Content:
Early draft of a poem that was first published as "Over and Through the Burial
Chant" in 1888. It was later published with the
title "Interpolation
Sounds." The poem was written on the occasion of General
Philip Sheridan's death in 1888.
Content:
An early draft of the poem "Interpolation Sounds," first published in the
New York Herald
on August 12, 1888 under the title
"Over and Through the
Burial Chant." It was publised with the revised title in
Good-Bye My Fancy
(1891).
Whitman Archive Title: Over and through the burial chant
Content:
Clipped-out copy of "Over
and Through the Burial Chant" from the August 12, 1888 issue of the New York
Herald
, with notations in Whitman's hand.
The poem was later published as "Interpolation Sounds."
Content:
This is a signed draft of "Funeral Interpolations," a poem published first as "Over and Through the Burial Chant" in the
New York Herald
on August 12, 1888, on the occasion of General Philip Henry Sheridan's death (on August 5), and later as "Interpolation Sounds" in
Good-Bye My Fancy
(1891).
Content:
Fair copy draft of the poem "Interpolation Sounds". This poem first appeared without a
title in the New York
Herald
four days after Whitman's short prose tribute to
General Philip K. Sheridan, a Union general during the Civil War. It was
reprinted in "Good-Bye My
Fancy" in 1891, with the additional note: "General
Sheridan was buried at the Cathedral, Washington, D.C. August, 1888,
with all the pomp, music and ceremonies of the Roman Catholic
service."
