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Catalog of the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the George N. Meissner Collection, Department of Special Collections, Washington University Libraries, Washington University
Original records created by Department of Special Collections, Washington University Libraries, Washington University; revised and expanded by the Walt Whitman Archive and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Encoded Archival Description completed with the assistance of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the University of Nebraska Research Council, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
- Title: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the George N. Meissner Collection, Department of Special Collections, Washington University Libraries, Washington University
- Collection Number: wau.ead01
- Creator: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Collector: Meissner, George N.
- Repository: Department of Special Collections
- Abstract:
This electronic catalog was created from the original catalog record created by the Department of Special Collections, Washington University, and obtained by The Walt Whitman Archive. The original manuscript and catalog record are held at the Department of Special Collections, Washington University Libraries, Washington University.
- Scope and Content:
The George N. Meissner Collection at Washington University contains a wide variety of manuscripts relating to a range of American and European politicians, artists, writers, and notables. The collection contains only one manuscript by Walt Whitman.
- Biographical Information:
For additional biographical information, see "Walt Whitman", by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, and the chronology of Whitman's Life.
- Subjects:
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts
- Poets, American--19th century
Individual items at this repository
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Whitman Archive Title: Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood
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Whitman Archive ID: wau.00001
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Date: 1880–1882
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 8 leaves, handwritten; printed
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Content:
This is a printed proof with heavy corrections in Whitman's hand of the poem,
"Thou Mother with Thy Equal
Brood," which was first published in the
New York Herald
(26 June 1872), under the title, "As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free." On that same date, Whitman delivered the poem at the Dartmouth College commencement. Whitman published it later that year as the title poem in a
small book,
As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free: and Other Poems
(1872). The title was later revised to "Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood" when the poem was included in
Leaves of Grass
in 1881–1882.
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