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Longfellow's New Poem

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  • Title: Longfellow's New Poem
  • Date: 8 October 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00871
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 8 October 1858: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kaylen Michaelis Samantha Gilmore Brandi Faulkner Stefan Schöberlein Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Longfellow's New Poem." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 17 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00871.xml (TEI)
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LONGFELLOW'S NEW POEM.—

Mr. Geo. Vandenhoff is to give the first reading of Longfellow’s1 forthcoming poem, “The Courtship of Miles Standish,” in Boston, on the evening of the day of its publication, the 16th inst.

Notes:

1. Henry W. Longfellow (1807–1882) was an American educator and notable poet known for his 1855 work The Song of Hiawatha and the 1860 poem "Paul Revere's Ride." For more information, see Julie A. Rechel-White, "Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807–1882)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998). [back]

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