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The three or four poets

  • Whitman Archive Title: The three or four poets
  • Whitman Archive ID: tul.00002
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Ephemera Collection, University of Tulsa
  • Box: 1
  • Folder: 2
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: Whitman probably drafted this manuscript in the early 1850s, as he was preparing materials for the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass . The manuscript features draft lines of the third poem in that edition, eventually titled "To Think of Time." On the back of this leaf (tul.00011) are notes toward a poem about "a perfect school."
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