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Make no quotations

  • Whitman Archive Title: Make no quotations
  • Whitman Archive ID: duk.00305
  • Repository ID: MS q 33
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
  • Date: Between 1847 and 1855
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: Notes, or possibly trial lines, articulating various beliefs about how to write. Edward Grier speculates, based on the style and content, that this manuscript probably dates to between 1847 and 1855 ( Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:159). This scrap has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with "It seems to me," "What shall the great poet be then?," and "The most superb beauties."
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