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Teacher Resources - Collection - Walt Whitman Notebooks, 1847-1860s
This creative resource for teachers provides information about the American Memorycollection, walt whitman Notebooks, 18471860s, and ideas to help students
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/ww/history.html

Extractions: In a hurry? Save or print these Collection Connections as a single file Go directly to the collection, Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection , in American Memory, or view a Summary of Resources related to the collection. Walt Whitman Notebooks, 1847-1860s presents four of the poet's notebooks and a cardboard butterfly that were stolen from and subsequently returned to the Library's Whitman collection. These four notebooks contain notes in poetry and prose which, the user should be advised, do not always appear in sequence, as Whitman was wont to skip pages and then use them later. In addition to providing information about the poet, the collection is also a resource for studying the Civil War, nineteenth-century culture, and interrelated historical themes. Over the course of the war, Whitman visited thousands of soldiers in Washington, D.C. hospitals. His notes from these visits give students a sense of the the times, of the great number of soldiers and scope of the war, and of the soldiers as individuals. Refer students to the following notebooks and pages: Notebook #101 - page , and the rest of the notebook.
Whitman, Walt - Underground Railroad
Provides this profile of the poet and the text of one of his poems. Works Cited. walt whitman (18191892). This fisherman, editor, journalist, carpenter, bureaucrat, and poet
http://education.ucdavis.edu/new/stc/lesson/socstud/railroad/Whitman.htm
Walt Whitman Award - The Academy Of American Poets
The walt whitman Award. The walt whitman Award brings firstbook publication,a cash prize of $5,000, and a one-month residency at
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Extractions: poetry awards poetry month poetry exhibits about the academy Search Larger Type Find a Poet Find a Poem Listening Booth ... Academy The Walt Whitman Award brings first-book publication, a cash prize of $5,000, and a one-month residency at the Vermont Studio Center to an American who has never before published a book of poetry. The winning manuscript, chosen by an eminent poet, is published by Louisiana State University Press. The Academy purchases at least 10,000 copies of the book for distribution to its members. The award was established in 1975 to encourage the work of emerging poets and to enable the publication of a poet's first book. Submissions are accepted each year from September 15 to November 15, and an entry form and fee are required. The submission deadline has been extended to November 30, 2002. To obtain the guidelines and entry form for the Walt Whitman contest, please follow the link below or send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to the Academy in August. Winners are announced in May. guidelines entry form
Constructing Walt Whitman
Constructing walt whitman The Critics Contend With the Good G(r)ay Poet. TheHague Mouton, 1975. whitman, walt. Leaves of Grass. 1900 Edition.
http://home.olemiss.edu/~jmitchel/walt.htm

Extractions: 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.
Walt Whitman - Biography And Poems By AmericanPoems.com
Etext of works and brief biography.Category Arts Literature American 19th Century whitman, waltThis walt whitman page includes a brief biography and his most important poems.His work from Leaves of Grass is most prominent. Biography of walt whitman.
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Extractions: Books by 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.
Poet Index For Representative Poetry On-line
Similar pages Reminiscences of walt whitman 02.06 February 1902. Reminiscences of walt whitman. O'Connor's pamphlet was followed,two years later (1867), by John Burroughs's walt whitman as Poet and Person.
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/authors/whitmn.html
Brooklyn Public Library Walt Whitman Branch
Fort Greene. Hours, travel directions and map, profile, photograph, nearest branches, contact information.
http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/branches/branches/waltwhit.htm

Extractions: Branch At-a-Glance First opened in a storefront on Nassau and Bridge streets in 1900, the predecessor to Walt Whitman branch, formerly called "City Park Branch", moved into the ground floor of a tenement house. In 1908, the present-day Classical Revival Carnegie library opened. The branch had a significant collection on naval architecture and science for workers at the nearby Brooklyn Nave Yard. Renamed Walt Whitman Branch in 1943 on the 125th anniversary of the Brooklyn poet's birth, the library underwent a major renovation in 1958 and upgrades in 1998. Branch Librarian William E. Knapp
Soundings - 98.10
October 8, 1998 At some point in late 1855 or early 1856, walt whitman wrote thisterse, disheartened note to himself Everything I have done seems to me blank
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Extractions: Everything I have done seems to me blank and suspicious. I doubt whether my greatest thoughts, as I supposed them, are not shallow and people will most likely laugh at me. My pride is impotent, my love gets no response. The complacency of nature is hateful I am filled with restlessness. I am incomplete. Whitman, c. 1862
Walt Whitman Birthplace - History - Are We There Yet?
Exhibits include whitman memorabilia, photographs, books, and excerpts from writings and letters .Category Regional North America Arts and Entertainmentwalt whitman Birthplace 246 Old walt whitman Road Huntington Station, NY 11746 (516)427 5240 543 7671 groups 110 North. Turn left onto walt whitman Rd.
http://www.fieldtrip.com/ny/64275240.htm

