Walt Whitman's Selected Journalism.
Whitman, Walt.
Walt Whitman's Selected Journalism. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (321 pages) - Iowa Whitman Series . - Iowa Whitman Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Walt Whitman's Journalism Career in New York and Brooklyn (Douglas A. Noverr and Jason Stacy) -- I. Democracy and Politics -- Americanism -- Organs of the Democracy -- Intelligence of the Working People -- Texas -- All Reforms in Government Must Come from the Democratic Impulse! -- Democratic Young Men. -- Shall we fight it out? -- No Slavery in Oregon. -- General Taylor. -- The Queen of England. -- The UNION Now and Forever! -- Loss of the Wilmot Proviso. -- Rights of Southern Freemen As Well As Northern Freemen-Mr. Calhoun's Speech. -- Some Thoughts about This Matter of the Washington Monument. -- Letter from Gen. Cass. -- Henry C. Murphy -- "The Dead Rabbit Democracy" -- Prohibition of Colored Persons. -- About China, as Relates to Itself and to Us. -- Untitled [August 26, 1858] -- Untitled [March 7, 1859] -- II. Moral Suasion -- Dickens and Democracy -- A Dialogue By Walter Whitman -- The Wrongs of Woman. -- Slavers-and the Slave Trade. -- Legislating for Morality. -- Is it right to dance? -- Hurrah for Choking Human Lives! -- Radicalism at the West. -- Brooklyn Schools. -- Brooklyn Morals.-Those Wax Figures. -- Long Island.-The English and the Dutch. -- Public Annoyances and Municipal Negligence. -- "The worth of liberty." -- Scenes in a Police Justice's Court Room. -- Why Should Church Property Be Exempt from Taxation? -- Little Hope Left! -- The Cable Laid! -- The Two Worlds United. -- The Moral Effect of the Atlantic Cable -- III. The Arts -- Mr. Emerson's Lecture -- Untitled [March 8, 1842] -- Italian Opera in New Orleans -- The Hutchinson Family -- American Music, New and True! -- Heart-Music and Art-Music -- Art-Singing and Heart-Singing -- How Literature Is Paid Here -- New Publications. -- Polishing the "Common People." -- Music for the "natural ear.". Government patronage of men of letters. -- Literary News, Notices, & -- c., Works of Art, & -- c. -- Dramatics -- and the true secret of Acting. -- Miserable State of the State.-Why Can't We Have Something Worth the Name of American Drama? -- Honor to Literature! -- Something About Art and Brooklyn Artists-A correspondent furnishes us with the following -- Arts and Artists: Remarks of Walt Whitman, Before the Brooklyn Art Union, on the Evening of March 31, 18511 -- Walt Whitman a Brooklyn Boy. Leaves of Grass: (A Volume of Poems Just Published.) -- IV. Come Closer to Me -- Greenwood Cemetery -- For the Hempstead Inquirer, Sun-Down Papers.-[No. 1] From the Desk of a Schoolmaster -- Sun-Down Papers.-[No. 7] From the Desk of a Schoolmaster -- Sun-Down Papers.-[No. 8] From the Desk of a Schoolmaster -- Sun-Down Papers.-[No. 9] From the Desk of a Schoolmaster -- For the Long Island Farmer, Sun-Down Papers.-[No. 10] From the Desk of a Schoolmaster -- Life in New York -- Life in a New York Market -- An Hour in a Balcony -- A Peep at the Israelites -- Untitled [April 6, 1842] -- Life and Love -- The Ocean -- Dreams -- An Hour at a Bath -- A Visit to Greenwood Cemetery -- Ourselves and the 'Eagle.' -- Gayety of Americans -- PHILOSOPHY OF FERRIES. -- East Long Island Correspondence [Letter III]. -- Excerpts from a Traveller's Note Book-[No. 3] Western Steamboats-The Ohio -- Letters from a Travelling Bachelor [No. III] -- From a Travelling Bachelor [Number IX] -- From a Travelling Bachelor [Number X] -- Letters from Paumanok [No. 2] -- Long Island is a Great Place! -- A Gossipy August Article. -- Letter From Washington: Our National City, After all, Has Some Big Points of Its Own-Its Suggestiveness To-day-The Figure of Liberty Over the Capitol- Scenes, Both Fixed and Panoramic-A Thought on Our Future Capital. -- WASHINGTON. The Last Hours of Congress-Washington Crowds, and the President. From an Occasional Correspondent. WASHINGTON, Monday, March 6, 1865. -- Index.
9781609383169
Whitman, Walt, -- 1819-1892 -- Political and social views.
