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Whitman Archive Title: America
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00006
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
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Box: 26
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Folder: America (1888). A.MS. Draft.
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Series: Literary File
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Date: between 1870 and 1892
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 18.5 x 21.5 cm, handwritten
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Content:
Despite the title, this manuscript does not appear to be a draft of the
poem, "America,"
published in 1888, but it has been published
separately and posthumously as "[America]" and begins "No Homer, Shakspere,
Voltaire." This manuscript was likely composed in the last two decades
of Whitman's career (roughly 1870-1892) when he was more apt to
mention other writers explicitly in his poetry.
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