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"You Tides with Ceaseless Swell": A Reading of the Manuscript

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Argues against common, negative assumptions about Whitman's later poetry by defending the value of Whitman's eight "Fancies at Navesink" poems; compares the published versions to manuscript drafts of the poems to demonstrate that Whitman, in his later years, "reached a level of formal art that had eluded him before."

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How to Cite: Sill, G. M. (1989) “"You Tides with Ceaseless Swell": A Reading of the Manuscript”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 6(4). doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1224