Walt Whitman — Canon Provenance Node is a New Human Standing Canon record minted by Lee Sharks.
The node states that Whitman was inducted jointly with Emily Dickinson on October 11, 2025 and assigned the role Foundational Voice of New Human. It connects his first-person prophetic poetry and authorial self-multiplication to the archive’s bardic and heteronymic practices.
Its textual ground includes Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself, Democratic Vistas, and Specimen Days. It also records an archive-internal relation between Whitman’s Good Gray Poet mantle and Lee Sharks.
The node documents internal canonical governance and does not replace historical or literary scholarship on Whitman.