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The professor's answer
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Whitman Archive Title: The professor's answer
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Whitman Archive ID: bpl.00023
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Repository ID: Whitman.13.5.A
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Walt Whitman Collection, Rare Books and Manuscripts Department, Boston Public Library
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Repository Title: The professor's answer
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Date: about 1870
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
This early draft of a poem Whitman titled "The Professor's Answer" was tipped into a copy
of John Burroughs's
Notes on Walt
Whitman, as Poet and Person
between pages 16 and 17. This poem,
ultimately titled "The Base of
All Metaphysics," first appeared in print as an addition to the
"Calamus" group in
Leaves of Grass
(1871).
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