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Broadaxe
Whitman Archive Title:
Broadaxe
Whitman Archive ID:
duk.00033
Repository ID:
II-5 12
Repository:
Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Date:
about 1856
Genre:
poetry
Physical Description:
1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
Notes written in three separate columns about the uses and history of the broadaxe. "The Broad-Axe Poem" first appeared in
Leaves of Grass
(1856), taking the title "Song of the Broad-Axe" in 1867.
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