The Walt Whitman Archive
In Whitman's Hand
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About this Item
Title: The Nibelungen
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: 1850 or later
Whitman Archive ID: duk.00188
Source: Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Transcribed from digital images of the original item.Leaf is pasted onto the front board of this volume. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the marginalia and annotations, see our statement of editorial policy.
Editorial note: This leaf with a note in Whitman's hand is pasted on to the front board of Voices From the Press; A Collection of Sketches, Essays, and Poems, by Practical Printers, ed. James J. Brenton (New York: Charles B. Norton, 1850).
Contributors to digital file: Lauren Grewe, Nicole Gray, Ty Alyea, and Matt Cohen
Key
| Paste-on | | Whitman's Notes on Paste-on | | Whitman's Highlighting on Paste-on | | Erasure | | Overwrite |
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vast passions of man, with
play of heat & cold & storm,
like undercurrents, or volcanos,
or stormy seas.
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The Nibelungen