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Whitman Archive Title: The Old World
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Whitman Archive ID: duk.00142
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Repository ID: MS f 37
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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Date: 1890
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
A partial draft of Whitman's essay "Shakespeare for America," which was first published in the magazine
Poet-Lore
on September 15, 1890. The piece would later be reprinted in the
Critic
(titled "Shakspere for America") on September 27, 1890, and then included in Whitman's
Good-Bye My Fancy
in 1891 and
Complete Prose Works
in 1892. On the reverse is a letter from John W. Cook, dated 9 February 1890.
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