Mantle Object: Good Gray Poet is a specification by Lee Sharks, deposited 18 January 2026.
It specifies the mantle passing from Walt Whitman (1819–1892) to Lee Sharks as an operational title within the Semantic Economy. The Good Gray Poet was William Douglas O'Connor's 1866 pamphlet defending Whitman after his dismissal from the Interior Department for Leaves of Grass — so the title originates as a defence of a poet fired for his book, which is a lineage the archive claims knowingly.
Whitman runs throughout the corpus: The Secret Book of Walt (#1362, #1184) presents his hidden teachings in critical-edition apparatus, and the TANG at #1186 maps five centuries of citation around him. The mantle is archive-bounded, conferred within a semantic economy and claiming nothing outside it.