Extractions: Built around 1819 by Walt Whitman Sr., this weathered farmhouse and the surrounding West Hills served as inspiration for Walt Whitman , one of America's greatest poets. Changing exhibits include Whitman memorabilia, photographs, books, and excerpts from writings and letters. Special events such as poetry readings, lectures, educational programs, an Arts and Crafts Festival, and the Walt Whitman Birthday Celebration are held during the year, giving individuals and families great opportunities to become more familiar with Walt Whitman, his works, and Long Island history. Guided Tours feature the audio visual presentation, The Good Grey Poet , Walt Whitman's own voice taken from a wax cylinder; a visit to the historic rooms including viewing Whitman's Schoolmaster's Desk; and the exhibit, Walt Whitman A Long Islander. Educational Programs for Elementary and High School Groups relate directly to the New York State Social Studies curriculum, and include hands-on activities like, Explore : a farmhouse tour comparing everyday 19th and 20th century life, architectural oddities, and featuring special exhibits, video, and workshop (90 minutes); and
Major Authors On CD-ROM: Walt Whitman
MAJOR AUTHORS walt whitman. A Basic Helpsheet. Electronic Text Center,Alderman Library II. STARTING UP walt whitman Place the CDROM in
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Extractions: etextcenter@virginia.edu Note: This CD-ROM is installed on the Dell PC near the window. Before starting up the program, check the speakers to make sure they are on. (The "On/Off" button is on the back of the right speaker.) Use the speakers' volume control before changing the computer volume settings. Primary Source Media's Major Authors on CD-ROM series celebrates an author's imagined world. Each disc in this series gathers as comprehensive as possible a collection of an author's (or authors') published works and, where available, manuscripts. Because these are placed in a fully-searchable format from which they can be queriedand, in effect, seenfrom any "angle" a user chooses, the program provides the capacity to build a personalized index and concordance. To this core are added multimedia featuresgraphics, audio, videoas appropriate. But at the heart of the discs is the author's works, searchable in broad, specific, and highly interpretive ways. II. STARTING UP
Whitman (Walt) Papers: Table Of Contents
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Testimoni Del'900: Allen Ginsberg
Presenta biografia, bibliografia, un'intervista e una poesia d'amore su un tema di walt whitman.
http://www.mobydick.it/testimon/testimon.html
"The Poetry Of Barbarism" By George Santayana
An essay which includes criticism of walt whitman.
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/whitman-per-santayana.html

Extractions: from Interpretations of Poetry and Religion Go directly to the section of this essay about Whitman. I With all these lessons of experience behind them, however, we find our contemporary poets incapable of any high wisdom, incapable of any imaginative rendering of human life and its meaning. Our poets are things of shreds and patches; they give us episodes and studies, a sketch of this curiosity, a glimpse of that romance; they have no total vision, no grasp of the whole reality, and consequently no capacity for a sane and steady idealization. The comparatively barbarous ages had a poetry of the ideal; they had visions of beauty, order, and perfection. This age of material elaboration has no sense for those things. Its fancy is retrospective, whimsical, and flickering; its ideals, when it has any, are negative and partial; its moral strength is a blind and miscellaneous vehemence. Its poetry, in a word, is the poetry of barbarism. In these latter times, with the prodigious growth of material life in elaboration and of mental life in diffusions there has supervened upon this old dualism a new faith in man's absolute power, a kind of return to the inexperience and self-assurance of youth. This new inspiration has made many minds indifferent to the two traditional disciplines; neither is seriously accepted by them, for the reason, excellent from their own point of view, that no discipline whatever is needed. The memory of ancient disillusions has faded with time. Ignorance of the past has bred contempt for the lessons which the past might teach. Men prefer to repeat the old experiment without knowing that they repeat it.
Home -- Walt Whitman High School
Includes information on academic departments, student life, athletics, and events.Category Regional North America B Bethesda Education Chantilly Jazz Festival. Sat. Mar. 22, Chantilly Jazz Festival. walt WhitmanHigh School 7100 Whittier Boulevard Bethesda MD 20817 301320-6600.
http://www.waltwhitman.edu/
Infinitum Poetry Presents A Unique Collection Of Poets And Poetry, Short Stories
Poetry by well known poets, their biographies, and short stories by the site owner. Poets include Robert Frost, walt whitman, William Wordsworth, Robert W. Service, Maya Angelou, and Anne Sexton.
http://www.geocities.com/infinitum_poetry/
Walt Whitman High School Alumni Site
Alumni site with photo gallery, message boards, and directory.
http://www.whitmanwildcats.org/
About Walt Whitman
Etext of Leaves of Grass, biography and criticism.
http://underthesun.cc/Classics/Whitman/whitman.htm

