Passage to India (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Walt Whitman
- First Published: 1871
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Traveling or travelers, Voyages, Nineteenth century, Science or scientists, India or East Indian people, East and West, Railroads, Technology, Engineering, Telegraphs, Canals
The Poem
“Passage to India” was first published in 1871 as the title piece in a book of seventy-five poems (twenty-three of them new) that were subsequently incorporated into the 1876 edition of Leaves of Grass as a separately paginated supplement. Slightly revised, the poem became an integral part of Leaves of Grass in 1881 despite Walt Whitman’s having conceived “Passage to India” as well as the poems he planned to add to it as marking a new and quite different direction. Leaves of Grass, he contended, was the song of “the Body and...
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