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The name of this proposed poem, "Poem of Names," recalls the title phrasing used in the 1856 edition of
Leaves of Grass
. It is possible that this manuscript thus dates from before or early in 1856. Edward Grier dates it to the 1850s, based on the handwriting (
Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
[New York: New York University Press, 1984], 4:1310).
