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Whitman Archive Title: Resurgemus
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00289
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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: 29
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Folder: Resurgemus (1850). Clipping.
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Series: Literary File
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Date: about 1884
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 2 leaves, 24.5 x 14.5 cm, handwritten
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Content:
A clipping from the September, 1884 issue of the London magazine
To-Day.
Printed in the
issue is Whitman's poem "Resurgemus," and in Whitman's hand are some corrections and
a bibliographic notation. The publication history of this poem is
unusual: it was published first as "Resurgemus" in 1850, then
untitled in the 1855 edition of
Leaves of Grass
, then as "Poem of The Dead Young Men of
Europe, the 72nd and 73rd Years of These States" in the 1856 edition, and as "Europe, The 72nd and 73rd Years of These
States" in the 1860 and subsequent editions.
The appearance of the poem in an 1884 periodical under an old title is
highly unusual.
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