1968/10/01 by Edward F. Grier
Arts and Humanities · #Digital Humanities and Scholarship #Poetry Analysis and Criticism #Publishing and Scholarly Communication
paper · doi:10.2307/1261319
openalex publication_date 1968/10/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Abstract The notebook, which disappeared from the Library of Congress sometime after its first, incomplete publication in 1921, has been described and analyzed from an imperfect microfilm copy. The new information discloses that, although the notebook was used until 1854–55, the traditional date of 1847 for most of the contents is correct. Although the notebook is close to the 1855 Leaves of Grass in its poetical material, it shows relatively little influence from specific events, politics, or literary ideas in Whitman's formative period.