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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 13 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 45882 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 81 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 Whitman 7 New 6 Walt 6 Mr. 6 God 5 Mrs. 4 life 4 Grass 4 America 3 little 3 great 3 good 3 York 3 Street 3 Leaves 3 George 3 England 3 Emerson 3 Camden 2 time 2 poet 2 poem 2 nature 2 love 2 day 2 book 2 Washington 2 WALT 2 London 2 Dr. 2 Brooklyn 2 Boston 1 world 1 work 1 word 1 thy 1 thing 1 spirit 1 soul 1 song 1 sidenote 1 relation 1 man 1 like 1 leave 1 illustration 1 home 1 heart 1 gilchrist 1 friend Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 1902 man 1206 life 1120 time 1051 day 815 year 781 friend 739 book 731 thing 715 poet 658 letter 630 mother 599 way 597 work 555 soul 547 love 499 word 485 world 484 house 470 woman 462 poem 408 death 401 heart 399 home 399 hand 393 thought 385 place 382 room 352 one 342 nature 339 child 334 people 330 6 328 spirit 322 night 294 art 292 part 289 hospital 283 nothing 282 other 281 power 273 side 263 hour 254 eye 252 body 249 something 246 paper 244 face 243 mind 239 sense 239 edition Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 5865 _ 1783 Whitman 882 W. 630 Mr. 583 8vo 523 Crown 520 Walt 507 Mrs. 477 New 440 Edition 380 6d 364 America 304 York 281 Emerson 270 Hawthorne 269 Washington 256 WALT 252 George 250 G. 246 J. 239 M.A. 237 WHITMAN 234 God 226 Camden 225 L. 208 Leaves 202 Davis 197 Grass 195 England 188 H. 184 C. 179 E. 177 Jeff 176 London 165 See 164 Second 157 Boston 157 ANNE 148 Library 148 Brooklyn 147 A. 145 Dr. 141 Bucke 140 . 138 Street 135 Demy 133 John 129 South 129 Prose 128 M. Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 7044 he 5940 i 4975 it 2325 you 2294 him 1706 we 1527 they 1315 me 1172 them 1060 she 641 himself 553 us 457 her 225 itself 171 myself 165 one 130 themselves 74 herself 70 thee 58 yourself 31 ourselves 26 mine 20 yours 19 his 12 theirs 10 ours 10 oneself 7 hers 6 thyself 4 ye 4 ''em 2 ''s 1 us:-- 1 together-- 1 thou 1 love:--then 1 james)= 1 interlace-- 1 ingersol,--and 1 imself 1 howls 1 hisself 1 helplessness-- 1 elsewhere._"--taine 1 come,-- Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 18636 be 6583 have 1938 do 1520 see 1169 come 1134 make 1091 say 1032 go 949 know 935 write 801 give 736 take 722 find 654 think 639 get 568 seem 512 feel 502 tell 451 live 434 look 403 become 398 call 354 hear 342 send 342 love 330 leave 328 read 325 stand 314 bring 286 speak 284 bear 254 put 254 die 245 pass 245 grow 242 keep 237 hold 234 sit 230 want 230 use 230 show 225 follow 222 meet 215 lie 211 work 205 appear 200 believe 195 remain 183 turn 182 hope Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 3573 not 1512 so 1217 more 1049 great 1041 good 1025 here 933 little 882 well 849 old 848 very 811 only 724 own 699 now 680 up 678 much 672 long 660 many 647 as 636 first 625 then 610 out 600 other 597 never 541 new 528 last 522 too 512 most 489 always 448 also 445 still 441 young 415 such 408 just 403 ever 400 again 392 few 389 even 385 there 371 dear 367 full 366 same 350 down 348 all 336 yet 321 often 321 large 286 far 278 away 274 back 265 once Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 258 good 134 most 131 least 84 great 48 high 39 bad 24 deep 22 full 20 noble 20 Most 18 fine 17 dear 16 near 16 late 16 large 15 early 13 young 11 sweet 11 close 10 wise 9 old 8 true 7 small 7 rich 7 proud 7 lovely 7 happy 7 eld 7 common 6 strong 6 pleasant 6 low 5 wild 5 hard 4 slight 4 rare 4 pure 4 poor 4 mean 4 long 4 lofty 4 easy 4 cheap 4 bitter 3 warm 3 simple 3 plain 3 manif 3 l 3 hot Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 378 most 34 well 20 least 3 hard 1 worst 1 widest 1 oftenest 1 near 1 it--"the Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 www.gutenberg.org 2 www.archive.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://www.gutenberg.org/files/38889/38889-h/38889-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38889/38889-h.zip 1 http://www.archive.org/details/literaryshrinesh00wolfrich 1 http://www.archive.org 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?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 whitman did not 12 whitman was not 7 _ see also 5 _ is _ 5 book is not 5 poet does not 5 whitman does not 4 man has ever 3 walt was always 3 whitman is not 3 world has ever 2 _ do n''t 2 _ does _ 2 _ have _ 2 _ know _ 2 book was out 2 days take on 2 friends are well 2 house is quite 2 house was not 2 letter came yesterday 2 letters are always 2 life is death 2 life was full 2 love is life 2 man is as 2 man is least 2 men are crazy 2 men are fearfully 2 men are guilty 2 men are only 2 men do not 2 men know more 2 men were really 2 men were so 2 mother was dead 2 poet has less 2 poet is always 2 things said incomparably 2 time be utterly 2 time has not 2 whitman had never 2 whitman had not 2 whitman was afraid 2 whitman was essentially 2 whitman was large 2 whitman was present 2 whitman was so 2 woman is as 2 women do not Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 time has not yet 2 whitman is not only 2 whitman was not blind 1 book is not identical 1 book is not merely 1 book is not only 1 book was not so 1 book were not available 1 books are not much 1 days was no longer 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 