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to enjoy the Panorama

  • Whitman Archive Title: to enjoy the Panorama
  • Whitman Archive ID: amh.00008
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection, Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library, Amherst College
  • Date: about 1850
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: The handwriting on this draft fragment indicates that it was written fairly early, probably before the publication of Leaves of Grass in 1855. Most of the fragment describes a moving panorama, a popular form of entertainment during the antebellum period. The juxtaposition Whitman sets up in this manuscript (of painted panorama to actual landscape) appears in a line published in the 1855 and 1856 editions of Leaves of Grass , from the poem that would later be titled "Song of Myself": "The panorama of the sea . . . . but the sea itself?"
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