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I want no more of

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  • Title: I want no more of
  • Date: Before or early in 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: med.00782
  • Source: The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman's Workshop: A Collection of Unpublished Manuscripts, ed. Clifton Joseph Furness (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1928), 55. The location of this manuscript is unknown. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: The manuscript has not been located and is known only from a transcription in Walt Whitman's Workshop, ed. Clifton J. Furness (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1928), 55. The imagery and phrasing match several passages in the 1855 preface to Leaves of Grass, suggesting that this manuscript was composed before or early in 1855.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "I want no more of." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 08 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: med.00782.xml (TEI)

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Textual Feature Appearance
Overwritten brown with strikethrough
Added inline purple with double underline
Uncertain gray with wavy underline
Supplied from another source turquoise with brackets
Metamark green with triple underline
Long deletion gray background with top and bottom border
I want no more of these deferences to authority—this taking off of hats and saying Sir—I want to encourage in the young men the spirit that does not know what it is to feel that it stands in the presence of superiors
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