[Funeral Sounds] | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: [Funeral Sounds]
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00200
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Box: 27
Folder: Funeral Sounds (1888). A.MS. draft.
Series: Literary File
Date: about 1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Early draft of a poem that was first published as "Over and Through the Burial Chant" in 1888. It was later published with the title "Interpolation Sounds." The poem was written on the occasion of General Philip Sheridan's death in 1888.