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Whitman Archive Title: Death of Gen. Grant
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00089
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, The Library of Congress
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Date: ca. 1888
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
A draft of the poem "Death of
General Grant." The poem was first published in
Harper's Weekly Magazine
on May 16, 1885 under the title "As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors." It was later reprinted as "Grant" in the
Critic
on August 15, 1885. It finally appeared, in an altered form and under the title "Death of General Grant," in "Sands at Seventy" (first a part of
November Boughs
[1888] and then as an annex to the 1889 reprinting of
Leaves of Grass
). Since this manuscript is titled "Death of Gen. Grant" and does not contain the poem's second verse (which Whitman cut from the "Sands at Seventy" version) it is likely that this copy was written in or around 1888, despite the note (in another hand) placing the date at 1885.
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