airscud | Whitman Archive

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Title: airscud
Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00734
Source: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library. 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: Whitman probably drafted this manuscript between 1850 and 1855, as he was composing the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass. This list of words may have been brainstorming for lines that appeared in the first and fifth poems of that edition, eventually titled "Song of Myself" and "I Sing the Body Electric."
Related Item(s):
- Draft lines on the back of this manuscript leaf relate to the poem eventually titled "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?" See nyp.00100.
- See wwa.00577.
Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "airscud." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 08 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
Source File: nyp.00734.xml (TEI)

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