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in the West

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  • Title: in the West
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.00168
  • Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images of the original. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: The style of title that Whitman proposes in this manuscript ("Poem of...") resembles that employed in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass, suggesting a composition date around that time. This estimate is in line with that of Edward Grier, who dates the manuscript to before 1860, based on its appearance in Richard Maurice Bucke's Notes and Fragments (1899) with transcriptions of other early manuscripts (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 4:1323).
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "in the West." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 08 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.00168.xml (TEI)

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Metamark green with triple underline
Long deletion gray background with top and bottom border
  [begin leaf 1 recto] in the West a vision ? (Poem of ? vision—of future dDepicting the West a hundred years from now—thtwo hundred years—five hundred years— (This ought to be a splendid part of the the Poem—(?Poem of Ohio?)—it ought to lay in the colors and draw the lines fo outlines with a fr large, free, and bold, hand   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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