1854 Alexander Smith's Poems

Whitman Archive Title: 1854 Alexander Smith's Poems
Whitman Archive ID: mid.00015
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Middlebury College Library Special Collections & Archives
Box: Abernethy Miscellaneous Manuscripts W-Z
Folder: Whitman, Walt: Bound Manuscripts
Date: 1854-1855
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1, handwritten
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Content: This is a note on Scottish poet Alexander Smith and American poet Bayard Taylor. Whitman describes one passage from Smith about "a great forthcoming Poet"; Whitman quoted this passage in his "An English and an American Poet" published in the American Phrenological Journal in October 1855.