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Whitman Archive Title: Theme for piece
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Whitman Archive ID: duk.00045
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Repository ID: MS q 22
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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Date: about 1869
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
An outline for a poem on various types of music, potentially related to
"Proud Music of the
Storm" and/or "The
Mystic Trumpeter." The poem "The Mystic Trumpeter" was first published in
The Kansas Magazine
of
February 1872. "Proud Music of the Storm" was first published in the
Atlantic Monthly
in February 1869.
The reverse contains cancelled notes about a stanza to describe a triumphal
instrumental and vocal chorus corresponding to that of man triumphing over
temptation and weakness.
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