Content:
Despite the title, this manuscript does not appear to be a draft of the
poem, "America,"
published in 1888, but it has been published
separately and posthumously as "[America]" and begins "No Homer, Shakspere,
Voltaire." This manuscript was likely composed in the last two decades
of Whitman's career (roughly 1870-1892) when he was more apt to
mention other writers explicitly in his poetry.
