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The Katy-did works her

  • Whitman Archive Title: The Katy-did works her
  • Whitman Archive ID: med.00901
  • Repository: Catalog of Unlocated Walt Whitman Manuscripts
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Genre: poetry, prose
  • Physical Description: number of leaves unknown, handwritten
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  • Content: The language in this manuscript is similar to the following line from the first poem in the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass , eventually titled "Song of Myself": "Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well;" (1855, p. 37). Because the manuscript has not been located it is difficult to speculate on the circumstances of its composition, but it is likely that it was written in the early 1850s as Whitman was preparing materials for the first edition of Leaves of Grass .
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