walt whitman

5 min read 2022-06-08 20:07:12

Books On Books Collection – Barbara Henry

Walt Whitman’s “Faces” (2012) Walt Whitman’s “Faces”: A Typographic Reading (2012)Barbara HenryCase bound in boards in quarter-leather.

3 min read 2022-06-03 05:05:32

Over the last several years, I’ve enjoyed a deeper exploration into the work and life of Wharton Esherick. There is much to admire and

2 min read 2022-05-29 18:00:05

American poet Walt Whitman was born in Long Island, New York on May 31, 1819. In 2019, there were numerous 200th birthday celebrations for Whitman.

4 min read 2022-05-20 16:45:54

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. William Blake!” “William Blake?” “William Blake!” “What do you mean William

6 min read 2022-05-04 22:00:06

The following resource guide was created by Jay Baker, a 2021 Archives, History and Heritage Advanced Internships fellow with the Manuscript

1 min read 2022-02-15 06:36:52

Published February 14, 2022Every so often, a story published on the front page of the New York Times is so well written, meaningful, and appropriate

7 min read 2022-01-16 03:27:40

“Be curious, not judgmental.” – attributed (incorrectly) to Walt Whitman This is the press of a bashful hand, this the float and odor of

1 min read 2021-11-21 14:03:34

The final installment of the Weekly Whitman is an index of all the poems, newspaper articles, movie-and-TV bits, and everything else I could think of

1 min read 2021-11-09 03:00:43

One warm, quarantine summer night this past year, I rewatched Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) with my sister. We were both startled by the

1 min read 2021-09-27 02:05:59

“Isn’t the flesh a way to drink of the fountain of otherhood, a way to taste the not-I, a way to blur the edges and thus feel the fact of

1 min read 2021-08-28 09:24:00

The similitudes of the past and those of the future,the glories strung like beads on my smallest sights and hearings,the certainty of others,the

1 min read 2021-08-27 17:00:59

What Men Die for Lack Of Lately I’ve found myself consuming less and less news, which is a radical departure for me. When I was a child, public

1 min read 2021-06-03 21:00:56

The following guest post was written by Barbara Bair, curator of literature, culture, and the arts in the Library’s Manuscript Division. The

1 min read 2021-05-26 21:00:21

The following guest post was written by Barbara Bair, curator of literature, culture, and the arts in the Library’s Manuscript Division. Launched

8 min read 2021-04-25 17:00:06

(Lilacs in Colonial Williamsburg) As I wandered through the gardens of Colonial Williamsburg last weekend, a blooming lilac bush caught my eye and