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I sing the body digital.(Works in Progress)(representing Walt Whitman's works)(Brief article)

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From: American Scholar
Date: 20070622
Author:Beasley, Sandra

"Do I contradict myself?" Walt Whitman famously asked in Song of Myself "Very well, then.... I contradict myself; / I am large.... I contain multitudes." Since 1995, scholars at the Walt Whitman Archive have sought to digitize those multitudes, creating a complete and searchable collection of Whitman's published works (www.whitmanarchive.org). The archive already includes six American editions of Leaves of Grass, as well as the "deathbed" printing, along with manuscript drafts, journal reviews, and photographs of the poet.

Project co-director Kenneth Price, a professor of ...

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