query: what influenced whitman's poetry?

title: Romantic poetry

text: whose major work "Leaves of Grass" was first published in 1855, was influenced by transcendentalism. Influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalist movement, itself an offshoot of Romanticism, Whitman's poetry praises nature and the individual human's role in it. However, much like Emerson, Whitman does not diminish the role of the mind or the spirit; rather, he elevates the human form and the human mind, deeming both worthy of poetic praise. Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) is best known for his poetry and short stories, and is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and

title: Prose poetry

text: and Francis Ponge. At the end of the 19th century, British Decadent movement poets such as Oscar Wilde picked up the form. Writers of prose poetry outside France include Fenton Johnson, Amy Lowell, Friedrich Hölderlin, Novalis, Hans Christian Andersen, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stefan George, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Maeterlinck, Turgenev, Kafka, Georg Trakl, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and Clarice Lispector. Notable Modernist poet T. S. Eliot wrote vehemently against prose poems. He added to the debate about what defines the genre, saying in his introduction to Djuna Barnes' highly poeticized 1936 novel "Nightwood" that this work may not

title: Sarah Helen Whitman

text: Sarah Helen Whitman Sarah Helen Power Whitman (January 19, 1803 – June 27, 1878) was a poet, essayist, transcendentalist, Spiritualist and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe. Whitman was born in Providence, Rhode Island on January 19, 1803, exactly six years before Poe's birth. She was the daughter of Nicholas Power. In 1828, she married the poet and writer John Winslow Whitman. John had been co-editor of the "Boston Spectator and Ladies' Album", which allowed Sarah to publish some of her poetry using the name "Helen". John died in 1833; he and Sarah never had children. Sarah Helen Whitman

title: Walt Whitman

text: Hollyer, 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". The inaugural volume of poetry was preceded by a prose preface of 827 lines. The succeeding untitled twelve poems totaled 2315 lines—1336 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

title: Walt Whitman

text: group established in 1885 at the home of James William Wallace in Eagle Street, Bolton, to read and discuss the poetry of Whitman. The group subsequently became known as the Bolton Whitman Fellowship or Whitmanites. Its members held an annual 'Whitman Day' celebration around the poet's birthday. Whitman's poetry has been set to music by a large number of composers; indeed it has been suggested his poetry has been set to music more than that of any other American poet except for Emily Dickinson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Those who have set his poems to music have included John Adams;

title: Ruth Whitman

text: to Cedric Whitman and her second to Firman Houghton. Full-length Poetry Collections Translations Non-fiction Ruth Whitman Ruth Whitman (1922–1999) was an American poet, translator, and professor. Her eighth and last book is "Hatshepshut, Speak to me" (Wayne State University Press, 1992), and her most well-known and well-regarded is "Tamsen Donner: A Woman’s Journey" (Alice James Books, 1977). She also translated poetry from Yiddish, and wrote the beloved poem "Sisters." Her honors and awards include a Senior Fulbright Writer-in-Residence Fellowship to Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a Bunting Institute Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. Her poems were

title: John Whitman

text: John Whitman John Russell Whitman (June 8, 1944 – July 2, 2015) was an American businessman and investment banker. He was also First Gentleman of New Jersey as the husband of former Governor of New Jersey Christine Todd Whitman. from January 18, 1994 to January 31, 2001. Whitman has had a long career in banking and financial services, including working at Citigroup. Whitman was born in Albany, New York in 1944, John's grandfather, Charles S. Whitman, was the 41st Governor of New York. and Charles Seymour Whitman Jr., a New York civil court judge. John had a brother (Charles S.

title: Albery Allson Whitman

text: who performed together from 1900 to the 1940s. Joan Sherman's entry in "African-American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century" refers to Whitman's poetry as "attempts at full-blown Romantic poetry", emulating the American and British authors from that tradition. Yet Dickson Bruce argues that "Whitman went beyond sentimental ideals in his understanding of literature, and even beyond the ideological directions outlined by Douglass and his colleagues." Albery Whitman's poems are not regularly reprinted in modern anthologies of Black poetry. Benjamin Brawley referred to Whitman as "probably the ablest of the race before Dunbar,"; and a recent scholar echoes this view, asserting that

title: Walt Whitman

text: camp founded in 1948 in Piermont, New Hampshire is named after Whitman. Sites Walt Whitman Walter "Walt" Whitman (; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection "Leaves of Grass", which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality. Born in Huntington on Long Island,

title: Walt Whitman

text: democracy", a title meant to reflect his ability to write in a singularly American character. A British friend of Walt Whitman, Mary Smith Whitall Costelloe, wrote: "You cannot really understand America without Walt Whitman, without "Leaves of Grass"... He has expressed that civilization, 'up to date,' as he would say, and no student of the philosophy of history can do without him." Modernist poet Ezra Pound called Whitman "America's poet... He "is" America." Andrew Carnegie called him "the great poet of America so far". Whitman considered himself a messiah-like figure in poetry. Others agreed: one of his admirers, William Sloane

title: Walt Whitman

text: Walt Whitman Walter "Walt" Whitman (; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection "Leaves of Grass", which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality. Born in Huntington on Long Island, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, a government clerk, and—in addition to

title: American poetry

text: Version of the Bible, and his democratic inclusiveness stand in stark contrast with Dickinson's concentrated phrases and short lines and stanzas, derived from Protestant hymnals. What links them is their common connection to Emerson (a passage from whom Whitman printed on the second edition of "Leaves of Grass"), and the daring originality of their visions. These two poets can be said to represent the birth of two major American poetic idioms—the free metric and direct emotional expression of Whitman, and the gnomic obscurity and irony of Dickinson—both of which would profoundly stamp the American poetry of the 20th century. The

title: Richard Ray Whitman

text: Whitman read T.C. Cannon's poetry in the video "Mazerunner: The Life and Art of T.C. Cannon" which was directed and edited by Phillip Albert. This work was subsequently screened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (3/19/1994) and was presented on the Bravo Cable Channel and the Independent Film Channel from May, 1995 through June, 1996. Richard Ray Whitman Richard Ray Whitman (born 1949) is a Yuchi-Muscogee Creek multidisciplinary visual artist, poet, and actor. He is enrolled in the Muscogee Creek Nation and lives in Oklahoma. Richard Ray Whitman was born in Claremore, Oklahoma on 14 May 1949. His maternal grandmother

title: Walt Whitman

text: the shop of Alden Spooner, editor of the leading Whig weekly newspaper the "Long-Island Star". While at the "Star", Whitman became a regular patron of the local library, joined a town debating society, began attending theater performances, and anonymously published some of his earliest poetry in the "New-York Mirror". At age 16 in May 1835, Whitman left the "Star" and Brooklyn. He moved to New York City to work as a compositor though, in later years, Whitman could not remember where. He attempted to find further work but had difficulty, in part due to a severe fire in the printing