has no other 1 life was no longer 1 loved was not really 1 man has no right 1 man is no disadvantage 1 men are not here 1 men were not badly 1 mother had not enough 1 poet does not even 1 poet does not merely 1 poet is no greater 1 poet seeing no obstacle 1 poets are not followers 1 time was not far 1 whitman did not wholly 1 whitman had no control 1 whitman has not so 1 whitman is not at 1 whitman was no dreamer 1 whitman was no light 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 women do not always 1 word is not always 1 work are not easy 1 work is not art 1 work is not material 1 work was not noble 1 world has not often 1 world has not yet 1 world is not welcome 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 = 30342 author = Burroughs, John title = Whitman: A Study date = keywords = Emerson; England; God; Grass; Mr.; New; Tennyson; Walt; Whitman; american; art; good; great; leave; life; like; love; nature; poem; poet; relation; spirit; thing; word; work summary = Whitman was not a poet by elaboration, but by suggestion; not an artist by Whitman the poet of "democracy," or of "personality," or of "the modern," things, the real man, which we get in Whitman. life, nature, are poetical to us, Whitman will not be. no book," he says: "who touches this touches a man." In one sense Whitman concrete life, not as poet or artist, but simply as man. so-called nature-poets, but because he has the quality of things in the Passing from such a poet as Tennyson to Whitman is like going from a warm, Whitman''s ideal poet is the most composite man, rich in temperament, rank One of the key-words to Whitman both as a man and a poet is the word Whitman wants to be a man, and to get at the meaning and value of life. the common man, common life, common things, but always does the poet stand id = 36305 author = Byron, May title = A Day with Walt Whitman date = keywords = Specimen; Whitman; day; illustration; nature summary = A DAY WITH WALT WHITMAN. clear grey-blue eyes were bright with a "wild-hawk look,"--his face was outdoor Nature, has approximated so closely as Whitman to the "shows of humiliating lesson one learns, in serene hours, of a fine day or night. man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, changes of seasons--the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night." And, while The big grey man expanded almost visibly in the sun-steeped air, as he And thus, all Whitman''s finest poems have a processional air, like the light, air, trees, etc., is not to be realized through eyes and mind life of the woods, the strong day''s work, life of the woods, the strong day''s work, One last longing, loving look he cast upon the creek before returning In the day, in the night, to all, to each, O day and night, passage to you! id = 35395 author = Gilchrist, Anne (Anne Burrows) title = The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman date = keywords = ANNE; America; Camden; England; God; Hampstead; LETTER; London; Marquis; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Road; Rossetti; WALT; WHITMAN; York; dearest; friend; gilchrist summary = As a matter of fact, the first love-letter from Anne Gilchrist to Walt year before Mrs. Gilchrist addressed her first letter to Whitman. And the time will come when man will understand that a woman''s soul wanderings, dear Friend, enfolding you day and night, soul & body, with write that letter dear Friend after you have been to Dartmouth[14]--for I letter comes & many days after--how light hearted & alert I set about my I shall be thinking of your great & dear Mother in her beautiful old age, I wish I could send you good letters, dearest Friend, have been a little while in America & have made friends & had time to look beautiful letter--that young man is indeed, as he says, like a bit out of Thank you, dear friend, for your letter; how I should indeed like to see Please give my love to your sister, and tell her that her good letter id = 44973 author = Gould, Elizabeth Porter title = Stray Pebbles from the Shores of Thought date = keywords = God; bear; day; dear; heart; life; love; soul summary = On that blest summer day in the years long ago, They''d have met a fair soul from the earth just set free Love songs sweet and low, All nature finds a joy in loving-Thy love is life to keep me Breathed forth with true love''s gentle art! Sing too, little bird, what my heart sings to-day. Thou can''st bear it to him in the fragrance loved best. Love''s sweet and tender flower Of love''s sweet hour, O joy, love''s hour is here. Of love''s death-hour, But sometime, sure as God is love and truth, With a heart full of love both to God and to man, Life ending on earth is but heaven begun. So gently winds my loving thought through memory''s changing scenes, Needs heaven''s light to round God''s plan. Inspired by loving hand or heart, For a human love''s sweet petting I''ve all my life loved others, id = 12933 author = Hubbard, Elbert title = Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great date = keywords = America; Carlyle; Dickens; Doctor; East; Edison; England; George; Gladstone; God; Goldsmith; Hawkins; Hugo; Ireland; London; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Roycroft; Ruskin; Saint; Shakespeare; Shop; Street; Swift; Turner; Victor; Whitman; good; great; little; man; time summary = man find the inspiration for carrying forward his great work? stage when the