"[171] In his study "The Pragmatic Whitman: Reimagining American Democracy", Stephen John Mack suggests that critics, who tend to ignore it, should look again at Whitman's nationalism: "Whitman's seemingly mawkish celebrations of the United States [are] one of those problematic features of his works that teachers and critics read past or explain away" (xvxvi). 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. See Hungerford, p. 361. [132] In "Song of Myself", he gave an inventory of major religions and indicated he respected and accepted all of thema sentiment he further emphasized in his poem "With Antecedents", affirming: "I adopt each theory, myth, god, and demi-god, / I see that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception". His mother, having fallen ill, was also there and died that same year in May. Walt Whitman papers at Columbia University. Much of Whitman'spoetry resounds with Biblical allusions and innuendo. "Walt Whitman: Spirituality and Religion in Whitman's Song of Myself." [162] Toward the end of his life, he often told stories of previous girlfriends and sweethearts and denied an allegation from the New York Herald that he had "never had a love affair". [120] An American epic, it deviated from the historic use of an elevated hero and instead assumed the identity of the common people. And I see a gay man, the lesbian, reading this book and realizing their place in the world, and I see the Puritan opening his shirt to the spring thunder and lightning, celebrating the body in all its drives and ecstasy, and I see the . Press, 1955), p. 14. [10], At the age of 11 Whitman concluded formal schooling. From at least 1880, Duckett and his grandmother, Lydia Watson, were boarders, subletting space from another family at 334 Mickle Street. He could not even reconcile such contradictions in his own psyche." Walt Whitman documents at Columbia University. Its members held an annual "Whitman Day" celebration around the poet's birthday. Whitman brings philosophical significance to the most simple objects and actions, reminding America that every sight, sound, taste, and smell can take on aspiritual importance to the fully aware and healthy individual. By S. Flannagan / Oct. 16, 2021 10:14 am EST. [31], Whitman moved to New York City in May, initially working a low-level job at the New World, working under Park Benjamin Sr. and Rufus Wilmot Griswold. 5051. Note 12 in page 22 Memory, and Intellectual Improvement, 25th ed. James, Henry. Note 30 in page 23 Preface 1876 in Comprehensive Reader's Edition, p. 746, 42n-44n. [128] He dismissed it by saying he wrote the novel in three days solely for money while under the influence of alcohol. Walt Whitman collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania. [114] A public viewing of his body was held at his Camden home; more than 1,000 people visited in three hours. [113] An autopsy revealed his lungs had diminished to one-eighth their normal breathing capacity, a result of bronchial pneumonia,[109] and that an egg-sized abscess on his chest had eroded one of his ribs. About this Item. [19] At the age of 16 in May 1835, Whitman left the Star and Brooklyn. [188], Some, like Oscar Wilde and Edward Carpenter, viewed Whitman both as a prophet of a utopian future and of same-sex desire the passion of comrades. (New York: Fowler and Wells, 1844), p. 24. "[169] George Hutchinson and David Drews have written that "what little is known about the early development of Whitman's racial awareness suggests that he imbibed the prevailing white prejudices of his time and place, thinking of black people as servile, shiftless, ignorant, and given to stealing," but that despite his views remaining largely unchanged, "readers of the twentieth century, including black ones, imagined him as a fervent antiracist. Whitman seems to be calling to America, urging the people to listen and to believe. [176] Others agreed: one of his admirers, William Sloane Kennedy, speculated that "people will be celebrating the birth of Walt Whitman as they are now the birth of Christ".[177]. Their relationship was close, with the youth sharing Whitman's money when he had it. [130] Later in life he was more liberal with alcohol, enjoying local wines and champagne. 