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Guide to the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the Inventory of the Walt Whitman Ephemera, University of Tulsa
Processed by Sidney F. Huttner; machine-readable finding aid created by Gina L. B. Minks; revised and expanded by The Walt Whitman Archive and University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Encoded Archival Description completed through the assistance of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the University of Nebraska Research Council, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
Title: Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the Inventory of the Walt Whitman Ephemera, University of Tulsa
1863-1972
MS Number: N/A
Creator:
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Collector: Tulsa Bibliophiles
Repository: Department of Special Collections and Archives
Biographical Information:
For additional biographical information, see
"Walt Whitman," by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, and the
chronology of Whitman's Life.
Subjects: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892;
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts;
Poets, American--19th century;
Series Description and Item Lists
Item: 1
Whitman Archive ID: tul.00002
Boxes: 1
Folder: 2
Title: "[Poem—a perfect school]" and "[The three or four poets are well]"
Date: undated
Physical Description: 1 leaf
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Original autograph manuscript of Whitman's notes for a poem about "a perfect school." On the verso are lines, beginning "The three or four poets are well," that were included, in a revised form, in Whitman's poem "To Think of Time," first published without a title in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, as "Burial Poem" in 1856, "Burial" in 1860 and 1867, and under its final title in 1871.
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Repository Contact Information:
Department of Special Collections and Archives
McFarlin Library
University of Tulsa
2933 E. 6th Street
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104-3123