Electronic books.
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818/.308
Walt Whitman's Selected Journalism. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (321 pages) - Iowa Whitman Series . - Iowa Whitman Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Walt Whitman's Journalism Career in New York and Brooklyn (Douglas A. Noverr and Jason Stacy) -- I. Democracy and Politics -- Americanism -- Organs of the Democracy -- Intelligence of the Working People -- Texas -- All Reforms in Government Must Come from the Democratic Impulse! -- Democratic Young Men. -- Shall we fight it out? -- No Slavery in Oregon. -- General Taylor. -- The Queen of England. -- The UNION Now and Forever! -- Loss of the Wilmot Proviso. -- Rights of Southern Freemen As Well As Northern Freemen-Mr. Calhoun's Speech. -- Some Thoughts about This Matter of the Washington Monument. -- Letter from Gen. Cass. -- Henry C. Murphy -- "The Dead Rabbit Democracy" -- Prohibition of Colored Persons. -- About China, as Relates to Itself and to Us. -- Untitled [August 26, 1858] -- Untitled [March 7, 1859] -- II. Moral Suasion -- Dickens and Democracy -- A Dialogue By Walter Whitman -- The Wrongs of Woman. -- Slavers-and the Slave Trade. -- Legislating for Morality. -- Is it right to dance? -- Hurrah for Choking Human Lives! -- Radicalism at the West. -- Brooklyn Schools. -- Brooklyn Morals.-Those Wax Figures. -- Long Island.-The English and the Dutch. -- Public Annoyances and Municipal Negligence. -- "The worth of liberty." -- Scenes in a Police Justice's Court Room. -- Why Should Church Property Be Exempt from Taxation? -- Little Hope Left! -- The Cable Laid! -- The Two Worlds United. -- The Moral Effect of the Atlantic Cable -- III. The Arts -- Mr. Emerson's Lecture -- Untitled [March 8, 1842] -- Italian Opera in New Orleans -- The Hutchinson Family -- American Music, New and True! -- Heart-Music and Art-Music -- Art-Singing and Heart-Singing -- How Literature Is Paid Here -- New Publications. -- Polishing the "Common People." -- Music for the "natural ear.". Government patronage of men of letters. -- Literary News, Notices, & -- c., Works of Art, & -- c. -- Dramatics -- and the true secret of Acting. -- Miserable State of the State.-Why Can't We Have Something Worth the Name of American Drama? -- Honor to Literature! -- Something About Art and Brooklyn Artists-A correspondent furnishes us with the following -- Arts and Artists: Remarks of Walt Whitman, Before the Brooklyn Art Union, on the Evening of March 31, 18511 -- Walt Whitman a Brooklyn Boy. Leaves of Grass: (A Volume of Poems Just Published.) -- IV. Come Closer to Me -- Greenwood Cemetery -- For the Hempstead Inquirer, Sun-Down Papers.-[No. 1] From the Desk of a Schoolmaster -- Sun-Down Papers.-[No. 7] From the Desk of a Schoolmaster -- Sun-Down Papers.-[No. 8] From the Desk of a Schoolmaster -- Sun-Down Papers.-[No. 9] From the Desk of a Schoolmaster -- For the Long Island Farmer, Sun-Down Papers.-[No. 10] From the Desk of a Schoolmaster -- Life in New York -- Life in a New York Market -- An Hour in a Balcony -- A Peep at the Israelites -- Untitled [April 6, 1842] -- Life and Love -- The Ocean -- Dreams -- An Hour at a Bath -- A Visit to Greenwood Cemetery -- Ourselves and the 'Eagle.' -- Gayety of Americans -- PHILOSOPHY OF FERRIES. -- East Long Island Correspondence [Letter III]. -- Excerpts from a Traveller's Note Book-[No. 3] Western Steamboats-The Ohio -- Letters from a Travelling Bachelor [No. III] -- From a Travelling Bachelor [Number IX] -- From a Travelling Bachelor [Number X] -- Letters from Paumanok [No. 2] -- Long Island is a Great Place! -- A Gossipy August Article. -- Letter From Washington: Our National City, After all, Has Some Big Points of Its Own-Its Suggestiveness To-day-The Figure of Liberty Over the Capitol- Scenes, Both Fixed and Panoramic-A Thought on Our Future Capital. -- WASHINGTON. The Last Hours of Congress-Washington Crowds, and the President. From an Occasional Correspondent. WASHINGTON, Monday, March 6, 1865. -- Index.
9781609383169
Whitman, Walt, -- 1819-1892 -- Political and social views.
Electronic books.
PS3203
818/.308