Whitman (Images of America)

I have to say that I found the facts interesting and I absolutely loved the older pictures. It was interesting to look at the old pictures and compare to what is not there today or what is still the same. The book has comments and pictures of the police stand in the center of town. My father was a police officer in the 60's and 70's and I can remember him directing traffic in it.

Well worth the money and it will become part of your cherished library. My mother's home town..

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Whitman Images of America.

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Amazon Inspire Digital Educational Resources. Amazon Rapids Fun stories for kids on the go. Amazon Restaurants Food delivery from local restaurants. ComiXology Thousands of Digital Comics. The couple's sixth son, the youngest, was named Edward. At age eleven Whitman concluded formal schooling. The following summer Whitman worked for another printer, Erastus Worthington, in Brooklyn. After his teaching attempts, Whitman went back to Huntington, New York, to found his own newspaper, the Long-Islander. Whitman served as publisher, editor, pressman, and distributor and even provided home delivery.

After ten months, he sold the publication to E. Crowell, whose first issue appeared on July 12, After a local preacher called him a " Sodomite ", Whitman was allegedly tarred and feathered. Biographer Justin Kaplan notes that the story is likely untrue, because Whitman regularly vacationed in the town thereafter. In these essays, he adopted a constructed persona, a technique he would employ throughout his career. He also contributed freelance fiction and poetry throughout the s. Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison derided the party philosophy as "white manism.

In , he serialized a novel titled Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: Present-day writers have called Manly Health and Training "quirky", [39] "so over the top", [40] "a pseudoscientific tract", [41] and "wacky". Whitman claimed that after years of competing for "the usual rewards", he determined to become a poet. George "didn't think it worth reading". Whitman paid for the publication of the first edition of Leaves of Grass himself [48] and had it printed at a local print shop during their breaks from commercial jobs.

The succeeding untitled twelve poems totaled lines— lines belonging to the first untitled poem, later called " Song of Myself ". The book received its strongest praise from Ralph Waldo Emerson , who wrote a flattering five-page letter to Whitman and spoke highly of the book to friends. In the months following the first edition of Leaves of Grass , critical responses began focusing more on the potentially offensive sexual themes. Though the second edition was already printed and bound, the publisher almost did not release it.

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During the first publications of Leaves of Grass , Whitman had financial difficulties and was forced to work as a journalist again, specifically with Brooklyn's Daily Times starting in May Whitmore", which Whitman worried was a reference to his brother George. Chase , Secretary of the Treasury, hoping he would grant Whitman a position in that department. Chase, however, did not want to hire the author of such a disreputable book as Leaves of Grass.

The Whitman family had a difficult end to On September 30, , Whitman's brother George was captured by Confederates in Virginia, [77] and another brother, Andrew Jackson, died of tuberculosis compounded by alcoholism on December 3. Effective June 30, , however, Whitman was fired from his job. The fifty-cent pamphlet defended Whitman as a wholesome patriot, established the poet's nickname and increased his popularity.

Part of Whitman's role at the Attorney General's office was interviewing former Confederate soldiers for Presidential pardons. After suffering a paralytic stroke in early , Whitman was induced to move from Washington to the home of his brother—George Washington Whitman, an engineer—at Stevens Street in Camden, New Jersey. His mother, having fallen ill, was also there and died that same year in May. Both events were difficult for Whitman and left him depressed. He remained at his brother's home until buying his own in While in residence there he was very productive, publishing three versions of Leaves of Grass among other works.

He was also last fully physically active in this house, receiving both Oscar Wilde and Thomas Eakins. His other brother, Edward, an "invalid" since birth, lived in the house. When his brother and sister-in-law were forced to move for business reasons, he bought his own house at Mickle Street now Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. During this time, he began socializing with Mary Oakes Davis—the widow of a sea captain. She was a neighbor, boarding with a family in Bridge Avenue just a few blocks from Mickle Street. She brought with her a cat, a dog, two turtledoves, a canary, and other assorted animals.

