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Whitman Archive Title: hexameters
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Whitman Archive ID: uva.00603
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts at the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia
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Box: 1
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Folder: 88
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Date: Between 1850 and 1860
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12.5 x 20 cm, handwritten
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These notes about verse forms are similar to notes in rut.00022 ("dithyrambic trochee"), a manuscript currently housed at Rutgers University. Edward Grier posits that the Rutgers manuscript probably dates to around 1856, when Whitman was pursuing a self-education in poetry (
Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
[New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:355–356). These manuscript notes may also date to that period, although the draft lines on the reverse of the leaf, which were probably written before 1855, may suggest a slightly earlier date. Draft lines on the back of this manuscript leaf (uva.00263) relate to the poem ultimately titled "Song of Myself."
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