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wandering savage, / A farmer, mechanic, or artist . . . . a gentleman, sailor, lover or quaker, / A prisoner
to this title was City of Walks and Joys, the name he originally assigned to Calamus 18 in his Blue Book
This title was changed in the Blue Book to City of orgies, walks and joys and finally became City of
1856poetryprose1 leafhandwritten; This prose manuscript includes the line "Which is the poem or any book
content of this manuscript, in which Whitman writes that true knowledge and experience do not come from books
and held at Duke University (The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book
Books, as now produced
native of Sumatra," and Andrew Lawson has noted that Whitman apparently picked up the reference from a book
Whitman mentioned the book in a conversation with Horace Traubel on December 9, 1889 (With Walt Whitman
After running through the Sun, it seems to me it would pay handsomely to print it in a neat 25 cent book
S.," a book very full of knowledge both useful and entertaining, we extract some queer exemplifications
Caskey, Caskey's Book: Lectures on Great Subjects, Selected from the Numerous Efforts of that Powerful
Retribution was her first book and was initially published serially in the New Era in 1849.
Caskey, Caskey's Book: Lectures on Great Subjects, Selected from the Numerous Efforts of that Powerful
Retribution was her first book and was initially published serially in the New Era in 1849.; Our transcription