title: George Whitman

text: founding ethos of his bookstore: "Give what you can; take what you need." From 1940 to 1944, Whitman served in the U.S. Army. For the first two years, he was stationed at a remote weather post in Greenland, where he was a medical warrant officer. From 1943 to 1944, Whitman served in a hospital in Taunton, Massachusetts. There he also managed to open his first bookstore, the Taunton Book Lounge, "modeled on the great Paris salons," as he wrote to a friend. In August 1946, Whitman boarded a ship for Paris. Once there, he enrolled at the Sorbonne. Whitman traded

title: British Poetry Revival

text: Burns, Elaine Feinstein, Lee Harwood, Dick Russell and Christopher Logue. Many of these poets joined Allen Ginsberg and an audience of 7,000 people at the Albert Hall International Poetry Incarnation on 11 June 1965 to create what was, effectively, the first British happening. These poets provided a wide range of modes and models of how modernism could be integrated into British poetry. Fisher, also a professional jazz pianist, applied the lessons of William Carlos Williams' "Paterson" to his native Birmingham in his long poem "City". Turnbull, who spent some time in the U. S., was also influenced by Williams. His

title: Whitman Plaza

text: Whitman Plaza Whitman Plaza is the largest shopping center in the Whitman neighborhood of South Philadelphia. The shopping plaza is located on Oregon Avenue at S 3rd Street, where it stands at over 280,000 square feet. It is located adjacent to Baby Saigon, the Vietnamese neighborhood market in which Oregon Market resides. Whitman Plaza is locally maintained by Breslin Realty and the Whitman Council neighborhood civic organization. Neighborhood groups have created the Whitman Plaza community group to organize neighborhood gatherings within the plaza and surrounding area. Current shopping plaza tenants include: ShopRite, Burlington Coat Factory, Ross Dress For Less, PetValu,

title: Walt Whitman

text: comfortable shoes, bathing daily in cold water, eating meat almost exclusively, plenty of fresh air, and getting up early each morning. Present-day writers have called "Manly Health and Training" "quirky", "so over the top", "a pseudoscientific tract", and "wacky". Whitman claimed that after years of competing for "the usual rewards", he determined to become a poet. He first experimented with a variety of popular literary genres which appealed to the cultural tastes of the period. As early as 1850, he began writing what would become "Leaves of Grass", a collection of poetry which he would continue editing and revising until

title: Albery Allson Whitman

text: Whitman was, "one of the most important African American poets between Phillis Wheatley and Paul Laurence Dunbar and probably the most prolific." In 1901, shortly before his death, Whitman published "An Idyl of the South: An Epic Poem in Two Parts". The opening four lines suggest high romantic poetry through a sentimental reflection on the South: "Hail land of the palmetto and the pine,/From Blue Ridge Mountain down to Mexic's sea/Sweet with magnolia and cape jassamine,/And thrilled with song, — thou art the land for me!" Ivy Wilson notes that Whitman employed "multitudinous metrical configurations" and that "he was consumed

title: Narcissa Whitman

text: remembered as the Whitman massacre, in which eleven others were killed, including young brothers John and Francis Sager, and many more taken hostage. According to author O. W. Nixon, who published a portrait of Whitman drawn after her death: Narcissa Whitman Narcissa Prentiss Whitman (March 14, 1808 – November 29, 1847) was an American missionary in the Oregon Country of what would become the state of Washington. On their way to found the Protestant Whitman Mission in 1836 with her husband, Marcus, near modern-day Walla Walla, Washington, she and Eliza Hart Spalding (wife of Henry Spalding) became the first documented

title: The Best American Poetry 2003

text: and Ted Kooser. The Best American Poetry 2003 The Best American Poetry 2003, a volume in "The Best American Poetry series", was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Yusef Komunyakaa. Ron Smith, reviewing the book in The Richmond Times-Dispatch, wrote that Galway Kinnell's "When the Towers Fell" is "often moving, even if it doesn't manage the fusion of Walt Whitman and T. S. Eliot it aims for." Another poem in the volume focusing on the effects of terrorism is Susan Dickman's "Skin". Smith thought the better poems in this edition were by Marilyn Nelson, Rodney Jones, Brigit Pegeen

title: The Best American Poetry 2003

text: The Best American Poetry 2003 The Best American Poetry 2003, a volume in "The Best American Poetry series", was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Yusef Komunyakaa. Ron Smith, reviewing the book in The Richmond Times-Dispatch, wrote that Galway Kinnell's "When the Towers Fell" is "often moving, even if it doesn't manage the fusion of Walt Whitman and T. S. Eliot it aims for." Another poem in the volume focusing on the effects of terrorism is Susan Dickman's "Skin". Smith thought the better poems in this edition were by Marilyn Nelson, Rodney Jones, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Tony Hoagland,

title: Keith Fullerton Whitman

text: array of boxes and generators to create an "automatic enhancement" of the original tune. Whitman currently runs Mimaroglu Music Sales which offers distribution of an extensive collection of avant-garde music. Keith Fullerton Whitman Keith Fullerton Whitman (born May 29, 1973) is an American electronic musician who has recorded albums influenced by many genres, including ambient music, drill and bass, and krautrock. He records and performs using many aliases, of which the best-known is Hrvatski (the Croatian word for "Croatian"). His works under the Hrvatski moniker mainly fell under the 'drill and bass' subgenre of IDM, and were his main musical

title: Meg Whitman

text: Governor Jerry Brown in the 2010 California gubernatorial election by 54% to 41%. Whitman was born in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, the daughter of Margaret Cushing (née Goodhue) and Hendricks Hallett Whitman, Jr. Her patrilineal great-great-great-grandfather, Elnathan Whitman, was a member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. Through her father, Whitman is also a great-great-granddaughter of U.S. Senator Charles B. Farwell, of Illinois. On her mother's side, she is a great-granddaughter of historian and jurist Munroe Smith and a great-great-granddaughter of General Henry S. Huidekoper. Her paternal grandmother, born Adelaide Chatfield-Taylor, was the daughter of writer Hobart Chatfield-Taylor

title: Walt Whitman

text: various newspapers; in 1842 he was editor of the "Aurora" and from 1846 to 1848 he was editor of the "Brooklyn Eagle". He also contributed freelance fiction and poetry throughout the 1840s. 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. Whitman was a delegate to the 1848 founding convention of the Free Soil Party, which was concerned about the threat slavery would pose to free white labor and northern

title: Meg Whitman

text: my thinking." Whitman also believes that gay and lesbian couples should be permitted to adopt children. Whitman supports abortion rights. Whitman has said that the legalization of marijuana is not what any law enforcement person would suggest for any reason and that "this is the worst idea [she has] ever seen." Whitman does not support the proposed and partially voter-funded California High-Speed Rail project. In a letter to the "Sacramento Bee" Whitman's spokeswoman Sarah Pompei said, "Meg believes the state cannot afford the costs associated with high-speed rail due to our current fiscal crisis." Her opponent Jerry Brown is in

