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I want no more of

  • Whitman Archive Title: I want no more of
  • Whitman Archive ID: med.00782
  • Repository: Catalog of Unlocated Walt Whitman Manuscripts
  • Date: Before or early in 1855
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: number of leaves unknown, handwritten
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  • Content: The language and ideas in this manuscript are reminiscent of phrases and ideas Whitman used in the preface to the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass , suggesting that this manuscript was composed before or early in 1855. Compare, in particular, the following passages from that edition: "the air they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors" (p. iii); "the President's taking off his hat to them not they to him" (p. iii); and "take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men" (p. vi). The manuscript has not been located and is known only from a transcription in Walt Whitman's Workshop , ed. Clifton J. Furness (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1928), 55.
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