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[The Epos of a Life]

  • Whitman Archive Title: [The Epos of a Life]
  • Whitman Archive ID: dar.00001
  • Repository: Catalog of a Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscript in the The Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College
  • Date: about 1867
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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  • Content: This draft is related to "Inscription," the prefatory poem of the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass , which was later revised as "Small the Theme of My Chant." The smaller leaf, bearing a revised first line, was formerly pasted to the larger leaf. Other manuscripts held at the Library of Congress (Charles E. Feinberg Collection) and the New York Public Library (Oscar Lion Collection) open with the same revised line, though the published poem does not.
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