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Whitman Archive Title: To a Literat
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Whitman Archive ID: uva.00114
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Repository ID: #3829-i
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts at the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia
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Box: 2
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Folder: 10
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Date: 1857-1859
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
The first two verses, taken more or less directly from a prose manuscript, "[Of Biography]," have no
revisions, but the remaining three verses represent a significant expansion of the
themes in the prose notes and are extensively revised. These verses, which precede
"[Walt Whitman's law]" in
the composition process, correspond, like "[Of Biography]," to section 13 of the 1860
version of the poem "Chants
Democratic and Native American" which was revised and permanently
retitled "Laws for Creations"
in 1872.
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