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Whitman Archive Title: A man of gigantic
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Whitman Archive ID: duk.00293
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Repository ID: MS q 32
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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Date: Before or early in 1855
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Genre: poetry, prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
Prose fragment containing words and ideas similar to segments of the 1855 poem that was eventually titled "Song of Myself." Edward Grier also connects the image of the heroic male and the "flowing grandeur of a man" to the poems that make up the 1855
Leaves
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Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
[New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:178). On the reverse is another prose fragment (duk.00888) dealing with the importance of independent thinking amid social forces of law and custom, as well as describing the attributes of a "perfect" man.
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