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The LOC.GOV Wise Guide : Whitman
Information on the walt whitman from the Wise Guide, a monthly Web magazine ofhistorical highlights and fascinating facts from the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/wiseguide/oct02/whitman.html

Extractions: World War II brought hard times for the Library. Assuming an attack was imminent, antiaircraft guns were installed on rooftops and staff conducted 24-hour air raid watches from Library buildings. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, staff packed up Library treasures and shipped them to safe locations. Included in these treasures were 24 of poet Walt Whitman's personal notebooks. The notebooks, an invaluable resource on Whitman's early career, contain early versions of poems that appeared in Leaves of Grass , his major work, and notes from his time as a volunteer nurse during the Civil War. When the evacuated materials were returned in 1944, however, 10 of the notebooks were missing. Library officials called on the FBI to help find the missing notebooks, but they remained elusive for more than 50 years. In 1995, four of the 10 notebooks appeared at Sotheby's in New York and were returned to the Library. Although saved from the air attack that never happened, the notebooks required preservation treatment once they returned. The Library soon embarked on a dual mission of preserving the fragile originals while making them accessible for worldwide research. Find out more about the Library's intricate conservation process at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wwhtml/gazphoto.html
Walt Whitman - The Academy Of American Poets
Detailed biography, selection of poems, and portrait from the Academy of American Poets.
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=127&CFID=2265493&CFTOKEN=9651
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
walt whitman (18191892). Contributing Editor Betsy Eikkila. MajorThemes, Historical Perspectives, and Personal Issues. I use the
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Extractions: Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Contributing Editor: Betsy Eikkila I use the 1855 versions of "Song of Myself" and "The Sleepers" because I think these poems represent Whitman at his unrevised best. I begin with a biographical introduction, stressing Whitman's active engagement as radical Democrat and party journalist in the major political conflicts of pre-Civil War America. The inscription poem "One's-Self I Sing" and his vision of the poet balanced between pride and sympathy in the 1855 Preface serve as a good introduction to "Song of Myself." I usually begin by asking the students to talk about Whitman's free verse technique. What ordering devices does he use in the opening lines to achieve his poetic design: these include repetition, biblical parallelism, rhythmic recurrence, assonance, and consonance. Section 15 is a good illustration of the ways Whitman's catalog technique serves as a democratizing device, inscribing the pattern of many and one. By basing his verse in the single, end-stopped line at the same time that he fuses this linethrough various linking deviceswith the larger structure of the whole, Whitman weaves an overall pattern of unity in diversity. This pattern of many and onethe e pluribus unum that was the revolutionary seal of the American republicis the overarching figure of Leaves of Grass I present "Song of Myself" as a drama of democratic identity in which the poet seeks to balance and reconcile major conflicts in the body politic of America: the conflict between "separate person" and "en masse," individualism and equality, liberty and union, the South and the North, the farm and the city, labor and capital, black and white, female and male, religion and science. One can discuss any of the individual sections of the poem in relation to this conflict. Moments of particular conflict and crisis occur in sections 28 and 38. I ask the students to discuss the specific nature of the crisis in each of these sections. Both involve a loss of balance.

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