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Whitman Archive Title: Poem of Materials
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Whitman Archive ID: duk.00042
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Repository ID: MS 12mo 15
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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Date: about 1860
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Genre: poetry, prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
This manuscript contains notes for poetry, including phrases which appear in
section 6 of the final version of"Starting from Paumanok" and in "Mediums." The published version of
"Mediums,"
originally "Chants
Democratic No. 16" in the 1860–1861 edition of
Leaves of Grass
, later
appeared as part of "Passage to
India" (1871–1872), and finally in the 1881–1882 edition of
Leaves of Grass
.
"Starting from Paumanok"
was published first in the 1860–1861 edition of
Leaves of Grass
as "Proto-Leaf." The reverse is a prose fragment dealing with political independence that contains phrases and ideas similar to those found in Whitman's complete but unpublished essay "The Eighteenth Presidency!"
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