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What we call literature is
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Whitman Archive Title: What we call literature is
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Whitman Archive ID: duk.00295
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Repository ID: MS q 32
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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: 1850s
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
Prose manuscript expressing the belief that human existence possesses a
grandeur that surpasses artistic accomplishments. It is unclear whether this
manuscript is related to Whitman's published poetry or prose. Based on the appearance of a transcription of this manuscript with transcriptions of other early manuscripts in Richard Maurice Bucke's
Notes and Fragments
(1899), Edward Grier dates it to the 1850s (
Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
[New York: New York University Press, 1984], 4:1558). The handwriting and the paper also would suggest an early date.
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