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[The Epos of a Life]

  • Whitman Archive Title: [The Epos of a Life]
  • Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00521
  • Repository: Catalog of the Literary Manuscripts in The Oscar Lion Collection of Walt Whitman, The New York Public Library
  • Date: 1865–1871
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
  • View Images: 1
  • Content: A cancelled poetry manuscript that is related to "Inscription," the prefatory poem of the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass , which was later revised as "Small the Theme of My Chant." Other manuscripts held at Dartmouth and the Library of Congress (Charles E. Feinberg) open with the same revised line, though the published poem does not. An image of the verso is unavailable.
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