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We know of no beginning in universal literature
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Whitman Archive Title: We know of no beginning in universal literature
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Whitman Archive ID: hpl.00002
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Huntington Public Library, Huntington, New York
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Date: about 1856
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
Draft of unpublished prose work regarding the beginnings of "universal
literature." Pasted to the page is a clipping from an unknown newspaper with
the heading "Greeks, Romans, Hebrews." This document has been titled by
other collectors "The Dawn of
Poetry" (Charles E. Feinberg)
and "Beginning of Literature,
1856" (Richard Maurice Bucke).
The relationship of this document to Whitman's published work is
unknown. An image of the verso is unavailable.
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