title: Whitman, Massachusetts

text: The town's post office is located just east of the town hall. The Whitman Public Library is located a block south of Route 27, having moved into its first stand-alone branch in 1982 after seventy-five years in the town hall. Between the library and the fire department is a National Guard armory. The town also operates a playground and pool at the Whitman town park (which was designed by the Olmsted Brothers firm), just north of the town hall. Since the mid-1960s, Whitman has been paired with Hanson as a part of what was the Whitman-Hanson Regional High School School

title: Ruth Whitman

text: Ruth Whitman Ruth Whitman (1922–1999) was an American poet, translator, and professor. Her eighth and last book is "Hatshepshut, Speak to me" (Wayne State University Press, 1992), and her most well-known and well-regarded is "Tamsen Donner: A Woman’s Journey" (Alice James Books, 1977). She also translated poetry from Yiddish, and wrote the beloved poem "Sisters." Her honors and awards include a Senior Fulbright Writer-in-Residence Fellowship to Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a Bunting Institute Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. Her poems were published in literary journals and magazines including "AGNI" and "Ploughshares." She was an early

title: Alexander B. Whitman

text: to 1889, District Attorney of Outagamie County, Wisconsin from 1889 to 1891 and City Attorney of Appleton from 1894 to 1897. Whitman was a Republican. Alexander B. Whitman Alexander B. Whitman was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate. Whitman was born on April 1, 1854 in Turner, Maine. He moved with his parents to what is now Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1857 and later to Hortonville, Wisconsin, where he worked in a saw mill and as a lumberman. Later, he attended Lawrence University and worked as a schoolteacher in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin before practicing law in Appleton, Wisconsin. Whitman was

title: Brian Whitman

text: Beck wanted Whitman to be his first guest. On the air Whitman quipped, "So, I'm guessing The Pope wasn't available tonight?" Brian also served as the regular fill-in host on Beck's nationally syndicated radio program for years. Brian was the first former KLSX, Los Angeles personality to launch a podcast which he hosted solo in 2009. He has quipped that he is "The Podcast Pioneer" and suggests, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, that he contributed greatly to the avalanche of podcasts that followed his, so many of which were influenced by the dominant era of KLSX FM Talk. He went on to do

title: Walt Whitman

text: such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac in the 1950s and 1960s as well as anti-war poets like Adrienne Rich and Gary Snyder. Lawrence Ferlinghetti numbered himself among Whitman's "wild children", and the title of his 1961 collection "Starting from San Francisco" is a deliberate reference to Whitman's "Starting from Paumanok". Whitman also influenced Bram Stoker, author of "Dracula", and was the model for the character of Dracula. Stoker said in his notes that Dracula represented the quintessential male which, to Stoker, was Whitman, with whom he corresponded until Whitman's death. Other admirers included the Eagle Street College, an informal

title: Walt Whitman

text: later Whitman claimed he was embarrassed by the book and called it "damned rot". He dismissed it by saying he wrote the novel in three days solely for money while he was under the influence of alcohol himself. Even so, he wrote other pieces recommending temperance, including "The Madman" and a short story "Reuben's Last Wish". Later in life he was more liberal with alcohol, enjoying local wines and champagne. Whitman was deeply influenced by deism. He denied any one faith was more important than another, and embraced all religions equally. In "Song of Myself", he gave an inventory of

title: Christine Todd Whitman

text: in government, she worked for Nelson Rockefeller's presidential campaign. At a 1973 inaugural ball for Richard Nixon, Christine had her first date with John R. Whitman, an old friend she had met while a student at Chapin. The pair married the next year. Whitman was a private equity investor and a grandson of early 20th-century Governor of New York Charles S. Whitman, thus giving Christine a connection to a well connected New York political family. During the Nixon administration, Whitman worked for the Office of Economic Opportunity under Donald Rumsfeld. She conducted a national outreach tour for the Republican National

title: Ann C. Whitman

text: Ann C. Whitman Ann Cook Whitman (June 11, 1908 – October 15, 1991) was a native of Perry, Ohio. She briefly attended Antioch College in Ohio and then moved to New York in 1929 to obtain work as a secretary. For many years she was the personal secretary to Mrs. David Levy, whose father was one of the founders of Sears, Roebuck and Company. In 1941 she married Edmund S. Whitman, an official of the United Fruit Company. In 1952, while working as a secretary in the New York office of the Crusade for Freedom, Mrs. Whitman was recruited by

title: Brian Whitman

text: FM. 102.9 The Beach - which played "The Greatest Hits of the 70's" featured songs older than Brian! After a year, Whitman was hired by San Diego's legendary rock station, 101 KGB FM, to host the morning show. His on-air partner and producer was his former KKBH Program Director (and his future boss at KLSX in Los Angeles) Jack Silver. "The Brian and Jack Show" wrapped up in early 1997, when Whitman accepted a job offer from WABC in New York. From 1991 - 2005, Whitman served as the resident funny voice guy and comedic performer and writer on both

title: Meg Whitman

text: (ranked 12th) and IBM's Virginia Rometty (ranked 10th) -- whose stocks have all turned in the worst numbers relative to the broader market since the beginning of each CEO's tenure. HP's stock led the list by underperforming by 30 percentage points since Whitman took the job. On July 26, 2017, Whitman stepped down as Chairwoman of HP Inc.'s board of directors, while remaining as CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Whitman fought off further rumours around her position at HPE, where she was quoted by "The New York Times" "So let me make this as clear as I can. I

title: Whitman Plaza

text: clinics to get altered and vaccinated then returned to the colony. The vet doing the surgery will usually snip a small piece of skin from the cat’s ear to indicate that the cat has been altered so as to signify who has been altered in the colony and who has not (signaling who are the resident cats and who are the new “drop offs”). Whitman Plaza Whitman Plaza is the largest shopping center in the Whitman neighborhood of South Philadelphia. The shopping plaza is located on Oregon Avenue at S 3rd Street, where it stands at over 280,000 square feet.

