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The questions involved

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  • Title: The questions involved
  • Date: Between 1840 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: tex.00451
  • Source: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin. 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: This manuscript deals with "Poetry fit for the New World," an idea Whitman pondered from the earliest stages of his poetic career. Edward Grier notes that the "handwriting and the subject matter suggest an early date" (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 4:1589).
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "The questions involved." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 08 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: tex.00451.xml (TEI)

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[cut away] soon even a Western point of view.—All tThe points ^questions are involved is curious to discuss. What may be said, and opens long long vistas in connection, about Poetry fit for the New World? and what are the probabilities? While tThe British [illegible] foreigner prevails rules here for the present with absolute sway.—but Wwhat of the future?

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