Thou Vast Rondure, Swimming in Space

Whitman Archive Title: Thou Vast Rondure, Swimming in Space
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00309
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: 29
Folder: Thou Vast Rondure, Swimming in Space (1868?). Offprint.
Series: Literary File
Date: between 1868-1869
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 32 x 13.5 cm, printed; handwritten
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Content: An offprint of "Thou Vast Rondure, Swimming in Space," with note at the top reading "J. T. Trowbridge, from W. W." and a note on the verso reading "is to app. in London Fortnightly for April." Though the poem was submitted in either 1868 or 1869, it was never published in the Fortnightly . It was later incorporated in the poem "Passage to India," which was first published in 1871. "Thou Vast Rondure, Swimming in Space" was not published as a separate poem.