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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 12 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 67813 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 83 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 Mr. 8 New 7 God 6 Mrs. 5 life 5 John 4 York 4 Mary 4 England 3 time 3 love 3 like 3 heart 3 good 3 day 3 Whitman 3 Miss 3 Lord 3 George 3 Dr. 3 Boston 2 year 2 poet 2 poem 2 man 2 little 2 illustration 2 book 2 american 2 William 2 Washington 2 Walt 2 Thomas 2 Stone 2 St. 2 South 2 Sir 2 Philadelphia 2 News 2 Massachusetts 2 Louis 2 King 2 Heaven 2 Gray 2 Field 2 Eugene 2 Court 2 Chicago 2 Camden 2 Brooklyn Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 1585 man 1543 day 1516 time 1441 life 1306 year 929 friend 773 heart 720 poem 716 mother 684 book 677 letter 662 work 627 love 623 poet 607 way 591 thing 558 field 555 death 546 house 544 night 539 home 533 soul 530 word 528 hand 516 place 500 eye 496 child 491 world 434 one 418 woman 378 spirit 376 name 375 thought 368 part 358 story 353 mind 351 room 351 hour 347 paper 332 people 332 nature 330 6 322 face 318 line 315 family 314 land 311 power 308 father 306 song 306 light Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 6911 _ 1268 Mr. 1043 Whitman 913 Field 874 W. 685 New 609 Mrs. 582 8vo 569 God 529 Crown 460 Whittier 427 Edition 380 6d 375 England 365 John 303 Eugene 298 Walt 298 . 291 J. 289 York 288 Mary 283 thou 280 America 271 George 264 G. 241 Lord 240 M.A. 234 o''er 234 L. 232 Washington 228 Dr. 222 Chicago 216 Davis 213 H. 207 Boston 201 St. 199 E. 189 South 189 C. 180 Bradstreet 177 Miss 175 Jeff 173 Second 173 A. 167 ii 162 See 156 Heaven 152 M. 150 William 148 Library Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 7974 he 6654 i 5673 it 2459 him 2226 they 2086 you 2024 we 1784 she 1520 me 1507 them 757 her 656 us 601 himself 200 thee 200 itself 160 one 147 themselves 147 myself 85 herself 57 mine 43 yours 34 yourself 29 ourselves 22 his 19 theirs 15 ours 15 hers 11 oneself 11 ''s 7 thyself 7 ''em 6 ye 6 pelf 5 thy 4 yt 3 o 2 they''l 1 yourselves 1 you''ld 1 yes!--that 1 y 1 whereof 1 weeping.--then 1 us:-- 1 mayhap 1 james)= 1 is''t 1 howls 1 hisself 1 harbor-- Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 23596 be 8390 have 2070 do 1614 see 1537 make 1507 come 1299 go 1236 write 1229 say 1109 know 1056 give 976 take 889 find 736 seem 640 think 598 tell 589 become 586 get 536 hear 532 leave 520 feel 506 live 473 call 472 bear 460 follow 448 bring 442 hold 441 love 434 look 418 send 414 pass 369 die 364 stand 363 let 352 speak 352 meet 349 read 349 keep 327 appear 318 grow 292 fall 287 publish 287 lie 282 remain 261 show 252 turn 252 begin 244 use 244 lose 240 put Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 3829 not 1781 so 1580 more 1085 good 1054 old 1039 now 1024 well 1015 little 989 then 900 great 893 up 880 very 880 here 876 first 875 only 849 many 828 long 789 most 785 much 782 own 770 never 744 other 732 as 709 last 698 still 681 out 630 such 611 ever 605 there 582 too 555 young 532 new 511 even 508 down 497 also 493 again 469 early 466 far 451 always 438 same 417 full 415 few 399 yet 379 away 378 dear 376 just 371 sweet 366 high 357 soon 356 once Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 300 good 176 most 175 least 68 great 57 high 44 bad 34 early 33 fine 25 deep 22 dear 22 bright 21 old 21 noble 19 sweet 18 large 17 young 17 slight 17 late 17 fair 17 bl 15 full 13 strong 12 lovely 12 eld 12 Most 11 pure 11 near 10 rich 9 j 8 keen 8 happy 7 warm 7 true 7 long 7 light 7 gentle 7 close 6 stern 5 wise 5 small 5 simple 5 lofty 5 l 5 hot 5 hard 5 grand 5 fond 5 faint 4 sharp 4 rare Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 613 most 58 well 20 least 2 long 2 hard 1 worst 1 widest 1 unblest 1 soon 1 richest 1 near 1 lit''rally 1 lest 1 infest 1 happiest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 www.gutenberg.org 2 archive.org Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/56536/56536-h/56536-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/56536/56536-h.zip 1 http://archive.org/details/lifeofwaltwhitma00binnuoft 1 http://archive.org Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 whitman was not 7 _ see also 7 field was not 7 whitman did not 6 field did not 6 poem was first 6 time went on 5 love is over 4 field had not 3 field was never 3 god is just 3 house was not 3 life was full 2 _ does not 2 _ know _ 2 book is not 2 book was out 2 day is near 2 days take on 2 death are nigh 2 death are no 2 field gave imitations 2 god is great 2 heart be still 2 heart is as 2 heart is heavy 2 house is full 2 letter came yesterday 2 letters are always 2 life are o''er 2 life became more 2 life was always 2 life was so 2 love is such 2 man had ever 