01 December 2020. Jim Harrison and Ernest Hemingway declared their . [i] Helen Price was the daughter of one Whitman's dearest confidantes, Abby Hills Price. } "I Sing the Body Electric" inspired the showcase finale in the movie Fame (1980), a diverse fusion of gospel, rock, and orchestra. The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person with an American epic. [47] As early as 1850, he began writing what would become Leaves of Grass,[48] a collection of poetry that he would continue editing and revising until his death. Boulevard). The Mystery of Same-Sex Love in the 19th Century", "John Addington Symonds to Walt Whitman, 7 February 1872 (Correspondence) - The Walt Whitman Archive", "An Unknown Photograph of Whitman and Harry Stafford", "Imagined America: Walt Whitman's Nationalism in the First Edition of Leaves of Grass", "What Langston Hughes' Powerful Poem "I, Too" Tells Us About America's Past and Present", "For the Sake of People's Poetry by June Jordan", "An Interview with Joy Harjo, U.S. Note 22 in page 23 Notices of New Books, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 21 Dec. 1846. After suffering a paralytic stroke in early 1873, Whitman was induced to move from Washington to the home of his brotherGeorge Washington Whitman, an engineerat 431 Stevens Street in Camden, New Jersey. [66] Leaves of Grass was revised and re-released in 1860,[67] again in 1867, and several more times throughout the remainder of Whitman's life. The second of nine children,[6] he was immediately nicknamed "Walt" to distinguish him from his father. He sees himself as America's savior, the last hope, even a prophet. Stoker said in his notes that Dracula represented the quintessential male which, to Stoker, was Whitman, with whom he corresponded until Whitman's death. [14] Clements aroused controversy when he and two friends attempted to dig up the corpse of the Quaker minister Elias Hicks to create a plaster mold of his head. "[135], Though biographers continue to debate Whitman's sexuality, he is usually described as either homosexual or bisexual in his feelings and attractions. I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you, And you must not be abased to the other. [97] The edition became popular in England, especially with endorsements from the highly respected writer Anne Gilchrist. Insisting that the Me is the center and meaning of all experience and that reality is indistinguishable from the self, Whitman turns to the phrenological concept of the soul as the agent that makes the physical self susceptible to the spiritual and the infinite. [151][152][153] Late in his life, when Whitman was asked outright whether his "Calamus" poems were homosexualJohn Addington Symonds inquired about "athletic friendship," "the love of man for man," or "the Love of Friends"[154]he chose not to respond. For my thesis, I studied the work of Walt Whitman, a poet who, a century before, was possessed by the same questions that haunted me, who wanted to find a way to understand and describe what he termed "the Physiological-Spiritual Man.". Spirituality is a mixed bag for the great Americanpoet, Walt Whitman. Just one generation removed from the founding fathers, Whitman saw the arts as both a spiritual and a national imperative. [56] The inaugural volume of poetry was preceded by a prose preface of 827 lines. (New York: Fowler and Wells, 1853), p. 223. [17] His family moved back to West Hills in the spring, but Whitman remained and took a job at the shop of Alden Spooner, editor of the leading Whig weekly newspaper the Long-Island Star. "There are real characters among them", he later wrote, "and you know I have a fancy for anything out of the ordinary. 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. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/spirituality-walt-whitmans-song-of-myself-735171. For this very reason, we cannot call Whitman a pure mystic in the sense of oriental mysticism. Since the body is the soul, the sensible is in fact the suprasensible, and matter is mind, dualism presents no problem. Your support makes all the difference. Who knows but that element, like the course of some subterranean river, dipping invisibly for a hundred or two years, is now to emerge in broadest flow and permanent action? Hostname: page-component-789cc574b8-kcrr4 [3] Whitman's friend, the orator Robert Ingersoll, delivered the eulogy. In Leaves of Grass (1855, 1891-2), he celebrated democracy, nature, love, and friendship. of Nebraska Press, 1964), pp. 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. [39] In 1858, Whitman published a 47,000 word series called Manly Health and Training under the pen name Mose Velsor. Whitman seems to draw from the many roots of belief to form his own religion, putting himself at the center. (Then again, as Seamus Heaney reminded us, the Latin root of condescension means we all sink and what more worthy an object of compassion than these wounded soldiers, literally sunk to the ground on the battlefields?) [161] In a letter, dated August 21, 1890, he claimed: "I have had six childrentwo are dead." : The Riverside Press, 1896), p. 59. [83] That month, Whitman committed his brother Jesse to the Kings County Lunatic Asylum. As George Hutchinson and David Drews further suggest in an essay "Racial attitudes": "Clearly, Whitman could not consistently reconcile the ingrained, even foundational, racist character of the United States with its egalitarian ideals. She brought with her a cat, a dog, two turtledoves, a canary, and other assorted animals. While it is commonly held that Whitman's own understanding of this doctrine was directly transmitted to him by Emerson, who, in turn, took the Swedish mystic