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draft of the early poem "The Play-Ground," nearly as it appeared in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on June 1,
of Whitman's early poem "The Play-Ground," which was published in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on June 1,
language at the beginning of this story also appears in the draft poem "I am that half-grown angry boy." 1
late 1840s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
drivers" (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
Watch Quartier Au Loete Swisse No. 51,575 1 3 0 00 50 A Ap 14 " 17 19 2 5 37 80 75 25 M Ju " s to 2n
Is picture enough nder Feb Ma 77 Jun Jul 79 -1 D 81 Amount rec'd received from Mr. V. A.
Edward Grier, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:
lines, as well as the "generic or cosmic or transcendental 'I'" that appears in Leaves of Grass (Grier, 1:
early 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
early in 1855 (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
Edward Grier [New York, New York University Press, 1984], 1:198).
relationship with 'A Song for Occupations' and 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry'" ( Notebooks and Unpublished Prose , 1:
Edward Grier, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:
and 1855 (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
and 1855 (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
manuscript (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
manuscript (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
1855 Leaves (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
early in 1855 (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
manuscript (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
or earlier (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
(Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:168).
early in 1855 (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
early in 1855 (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
1850s" (see Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
(Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:164).
early 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
Fragments (see Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
retreats beneath its half- powdered bones, A In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes, 1
early 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
1 Do you know why what m usic does to the soul?
1 American literature must become distinct from all others.
2 9A 1 dithyrambic trochee iambic anaepest.
The example for hexameter (at the bottom of leaf 1 recto) is taken from a line in Homer.
published in an 1846 issue of the American Whig Review ("Translators of Homer," American Whig Review 4, no. 1
Grier (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:355–356.
like page 2 1120) (7 7840 160 4 1160) 6400 (5 5800 600 2 for frontispiece & fly for title & blank 15—1
Hudson's 'Thoughts on Reading,' American Whig Review, 1 (May 1845), 483–496, which he clipped and annotated
" (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:95).
the 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
1854–1855" (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
before 1855" (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
that "the small writing suggests a date in the 1850s" (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:
details, see Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:
1 Slavery—the Slaveholders—The Constitution—the true America and Americans, the laboring persons.— The
See Grier, 1:141.
See Grier, (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:144.
Edward Grier, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:
the 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
the editorial entitled "Municipal Government" that appeared in the Brooklyn Daily Times on December 1,
1858 (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:345
the 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
the 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
the 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
tax form (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
Transcribed from Joel Myerson's The Walt Whitman Archive: A Facsimile of the Poet's Manuscripts, vol. 1,
earlier" (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
or 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
of Grass (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
of this leaf is a draft of a poem published first in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass as number 1
Grier [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:222).