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leaf; A draft entitled This Journey (the manuscript suggests Whitman was also considering the title My
It was publised with the revised title in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). Interpolation Sounds
The Pallid Wreath, which was published in the Critic 18 (10 January 1891) and reprinted in Good-Bye My
The poem is one of the thiry-one poems included in Second Annex--Good-Bye My Fancy, 1891–1892.
27From My Last Years (1876).
Printed Copiesloc.04092xxx.00494From My Last Yearsabout 1876poetryhandwritten1 leaf5 x 13.25 cm; Written
paper cut from the bottom of a larger sheet to which has been attached a clipping of the poem, From My
From My Last Years
Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads was drawn from three previously published pieces (A Backward Glance on My
Own Road [1884], How I Made a Book [1886], and My Book and I [1887]).
in his "Second Annex," titled Good-Bye My Fancy, to the 1891 edition of Leaves of Grass.
The pencil note "Sail Out for good, Eidólon Yacht / Good Bye My Fancy / Page 7" appears in the lower
published in Have We a National Literature, (North American Review, 152, March 1891), and in Good-bye My
Although the poem was unpublished in its entirety, the seventh line was used in the poem To My Soul,
This was revised to become section 40 of Calamus in 1860; in 1867 it was retitled That Shadow, My Likeness
before being collected in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). [Then Another and very grave point]
to my Notes" is written along the top of the page.
Some lines in this manuscript can also be found in [I just spin out my notes], another prose manuscript
Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads was drawn from three previously published pieces (A Backward Glance on My
Own Road [1884], How I Made a Book [1886], and My Book and I [1887]).
Whitman used lines from Pictures for the poem My Picture-Gallery, first published in Leaves of Grass
and I1886 or 1887prose22 leaveshandwritten; A late-stage draft, with printer's notes, of the essay My
My Book and I
hun.00011xxx.00320HM 11207Queries To My Seventieth YearTo my seventieth year1888poetry1 leafhandwritten
; Heavily revised draft, signed, of Queries to My Seventieth Year, a poem first published in the May
Queries To My Seventieth Year
Poet.1870-1874poetry1 leafhandwritten; Annotated draft of the untitled poem that begins Come, said my
1850 and 1855poetry1 leafhandwritten; Whitman revised this poetic fragment and used it in Who Learns My
Review in November 1890 and later reprinted in the Pall Mall Gazette (17 November 1890) and in Good-Bye My
27O Earth, My Likeness (1860).
A.MS. draft.loc.00225xxx.00099[O Earth, my likeness]1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf20.5 x 16 cm; A draft
of the poem first published as Calamus, No. 36 in 1860 (Earth, My Likeness in the final version of Leaves
[O Earth, my likeness]
General Philip Henry Sheridan's death (on August 5), and later as Interpolation Sounds in Good-Bye My
which was first published in the August 16, 1890 issue of the Critic and later reprinted in Good-Bye My
prefatory poem of the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass, which was later revised as Small the Theme of My
leaveshandwritten; Lightly revised printer's copy of For Queen Victoria's Birthday, which was published in Good-Bye My
26Death Dogs My Steps (1890).
A.MS. draft.loc.00120xxx.00406Death Dogs My Stepsabout March 3, 1890poetryhandwritten1 leaf12 x 19 cm
; Draft of Death Dogs My Steps written in ink on the inside of a discarded and opened out envelope, addressed
Death Dogs My Steps
Grass (1891–92), lines from this manuscript appear in both One's-Self I Sing and Small the Theme of My
the first page correspond to verses 1-3 of the 1860 version, and those on the second page ("Publish my
name and hang up/ my picture...") to lines 4-11.
The essay was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) before finally being collected in Complete Prose
revision, appeared in the eleventh poem in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, later titled Who Learns My
by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with And there, 'The Scout', and Drops of my
included in any subsequent editions of Leaves of Grass, Whitman did include it in the 1891 volume Good-Bye My
Old Poets and the New Poetry in Pall Mall Gazette (17 November 1890), before it appeared in Good-Bye My
of Grass, named Lesson Poem in 1856 and finally, beginning with 1871's Passage to India, Who Learns My
of the lines only to reintroduce them in Sands at Seventy (1888), under the title Small the Theme of My
Both One's-self I Sing and Small the Theme of My Chant appeared in the 1892 edition of Leaves of Grass
This manuscript contributed to American's Bulk Average, which first appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891
Portions of this manuscript appeared in Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings, first published in Good-Bye My
cm; These lines appear to be very early ideas connected with the poem first published as Come, said my
, and My Picture-Gallery, are 14 words of notations in Whitman's hand.
On the reverse (nyp.00100) is a fragment related to the poem eventually titled Who Learns My Lesson Complete
the poems in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, later titled A Song for Occupations and Who Learns My
Grass, ultimately titled Song of Myself: "And I know that the spirit of God is the eldest brother of my
Old Chants first appeared in Truth (19 March 1891), and was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).
prefatory poem of the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass, which was later revised as Small the Theme of My
leafhandwritten; Manuscript notes, heavily revised, apparently for the preface to Whitman's 1891 volume Good-Bye My
It was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy in 1891, with the additional note: "General Sheridan was buried
This is a draft of the essay Whitman later published as American National Literature in Good-Bye My Fancy
Critic (titled Shakspere for America) on September 27, 1890, and then included in Whitman's Good-Bye My
verses in this notebook were published posthumously as [I Stand and Look], Ship of Libertad, and Of My
South"—which was first published in theMay, 1890 Century and then included in the second annex Good-Bye My
of the lines only to reintroduce them in Sands at Seventy (1888), under the title Small the Theme of My
Both One's-self I Sing and Small the Theme of My Chant appeared in the 1891-92 edition of Leaves of Grass