''Passage to India'' is a poetry collection published by
Walt Whitman
Walter Whitman (; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among t ...
in 1871. The first edition was 120 pages long and held seventy-four poems, including twenty-three or twenty-four first published in the collection. Whitman likely intended the work as a supplementary volume to his collection ''
Leaves of Grass'' and included it as part of some copies of that year's edition of ''Leaves of Grass''. The following year all of the supplement was included as part of ''Leaves of Grass'', but it was a separate volume for the 1876 edition and the supplement ''
Two Rivulets'' was instead included as part of ''Leaves of Grass''. In the 1881 ''Leaves of Grass'' both the poems contained in ''Passage to India'' and ''Two Rivulets'' were distributed throughout ''Leaves of Grass''.
The poetry collection's title poem, "Passage to India", was Whitman's last major poem. Whitman wrote it in 1869 after the
Suez Canal
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was first opened.
E. M. Forster titled ''
A Passage to India'', a 1924 novel, after the poem.
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