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To Travel, II. Whitman’s journey to Denver, Colorado, and back, with much time in St. Louis and on the Mississipppi River and the Great Lakes. Touring Canada; staying in Boston while Leaves of Grass, new edition, is published, and then banned. Buys Mickle Street house in 1874. Discussion of “Unseen Buds,” “Grand Is the Seen,” “Joy, Shipmate, Joy!” “The Untold Want,” and others.
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Whitman, “New Senses—New Joys,” “Specimen Days,” Library, 856; see also 850–55.
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Whitman, “Art Features,” “Specimen Days,” Library, 858.
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Whitman, “St. Louis Memoranda,” “Specimen Days,” Library, 870.
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Whitman, “Nights on the Mississippi,” “Specimen Days,” Library, 871.
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Whitman, “Upon Our Own Land,” “Specimen Days,” Library, 872.
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 194–95.
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Whitman, “The Savage Saguenay,” “The Inhabitants—Good Living,” “Specimen.
Days,” Library, 881–84. Loving, Walt Whitman, 196–400.
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Whitman, “Specimen Days, “Library 689: “Incongruous and full of skips and jumps as is that huddle of diary-jottings, war-memoranda of 1862-’65, Nature notes of 1877-’81, with Western and Canadian observations afterwards, all bundled up and tied by a big string.”.
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 414–16.
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 439–41.
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 442–43.
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Whitman, “A Backward Glance O’er Travel’d Roads,” Library, 656–58.
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Whitman, “A Backward Glance O’er Travel’d Roads,” Library, 666.
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Roger Asselineau, The Evolution of Walt Whitman (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960): 252.
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Whitman, “Unseen Buds,” Library, 654.
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Whitman, “Grand Is the Seen,” Library, 653–54.
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Whitman, “L. of G.’s Purport,” Library, 612–13.
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Whitman, “Joy, Shipmate, Joy!,” Library, 608.
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Whitman, “The Untold Want,” “Now Finale to the Shore,” Library, 608.
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Whitman, “So Long!,” Library, 609–12.
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Anton Vander Zee. “Late Whitman: Critical Pasts, Critical Futures,” Resources for American Literary Study 40 (2018): 90–144, this 91.
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Karen Karbiener, “Introduction,” Leaves of Grass, xiv–xv.
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Whitman, “America,” Library, 616.
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Wagner-Martin, L. (2021). To Travel, II. In: Walt Whitman. Literary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77665-7_16
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