2 man is as 2 men had much 2 men were not 2 mother was dead 2 poem is _ 2 poems are full 2 time has not 2 time is well 2 time was not 2 whitman had never 2 whitman had not 2 whitman was present 2 whitman was so 2 works are not 2 years gone by Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 death are no more 2 field had not then 2 time has not yet 2 whitman was not blind 1 _ have no place 1 book is not identical 1 book is not only 1 book was not so 1 days was no longer 1 death finds no entrance 1 field are not as 1 field had no difficulty 1 field had no end 1 field had not quite 1 field had not yet 1 field took no more 1 field was no exception 1 field was no ignoramus 1 field was not already 1 field was not first 1 field was not particularly 1 field was not through 1 god is no more 1 heart lives no disdain 1 house was not confinement 1 house was not properly 1 house were not light 1 letter is not void 1 letters make no pretensions 1 life was no longer 1 man had no place 1 men were not badly 1 poet found no entrance 1 poet is no greater 1 poet is not very 1 poet seeing no obstacle 1 things were not right 1 time was not devoted 1 time was not far 1 whitman did not wholly 1 whitman was no dreamer 1 whitman was not actually 1 whitman was not disinclined 1 whitman was not only 1 whitman was not vain 1 whitman was not very 1 work had no place 1 work had not body 1 work was not only 1 years bring no joy A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 56536 author = Binns, Henry Bryan title = A Life of Walt Whitman date = keywords = 8vo; America; Boston; Brooklyn; Bucke; Camden; Colonial; Comp; Crown; D.D.; Demy; Edition; Emerson; George; God; Grass; Illustrated; Illustrations; Island; John; Kennedy; Leaves; Library; Lincoln; M.A.; MSS; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Plates; President; Second; Series; South; Walt; Washington; West; Whitman; York; author; book; life; little summary = years ago, the time has not yet come for a final and complete life The first four years of his life, little Walt spent at West Hills. In a word, New York life was still natural and democratic; palaces Whitman had joined the "Barnburners" or Van Buren men of New York [Illustration: NEW ORLEANS ABOUT THE TIME OF WHITMAN''S VISIT, FROM A Thoreau carried off with him a copy of the new edition of Whitman''s Finally, in the new poems, Whitman makes more plain his attitude Early in the summer of that great struggle, Whitman returned to New purity of Whitman''s conception of love; and his book was to her like love and his self-revealing poems, Walt Whitman lived his life apart old and new, Whitman paid his second visit to Boston. Whitman met many friends, new and old, upon this visit, but of the from the life-work of Whitman. id = 6854 author = Campbell, Helen title = Anne Bradstreet and Her Time date = keywords = Andover; Anne; Bartas; Boston; Bradstreet; CHAPTER; Cambridge; Colony; Cotton; Court; Dudley; Earth; England; God; Governor; Hutchinson; Ipswich; John; King; Lord; Massachusetts; Mr.; New; Puritan; Simon; Sir; Sun; Thomas; Winthrop; child; come; day; english; good; great; let; life; man; shall; time; year summary = of chroniclers: "By the time I was four years old I read English their way to New England and helped to make sad thought still more heart be "sett upon God." But Simon Bradstreet waited, like England, there is little doubt that Anne Bradstreet''s mind, of long and silent musing on the new life awaiting them, holds the stores held little reminder of holiday time in Old England, reminiscence of old days, dear to the heart of Anne Bradstreet, in the fact that old times were by no means better than the new. passed over from Old England to the New, and as such faith means of daily life, the pattern taking on new aspects as the days went thought there can be no better water in the world." New Englanders was able after a year or two of New England life to write: England that Anne Bradstreet did to the New. id = 36661 author = Cawein, Madison Julius title = Kentucky Poems date = keywords = Cawein; God; III; Mr.; blue; day; dream; heart; like; night; star; white; wild; wind; wood summary = Roses_, _Poems of Nature and Love_, _Intimations of the Beautiful_, The wild-rose smelt like some rare wine-Comes blue-eyed Summer like a girl along. Thy dark roof dance, Faun-like, to the humming Making each tree like some sad spirit sigh; The wild-rose and sits singing all day long. Like Indian faces, fierce with forest paint. Like the moon she leans--O heart, With flowers, like moons or sylphide wings, The music stream like light through delicate hands Life woke and rose in gold and green and blue, Or on her lips lay like last kisses sweet A love that swept its moon, like some great moth, Like some great snow-white moth among the trees; With love''s lost face