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Title: Poem of Names

Creator: Walt Whitman

Date: Between 1850 and 1860

Whitman Archive ID: uva.00294

Source: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. Transcribed from digital images of the original. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.

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 Edward Grier dates this manuscript to the 1850s, based on the handwriting (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 4:1310).