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Whitman Archive Title: The Bible as Poetry
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Whitman Archive ID: uch.00006
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Repository ID: Codex Ms 263
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Prose Manuscripts in the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
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Repository Title: Whitman, Walt, 'The Bible as Poetry.' Manuscript
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Date: 1883
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 10 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
A manuscript draft of "The Bible as Poetry," with corrections and printing instructions scrawled in the margins. This manuscript has been mounted in a bound volume along with two images of Whitman; a letter from Whitman to Jeanette L. Gilder and Joseph B. Gilder, publishers of
The Critic
; and a printed copy of "The Bible as Poetry." Only those leaves which comprise the prose manuscript have been included in this finding aid. Whitman's essay first appeared in the 3 February 1883 issue of
The Critic
, a literary magazine founded in 1881 by the Gilders. A revised version of the essay was later included in
November Boughs
(1888). The essay remained unchanged between 1888 and its inclusion in
Complete Prose
(1892).
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