title: Yuan poetry

text: moderated through the Yuan opera, greatly influenced the fixed-rhythm types of Yuan poetry. The three major religious influences in Yuan China also appear in Yuan poetry, in various ways. To what had become by this point, the traditional linkage between poetry, painting, and calligraphy, continued through the Yuan dynasty. An example of an artist in this respect is Gao Kegong (1248–1310), a poet, though more known for his ink-paintings of bamboos. Development of various fixed-tone verse forms are particularly associated with Yuan poetry. "Ci", "qu", and "sanqu" were all popular during the Yuan poetry period. They were a fixed-tone and

title: Sarah Helen Whitman

text: held at the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia. She died at the age of 75 in 1878 at the home of a friend at 97 Bowen St. in Providence, Rhode Island, and is buried in the North Burial Ground. In her will, she used the bulk of her estate to publish a volume of her own poetry and that of her sister. She also left money to the Providence Association for the Benefit of Colored Children and the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Sarah Helen Whitman Sarah Helen Power Whitman (January 19, 1803

title: Alexander B. Whitman

text: Alexander B. Whitman Alexander B. Whitman was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate. Whitman was born on April 1, 1854 in Turner, Maine. He moved with his parents to what is now Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1857 and later to Hortonville, Wisconsin, where he worked in a saw mill and as a lumberman. Later, he attended Lawrence University and worked as a schoolteacher in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin before practicing law in Appleton, Wisconsin. Whitman was a member of the Senate during the 1897 and 1899 sessions representing the 14th District. He was also Superintendent of Schools of Appleton from 1882

title: Walt Whitman (Davidson)

text: the statue was done in 1957, purchased by the Fairmount Park Art Association and placed at the intersection of Broad Street and Packer Avenue, near the approach to the Walt Whitman Bridge. Walt Whitman (Davidson) Walt Whitman is a statue by Jo Davidson of which there are several castings. Davidson began working on a depiction of Walt Whitman after entering a competition for one in 1925. Although that statue was never realized, Davidson continued to refine what he had started. When working on the statue Davidson first made a life-sized clay nude, then had a special armature created that allowed

title: Walt Whitman (Davidson)

text: Walt Whitman (Davidson) Walt Whitman is a statue by Jo Davidson of which there are several castings. Davidson began working on a depiction of Walt Whitman after entering a competition for one in 1925. Although that statue was never realized, Davidson continued to refine what he had started. When working on the statue Davidson first made a life-sized clay nude, then had a special armature created that allowed him to independently move the arms and legs, allowing him to get the exact movement that he was seeking. Davidson stated, "Nothing in my statue of Walt Whitman could be static and

title: Brian Whitman

text: Times would have fallen for what was an obvious comedy bit. During this time, Whitman toured America with his friend and political nemesis Sean Hannity performing live shows, entertaining huge crowds in cities like NY, LA, Dallas, San Diego, Phoenix, Las Vegas and many more! Media superstar Glenn Beck, a twenty-year friend of Whitman, writes about the Imus controversy sparked by Brian in his bestseller, "An Inconvenient Book." Brian formerly hosted "The Brian Whitman Show" on WABC in New York, New York from 1997-2007 (he joined WABC at age 24, becoming the youngest talk host in the history of the

title: Narcissa Whitman

text: Narcissa Whitman Narcissa Prentiss Whitman (March 14, 1808 – November 29, 1847) was an American missionary in the Oregon Country of what would become the state of Washington. On their way to found the Protestant Whitman Mission in 1836 with her husband, Marcus, near modern-day Walla Walla, Washington, she and Eliza Hart Spalding (wife of Henry Spalding) became the first documented European-American women to cross the Rocky Mountains. Narcissa Prentiss was born in Prattsburgh, New York, on March 14, 1808. She was the third of nine children of Judge Stephen and Clarissa Prentiss. She was the oldest of the five

title: Mae Whitman

text: Sara. She performed a small speaking part in the rapper DVS' record "Charlie Chaplin" where she plays the part of what DVS sees as the stereotypical hipster expressing distaste with music and television to appear special. Mae Whitman Mae Margaret Whitman (born June 9, 1988) is an American actress and singer. After making her film debut in "When a Man Loves a Woman" (1994), she had other supporting roles in films such as "One Fine Day" (1996), "Independence Day" (1996), and "Hope Floats" (1998). Thereafter, Whitman ventured into television, with her most notable roles including Ann Veal on the Fox

title: American poetry

text: within the full sweep of more traditional modern English-language verse, a peer of Hardy and Yeats. But from Whitman and Dickinson the outlines of a distinctively new organic poetic tradition, less indebted to English formalism than Frost's work, were clear to see, and they would come to full fruition in the 1910s and '20s. This new idiom, combined with a study of 19th-century French poetry, formed the basis of American input into 20th-century English-language poetic modernism. Ezra Pound (1885–1972) and T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) were the leading figures at the time, with their rejection of traditional poetic form and meter

title: American poetry

text: American poetry American poetry, the poetry of the United States, arose first as efforts by colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the thirteen colonies (although before this unification, a strong oral tradition often likened to poetry existed among Native American societies). Unsurprisingly, most of the early colonists' work relied on contemporary British models of poetic form, diction, and theme. However, in the 19th century, a distinctive American idiom began to emerge. By the later part of that century, when Walt Whitman was winning an enthusiastic audience abroad, poets

title: Poetry as Confession

text: following year in his book "The Modern Poets: A Critical Introduction". The review opens with a reference to Emily Dickinson and noting the new trend towards confession in poetry: Rosenthal proceeds to compare the current day approach with that of the poets of the Romantic period such as John Keats. The Romantics, he asserts, found "cosmic equations and symbols". Keats transcended his "personal complaint", and lost it in the "music of universal folornness". Rosenthal introduces the adjective "confessional" when hew moves on to Walt Whitman and his Calamus poems: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound are brought up, in the

title: Whitman College, Princeton University

text: for housing room draw is given to those upperclassmen who lived in either Whitman or Forbes as underclassmen. The current master of Whitman is Sandra Bermann; she is the Cotsen Professor of the Humanities and a Professor of Comparative Literature department. Before becoming Master of Whitman, Bermann served as Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature for twelve years, as Master of Stevenson Hall, co-founded the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication, and led the President’s Working Group on the Bridge Year Program. The master of Whitman was Harvey S. Rosen, the John L. Weinberg Professor of Economics and Business

title: Charles Otis Whitman

text: by noted biologist Edward Sylvester Morse, he was hired by the Japanese government to succeed Morse as professor at the Tokyo Imperial University from 1879-1881. Influenced by his training in Germany, he introduced systematic methods of biological research, including the use of the microscope. After leaving Japan, Whitman performed research at the Naples Zoological Station (1882), became an assistant at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (1883–5), then directed the Allis Lake Laboratory, in Milwaukee (1886–9), where he founded the "Journal of Morphology" (1887). In 1884, Whitman married Emily Nunn. He moved to Clark University (Worcester, Massachusetts) (1889–92), then

title: Keith Fullerton Whitman

text: Keith Fullerton Whitman Keith Fullerton Whitman (born May 29, 1973) is an American electronic musician who has recorded albums influenced by many genres, including ambient music, drill and bass, and krautrock. He records and performs using many aliases, of which the best-known is Hrvatski (the Croatian word for "Croatian"). His works under the Hrvatski moniker mainly fell under the 'drill and bass' subgenre of IDM, and were his main musical outlet in the mid-to-late 1990s. Other solo aliases include "ASCIII" and "Anonymous". Keith was in many bands in the 1990s, including "El-Ron", "The Liver Sadness", "Sheket/Trabant", "The Finger Lakes" and

