadelphia on May 31, 1894.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
May 2023
R. W. B. Lewis on Whitman
Posted here (Word document above) are excerpts from the chapter on Whitman in in R. W. B. Lewis, Trials of the Word; Essays in American Literature and the Humanistic Tradition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965).
Lewis’s insights are brilliant and stimulating.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
May 2022
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