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A Whitman manuscript from the Albert M. Bender collection of Mills College.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 (Author)
Corporate Authors: Mills College. Library, Eucalyptus Press (Printer), Press Collection (Library of Congress), Carolyn Wells Houghton Whitman Collection (Library of Congress), Frederic W. Goudy Collection (Library of Congress)
Other Authors: Bender, Albert M. (Albert Maurice), 1866-1941, Lewis, Oscar, 1893-1992 (writer of foreword.), Gulick, Sidney L. (Sidney Lewis), 1902-1988
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [California] : The Bibliophile Society of Mills College, MCMXXXIX [1939]
Subjects:
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Technique.
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Manuscripts.
American poetry > 19th century > Technique.
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892.
Technique.
Table of Contents:
  • Reproduction of Whitman's manuscript (frontispiece)
  • Foreword by Oscar Lewis
  • After the sea-ship (the poem as published in Leaves of grass)
  • Whitman's revisions, by Sidney L. Gulick, Jr.
  • Waves in the vessel's wake (the revised reading of the poem)
  • Readings of canceled words.