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After all, not to create only
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Whitman Archive Title: After all, not to create only
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Whitman Archive ID: tex.00069
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin
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Folder: bv1
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Series: Works, 1846-1913 and undated
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Date: about 1871
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 29 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
Draft of the poem "After
all, Not to Create Only," written for the opening of the
fortieth Annual Exhibition of the American Institute in 1871 and
published on 7 September 1871 in both the
New York Commercial Advertiser
and the
New York Evening
Post.
It was reprinted in several newspapers and as a
pamphlet,
After All, Not to
Create Only
(1871); as "Song of the Exposition" in
Two Rivulets
(1876); and
with some revisions in
Leaves
of Grass
(1881–82). Sheets from the pamphlet were included
in some copies of the 1871
Leaves of Grass.
A note at the top of the manuscript,
written by Whitman's friend William Sloane Kennedy, indicates that it
was used as printer's copy for the pamphlet publication.
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