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Walt Whitman’s Notebooks. Ms. Clearman English Language Arts. Walt Whitman. American Poet, journalist, essayist, humanist May 31, 1819 – March 29, 1892 Transcendentalism and Realism. Whitman’s Notebooks. Used notebooks like most of us “regular” people Recorded literary lecture notes
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Walt Whitman’s Notebooks Ms. Clearman English Language Arts
Walt Whitman • American Poet, journalist, essayist, humanist • May 31, 1819 – March 29, 1892 • Transcendentalism and Realism
Whitman’s Notebooks • Used notebooks like most of us “regular” people • Recorded literary lecture notes • Drafts of poems • Wrote about national events (Lincoln’s assassination) • Wrote down the thoughts of wounded soldiers on the battlefield
Whitman’s notebooks cont. • Earlier entries included brainstorming regarding possible future articles • Some notebooks were massive collages in which he cut out pictures and pasted them onto a page
Whitman’s Notebooks Cont. • Who found these notebooks? • Thomas B. Harned • Many universities have collections of his notebooks also: • Duke University • Yale University • New York Public Library
Lost Notebooks • Many of the pages turned up missing • Why? • No one knows • Find out more about Whitman’s lost pages at loc.gov
Work’s Cited • Picture 1 • Picture 2 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=whitman&fileName=wwhit080.data&recNum=0&Layout=Unscaled • Picture 3 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/whitman/080/080020a.jpg • Picture 4 http://img.flipkart.com/bk_imgs/015/9781410222015.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/i?pp/ils:@field(NUMBER+ @band(cph+3b24247)):displayType=1:m856sd=cph:m856sf= 3b24247