Swedenborg as his father in this thinking, there is good reason to be less assertive. Web. During the American Civil War, he went to Washington, D.C. and worked in hospitals caring for the wounded. "[117] It uses unusual images and symbols, including rotting leaves, tufts of straw, and debris. [68], 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 1857. Whitman's sexual orientation is generally assumed on the basis of his poetry, though this assumption has been disputed. [146][147][148] Doyle was a bus conductor whom Whitman met around 1866, and the two were inseparable for several years. [125] Whitman wrote the novel at the height of the popularity of the Washingtonian movement, a movement that was plagued with contradictions, as was Franklin Evans. "The Untimeliness of the Walt Whitman Exhibition at the New York Public Library: An Open Letter to Trustees," by Charles F. Heartman. While he takes a great deal of material from Christianity, his conception of religion is much more complicated than the beliefs of one or two faiths mixed together. My Captain! Though some biographers describe him as a boarder, others identify him as a lover. As America, from its many far-back sources and current supplies, develops, adapts, entwines, faithfully identifies its ownare we to see it cheerfully accepting and using all the contributions of foreign lands from the whole outside globeand then rejecting the only ones distinctively its ownthe autochthonic ones? Lombardi, Esther. [54] No author is named; instead, facing the title page was an engraved portrait done by Samuel Hollyer,[55] but 500 lines into the body of the text he calls himself "Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos, disorderly, fleshly, and sensual, no sentimentalist, no stander above men or women or apart from them, no more modest than immodest". Note 16 in page 23 The extravagant eclecticism of the phrenologists, who were always prepared to incorporate all aspects of 19th-century thought into their scientific-inductive framework as added testimony to its contemporaneity, is evident here in their espousal of the doctrine of correspondences. The cause of death was officially listed as "pleurisy of the left side, consumption of the right lung, general miliary tuberculosis and parenchymatous nephritis". YouTube. Horace Traubel, Richard M. Bucke, and Thomas Harned (Philadelphia: McKay, 1893), p. 24. Biographer Justin Kaplan notes that the story is likely untrue, because Whitman regularly vacationed in the town thereafter. Note 25 in page 23 ih Leon Howard, For a Critique of Whitman's Transcendentalism, MLN, 47 (Feb. 1932), 7985. Harold W. Blodgett and Sculley Bradley (New York: New York Univ. [15] Clements left the Patriot shortly afterward, possibly as a result of the controversy. Note 10 in page 22 Fowler's Practical Phrenology (New York: Fowler and Wells, n.d.), p. 32. Literary Productivity,Visualized, 7 Life-Learnings from 7 Years of Brain Pickings,Illustrated, Anas Nin on Love, Hand-Lettered by DebbieMillman, Anas Nin on Real Love, Illustrated by DebbieMillman, Susan Sontag on Love: Illustrated DiaryExcerpts, Susan Sontag on Art: Illustrated DiaryExcerpts, Albert Camus on Happiness and Love, Illustrated by WendyMacNaughton, The Silent Music of the Mind: Remembering OliverSacks, why a robust society is a reading society, how our psychological and physiological states affect one another. Present-day writers have called Manly Health and Training "quirky",[43] "so over the top",[44] "a pseudoscientific tract",[45] and "wacky". While in residence there he was very productive, publishing three versions of Leaves of Grass among other works. Whitman brought the soldiers all kinds of gifts to lift their spirits from apples, oranges, figs, gingersnaps, and first-rate preserved berries to pocket change and small bills. Whitman foregrounds his own agency and makes him the subject of this line. Need to cancel an existing donation? Note 15 in page 23 Fowler, Education and Self-Improvement Founded on Physiology and Phrenology, 2nd ed. In his early 20s, Paul Kalanithi faced a life-changing choice between a career in writing or in medicine. On September 30, 1864, Whitman's brother George was captured by Confederates in Virginia,[82] and another brother, Andrew Jackson, died of tuberculosis compounded by alcoholism on December 3. "[133] Whitman was a religious skeptic: though he accepted all churches, he believed in none. [57] The first edition of Leaves of Grass was widely distributed and stirred up significant interest,[58] in part due to Emerson's praise,[59] but was occasionally criticized for the seemingly "obscene" nature of the poetry. Some biographers have suggested that he did not actually engage in sexual relationships with males,[139] while others cite letters, journal entries, and other sources that they claim as proof of the sexual nature of some of his relationships. Claim yours: Also: Because The Marginalian is well into its second decade and because