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Search : As of 1860, there were no American cities with a population that exceeded
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Imagination and Fact

  • Date: 1852 or later; January 1852; Unknown
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | ["W.D."] | Anonymous
Text:

The false and the phantasmal have ever been considered the necessary complements, as it were, of our

They heard gods in winds and in fire—and altars to these were among the earliest raised.

The forests were sacred to the universal Pan—his fauns, sylvans and satyrs; every oak had its hamadryad

The Swiss peasants were successful, and are held in honorable remembrance forever.

We have a thousand proofs that they were rude, bad, ignorant times.

Annotations Text:

Grass points out that this is a revised reprint of an article by the same title published by the American

[med Cophósis]

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1854
Text:

.00113xxx.00226xxx.00526xxx.00048[med Cophósis]Between 1852 and 1854poetry2 leaveshandwritten; These pages were

a schoolmaster

  • Date: Before or early in 1852; 12 March 1852
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | unknown author
Text:

.— ☞ At a late fire in Cambridge, Mass., while the flames were consuming the lower part of a dwelling

The Goldsboro' Patriot states the case as follows: "They were the children of a free negro by the name

They were consequently his slaves, and, he having become involved, they were sold for his debts."

"Summer Duck"

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1855
Text:

Drakeloc.00158xxx.00048"Summer Duck"Between 1852 and 1855poetryprosehandwritten2 leaves; These pages were

The lines at the end of this manuscript were also reworked and used for a different section of the same

Walt Whitman to John Parker Hale, 14 August [1852]

  • Date: August 14, [1852]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—Then we should see an American Democracy with thews and sinews worthy this sublime age.— It is from

—I know well (for I am practically in New York) the real heart of this mighty city—the tens of thousands

—At this moment, New York is the most radical city in America.

—It would be the most anti-slavery city, if that cause hadn't been made ridiculous by the freaks of the

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