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Do you know what music

  • Whitman Archive Title: Do you know what music
  • Whitman Archive ID: tex.00088
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin
  • Box: 1
  • Folder: 4
  • Series: Works, 1846-1913 and undated
  • Repository Title: An Essay on the Soul
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Genre: prose, poetry
  • Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten
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  • Content: This manuscript was probably written between 1850 and 1855, when Whitman was preparing material for his first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass . A portion of the first paragraph of the manuscript, dealing with music and its relationship to the soul, is similar to a passage in the poem eventually titled "A Song For Occupations." Other language in the manuscript is similar to the prose preface to the 1855 Leaves of Grass and to lines from the poems that would eventually be titled "Song of Myself" and "I Sing the Body Electric."
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