Content:
This manuscript contributed to the last
part of the section "Five Thousand
Poems" in
November Boughs
published in 1888 (retained within
November Boughs
in
Complete Prose Works
[1892]).
Content:
Much of the language of this note is reproduced in the essay "Five Thousand Poems," first published in
The Critic
, April 16,
1887, on page 187, and again in
November Boughs
(1888).
Content:
The passage in this manuscript appears in the section "Five Thousand Poems" of
November Boughs
, published in 1888 (retained within
November
Boughs
in
Complete Prose
Works
[1892]).
Content:
This scrap is a draft of Whitman's essay "Five
Thousand Poems," first published in
The Critic
, number 172, April 16,
1887. It was later reprinted in
Democratic Vistas and
Other Papers
(London, 1888), and
November Boughs
(1888). The
language on this leaf appears nearly verbatim in "Five Thousand Poems." On the verso is a partial letter to Whitman from the office of
The Critic
.
Content:
This manuscript is a late draft, lightly corrected, of "Five Thousand Poems," an essay first published in
The Critic
April 16, 1887 and collected in
Democratic Vistas and Other Papers
(1888) and in
November Boughs
(1888).
Whitman Archive Title: Distinctive and without relation
Content:
Much of the language of this note is reproduced in the essay "Five Thousand Poems," first published in
The Critic
, April 16,
1887, on page 187, and again in
November Boughs
(1888).
