Manuscript/Mixed Material Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, 1841-1892; Undated; “On Literature, Mainly American,” draft
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Image 1 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, … FEINBERGWHITMAN Box 36 Folder 42 LITERARY FILE Prose On Literature Mainly American undated AMSdraft DEN 131- Date: 1841
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Image 2 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, … 835 ON LITERATURE MAINLY AMERICAN notes AMS 11p 25 x 20 cm largest Some ideas as to literature jotted down at different times But America may well demand that writers here those…- Date: 1841
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Image 3 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, … U Is Have also to assure that is is quite indifferent whether you conform to please or displease ay boy What do you suppose with are to they disappear like a grand…- Date: 1841
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Image 4 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, … Corner of South 2D and Fourth Streets City of Williamsburgh Dr- Date: 1841
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Image 5 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, … Such tests applied we perceive the astonishing spectacle of These States with the most heroic copious and original supply of their own native lifeblood lifemotion and lifematerial but yet with the exception…- Date: 1841
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Image 6 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, … all bound up in a standing for lands foreign to us and a spirit foreign no one the natural and free growth of our own soil â no one the new phases…- Date: 1841
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Image 7 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, … Literature means I say in the same haste the expression taking this own eternal native permanent shape of the body and contents and especially the idiocracy and spirit of a nation â…- Date: 1841
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Image 8 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, … Is Literature forever to propose no higher object than to amuse to just away the time I not propose to stave off ennui amaze you except in that highest amusement the but…- Date: 1841
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Image 9 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, … In the creative field of Literature especially Do by In my opinion the United States under its new and enlarged conditions with this important constitutional readjustments embodying the experiences of this century…- Date: 1841
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Image 10 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, … In a brief passage give a description of do justice to Modern Literature its best leading features- Date: 1841
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Image 11 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, … Literature pages 2456 German Lit I do not demand or or It is not so much to be demanded or to insist today America may not demand of literary expression that is…- Date: 1841
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Image 12 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, … impossible to resist to be carried along by which is glorious it derived from is from the the general buoyancy intensity of the spirit of life So the portraiture of individual specimens…- Date: 1841
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Image 13 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, … The prairies the the mighty generic race that is rapidly so swiftly upon them all absorb soul the splendid prophecy of the west in its material facts alone survey these their us…- Date: 1841
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Image 14 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, … I fully join in the complaint that for years past men of capacity honor dignity have been altogether driven from politics have left that important vital field to most the low wily…- Date: 1841
About this Item
Title
- Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, 1841-1892; Undated; “On Literature, Mainly American,” draft
Created / Published
- 1841 - 1919
Headings
- - Poets
- - American literature
- - American poetry
- - American prose literature
- - Collectors
- - Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of grass. 1855
- - Manuscripts
- - United States
Genre
- Manuscripts
Call Number/Physical Location
- series: Literary File, 1841-1919
- mss18630, box 36; reel 23-24
Source Collection
- Walt Whitman papers in the Charles E. Feinberg collection
Repository
- Manuscript Division
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Online Format
- online text
- image