Skip to main content
-
Whitman Archive Title: [med Cophósis]
-
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00005
-
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
-
Box: 39
-
Folder: Literary, Before 1855, Women
-
Series: Notes and Notebooks
-
Date: Between 1852 and 1854
-
Genre: poetry
-
Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
-
View Images:
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
-
Content:
These pages were written by Whitman in the early to mid-1850s. William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (
Daybooks and Notebooks
[New York: New York University Press, 1978], 773–777). White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?," "By Blue Ontario's Shore," "Song of the Answerer," and "There Was a Child Went Forth." Some of the ideas and language being worked out here also appear in the poem eventually titled "Song of Myself." For a discussion of the dating and importance of this notebook, see Matt Miller,
Collage of Myself: Walt Whitman and the Making of Leaves of Grass
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010), 11–16.
View All Works
