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Whitman Archive Title: his poem of the
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.05619
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
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Box: 1
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Folder: Untitled and Unidentified; Undated, on the American Idiom
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Series: Manuscripts
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Date: Between 1850 and 1860
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Genre: poetry, prose
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Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
These two scraps once formed part of a larger leaf and contain a crossed-out section of prose that seems to be discussing the human form and its treatment in literature. The phrase "organs and acts," which begins on the first scrap and continues onto the second, is also found in the poem that would eventually be titled "Starting from Paumanok". The poem originally appeared as the first poem in the 1860 edition of
Leaves of Grass
, titled "Proto-leaf." It took its final title in the 1867 edition. On the reverse side is a manuscript (loc.05620) containing a draft of an unpublished piece of journalism or essay.
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