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Remembrances I plant American ground

  • Whitman Archive Title: Remembrances I plant American ground
  • Whitman Archive ID: duk.00029
  • Repository ID: MS q 27
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: The draft poetic lines in this manuscript includes some language similar to wording in the first and final poems in the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass , eventually titled "Song of Myself" and "Great are the Myths." On the reverse (duk.00884) is a list of rivers, lakes, and cities that likely contributed to "Poem of Salutation" in the 1856 edition of Leaves .

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