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Whitman Archive Title: [most poets finish single specimens of]
Whitman Archive ID: bpl.00004
Repository ID: Whitman Mss.3
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Walt Whitman Collection, Rare Books and Manuscripts Department, Boston Public Library
Repository Title: Notes on his poetry and Heine
Date: 1856
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A group of several notes, all concerned with the general topics of the character and social position of the poet. The sentences pencilled at the top of the page contributed to the poem "Myself and Mine," first published in 1860 as "No. 10" in the "Leaves of Grass" cluster. The list of seven attributes that is written in the middle of the page formed the basis for a stanza of "Poem of The Singers, and of The Words of Poems," published in 1856 and later combined with one of the 1855 poems to become "Song of the Answerer." Pasted to the manuscript is a clipping, annotated and dated June 1856, about Hungarian literary nationalism, and at the bottom of the page are notes on the German poet Heinrich Heine.