fair as a moon-white rose. like love, she comes again Like an old sweet face that has dried its tears;-Like the white, full heart of night, Like some gold cloud o''er dawn of day. id = 42281 author = Keller, Elizabeth Leavitt title = Walt Whitman in Mickle Street date = keywords = Camden; Davis; Donaldson; Dr.; Fritzinger; Mary; Mickle; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Philadelphia; Street; Thomas; Walt; Warren; Whitman; time summary = out from view the later home life of Walt Whitman." Walt Whitman and Mrs. Davis were not personally acquainted. Seeing how matters stood, Mrs. Davis, at that time a "strong, Walt Whitman''s indispensable "housekeeper, nurse and friend"--or, from said: "Walt Whitman''s friends rarely visited him without having a good conditions upon a woman like Mrs. Davis, living in the house itself and have always lived in Camden--when a short time ago poor old Mr. Whitman, Mrs. Davis always dreaded Mr. Whitman''s New York visits, and this and at Mr. Whitman''s request Mrs. Davis did most of this; but there When Mr. Whitman was supposed to be dying, Mrs. Davis had in a way Mrs. Davis''s friends, many of Mr. Whitman''s, and a Davis, who nursed Walt Whitman, the "Good Gray Poet," After the death of Whitman Mrs. Davis resided for a short time at No. id = 37191 author = Kennedy, William Sloane title = John Greenleaf Whittier: His Life, Genius, and Writings date = keywords = Amesbury; Boston; Dr.; England; Friends; Garrison; George; God; Greenleaf; Haverhill; Holmes; John; King; Massachusetts; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Quaker; Quakerism; Snow; Society; Whittier; William; life; man; old; poem; poet summary = John Whittier, the father of the poet, is described by citizens of unusually high order is shown by the poems of hers appended to Mr. Whittier''s "Hazel Blossoms," published after her death. Mr. Whittier says that the last time he saw Robert, "Threescore years Whittier was twenty-four years old when he published his first volume. In 1849 Mr. Whittier collected and published his anti-slavery poems, meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia, Mr. Whittier said: "I am not insensible to literary reputation; I love, of Whittier''s poems on slavery,--a wild melody in them like that of "I am sometimes asked, ''Is the poet Whittier really a Quaker or only were life-long friends of Whittier, and their voices in the song they Mr. Whittier is not only a poet, but is himself a poem." this is Mr. Whittier, the Quaker poet, that you have heard about; shake id = 7274 author = Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) title = Poets of the South A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies with Typical Poems, Annotated date = keywords = Banner; Charleston; Civil; England; Father; Florence; God; Hayne; Lanier; Lee; New; Poe; Ryan; South; Timrod; Virginia; War; american; footnote; heart; like; love; nature; poem; poet; southern summary = The three leading poets of the Civil War period--Hayne, Timrod, and Ryan Apart from the five major poets of the South--Poe, Hayne, Timrod, Lanier, The great civil conflict of ''61-''65 naturally stirred the poet''s heart. of musical utterance; and the following verses from his poem, _To Time Soul homely, as thou art, yet rich in grace like thee, Soul filled like thy long veins with sweetness tense. In after years this poem was inspired, as the poet tells us, by [Footnote 5: This little poem--very beautiful in itself--illustrates [Footnote 16: This poem first appeared in the _Southern Literary Messenger_ [Footnote 16: This poem first appeared in the _Southern Literary Messenger_ (For oh, what heart hath loved thee like to this [Footnote 10: This poem first appeared in the _Banner of the South_, [Footnote 16: This poem is taken from the _Banner of the South_, where id = 34752 author = Smith, Rebekah title = Poems: With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith date = keywords = Annie; Christ; God; Heaven; Jesus; Lord; Saviour; Smith; dear; home; love; sin summary = Love not the world, trust not its joys; uncertain is their stay; They who are rich in works of love, may hope for rest in Heaven. My dear loved home of childhood''s years, last line, "All trials cease in Heaven, at home with God."] No tears "in Heaven, at home with God." In Heaven at home with God," is peace. There rest till our Saviour shall bid thee arise; God''s love the heart will fill, God loves to redeem and to save us from sin; Not unto us, but Lord to thee, the glory shall be given; My heart with my hands, lift to God in the Heavens, And lived forever with the loved in Heaven. A world God loved so well, It knows no good but that in God, it bears life''s every ill, Cast your all on Heaven''s protection: God to life can raise the dead! id = 12984 author = Thompson, Slason title = Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 date = keywords = Almira; Billy; Chicago; Court; Crane; Denver; England; Eugene; Field; French; Gray; Jeremiah; Louis; Madame; Mary; Miss; Missouri; Modjeska; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Newfane; News; Roswell; Russell; St.; Stone; Tribune; Tufts; Vermont; York; american; good; illustration; life summary = In the study I have made of the life of Eugene Field in the following "Them Field boys" were not Eugene and his brother Roswell Martin How the early loss of his mother affected the life of Eugene Field it There is in the possession of the family the "Notes of a Sermon by E.P. Field," said to have been written by Eugene at the age of nine, when he gleaned the general facts of Eugene Field''s school-days at Monson. The glad wild days of which Mr. Buskett testifies were passed in St. Louis after Field''s return from a brief experience as city editor of Field one day happened to fancy that his two eyes looked like daisies No story of Eugene Field''s life would be true, no study of his So far in his newspaper work Field had little time and The Chicago to which Eugene Field came in 1883 was a city of something id = 12985 author = Thompson, Slason title = Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 date = keywords = Blaine; Chicago; Christmas; Cowen; Daily; Dr.; Eugene; Field; Garland; General; Gray; John; Knight; London; Louis; Mary; Matilda; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; News; Rev.; September; Sinners; Sir; Slosson; St.; Stone; Thompson; Wilson; York; book; good; illustration; little summary = "Sabine Edition" of Eugene Field''s "Little Book of Western Verse," he newspapers and the letters of introduction which he gave to Mr. Peattie resulted, as Field contemplated, in his having a lively time. Writing to a friend in Boston, in 1893, Field said that he thought "the which Field wrote to his friend Cowen the week they were published: "I To tell the story of the publication of Field''s two "Little Books," Field handed his original copy of "Little Boy Blue" to me in the Daily Wilmot linen letter-paper and colored inks, Field proceeded to write how Field was spending his time in London, is the following letter to "The new volume" referred to in Field''s letter to Mr. Gray was that Enclosed find my check for $20 (Twenty Dollars) for No. 1 copy Mr. Eugene Field''s proposed book of "Horace"--printed on Japanese proof By the time this letter was written, Field''s Christmas stories id = 35725 author = Whitman, Walt title = The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion date = keywords = Andrew; Brooklyn; DEAREST; George; Han; Jeff; MOTHER; Mat; Mr.; New; Sunday; WALT; Washington; Whitman; York summary = I suppose Jeff got quite a long letter I wrote, from camp, about a week get one meal a day, and know that mother and all are in good health, and Mother, my last letter home was a week ago to-day--we are having a dark _Washington, April 28, 1863._ DEAREST MOTHER--A letter from Jeff came this Dear mother, I have not heard from George himself; but I got a letter from write soon to Jeff a good long letter--I have wanted to for some time, but _Washington, Tuesday morning, June 9, 1863._ DEAREST MOTHER--Jeff''s letter affecting thing you ever see, the lots of poor sick and wounded young men _Washington, Monday morning, June 22, 1863._ DEAR MOTHER--Jeff''s letter _Washington, Aug. 11, 1863._ DEAR MOTHER--I sent Jeff a letter on O mother, who do you think I got a letter from, two or three days ago? Dear mother, I think twenty times a day about your sickness. id = 12402 author = nan title = The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland date = keywords = Baltimore; Calhoun; Cecil; Elkton; Ewing; God; Hall; Heaven; James; John; Lord; Mary; Maryland; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Philadelphia; Scott; State; Tis; Whig; William; day; death; friend; heart; life; like; love; thy; time; year summary = God speed the day,--''tis bound to come, Round thy grave kind friends are weeping, Dear Mollie, in thy early days, Flowers are springing round thy way, That half a score of sons, John, may like their father grow-Thy pale hands are folded, oh beautiful saint, And the dear little hands, like rose leaves With a heart responsive thy tones, sweet bird, And have mourned, like thee, of earth''s fairest things Glided on like the flow of thy beautiful stream, Joy be to thee thy natal day, Thy young life''s hand knows yet no stain Like love''s young dream, they passed away, He hath touched thee--thou hast left us in thy bloom! For thence, not far, thou too, like him shall give But all touch my heart with thy sweet spell, It worked like a charm; oh, joy of my life! On earth thy early years employ, The morrow shall be like to-day.