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Walt Whitman's selected journalism / Walt Whitman ; edited by Douglas A. Noverr and Jason Stacy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.
- Series:
- Iowa Whitman series
- The Iowa Whitman series
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections (Leaves of grass and selected poems and prose)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Political and social views.
- Whitman, Walt.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
- Journalism--United States.
- Journalism.
- Political and social views.
- United States.
- United States--Civilization--19th century.
- Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvi, 281 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- Long before he was a celebrated poet, Walt Whitman was a working journalist. By the time he published the first edition of Leaves of Grass in 1855, Whitman had edited three newspapers and published thousands of reviews, editorials, and human-interest stories in newspapers in and around New York City. Yet for decades, much of his journalism has been difficult to access or even find. For the first time, Walt Whitman's Selected Journalism thematically and chronologically organizes a compelling selection of Whitman's journalism from the late 1830s to the Civil War. It includes writings from the poet's first immersion into the burgeoning democratic culture of antebellum America to the war that transformed both the poet and the nation. In presenting Whitman-the-journalist in his own words, and with useful context and annotations by renowned scholars. Walt Whitman's Selected Journalism illuminates for readers the future poet's earliest attempts to speak on behalf of and to the entire American republic. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- I Democracy and Politics 1
- Americanism 3
- Organs of the Democracy 5
- Intelligence of the Working People 8
- Texas 10
- All Reforms in Government Must Come from the Democratic Impulse! 13
- Democratic Young Men 15
- Shall we fight it out? 17
- No Slavery in Oregon 20
- General Taylor 22
- The Queen of England 25
- The UNION Now and Forever! 28
- Loss of the Wilmot Proviso 31
- Rights of Southern Freemen As Well As Northern Freemen-... 33
- Some Thoughts about This Matter of the Washington Monument 37
- Letter from Gen. Cass 39
- Henry C. Murphy 41
- "The Dead Rabbit Democracy" 48
- Prohibition of Colored Persons 51
- About China, as Relates to Itself and to Us 54
- Untitled [August 26, 1858] 58
- Untitled [March 7, 1839] 60
- II Moral suasion 61
- Dickens and Democracy 63
- A Dialogue By Walter Whitman 66
- The Wrongs of Woman 73
- Slavers-and the Slave Trade 75
- Legislating for Morality 78
- Is it right to dance? 79
- Hurrah for Choking Human Lives! 80
- Radicalism at the West 82
- Brooklyn Schools 84
- Brooklyn Morals.-Those Wax Figures 86
- Long Island. -The English and the Dutch 88
- Public Annoyances and Municipal Negligence 90
- "The worth of liberty." 92
- Scenes in a Police Justice's Court Room 94
- Why Should Church Property Be Exempt from Taxation? 97
- Little Hope Left! 98
- The Cable Laid! 100
- The Two Worlds United 102
- The Moral Effect of the Atlantic Cable 105
- III The Arts 107
- Mr. Emerson's Lecture 109
- Untitled [March 8, 1842] 111
- Italian Opera in New Orleans 115
- The Hutchinson Family 118
- American Music, New and True! 119
- Heart-Music and Art-Music 121
- Art-Singing and Heart-Singing 124
- How Literature Is Paid Here 128
- New Publications 129
- Polishing the "Common People." 131
- Music for the "natural ear." 133
- Government patronage of men of letters 136
- Literary News, Notices, &c, Works of Art, &c 139
- Dramatics; and the true secret of Acting 141
- Miserable State of the State.-... 144
- Honor to Literature! 147
- Something About Art and Brooklyn Artists-... 149
- Arts and Artists... 153
- Walt Whitman a Brooklyn Boy.... 160
- IV Come Closer to Me 163
- Greenwood Cemetery 165
- For the Hempstead Inquirer, Sun-Down Papers.-[No. 1]... 169
- Sun-Down Papers.-[No. 7]... 172
- Sun-Down Papers.-[No. 8]... 175
- Sun-Down Papers.-[No. 9]... 181
- For the Long Island Farmer, Sun-Down Papers.- [No. 10]... 184
- Life in New York 187
- Life in a New York Market 189
- An Hour in a Balcony 193
- A Peep at the Israelites 196
- Untitled [April 6, 1842] 199
- Life and Love 202
- The Ocean 204
- Dreams 207
- An Hour at a Bath 210
- A Visit to Greenwood Cemetery 212
- Ourselves and the 'Eagle.' 215
- Gayety of Americans 217
- Philosophy of Ferries 220
- East Long Island Correspondence [Letter III] 224
- Excerpts from a Traveller's Note Book-[No. 3]... 227
- Letters from a Travelling Bachelor [No. III] 231
- From a Travelling Bachelor [Number IX] 238
- From a Travelling Bachelor [Number X] 245
- Letters from Paumanok [No. 2] 251
- Long Island is a Great Place! 255
- A Gossipy August Article 258
- Letter From Washington... 261
- Washington.; The Last Hours of Congress-... 269.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781609383152
- 160938315X
- OCLC:
- 891494733
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