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Whitman Archive Title: in the west
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00168
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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.
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Box: 40
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Folder: Literary, Undated, Poem of the Vision of the West
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Series: Notes and Notebooks
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Date: Between 1850 and 1860
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Genre: prose, poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
This manuscript contains notes for a proposed poem offering a vision of the future of the American west. The style of title that Whitman proposes ("Poem of...") resembles that employed in the 1856 edition of
Leaves of Grass
, suggesting a composition date around that time. This estimate is in line with that of Edward Grier, who dates the manuscript to "before 1860" (
Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
[New York: New York University Press, 1984], 4:1323).
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