title: Whitman-Walker Health

text: S Street, NW (formerly the Evelyn Towers Apartments). This facility would operate as the organization's headquarters for more than two decades. Whitman-Walker was able to purchase the building in 1988. At this time, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry and the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation were the Clinic's primary financial supporters. Simultaneously, individual contributions from the local LGBTQ community made up about half of the organization's income. Whitman-Walker brought the first AIDS Walk to D.C. in 1987. Whitman-Walker encountered resistance when it began to offer services through the Northern Virginia AIDS Project in 1987. Although the Clinic had started its

title: George Whitman Hendee

text: George Whitman Hendee George Whitman Hendee (November 30, 1832 – December 6, 1906) was a Vermont lawyer, banker, and politician who served as President of the Vermont State Senate, Lieutenant Governor, Governor, and a U.S. Representative. Born in Stowe, Vermont, Hendee attended the common schools of Morrisville, Vermont, and People's Academy. He studied law in the office of Whitman G. Ferrin of Johnson, was admitted to the bar in 1855, and commenced practice in Morrisville, Vermont. In 1855 he married Millissa Redding, who died in 1861. In 1863 he married Viola S. Bundy. He married his third wife, Mary Louise

title: Historical poetry

text: Historical poetry Historical poetry is a subgenre of poetry that has its roots in history. Its aim is to delineate events of the past by incorporating elements of artful composition and poetic diction. It seems that many of these events are limited to the phenomenon of war, merely because war in and of itself foments not only hostilities amongst men, but also severely transposes the character of a society in general. The poetry of Walt Whitman, for instance, reflects scenes of the American Civil War which occurred during his lifetime. In addition, figurative devices such as alliteration, assonance, metaphor, and

title: Christian poetry

text: writings of a Christian poet are not necessarily classified as Christian poetry. The themes of poetry are necessarily hard to pin down, and what some see as a Christian theme or viewpoint may not be seen by others. A number of modern writers are widely considered to have Christian themes in much of their poetry, including William Blake, G. K. Chesterton and T. S. Eliot. The following list is chronological by birth year. Christian poetry Christian poetry is any poetry that contains Christian teachings, themes, or references. The influence of Christianity on poetry has been great in any area that

title: Line (poetry)

text: in long epic poems. In Polish poetry two types of line were very popular, an 11-syllable one, based on Italian verse and 13-syllable one, based both on Latin verse and French alexandrine. Classical Sanskrit poetry, such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata, was most famously composed using the shloka. Pioneers of the freer use of line in Western culture include Whitman and Apollinaire. Line (poetry) A line is a unit of language into which a poem or play is divided, which operates on principles which are distinct from and not necessarily coincident with grammatical structures, such as the sentence or single

title: Murdoch Burnett

text: contemporary poetry – William Blake, Walt Whitman, and Charles Baudelaire – but also reflects his great respect for the early modernist pioneers Ezra Pound, Guillaume Apollinaire, William Carlos Williams, and Gertrude Stein. He has always maintained that the single volume of poetry that most influenced his work was The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot and he is a great admirer of the poetry of Dylan Thomas and the Beat Generation poets, many of whom he met and worked with in their later years. Burnett, performed his work at a number of popular venues in Calgary, including Ten Foot Henry's

title: Beltway Poetry Quarterly

text: Beltway Poetry Quarterly Beltway Poetry Quarterly is an English-language, online literary magazine based in Washington, DC. As its name suggests, it features poetry from the "Beltway" region of the Washington, DC area. The publication strives to "showcase the richness and diversity of Washington area authors in every issue." Special themes have included issues on Walt Whitman, "DC Places," and "The Evolving City". In 2004 the quarterly featured a "Wartime Issue" covering poetic responses to the Iraq War. The quarterly was founded in 2000 by Washington poet Kim Roberts who serves as editor. "Beltway Poetry Quarterly" publishes poems and essays on

title: Modernist poetry in English

text: experimented with stanza forms borrowed from troubadour poetry. Wallace Stevens' work falls somewhat outside this mainstream of modernism. Indeed, he deprecated the work of both Eliot and Pound as "mannered." His poetry is a complex exploration of the relationship between imagination and reality. Unlike many other modernists, but like the English Romantics, by whom he was influenced, Stevens thought that poetry was what all humans did; the poet was merely self-conscious about the activity. In Scotland, the poet Hugh MacDiarmid formed something of a one-man modernist movement. An admirer of Joyce and Pound, MacDiarmid wrote much of his early poetry

title: Brian Whitman

text: 2000, Whitman was the morning host for a nationally syndicated comedy radio network (that also provided an ahead-of-its-time internet audio and video stream) called Comedy World. At Los Angeles based Comedy World he kicked off a programming lineup that included comedians Craig Shoemaker and Bobby Slayton. Whitman's uncanny celebrity impressions have fooled mainstream media and others. In the 90's he made an unforgettable phone call to Former Vice President Dan Quayle as President Clinton and a duped Quayle talked to "Clinton" for five minutes. At the end of the conversation, Whitman broke character and let Quayle know that it was

title: Homoerotic poetry

text: Homoerotic poetry Homoerotic poetry is a genre of poetry implicitly dealing with same-sex romantic or sexual interaction. The male-male erotic tradition encompasses poems by major poets such as Abu Nuwas, Walt Whitman, Federico García Lorca, W. H. Auden, Fernando Pessoa and Allen Ginsberg. In the female-female tradition, authors may include those such as Sappho, "Michael Field", "Marie-Madeleine" and Maureen Duffy. Other poets wrote poems and letters with homoerotic overtones toward individuals, such as Emily Dickinson to her sister-in-law Susan Huntington Gilbert. The most prominent example in the English language and in the Western canon is that of the sonnets by

title: Slim Whitman

text: the country charts. During this time he toured Europe and Australia with moderate success. On January 20, 2008, on what was, coincidentally, Whitman's 85th birthday, a premature obituary believed to have been started by an erroneous report was published by the "Nashville Tennessean" newspaper and later picked up virally on the newspaper's website. Whitman released studio album "Angeline" in 1984, after which he continued to tour although many compilation of Whitman's recording appeared after this, it would be some 18 years before he would head back to the studio in 2002, and after 8 years in production, Whitman would release

title: George Whitman

text: raised in Salem, Massachusetts. When he was a boy, his family spent two years living in Nanjing, China, where Whitman's father, Walter, had a guest professorship. This early adventured abroad established Whitman's lifelong passion for travel and far-flung places. After graduating with a degree in journalism from Boston University in 1935, Whitman struck out on what he called his "hobo adventures," train-hopping, hitchhiking, and walking on foot through the U.S., Mexico, and Central America. It was the middle of the Great Depression, but wherever he went, Whitman said he was met with kindness and generosity. This experience would form the

