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Why need genius and the

  • Whitman Archive Title: Why need genius and the
  • Whitman Archive ID: med.00741
  • Repository: Catalog of Unlocated Walt Whitman Manuscripts
  • Date: About 1855
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: number of leaves unknown, handwritten
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  • Content: The content of this manuscript, which is known only from a transcription published by Richard Maurice Bucke in Notes and Fragments (London, Ontario: A. Talbot & Co., printers, 1899), 103, appeared in slightly revised form in the prose preface to the 1855 first edition of Leaves of Grass . The date of composition is therefore probably just before 1855.
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