Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

Whitman Archive Title: Proem

Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00118

Repository: Catalog of the Literary Manuscripts in The Oscar Lion Collection of Walt Whitman, The New York Public Library

Repository Title: Proem

Genre: poetry

Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten

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Content: Draft of a line justifying the poet's inclusion of "amativeness" as a topic in his poems. The title "Proem" suggests that this may be the draft of a passage for a prefatory poem.