title: Whitman massacre

text: here and that the horses were only eating up the growth of the soil; and demanded of me what I had ever paid him for the land." Aghast at the demands, Whitman told Tilokaikt that "I never would give him anything ... " During the start of 1842, Narcissa reported that the Cayuse leaders "said we must pay them for their land we lived on." A common complaint was that Whitman sold wheat to settlers, while giving none to the Cayuse landholders and demanding payment from them for using his grist mill. The Catholic Church dispatched two priests in 1838

title: Mae Whitman

text: to read for the part. Whitman has expressed her feelings on being typecast as an outsider in various roles in television and movies. She has talked about being a child actor and her relatable experiences such as being bullied in high school for being "weird." In an interview with Bello Mag, Whitman explains that the entertainment industry constantly tells actors what they are "not" and felt her choosing of these roles was her "trying to communicate to everyone" who may go through similar situations, that it's okay to be who they are. One of Whitman's more notable quotes is, "People

title: Robert Shaw Sturgis Whitman

text: also served as chaplain to Episcopal students at the College of William and Mary. The Massachusetts’ Berkshires served as the backdrop for Whitman’s substantive ministry. Whitman served as rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Lenox, Massachusetts for 31 years before retiring on July 27, 1981. He later returned to the ministry, however, as rector of St. Martin’s Church in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In 1998 Whitman completed "Beyond Words" (readbeyondwords.com), a book detailing his thought-provoking views on what he calls “ultimate reality.” "Beyond Words" is both a statement of belief and an urging for change. In the work Whitman uses anecdotes from

title: Robert Shaw Sturgis Whitman

text: Manhattan, Whitman went on to study at Harvard University. In what was, at the time, a humiliating turn, he was kicked out after his first semester for failing an advanced-level history course he was placed in. Disgraced, he returned to New York and took work as a messenger boy for a carpet company and a Wall Street bank. It was at a party in New York that Whitman met the then secretary of labor, Frances Perkins. The two became friends and Perkins wound up getting Whitman a job in D.C., at the Department of Labor. Though again, it was a

title: Lyric poetry

text: read or recited. What remained were the forms, the lyric meters of the Greeks adapted to Latin. Catullus was influenced by both archaic and Hellenistic Greek verse and belonged to a group of Roman poets called the "Neoteroi" ("New Poets") who spurned epic poetry following the lead of Callimachus. Instead, they composed brief, highly polished poems in various thematic and metrical genres. The Roman love elegies of Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid ("Amores", "Heroides"), with their personal phrasing and feeling, may be the thematic ancestor of much medieval, Renaissance, Romantic, and modern lyric poetry, but these works were composed in elegiac

title: Japanese poetry

text: was no longer available. Identity was no longer so clearly defined (The New Modernism, 2010) In 1990, a most loved and respected member of Japan’s avant-garde and a bridge between Modernist and Post-Modern practice unexpectedly died. Yoshioka Minoru, the very embodiment of what the postwar period meant to Japanese poetry, had influenced virtually all of the younger experimental poets, and received the admiration even of those outside the bounds of that genre (The New Modernism, 2010). The event shocked and dazed Japan’s poetry community, rendering the confusion and loss of direction all the more graphic and painful. Already the limits

title: Performance poetry

text: Adrian Henri and Brian Patten who fired up audiences across the UK in the 70s and then the likes of John Hegley emerged in the 80s, influenced as much by stand-up comedy as a love for wordplay, creating the template for what became recognised as contemporary British performance poetry - a format still exemplified by the work of acts such as Murray Lachlan Young, Francesca Beard and Gerard McKeown. Apples and Snakes, a collective promoting performance poetry in pubs and at festivals, was started by Mandy Williams, PR Murry and Jane Addison in London in 1982 inspired by the work

title: Understanding Poetry

text: us better understand and appreciate it and poetry in general. Understanding the cultural context of a work of literature is also vital. The book was reworked for each new edition: Understanding Poetry Understanding Poetry was an American college textbook and poetry anthology by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, first published in 1938. The book influenced New Criticism and went through its fourth edition in 1976. The textbook "widely influenced ... the study of poetry at the college level in America." The Intercollegiate Studies Institute has named the book one of the "Fifty best books of the century." "Understanding Poetry",

title: Understanding Poetry

text: Understanding Poetry Understanding Poetry was an American college textbook and poetry anthology by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, first published in 1938. The book influenced New Criticism and went through its fourth edition in 1976. The textbook "widely influenced ... the study of poetry at the college level in America." The Intercollegiate Studies Institute has named the book one of the "Fifty best books of the century." "Understanding Poetry", according to an article at the "Modern American Poetry" Web site, "codified many of the so-called New Critical ideas into a coherent approach to literary study. Their book, and its

title: Whitman, Massachusetts

text: Whitman, Massachusetts Whitman is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 14,489 at the 2010 census. It is notable as being the place where the chocolate chip cookie was invented. Whitman was first settled by Europeans in 1670 and was officially incorporated in 1875. Prior to becoming Whitman, it was formally the southern parish of the town of Abington. The new name, Whitman, was taken from Augustus Whitman, whose family who grew up in South Abington, and was adopted in 1886. Though before adopting the name Whitman, the small town was known as Little Comfort. Whitman

title: Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site

text: masterpiece of world literature. The museum's web site says: "By the end of his life, Whitman had become the first American poet to achieve international acclaim. Today his poetry is available in every major language and inspires people world wide who find in Whitman the voice and vision of a truly international humanist." Near the end of his life, he returned to the area and, as he reported, "rode around all the old familiar spots, viewing and pondering and dwelling long upon them, everything coming back to me from fifty years." Lilacs which grew on the property inspired Whitman's poem

text: poet was born here three years later in 1819. The Whitman family's other three children were born here as well. When Walt Jr. was five years old, the family moved to Brooklyn. Whitman worked at various times as a printer, a schoolteacher, a journalist, a volunteer nurse during the Civil War, and a newspaper publisher. He returned to Long Island at age 17 to teach at a local school and founded the "Long Islander" newspaper. He eventually authored a book of poetry, "Leaves of Grass", which sold poorly when first published but has over time come to be considered a

title: Beltway Poetry Quarterly

text: issue, and several issues have been compiled by guest editors. Every other year, Beltway Poetry publishes a special literary history issue, with tributes, interviews, and essays on influential poets who have lived or worked in Washington, DC. Poets in history issues range from contemporary authors to poets living in the city in its early years. They include: Ambrose Bierce, Sterling A. Brown, Ed Cox, Leon-Gontran Damas, Owen Dodson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Roland Flint, Angelina Weld Grimké, Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, May Miller, Gaston Neal, Ezra Pound, Reetika Vazirani, and Walt Whitman. Beltway Poetry Quarterly Beltway Poetry Quarterly is an

