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Literary Manuscripts

Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

Lucretius De Rerum Natura

  • Whitman Archive Title: Lucretius. De Rerum Natura
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.05547
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
  • Box: 3
  • Folder: Lucretius
  • Series: Notebooks
  • Date: 1866-1871
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: 5 leaves, handwritten
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  • Content: These notes, based on a reading of Rev. John Selby Watson's 1851 translation Lucretius on the Nature of Things, contributed to a short passage on the Roman poet Lucretius in Democratic Vistas (1871), which was reprinted in Complete Prose Works (1892).

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