man says, "I always believed it." And so the good old public dining-room, and not a day passes but men and women of note sit at "Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great." Many men have written good books and never tasted fame; but few, like One of America''s great men, in a speech delivered not long ago, said, womanly woman: lives because she ministered to the needs of a great man. influential friends; who had few books and little time to read; who knew "I wish you''d come oftener--I see you so seldom, lad," said the old man, Then after a great, long time Victor Hugo came and lived in the house. look out of the window, he should live in Lant Street, said a great little really good work done than live long and do nothing to speak of. id = 34417 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = Walt Whitman: An Address date = keywords = Bible; God; Walt; Whitman; death; great; life; poet; world summary = poetic thought, as Colonel Ingersoll described him, young and old, men slavery, or any kind or form of injustice, to produce a great poet. man, born within the sound of the sea, gave to the world a book, message to the world--full of thought, philosophy, poetry and music. to examine this book and to state, in a general way, what Walt Whitman If I were to edit the great books of the world, I might leave out some Walt Whitman had the courage to express his thought--the candor to tell The great poets have sympathized with the people. Walt Whitman utters the elemental truths and is the poet of democracy. Walt Whitman is the poet of Individuality--the defender of the rights The great poetry of the world keeps time with the winds and the waves. It is a great thing to preach philosophy--far greater to live it. 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 = 31027 author = Legler, Henry Eduard title = Walt Whitman, Yesterday & Today date = keywords = America; Grass; Leaves; Walt; Whitman; book; edition; good; poem; song; thy summary = humanity, and calls his free speech the true utterance of a man; we "Grass," said the writer, making the title of the book his including all of the four hundred poems bearing Whitman''s authorship Had Whitman omitted the few poems whose titles are given here, There have been six editions of Whitman''s complete writings, and Whitman''s authorship of Leaves of Grass, the Secretary characterized the book as "full of indecent passages," the author was termed "a very pleasure, of good and evil, Nature develops man; genius also, earlier volume Songs before Sunrise, addressed a long poem, To Walt Whitman and his book is his own. More sorrowful than death is thy soul. From thy great message must come light for the bettering days, Loving my plain as thou thy sea, For thee, Thy Soul and Body spent for me, We crown thee Poet Laureate on this thy natal day. id = 31781 author = Shay, Frank title = The Bibliography of Walt Whitman date = keywords = Grass; Leaves; New; Walt; Whitman summary = success of "Leaves of Grass." Osgood published all the work of the New certain "special" and "author''s" editions were published by Whitman as After Whitman''s death Small, Maynard & Company, of Boston, became the Duodecimo, blue cloth, uncut; half-title, portrait with Duodecimo, green cloth, uncut; title, contents, preface, x; One Walt Whitman in the Author''s autograph.] Author''s Edition, with Whitman.] Author''s Edition. By Walt Whitman, Author''s Copyright Edition [device]. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman: Preface to the Original Edition, 1855 By Walt Whitman, author of "Leaves of Grass." Duodecimo, paper wrappers, uncut; portrait, title, contents, pp. The Poems of Walt Whitman (selected), with Introduction 18 mo, blue cloth, paper label, uncut; portrait, title, Complete (portrait) Poems and Prose of Walt Whitman, 1855-1888. 12 mo, cloth, paper label, uncut; title, contents, preface, pp. Octavo, green cloth, uncut; portrait, title, poem, author''s 102, "Leaves of Grass," edition of 1892.] Published 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 = 38889 author = Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) title = Literary Shrines: The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors date = keywords = Alcott; Berkshire; Boston; Channing; Concord; Dr.; Emerson; Hawthorne; Holmes; House; Longfellow; Lowell; Manse; Miss; Mrs.; Old; Ripley; Street; Thoreau; Whittier; home; little; sidenote summary = Thoreau''s house, not far from the recent hermit-home of his friend Below the Thoreau-Alcott house on the village street was a prior home of Motley, Lowell, Holmes, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and others. Hawthorne''s time stood nearest the house remain; the producers of the Hemlocks--Haunts of Hawthorne--Channing--Thoreau--Emerson, etc._ Hemlocks--Haunts of Hawthorne--Channing--Thoreau--Emerson, etc._ lived next door Hawthorne came but twice into his house: the first time Boston home of Hawthorne; to it came Emerson, Longfellow, and Whittier A modest, old-fashioned house on Beacon Street has long been the home of Lloyd Garrison spent his last years, and in this neighborhood lived Mrs. Blake, poet of "Verses Along the Way." Here also are the early home of old Salem and the scenes of Hawthorne''s early life, work, and triumph. Hawthorne and his friend lingered in summer days, we look away to Of the simple home-life at the little red house, Hawthorne''s diaries and