title: Marathi poetry

text: English poetry. In the late 19th century, Keshavasuta and Rev Tilak Narayan Waman Tilak (रेव्हरंड टिळक) produced poems influenced by English poets such as Wordsworth and Tennyson. They extended the horizon of Marathi poetry to encompass beauty in nature, love, romance, and mysticism as subjects. Modern Marathi poetry began with Mahatma Jyotiba Phule's compositions. Later poets like Keshavsuta, Balakavi, Govindagraj, and the poets of Ravi Kiran Mandal, like Madhav Julian, wrote poetry that was influenced by Romantic and Victorian English poetry, being largely sentimental and lyrical. Prahlad Keshav Atre, a renowned satirist and politician, wrote a parody of this sort

title: Keith Fullerton Whitman

text: in the early 80′s ). His moniker "ASCIII" has released music distributed with an academic journal. His studio and live setup usually consists of a PowerBook running Max/MSP or Logic Pro, and other analogue instruments, such as guitars, ouds and synthesizers. Whitman has released albums on labels such as Planet Mu, Kranky, Carpark Records as well on his own Entschuldigen and (now defunct) Reckankreuzungsklankewerkzeuge labels. In 2013, Whitman released "Greatest Hits" on SoundCloud: a 12-hour-long audio project developed from samples of pop songs from Whitman's youth. Sample are snipped out, slowed to half speed and then run through Whitman's signature

title: Sarah W. Whitman

text: Whitman traveled to Spain, Italy and England several times to study architecture and the paintings of the Old Master's. Despite the fact that she never completed the French course of training, within a decade she had established herself as a successful stained glass window designer, painter, and book cover designer. Whitman focused on painting early in her career. She worked in both oil and pastel, primarily painting rural landscapes and floral studies. She began to exhibit her work in the 1870's. She painted landscapes in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and southern Maine. "She often explored the mysterious effects created

title: Royal Emerson Whitman

text: to Colonel on 14 August 14, 1865. He was honorably mustered out of the volunteer service on August 20, 1865. He joined the 3rd U. S. Cavalry as Second Lieutenant on July 2, 1867, with a brevet rank of First Lieutenant, United States Army, for gallantry during his previous service in the Battle of Sabine Crossroads, April 8, 1864; regular promotion to the rank of First Lieutenant followed on August 12, 1869. Whitman retired from the army March 20, 1879. Whitman was a 37-year-old first lieutenant when he assumed command of Camp Grant at the confluence of the San Pedro

title: Chinese poetry

text: traditional poetry written in Classical Chinese language. Usually Modern Chinese poetry does not follow prescribed patterns. Poetry was revolutionized after 1919's May Fourth Movement, when writers (like Hu Shih) tried to use vernacular styles closer to what was being spoken (baihua) rather than previously prescribed forms. Early 20th-century poets like Xu Zhimo, Guo Moruo and Wen Yiduo sought to break Chinese poetry from past conventions by adopting Western models. For example, Xu consciously follows the style of the Romantic poets with end-rhymes. In the post-revolutionary Communist era, poets like Ai Qing used more liberal running lines and direct diction, which

title: Walt Whitman

text: Whitman High School (Huntington Station, New York), the Walt Whitman Shops (formerly called "Walt Whitman Mall") in Huntington Station, Long Island, New York, near his birthplace, and Walt Whitman Road located in Huntington Station and Melville, New York. Whitman was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2009, and, in 2013, he was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display that celebrates LGBT history and people. 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. A coed summer

title: Skipp Whitman

text: Skipp Whitman Skipp Whitman is a hip-hop artist from Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. He has released five self-produced albums, the first “Free Agent” in 2007, “Skipp City” in 2011, "5am" in September 2012, "Whitman Cant Jump" in 2014, and most recently "Piece" in February 2017 along with multiple Mixtapes which include 'Whitman Fiasco,' and 'Clean.' Whitman has opened for Kanye West when West was on tour promoting college dropouts. He has also opened for KRS, Talib Kweli, Kool G Rap, Nas and Guru. Whitman produces most of his own work but has collaborated with Grafh and Skyzoo. Whitman describes his music

title: Ruth Whitman

text: cooperative member of Alice James Books, and was the poetry editor for "Radcliffe Quarterly" from 1980 - 1995. Ruth (Bashein) Whitman, the oldest daughter of Meyer David and Martha H. (Sherman) Bashein, was born on May 28, 1922, in New York City. She received a B.A. and an M.A. from Radcliffe College, and also taught at Radcliffe, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology during her career. At the time of her death, she lived in Middletown, Rhode Island, and was married to Morton Sacks (her third husband), a painter, and had three children, Rachel, Lee, and David. Her first marriage was

title: Walt Whitman

text: publishing his poetry—was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. Early in his career, he also produced a temperance novel, "Franklin Evans" (1842). Whitman's major work, "Leaves of Grass", was first published in 1855 with his own money. The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person with an American epic. He continued expanding and revising it until his death in 1892. After a stroke towards the end of his life, he moved to Camden, New Jersey, where his health further declined. When he died at age 72, his funeral became a public spectacle. Walter Whitman

title: Stalin's poetry

text: and Shakespeare in translation, and could recite Walt Whitman. He also started writing Romantic poetry in Georgian. In 1895, at the age of 17, Jughashvili's work impressed the noted poet Ilia Chavchavadze, who published five of them in his journal, "Iveria", attributed to the pseudonym "Soselo". One of these poems, "Morning", begins: Once Jughashvili entered revolutionary politics, and became Stalin he stopped writing poetry – it took too much time, he told a friend – but in 1907 he still used his prestige as "Soselo" to obtain information from an admirer needed for a bank robbery. During the Great Purge,

title: Modern Hebrew poetry

text: Modern Hebrew poetry Modern Hebrew poetry is poetry written in the Hebrew language. It was pioneered by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, and it was developed by the Haskalah movements, that saw poetry as the most quality genre for Hebrew writing. The first Haskalah poet, who heavily influenced the later poets, was Naphtali Hirz Wessely, at the end of the 18th Century, and after him came Shalom HaCohen, Max Letteris, Abraham Dob Bär Lebensohn, his son Micah Joseph, Judah Leib Gordon and others. Haskalah poetry was greatly influenced by the contemporary European poetry, as well as the poetry of the previous

title: Whitman-Walker Health

text: HIV/AIDS education, prevention and treatment. Whitman-Walker also began considering plans to improve and upgrade the Clinic’s facilities. In June 2008, the Clinic sold its long-time headquarters at 1407 S Street, NW, to The JBG Companies for $8 million and moved its administrative staff into Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center at 14th Street, NW. Whitman-Walker used the proceeds to pay off $5 million in debts stemming from mortgages on its existing buildings. The 2008 AIDS Walk was the Clinic's most successful in several years, raising $700,000. By year's end, the Clinic had served about 10,000 patients, of whom 3,400 were HIV-positive. Nonetheless,

