1959
DOI: 10.2307/2922820
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Whitman and William Swinton: A Co-operative Friendship

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“…When writing "America's Mightiest Inheritance" Whitman, who was essentially monolingual, was being taught French by his friend William Swinton. With him he was also probably working on a text of etymologies entitled Rambles Among Words (cf Hollis, 1959)…”
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“…When writing "America's Mightiest Inheritance" Whitman, who was essentially monolingual, was being taught French by his friend William Swinton. With him he was also probably working on a text of etymologies entitled Rambles Among Words (cf Hollis, 1959)…”
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“…Carroll Hollis has argued that the Primer notes date from the early and middle months of 1856, for on the back of a green Pn'mer sheet Whitman drew two elaborate sketches for the spine of the 1856 edition of Leaves. 10 Given the connections between the salmon sheets used in Words and the Primer, then, we might be tempted to conclude that Whitman began the Words notebook before the publication of the 1856 Leaves. That conjecture becomes a near certainty when we consider the following words from a Primer saltnon sheet:…”
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