Content:
A proof pasted on another sheet of paper, with seven words in Whitman's
hand: "Walt Whitman, (discarded from last booklet.)" "As in a Swoon" was
published first in 1876.
Content:
This is a manuscript of the poem "As in a Swoon," first published in the 1876 printing of
Leaves of Grass
. Although this poem was not included in any subsequent editions of
Leaves of Grass
, Whitman did include it in the 1891 volume
Good-Bye My Fancy
, and as one of the few poems in the 1892 volume
Complete Prose Works
.
