A Prairie Sunset a machine readable transcription Walt Whitman Kenneth M. Price Ed Folsom Transcription and encoding Andrew Jewell Kenneth Price Brett Barney Lisa Renfro Nick Krauter Heather Morton Nicole Gray Ashlyn Stewart The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Iowa University of Nebraska-Lincoln The National Endowment for the Humanities The United States Department of Education 2004 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 uva.00167 "A Prairie Sunset" was published first in the March 9, 1888 issue of the New York Herald. This manuscript was probably composed in early 1888, shortly before the poem's publication.

"A Prairie Sunset" was published first in the March 9, 1888 issue of the New York Herald.

 Whitman, Walt A Prairie Sunset Early 1888 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. updated relations encoding regularized name for infrastructure corrected, updated date attributes proofed updated list of staff in titleStmt converted, added schematron declaration Added third digit to leaf numbers Added date Blessed Edited Checked, revised Encoded Transcribed sent to Herald March 2 A Prairie sunset. Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling silver, emerald, fawn, The earth's whole amplitude and Nature's multiform power consigned for once to colors The light, the very air diffused in possess'd by them,—colors till now unknown No limits, confines—not the western, the sky alone—the high meridian—north, south, all, Pure, varied, brilliant colors, varied, fused and brilliant, fighting the silent, shadows to the last.