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The new theologies bring forward

  • Whitman Archive Title: The new theologies bring forward
  • Whitman Archive ID: med.00746
  • Repository: Catalog of Unlocated Walt Whitman Manuscripts
  • Date: Before or early in 1855
  • Genre: prose, poetry
  • Physical Description: number of leaves unknown, handwritten
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  • Content: This manuscript, known only from a transcription published by Clifton Joseph Furness in Walt Whitman's Workshop: A Collection of Unpublished Manuscripts (Harvard University Press, 1928), 43, includes lines that appeared, in a slightly altered form, in the preface to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass , and later in the poem eventually titled "By Blue Ontario's Shore," first published in the 1856 edition of Leaves as "Poem of Many in One." The date of the manuscript is therefore probably before or early in 1855.
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