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Whitman Archive Title: The Biography
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Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00082
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Repository: Catalog of the Literary Manuscripts in The Oscar Lion Collection of Walt Whitman, The New York Public Library
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Date: about 1867
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 18 by 11 cm, handwritten
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Content:
Heavily revised draft of the poem "When I Read the Book" that extends onto
the verso. The poem was first published in the 1867
edition of
Leaves of
Grass
before being revised for inclusion in the "Inscriptions" cluster of the 1871 edition. This draft seems to correspond more closely to the earlier version of the poem, although it contains several lines that do not appear in either version.
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