I write primarily about ideas of timeless nourishment, each Wednesday I dive into the archive and resurface from among the thousands of essays one worth resavoring. In these essays, he adopted a constructed persona, a technique he would employ throughout his career. Note 29 in page 23 Roger Asselineau, The Evolution of Walt Whitman (Cambridge, Mass. Rare Book & Manuscript Library. "[149] In his notebooks, Whitman disguised Doyle's initials using the code "16.4" (P.D. He insists that it is the soul's office, literally, to translate the sensuous data apprehended by a physiologically endowed man perfectly attuned to the universe into the spiritual truths that are integral in the mystic union of all Being. After a local preacher called him a "Sodomite", Whitman was allegedly tarred and feathered. His other brother, Edward, an "invalid" since birth, lived in the house. University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center. ). Note 7 in page 22 American Literature, 2 (Jan. 1931), 35084. [86] A month later, on February 24, 1865, George was released from capture and granted a furlough because of his poor health. Note 2 in page 22 Good-Bye My FancyConcluding Annex to Leaves of Grass, in Prose Works 1892: Collect and Other Prose, ed. " Poet of the Body": New York's Walt Whitman, an exhibition at the Grolier Club in Manhattan, confirms that Whitman worked very hard indeed to not only craft his poetry, but also engineer the. [195][196] Those who have set his poems to music include John Adams; Ernst Bacon; Leonard Bernstein; Benjamin Britten; Rhoda Coghill; David Conte; Ronald Corp; George Crumb; Frederick Delius; Howard Hanson; Karl Amadeus Hartmann; Hans Werner Henze; Bernard Herrmann;[197]Jennifer Higdon;[198] Paul Hindemith;[199] Ned Rorem;[200] Howard Skempton; Eva Ruth Spalding; Williametta Spencer; Charles Villiers Stanford; Robert Strassburg;[201] Ivana Marburger Themmen;[202] Rossini Vrionides;[203] Ralph Vaughan Williams;[204] Kurt Weill;[205] Helen L. Weiss;[206] Charles Wood; and Roger Sessions. [191][192], Whitman's poem "Yonnondio" influenced both a book (Yonnondio: From the Thirties, 1974) by Tillie Olsen and a sixteen-minute film, Yonnondio (1994) by Ali Mohamed Selim. Published April 19, 2016 [121] Leaves of Grass also responded to the impact of recent urbanization in the United States on the masses. Note 11 in page 22 So certain was Whitman of the beneficence of the physical that he copied into an early notebook a passage attributed to O. S. Fowler: Morality and talent are affected more by food, drink, physical habits, cheerfulness, exercise, regulated or irregulated amativeness than is supposedO. The Untold Truth Of Walt Whitman. 15761, 17987. [30] During this time, Whitman published a series of ten editorials, called "Sun-Down PapersFrom the Desk of a Schoolmaster", in three newspapers between the winter of 1840 and July 1841. How Whitman could have been so prejudiced, and yet so effective in conveying an egalitarian and antiracist sensibility in his poetry, is a puzzle yet to be adequately addressed. She was a neighbor, boarding with a family in Bridge Avenue just a few blocks from Mickle Street. [36] Whitman lost his position at the Brooklyn Eagle in 1848 after siding with the free-soil "Barnburner" wing of the Democratic party against the newspaper's owner, Isaac Van Anden, who belonged to the conservative, or "Hunker", wing of the party. Note 6 in page 22 Catalogue of the Whitman Collection: Trent Collection, compiled by Ellen Frances Frey (Durham, N. C. : Duke Univ. Dec 4, 2017 6:41 PM EST. "[34], Throughout the 1840s he contributed freelance fiction and poetry to various periodicals,[35] including Brother Jonathan magazine edited by John Neal. A statue of Whitman by Jo Davidson is located at the entrance to the Walt Whitman Bridge and another casting resides in the Bear Mountain State Park. The poor wounded men often came up dead broke,' he explains, and it helps their spirits to have even the small sum I give them. His generosity extended beyond the material and into the metaphysical he lent them his poetic talent and helped them write letters home, even love letters. Fowler's Practical Phrenology, the bible of the American phrenological movement, was found among Whitman's possessions. [182] June Jordan published a pivotal essay entitled "For the Sake of People's Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us", praising Whitman as a democratic poet whose works speak to people of color from all backgrounds. The succeeding untitled twelve poems totaled 2315 lines1336 lines belonging to the first untitled poem, later called "Song of Myself". "[108] Preparing for death, Whitman commissioned a granite mausoleum shaped like a house for $4,000[109] and visited it often during construction. I wish to acknowledge Professor John C. Broderick at the Library of Congress for his kindness and help in giving me access to the Feinberg Papers when I had need of them, although they were not yet