[Established poems have the very great]

Whitman Archive Title: [Established poems have the very great]
Whitman Archive ID: uch.00002
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Prose Manuscripts in the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Date: about 1884
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten; printed
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Content: A manuscript fragment composed on the verso of a page of a program or journal of the American Social Sciences Association, dated 1883–1884. This manuscript appears to be a draft fragment of "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads," the introductory essay which first appeared in November Boughs (1888). "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd roads" became the closing essay for Leaves of Grass , appearing in both the 1889 and 1892 printings of that work.