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Fancies at Navesink

  • Whitman Archive Title: Fancies at Navesink
  • Whitman Archive ID: yal.00039
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  • Box: 3
  • Date: between about 1885 and 1888
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: This manuscript appears to concern the possible arrangement of the eight-poem cycle "Fancies at Navesink," which was published in the August 1885 issue of Nineteenth Century . The titles of three poems not included in "Fancies at Navesink"—"After the Supper and Talk," "You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me," and "Ah, Not This Granite Dead and Cold"—are also mentioned. This manuscript is bound with others under the title "Fancies at Navesink."

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