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Whitman Archive Title: the most definitely
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Whitman Archive ID: duk.00945
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Repository ID: MS 4 to 196 (Volume 196)
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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Date: 1855
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
This prose fragment appears to be part of a draft of the essay, written by Whitman, titled "An English and an American Poet." Whitman published the essay anonymously in the
American Phrenological Journal
in October 1855, and he also printed and included it with other reviews in some copies of the 1855 edition of
Leaves of Grass
. He printed the review yet again in a section of reviews called "Opinions. 1855–6" at the end of the 1856 edition. A prose note (duk.00154) is written on the back of the manuscript leaf.
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