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The Last Years. Whitman on himself as an American poet, “Specimen Days,” “A Backward Glance O’er Travel’d Roads,” “You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me,” “Old Age’s Lambent Peaks,” “After the Supper and Talk,” “The Dismantled Ship,” and others. Strokes in 1888, with death in 1892. The funeral procession and burial.
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Whitman, “A Backward Glance O’er Travel’d Roads,” Library, 672.
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Whitman, “Specimen Days,” Library, 706–07.
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Whitman, “You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me,” Library, 633.
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Whitman, “Old Age’s Lambent Peaks,” Library, 635.
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Whitman, “After the Supper and Talk,” Library, 636.
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Whitman, “The Dismantled Ship,” Library, 634.
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Whitman, “Old Poets,” Library, 1252–53.
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 458–62.
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 461–66.
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Whitman, “As They Draw to a Close,” Library, 607–08.
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Whitman, “As the Time Draws Nigh,” Library, 597.
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Whitman, “Song at Sunset,” Library, 602–04.
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Whitman, “A Clear Midnight,” Library, 596.
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 462–79.
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 480.
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Wagner-Martin, L. (2021). The Last Years. In: Walt Whitman. Literary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77665-7_17
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