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Catalog of the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the Joel A. Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Rare Books & Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina.
Original records created by the Walt Whitman Archive and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, based on information from Rare Books & Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina. Encoded Archival Description completed with the assistance of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation, the University of Nebraska Research Council, the Institute for Museum and Library Services, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Title: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the Joel A. Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Rare Books & Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina.
- Collection Number: usc.ead01
- Creator: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Repository: Joel A. Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Rare Books & Special Collections
- Abstract:
This catalog was created from a digital image of the original manuscript and cataloguing information obtained by the Walt Whitman Archive from the Department of Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, where the original manuscript is held.
- Scope and Content:
The University of South Carolina has two Whitman poetry manuscripts, described below, and two photographs of the poet. One of the photographs and one of the manuscripts bear the signature of Stanley Kimmel on the verso.
- Biographical Information:
For additional biographical information, see "Walt Whitman", by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, and the chronology of Whitman's Life.
- Subjects:
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts
- Poets, American--19th century
Individual items at this repository
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Whitman Archive Title: Veil with their lids, &c
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Whitman Archive ID: usc.00001
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Repository Title: "Veil with their lids," Manuscript poem
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Date: about 1870
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 23 x 14.1, handwritten
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Content:
A manuscript of the poem "Penitenzia," unpublished in Whitman's
lifetime. The poem is apparently based on a photograph of Whitman possibly
taken by the photographer, William Kurtz, in the 1860s.
A note at the top of the manuscript, in Whitman's hand, reads, "p. 10
Passage to India," indicating that the poem might have been intended for
inclusion in the volume of that name (
Passage to India
) published in 1870. An earlier draft of this poem appears in a notebook now in the Feinberg Collection at the Library of Congress and was the basis for a version titled "Mask with Their Lids," published in Clifton J. Furness's
Walt Whitman's Workshop
and Harold W. Blodgett and Scully Bradley's
Leaves of Grass: Comprehensive Reader's Edition
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The lines seem to anticipate the poem, "Out from Behind This Mask," first published in
the
New York Tribune
on
February 19,
1876.
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Whitman Archive Title: Annex at 69
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Whitman Archive ID: usc.00003
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Date: about 1888
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 9.2 x 21.3 cm, handwritten
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Content:
This manuscript contains titles for a contemplated cluster of poems, "Annex at 69" and "Fancies at Navesink & other
pieces 1883 to 88." The poem sequence "Fancies at Navesink" first appeared in the
August
1885 issue of
Nineteenth
Century
. The eight poems from this sequence were then reprinted
in a section of
November
Boughs
entitled "Sands at Seventy" in 1888, which then became an annex to
Leaves of Grass
that same
year. The poems reappeared under the heading "Fancies at Navesink," although still part of
"Sands at Seventy,"
in 1891. The
manuscript was matted, along with a Frederick Gutekunst
photograph of Whitman. Because of the matting, the verso of the manuscript
is not accessible.
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