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The Nibelungen

About This Item

  • Title: The Nibelungen
  • Date: 1850 or later; 1850
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: duk.00188
  • Source: Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This leaf with a note in Whitman's hand is pasted on to the front board of Voices From the Press; A Collection of Sketches, Essays, and Poems, by Practical Printers, ed. James J. Brenton (New York: Charles B. Norton, 1850).
  • Contributors to digital file: Lauren Grewe Nicole Gray Ty Alyea Matt Cohen Ashlyn Stewart
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "The Nibelungen." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 19 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: duk.00188.xml (TEI)

Key

Textual Feature Appearance
Whitman's hand blue double overline and underline
Highlighting yellow background with top and bottom border
Paste-on gray box with black borders
Laid in white box with black borders
Erasure white text with dark gray background
Overwritten brown with strikethrough
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[begin surface 2] The Nibelungen vast passions of man, with play of heat & cold & storm, like undercurrents, or volcanos, or stormy seas.

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