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1881 edition, Whitman insisted on its facing "Song of Myself" because the portrait "is involved as part
Joel Myerson (New York: Garland, 1993), 2:522-523; Major American Authors on CD-Rom: Walt Whitman (Westport
Joel Myerson (New York: Garland, 1993), 2:522-523; Major American Authors on CD-Rom: Walt Whitman (Westport
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is to be poor, rather than rich—but to prefer death sooner than any mean dependence.— Prudence is part
of the new born child is greater than the woman's part— or where father than is more needful than a
And the world is no joke, Nor any part of it a sham, This passage contains a line directly related to
w ill you sting me most even at parting?
Myself: Walt Whitman and the Making of Leaves of Grass (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010), 2–
the Composition of Leaves of Grass: The 'Talbot Wilson' Notebook," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 20:2
—They are part of the organic motion of the city, for the life and health of it from head to foot.— WW
, the seat of sensation, doubtless the brain Liaison (lē-a-zohn), a binding or fastening together Part
and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became, / And that object became part
of him for the day or a certain part of the day . . . . or for many years or stretching cycles of years
The "voices" described in the last part of this section may relate to the following lines: "Through me
come to puzzle him—some come from curiosity—some from ironical contempt—his answers—his opinions ¶ 2
Whitman's reference to the sinking of the San Francisco indicates that this notebook, "or at least part
and published as My Picture-Gallery in The American in October 1880 and then in Leaves of Grass as part
P., dated Mexico, Jan. 2, 1854, and describing his successful attempt to ascend Popocatapetl in the depth
The crater is a vast basin, three miles in circumference and 900 feet deep; in some parts perpendicular