FEINBERG/WHITMAN  LITERARY FILE   Prose "My Poetry is more the Poetry of Sight than Sound" (1870's). A. MS. draft
Box 33 Folder 13 {[DCN?] 126)[My poems]
In [composing my poems in?] Leaves of Grass
and in Two [Riv????], I 
have [probably?] not so much emulated
the birds that [sweetly], 
musically sing, 
                      but have abandoned
myself to flights, [circle?] broad 
[free] circles. The hawk,
+ the sea gull have far 
more possess'd me 
than the Canary
or warbler or mocking 
bird. I have not a trill,
[laugh?] left to warble
however [pretty?] sweetly, but to 
soar in freedom and in
the fullness of [my] power, joy,
volitionIt is probable that, 
even in its verbal [e???] [tru?ti???] and rift
my poetry in more
the poetry of Light than 
Sound. (I have long
realized that the
eloquence and even passion
conveyed [?] the latter 
move of expression,
may be [outrie?] [?] the
former mode.)830
Cat. No. 33
My Poetry Is More the Poetry of Sight than Sound.
2p. 20 1/2 x 12 1/2 cm. AM
Feinburg Collection