Emerson uses the Deific | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: Emerson uses the Deific
Whitman Archive ID: med.00791
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Private Collection of Ed Folsom
Date: about 1872
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This manuscript contains notes that Ed Folsom suggests "seem to be early (1872) notes toward what would eventually become Whitman's 1880 essay" on Emerson. "Emerson's Books (The Shadows of Them.)" first appeared in the Boston Literary World on 22 May 1880. It was later reprinted as "A Democratic Criticism. By Walt Whitman" in the New York Tribune (15 May 1882). Finally, it appeared in Specimen Days & Collect (1882–1883) and Complete Prose Works (1892) under the first title. For more on how this manuscript relates to "Emerson's Books," and to read a transcription, see Ed Folsom, "Whitman's Notes on Emerson: An Unpublished Manuscript," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 18.1 (Summer 2000), 20-62.