FEINBERG/WHITMAN LITERARY FILE  [ * Prose "Expressions of Poetry" (undated).  Proof clipping.

Box 36 Folder 14

[ * Includes A. MS. corrections. * ]

[ * 457 * ]

Expressions of Poetry: prose.  A. MS. corrections. (1p.
13 1/2 x  15 1/2 cm.)

Written in ink and red ink on a slip from a larger sheet,
on the back of which WW has written in purple pencil and cancelled 
29 words 9'head of all     more than all of them. [I think the 
time has arrived to cease picking out a abnormal [Neth] Neither 
will I have any exceptionality of ')]. to which has been pasted two
small slips of proof.  The 22 A. MS> words are underlined, the printed
portions on regular type:

Many consider [Many consider] the expressions  of [poetry and 
art] verse to come under certain inflexible standards, [set] patterns,
/ fixed and immovable, like iron castings.

To a free sense, however,
the melange of existence is but an eternal font of type, and may
be set up to any text, however different--with room and welcome, at
whatever time, for new compositors.

(and now and [here] in the West above all)
.....[just as the old poems]

[*?*]

Many consider [Many consider] the expressions of [poetry and art] verse to come 
under certain inflexible standards, [set] patterns, / fixed and 
immovable, like iron castings.

To a free sense, 
however,
the melange of existence is but an eternal font of type, and 
may be set up to any text, however different—with room and 
welcome, at whatever time, for new compositors.

[*(and now and [here] 
in the West above all)*] 

....[just as the old poems]

head of all of
more than all of them.
I think the time has arrived
to cease picking out abnormal
[NeM ?].  Neither will I have any
exceptionality of

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