Poem of the Sunlight | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: Poem of the Sunlight
Whitman Archive ID: med.00779
Repository: Catalog of Unlocated Walt Whitman Manuscripts
Date: unknown
Genre: prose, poetry
Physical Description: number of leaves unknown, handwritten
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Content: Brief note of just eight words, outlining the possibility of a "Poem of the Sunlight." A transcription of this manuscript, the current location of which is unknown, was published by Richard Maurice Bucke in Notes and Fragments (London, Ontario: A. Talbot & Co., printers, 1899), 174. Edward F. Grier, editor of Whitman's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 4:1383, suggests that this manuscript might be related to the poem "Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun," which was first published in the 1865 volume Drum-Taps.