Walt Whitman

Standard Name: Whitman, Walt

Connections

Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
Publishing Sylvia Beach
SB published her French translation of Walt Whitman 's 1856 speech on Ulysses S. Grant , entitled The Eighteenth Presidency, through Adrienne Monnier in an all-American issue of Le Navire d'argent.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton.
226, 229
Textual Production Willa Cather
For her second novel, O Pioneers! (titled from Walt Whitman ), WC turned to material which had been familiar to her since her childhood. The story takes place among settlers in early Nebraska.
Cather, Willa. O Pioneers!. Houghton Mifflin.
prelims
Textual Features Rebecca Harding Davis
She achieves this in Bits of Gossip in a series of scattered remembrances of my own generation which included vivid portraits of some of the most prominent men and women of the American nineteenth century...
Intertextuality and Influence Emily Dickinson
She began practising literary techniques in letters written to friends and family at this time. Evidence of a dialogic, corresponding voice permeates her poetry, resulting in what Archibald MacLeish reads as one of the central...
Textual Features Carol Ann Duffy
Many poems here feature women answering back to canonical male voices: Liz Lochhead to Donne , Jenny Joseph to W. S. Gilbert , U. A. Fanthorpe to Walt Whitman , Wendy Cope to A. E. Housman
Friends, Associates Emily Faithfull
EF 's circle of literary friends included Oliver Wendell Holmes , Joaquin Miller , James Russell Lowell , and Walt Whitman .
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany.
183
She also made the acquaintance of many actors and actresses, including Henry Irving
Textual Production Eleanor Farjeon
EF kept up her talent for pastiche. In 1915 she produced versions of It's a long way to Tipperary in the respectives styles of Whitman , Burns , Rossetti , Herrick , Swinburne , and Tom Moore .
Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae.
115
Friends, Associates Isabella Ormston Ford
It was likely Edward Carpenter who introduced IOF to the work of Walt Whitman . She and her sisters began a correspondence with Whitman
Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell.
24
which lasted until his death in 1891.
Intertextuality and Influence Isabella Ormston Ford
Early in her writing career, IOF was influenced by the work of Edward Carpenter and Walt Whitman .
Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell.
23-24
Her experiences as a labour organizer also stimulated and encouraged her writing: she become even more...
Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Perkins Gilman
It was a three-part collection. The first section, titled The World, contains nature poems; the second, Woman, addresses CPG 's feminist agenda, and the third, Our Human Kind, is distinctly political in...
Intertextuality and Influence Katharine Bruce Glasier
KBG was influenced early in her writing career by authors such as Walt Whitman , Edward Carpenter , and Plato .
Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited.
69
Intertextuality and Influence Katharine Bruce Glasier
The title page of the pamphlet references works by both William Morris and Walt Whitman , while the text itself paraphrases Edward Carpenter .
Glasier, Katharine Bruce, and John Bruce Glasier. The Religion of Socialism: Two Aspects. Labour Press Society Limited;Labour Literature Society.
title page, 1
Intertextuality and Influence Kathleen Jamie
The sequence entitled Karakoram Highway (second of the book's three sections), with an epigraph from Walt Whitman , distils moments from KJ 's travels in Northern Pakistan.
Jamie, Kathleen, and Lilias Fraser. Mr. and Mrs. Scotland are Dead. Bloodaxe Books.
53
From the first poem, about coming...
Travel Julia Kristeva
JK travelled to the USA (to New York) for the first time in 1973, harbouring her own American dream founded on an early reading of Walt Whitman . She had been invited there seven years...
Intertextuality and Influence Deborah Levy
Again DL produces a fractured plot, mirroring a sense of fractured identity in a fractured world where the classic rules of form and structure no longer fit.
“Deborah Levy”. British Council Literature.
Levy
She uses for an epigraph the remark...

Timeline

31 May 1819: Walt Whitman, poet, was born in Long Island,...

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31 May 1819

Walt Whitman , poet, was born in Long Island, New York, USA.

About 4 July 1855: Walt Whitman published a slim volume of twelve...

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About 4 July 1855

Walt Whitman published a slim volume of twelve poems entitled Leaves of Grass; subsequent editions included further poems and revisions.

26 March 1892: Walt Whitman, American poet, died at 328...

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26 March 1892

Walt Whitman , American poet, died at 328 Mickle Street, Camden, New Jersey.

December 1927: Three months after the dancer Isadora Duncan...

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December 1927

Three months after the dancer Isadora Duncan died at nearly fifty, as melodramatically as she had lived, her autobiography, My Life, appeared from the new publishing firm Gollancz . It became an immediate best-seller...

By 20 September 1953: Saul Bellow published The Adventures of Augie...

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By 20 September 1953

Saul Bellow published The Adventures of Augie March. Martin Amis , in later hailing this as the first American novel to show an immigrant as a rightful Discoverer, or a pioneer,
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
21 October 2008

3 June 1956: A bookstore assistant at City Lights of San...

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3 June 1956

A bookstore assistant at City Lights of San Francisco was arrested for selling a copy of Howl, a small-size verse pamphlet by the young beat poet Allen Ginsberg .

Texts

Whitman, Walt, and Walt Whitman. “La dix-huitième presidence!”. Le Navire d’argent, translated by. Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, Maison des amis des livres.