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Whitman Archive Title: Burns says
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.05247
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
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Box: 1
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Folder: Robert Burns as Poet and Person
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Series: Notes and Memoranda
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Date: 1882-1886
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
This prose scrap quotes a March 1792 letter from Robert Burns to George Thompson. In the essay "Robert Burns as Poet
and Person," Whitman cites letters to Thompson, particularly letters
where Burns discusses his own early love poetry. This scrap is not
directly quoted in the essay, but there are allusions to it. The letters
are not mentioned in the preliminary publication of the essay, under the
title "Robert Burns", which appeared
in
The Critic
(16 December 1882; however, Thompson's letters figure in the essay "Robert Burns as Poet and Person"
published in
The North American Review
143 (November 1886), 429. This
essay was later reprinted in
Democratic Vistas
and Other Papers
(1888) and in
November Boughs
(1888). The essay was also retained, still within
November Boughs
, in
Complete Prose Works
(1892).
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