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Literary Manuscripts

Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days

  • Whitman Archive Title: Poem, as in a rapt and
  • Whitman Archive ID: duk.00287
  • Repository ID: MS q 31
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
  • Date: before 1860
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: A manuscript proposing ideas for a poem in the form of a prophetic vision about the future of America. Possibly related to "As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days," which was first published as "Chants Democratic 21" in 1860–1861. This scrap has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with "An After Thought or Two," and "Poem ante-dating."

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