officially available to the public. [178], In his own time, Whitman attracted an influential coterie of disciples and admirers. Note 5 in page 22 William L. Finkel, Sources of Walt Whitman's Manuscript Notes on Physique, American Literature, 22 (Nov. 1950), 30831. It was through the arts, he wrote, that America would develop her own unique culture, a culture to rival Europe's. And after the passing of Combe, the phrenological mantle of succession fell on the shoulders of the brothers Fowler who not only retained Combe's thoughts but made phrenology even practical. John D. Davies, Phrenology: Fad and Science (New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ. [13] He may have written "sentimental bits" of filler material for occasional issues. Whitman philosophises that the self can be purified not through purgation but through the acceptance of the physical. 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. [87], Effective June 30, 1865, however, Whitman was fired from his job. As a transcendentalist, he held views that weren't necessarily popular . [26] He left shortly thereafter, and made another attempt at teaching from the winter of 1840 to the spring of 1841. Prof. John Sirmans Faculty Mentor. Amazon.com: Walt Whitman: Shamanism, Spiritual Democracy, and the World Soul: 9781609116996: Herrmann, . Note 19 in page 23 On the Beach at Night Alone, Leaves of Grass:Comprehensive Reader's Edition, ed. In the first cantos, he says, "I loafe and invite my soul," creating a dualism between matter and spirit. [191], In Dead Poets Society (1989) by Peter Weir, teacher John Keating inspires his students with the works of Whitman, Shakespeare and John Keats. Walter 'Walt' Whitman was an influential American poet of the 19th century, and a figure of more than a little controversy. They are not charity-patients, but American young men, of pride and independence. Instead of the two principles, in Whitman a single identity is achieved when the active soul charges the surrounding universe and perceives the ideal in the actual. Neil Richardson and Steven Herrmann. : Harvard Univ. If they won't listen or hear, they may be lost in the perpetual Wasteland of the modern experience. [99] As Whitman's international fame increased, he remained at the attorney general's office until January 1872. Note 24 in page 23 This fragment is found among the Feinberg Papers housed at the Library of Congress. I believe that even the moving around among the men, or through the ward, of a hearty, healthy, clean, strong, generous-souled person, man or woman, full of humanity and love, sending out invisible, constant currents thereof, does immense good to the sick and wounded. Esther Lombardi, M.A., is a journalist who has covered books and literature for over twenty years. [181] Lawrence Ferlinghetti numbered himself among Whitman's "wild children", and the title of Ferlinghetti's 1961 collection Starting from San Francisco is a deliberate reference to Whitman's Starting from Paumanok. "[171] Whitman's nationalism avoided issues concerning the treatment of Native Americans. [73] Whitman's brother George had joined the Union army in the 51st New York Infantry Regiment and began sending Whitman several vividly detailed letters of the battle front. Because of this proximity, Duckett and Whitman met as neighbors. University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center. "[172] In 1883, celebrating the 333rd anniversary of Santa Fe, Whitman argued that the indigenous and Spanish-Indian elements would supply leading traits in the "composite American identity of the future. I find out the general mood of the ward at the time; sometimes see that there is a heavy weight of listlessness prevailing, and the whole ward wants cheering up. [142][143][144][145], Peter Doyle may be the most likely candidate for the love of Whitman's life. He has expressed that civilization, 'up to date,' as he would say, and no student of the philosophy of history can do without him. He believed there was a vital, symbiotic relationship between the poet and society. [119] He emphasized this connection especially in "Song of Myself" by using an all-powerful first-person narration. It is I you hold, and who holds you; I spring from the. You can nominate a fair number of literary works as candidates for the secular Scripture of the United States. [64] In the end, the edition went to retail, with 20 additional poems,[65] in August 1856. Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison derided the party philosophy as "white manism". [110] In the last week of his life, he was too weak to lift a knife or fork and wrote: "I suffer all the time: I have no relief, no escape: it is monotonymonotonymonotonyin pain. [71] Whitman, who typically kept detailed notebooks and journals, left very little information about himself in the late 1850s. 5, 2023, thoughtco.com/spirituality-walt-whitmans-song-of-myself-735171. 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