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The crowds naked in the

  • Whitman Archive Title: The crowds naked in the
  • Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00733
  • Repository: Catalog of the Literary Manuscripts in The Oscar Lion Collection of Walt Whitman, The New York Public Library
  • Repository Title: Ms. leaf verso (The crowds naked in the bath...)
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, approximately 19.5 x 19 cm., handwritten
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  • Content: Whitman probably drafted this manuscript between 1850 and 1855, as he was composing the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass . The phrase "attraction of gravity," used in this manuscript, was used twice in that edition, including in a line in the poem eventually titled "A Song for Occupations." The last line of the manuscript, about the mouse staggering infidels, appeared in a slightly revised form in the first poem of that edition, eventually titled "Song of Myself." On the reverse (nyp.00078) are lines also used in that poem.
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