Martin, Justin, <br/><br/>
Rebel souls :  Walt Whitman and America's first Bohemians / 
 Walt Whitman and America's first Bohemians 
Justin Martin. 
 - xi, 339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations, portraits ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> "A Merloyd Lawrence book." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-315) and index. 
<br/><br/>A visit to Pfaff's -- Bohemia crosses the Atlantic -- A long table in a vaulted room -- Whitman at a crossroads -- Hashish and Shakespeare -- Bold women and Whitman's beautiful boys -- The Saturday Press -- Leaves, third edition -- Year of meteors -- Becoming Artemus Ward -- "The heather is on fire" -- Whitman to the front -- Bohemia goes West -- The soldiers' missionary -- Twain shall they meet -- "O heart! heart! heart!" -- A brief revival -- All fall down -- "Those times, that place." 
<br/><br/> "In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy saloon changed American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to poetic immortality. Rebel Souls is the first book ever written about the colorful group of artists-- regulars at Pfaff's Saloon in Manhattan-- rightly considered America's original Bohemians. Besides a young Whitman, the circle included actor Edwin Booth; trailblazing stand-up comic Artemus Ward; psychedelic drug pioneer and author Fitz Hugh Ludlow; and brazen performer Adah Menken, famous for her Naked Lady routine. Central to their times, the artists managed to forge connections with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, and even Abraham Lincoln. Justin Martin shows how this first bohemian culture--imported from Paris to a dingy Broadway saloon--seeded and nurtured an American tradition of rebel art that thrives to this day."-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780306822261 0306822261 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>40023995331 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014008822 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 --Friends and associates.<br/>Ward, Artemus, 1834-1867. <br/>Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893. <br/>Ludlow, Fitz Hugh, 1836-1870. <br/>Menken, Adah Isaacs, 1835-1868. <br/>Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893 <br/>Ludlow, Fitz Hugh, 1836-1870 <br/>Menken, Adah Isaacs, 1835-1868 <br/>Ward, Artemus, 1834-1867 <br/>Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1800 - 1899 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Bohemianism--History--New York (State)--New York--19th century.<br/>Bars (Drinking establishments)--History--New York (State)--New York--19th century.<br/>BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.<br/>POETRY--American--General.<br/>Bars (Drinking establishments)<br/>Bohemianism.<br/>Friendship.<br/>Intellectual life.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--19th century.<br/>New York (State)--New York.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS 3231 .M19 2014