Skip to main content
-
Home
-
Literary Manuscripts
-
Manuscript Catalogs
- loc.ead02_loc.02308
[Draw a picture of a model]
-
Whitman Archive Title: [Draw a picture of a model]
-
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02308
-
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: 40
-
Folder: Literary, Undated, Model American
-
Series: Notes and Notebooks
-
Date: about 1868
-
Genre: prose
-
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
-
View Images:
1
|
2
-
Content:
The description of "a model American young man" inscribed on this
manuscript likely contributed to Whitman's journalism of the late 1850s and represents an early stage of the "model or portrait
of Personality, for general use, for the manliness of The States" that
Whitman set forth in his essay "Personalism," which appeared in the May 1868 issue
of
The Galaxy.
He later combined the
material from this and other essays to form
Democratic Vistas,
published as a monograph in 1871 and reprinted in
Two
Rivulets
(1876),
Specimen Days &
Collect
(1882–1883),
Democratic Vistas, and Other Papers
(1888), and
Complete Prose Works
(1892).
View All Works