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Our Old Feuillage

  • Whitman Archive Title: Our Old Feuillage
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.00242
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
  • Box: 28
  • Folder: Our Old Feuillage (1860). A.MS. corrected pages.
  • Series: Literary File
  • Date: between 1876-1881
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 6 leaves, 20.5 x 12.5 cm, handwritten
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  • Content: A bound copy of six leaves (the poem "American Feuillage") from the 1876 edition of Leaves of Grass with multiple corrections and revisions, including the change of the title to "Our Old Feuillage." The revisions reflect the poem as it appeared in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass . "Our Old Feuillage" has also been titled "A Chant of National Feuillage" and "Chants Democratic" No. 4.

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