title: Martin J. Whitman

text: He held a M.A. in economics from the New School of Social Research. He worked for various investment firms in New York City before setting up his own company in 1974, M.J. Whitman & Co. His first big successful investment was his purchase of $100,000 in mortgage bonds issued by the bankrupt Penn Central Railroad. He later sold the bonds for five times his original investment. Whitman used the quarterly shareholder letters of his fund as a running critique of what he called the "primacy of the income account" ("primacy of the income account" means that corporate wealth is created

title: The Jack-Rabbit

text: sewing and embroidering from Jules Laforgue, a French Symbolist poet who was influenced by Walt Whitman and in turn influenced Stevens (as well as T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound). Buttel notes that the buzzard appears frequently in native folk and humorous literature, and that Stevens uses it several times in his poems, "along with bantams, grackles, and turkey-cocks". The Jack-Rabbit "The Jack-Rabbit" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, "Harmonium" (1923). It was first published in that collection, so it is still under copyright, but it is quoted here as justified by fair use in order

title: Poetry of Scotland

text: collection of "Elegies" (1985), which deal with the death of his first wife from cancer. Tom Leonard (b. 1944), works in the Glaswegian dialect, pioneering the working class voice in Scottish poetry, although what has been described as his finest work "A priest came on at Merkland Street" is in English. Like his friend Leonard, Aonghas MacNeacail (Angus Nicolson, b. 1942), amongst the most prominent post-war Gaelic poets, was influenced by new American poetry, particularly the Black Mountain School. Liz Lochhead (b. 1947) also explored the lives of working-class people of Glasgow, but added an appreciation of female voices within

title: Brian Whitman

text: legendary 77 WABC) Whitman also did a show broadcast on KABC in Los Angeles from 1998-2005. Whitman formerly co-hosted The "Conway and Whitman" Show on KLSX in Los Angeles, California with Tim Conway Jr. from 2005-2008. Whitman also hosted a weekday morning webcast on Rick Dees Entertainment's allnumber1hits.com in 2009. Brian Whitman was a featured contributor to Glenn Beck's radio and television programs. When he appeared as Glenn Beck's very first guest on Glenn's first TV show on cable news, Brian said he was proud and honored to be asked. Beck and Whitman had been friends for fifteen years and

title: Malcolm Whitman

text: Tennis (1903)" multiple Wimbledon champions Reginald and Lawrence Doherty described Whitman's playing style: Whitman married his first wife, Janet McCook in 1907. She died in December 1909 after the birth of their second child. In July 1912 Whitman married Jennie Adeline Crocker but they divorced in 1924. In 1926, Whitman married Lucilla Mara de Vescovi, known as the Countess Mara. In December 1931 his daughter Mary, 16, from his second marriage, died of pneumonia. On December 28, 1932 Whitman committed suicide by jumping off an apartment building in New York after a nervous breakdown. Malcolm Whitman Malcolm "Mal" Douglass Whitman

title: Meg Whitman

text: an honorary doctorate degree. Meg Whitman Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman (born August 4, 1956) is an American business executive, political activist, and philanthropist. Whitman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Whitman was a senior member of Mitt Romney's presidential campaigns in both 2008 and 2012 and ran for governor of California as a Republican but supported Hillary Clinton in 2016. A native of Cold Spring Harbor, a hamlet of Huntington, New York, Whitman is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School. Whitman served as an executive in The Walt Disney Company, where she

title: Meg Whitman

text: Meg Whitman Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman (born August 4, 1956) is an American business executive, political activist, and philanthropist. Whitman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Whitman was a senior member of Mitt Romney's presidential campaigns in both 2008 and 2012 and ran for governor of California as a Republican but supported Hillary Clinton in 2016. A native of Cold Spring Harbor, a hamlet of Huntington, New York, Whitman is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School. Whitman served as an executive in The Walt Disney Company, where she was Vice President of

title: Marcus Whitman

text: Fairbanks to the National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol. An identical one stands at the edge of the campus of Whitman College. The Washington State Legislature has declared the fourth day of September as Marcus Whitman Day. A bronze tablet in Wheeler, New York commemorates his 1828-1835 practice as a medical doctor in that town. In 1977, he was inducted into the Steuben County (NY) Hall of Fame. Marcus Whitman Marcus Whitman (September 4, 1802 – November 29, 1847) was an American physician. In 1836, Marcus Whitman led an overland party by wagon to the West. Whitman

title: Marcus Whitman

text: the Catholic priests, including Father Brouillet, had incited the Cayuse to massacre. Spalding's version of the disaster was printed and reprinted, sometimes at taxpayer expense, for the next half-century. It was finally discredited in 1901 by Yale University historian Edward Gaylord Bourne." Whitman is commemorated by Whitman College in Walla Walla, Walla Walla County, Washington, the Wallowa–Whitman National Forest, Mount Rainier's Whitman Glacier, and numerous schools, including Marcus Whitman Middle School in Seattle, WA and Marcus Whitman Central School in Rushville, New York, his hometown. In 1953, the state of Washington donated a statue of him by the sculptor Avard

title: Marcus Whitman

text: Marcus Whitman Marcus Whitman (September 4, 1802 – November 29, 1847) was an American physician. In 1836, Marcus Whitman led an overland party by wagon to the West. Whitman and his wife Narcissa, along with Reverend Henry Spalding and his wife Eliza and William Gray, founded a mission at present day Walla Walla, Washington in an effort to convert local Indians to Christianity. In the winter of 1842 Whitman returned east, returning the following summer with the first large wagon train across the Oregon Trail. The new settlers encroached on the Cayuse Indians living near the Whitman Mission and were

title: Whitman College

text: during the Whitman Massacre. While at the site, Eells became determined to establish a "monument" to his former missionary colleagues in the form of a school for pioneer boys and girls. Eells obtained a charter for Whitman Seminary, a pre-collegiate school, from the territorial legislature. From the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, he acquired the Whitman mission site. Eells soon moved to the site with his family and began working to establish Whitman Seminary. Despite Eells's desire to locate Whitman Seminary at the Whitman mission site, local pressure and resources provided a way for the school to open

title: Stuart Whitman

text: Stuart Whitman Stuart Maxwell Whitman (born February 1, 1928) is an American actor. He is known for playing Marshal Jim Crown on the Western television series "Cimarron Strip" (1967). Whitman also starred with John Wayne in the Western film entitled "The Comancheros" (1961), and received top billing as the romantic lead in the film "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines" (1965). Stuart Maxwell Whitman was born on February 1, 1928, in San Francisco, California, the eldest of two sons of Cecilia (née Gold) and Joseph Whitman. His family was Jewish. In the 1950s, Whitman described himself to Hedda Hopper