When Oscar Wilde Visited Walt Whitman In Camden By by Henrik Eger, Ph.D. A different side of legendary Irish writer Oscar Wilde was recently on display at Walnut Street Theatre in a new play by Michael Whistler entitled Mickle Street. The play revolves around a little known piece of literary history — the period in which the 27-year-old writer traveled to Camden, New Jersey to seek the advice of Walt Whitman. In Mickle Street, we see Wilde’s wit evolve, but many of his words taste like young wine — a fledging writer struggling with his identity, convinced that he has already made it because of the many Americans who are attending his lectures, from New York and Philadelphia, all the way to Colorado — even though the press writes less than flattering reviews. Being associated with famous people was as much en vogue in the late 1800s as it is today. Mary, an Irish-Catholic widow, looks after Whitman. Whistler’s Mary has a fine eye for different layers of reality: “You know the paper says he lives ‘on beauty alone.’
Rossetti Archive Walt Whitman’s Civil War ‘Drum-Taps’, Complete After 150 Years “I intend to move heaven & earth to publish my ‘Drum-Taps’ as soon as I am able to go around,” Walt Whitman told his friend William O’Connor in 1864, after a mysterious illness, likely contracted from the hospital where he nursed soldiers, claimed his health for a time. The American Civil War was in its third year, and Leaves of Grass in its third edition. With his new book of Civil War poems, Whitman meant to advocate a re-union, a reconciliation, an end to the war, and a continuation of the spirit of democracy set in motion by his earlier work. He wanted Drum-Taps to “express in a poem…the pending action of this Time & Land we swim in…with the unprecedented anguish and suffering, the beautiful young men, in wholesale death & agony.” The following January, as the war neared its conclusion, Whitman wrote again to O’Connor, explaining that the now fairly completed Drum-Taps was “superior to Leaves of Grass — certainly more perfect as a work of art.’’
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Whitman Birthplace to Unveil Rare Whitman Bible Local News, Travel & Local Attractions, Press Releases By Long Island News & PRs Published: October 22 2014 Call for Whitman Descendants to attend. Huntington Station, NY - October 22, 2014 - Walt Whitman Birthplace Association (WWBA) invites the public and Whitman Descendants to join the unveiling of the newly donated Whitman Family Bible on Friday, November 14, at 2 PM at the Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site. Huntington Town Supervisor Frank Petrone will preside over the Bible unveiling. The Bible was donated to WWBA by Natalie Swertfager Pearson, widow of Walter Whitman Swertfager, who owned the Bible. Mary Elizabeth Whitman was Walt’s sister and she received the Bible from Walt as a Christmas gift in 1878. “I am thrilled and at peace to donate this Bible that has been kept by many generations,” Natalie Swertfager Pearson said upon her donation. “The ancestors of Walt’s parents, Louisa Van Velsor & Walt Whitman, Sr., date back two hundred years on Long Island,” says Shor. Contact:
Making of America aking of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. For more details about the project, see About MoA. New Additions: We have recently added a new feature, subject browsing. 99 more volumes focusing on New York City were added to MoA in June 2007. Walt Whitman. I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. Brooklyn bard Walt Whitman, born in Long Island on this day, is the subject of a new opera by composer Matthew Aucoin called Crossing. “Whitman is a figure that I have been fascinated by for a long time, and his personal journey, his decision to drop everything and volunteer in the hospitals for three or four years [post Leaves of Grass], and the mystery of that,” said the artist. “What was he really doing beforehand? “Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.” “Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.” “Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.” “I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.” “Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”
Documenting the American South: Open DocSouth What is DocSouth Data? Doc South Data provides access to some of the Documenting The American South collections in formats that work well with common text mining and data analysis tools. Documenting the American South is one of the longest running digital publishing initiatives at the University of North Carolina. It was designed to give researchers digital access to some of the library’s unique collections in the form of high quality page scans as well as structured, corrected and machine readable text. Doc South Data is an extension of this original goal and has been designed for researchers who want to use emerging technology to look for patterns across entire texts or compare patterns found in multiple texts. How do I use it? By clicking on one of the collection links below, your computer should begin downloading a .zip file containing the data for that collection. The Church in the Southern Black Community First-Person Narratives of the American South Library of Southern Literature
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