As in a Swoon a machine readable transcription Walt Whitman Kenneth M. Price Ed Folsom Transcription and encoding Nicole Gray Nick Krauter Andrew Jewell Jennifer R. Overkamp Kenneth M. Price Brett Barney 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 2003 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 yal.00004 "As in a Swoon" was published first in the 1876 printing of Leaves of Grass. Though the poem was not included in any subsequent editions of Leaves, Whitman did include it in the 1891 volume Good-Bye My Fancy and as one of the few poems in the 1892 volume Complete Prose Works. Whitman likely wrote this manuscript between 1872 and 1876, after the publication of the 1872 edition of Leaves of Grass and before the poem's publication in the 1876 edition.

"As in a Swoon" was published first in the 1876 printing of Leaves of Grass. Though the poem was not included in any subsequent editions of Leaves, Whitman did include it in the 1891 volume Good-Bye My Fancy and as one of the few poems in the 1892 volume Complete Prose Works.

 Whitman, Walt As in a Swoon Between 1872 and 1876 Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Transcribed from digital images of the original. Unknown Horace Traubel updated relations encoding regularized name for infrastructure adjusted cert on date blessed checked, corrected, adjusted handNote encoding updated list of staff in titleStmt; corrected miscellaneous validation errors converted, added schematron declaration Added third digit to leaf numbers Addition of Date and Work Markup Addition of Date and Work Markup Conversion to camel-case Blessed Edited Checked; revised Transcribed; encoded see notes April 9 1891 As in a Swoon. As in a swoon, one instant, Another sun, ineffable, full-dazzles me, And all the orbs I knew, with brighter, unknown orbs, ten thousand fold, One instant of the future land— Heeaven's Heaven's land. Is this pub'd? is it in L of G—or annex? 56. —5¾—