While in Southern New Jersey , Whitman spent a good portion of his time in the then quite pastoral community of Laurel Springs , between and , converting one of the Stafford Farm buildings to his summer home. The restored summer home has been preserved as a museum by the local historical society.

Part of his Leaves of Grass was written here, and in his Specimen Days he wrote of the spring, creek and lake. To him, Laurel Lake was "the prettiest lake in: As the end of approached, he prepared a final edition of Leaves of Grass , a version that has been nicknamed the "Deathbed Edition. I have no relief, no escape: Whitman died on March 26, The cause of death was officially listed as " pleurisy of the left side, consumption of the right lung, general miliary tuberculosis and parenchymatous nephritis. Whitman's work breaks the boundaries of poetic form and is generally prose-like. Whitman wrote in the preface to the edition of Leaves of Grass , "The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Whitman was a vocal proponent of temperance and in his youth rarely drank alcohol. He once stated he did not taste "strong liquor" until he was 30 [] and occasionally argued for prohibition. Whitman was deeply influenced by deism.

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He denied any one faith was more important than another, and embraced all religions equally. An Encyclopedia classes him as one of several figures who "took a more pantheist or pandeist approach by rejecting views of God as separate from the world. Though biographers continue to debate Whitman's sexuality, he is usually described as either homosexual or bisexual in his feelings and attractions. Whitman's sexual orientation is generally assumed on the basis of his poetry, though this assumption has been disputed.

His poetry depicts love and sexuality in a more earthy, individualistic way common in American culture before the medicalization of sexuality in the late 19th century. Whitman had intense friendships with many men and boys throughout his life. Some biographers have suggested that he may not have actually engaged in sexual relationships with males, [] while others cite letters, journal entries, and other sources that they claim as proof of the sexual nature of some of his relationships.

Some contemporary scholars are skeptical of the veracity of Whitman's denial or the existence of the children he claimed. Peter Doyle may be the most likely candidate for the love of Whitman's life. Interviewed in , Doyle said: He did not get out at the end of the trip—in fact went all the way back with me. In , Edward Carpenter told Gavin Arthur of a sexual encounter in his youth with Whitman, the details of which Arthur recorded in his journal. Another possible lover was Bill Duckett. As a teenager, he lived on the same street in Camden and moved in with Whitman, living with him a number of years and serving him in various roles.

Duckett was 15 when Whitman bought his house at Mickle Street. From at least , Duckett and his grandmother, Lydia Watson, were boarders, subletting space from another family at Mickle Street. Because of this proximity, Duckett and Whitman met as neighbors. Their relationship was close, with the youth sharing Whitman's money when he had it.

Whitman described their friendship as "thick". Though some biographers describe him as a boarder, others identify him as a lover. Whitman gave Stafford a ring, which was returned and re-given over the course of a stormy relationship lasting several years. Of that ring, Stafford wrote to Whitman, "You know when you put it on there was but one thing to part it from me, and that was death.

There is also some evidence that Whitman may have had sexual relationships with women. He had a romantic friendship with a New York actress, Ellen Grey, in the spring of , but it is not known whether it was also sexual. He still had a photograph of her decades later, when he moved to Camden, and he called her "an old sweetheart of mine". This claim has never been corroborated. Whitman reportedly enjoyed bathing naked and sunbathing nude. Never before did I get so close to Nature; never before did she come so close to me… Nature was naked, and I was also… Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature!

Is not nakedness indecent? It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability, that is indecent. There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent.

Whitman was an adherent of the Shakespeare authorship question , refusing to believe in the historical attribution of the works to William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon. Whitman comments in his November Boughs regarding Shakespeare's historical plays:. Conceiv'd out of the fullest heat and pulse of European feudalism—personifying in unparalleled ways the medieval aristocracy, its towering spirit of ruthless and gigantic caste, with its own peculiar air and arrogance no mere imitation —only one of the "wolfish earls" so plenteous in the plays themselves, or some born descendant and knower, might seem to be the true author of those amazing works—works in some respects greater than anything else in recorded literature.