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Whitman Archive Title: [for the Notes]
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Whitman Archive ID: tex.00221
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin
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Box: 1
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Folder: 5
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Series: Works, 1846-1913 and undated
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Repository Title: For the notes…
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Date: about 1888
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
This short note refers to a passage in the third edition of Edward
FitzGerald's
The Rubáiyát of Omar
Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia,
published in
1872. Whitman quotes stanza 66 of FitzGerald's work in his
essay "Notes (such as they are) founded on
Elias Hicks," which was first published in
November Boughs
(1888) and later
reprinted in
Complete Prose Works
(1892). He had apparently intended to include, as a footnote
to his quotation, the next three stanzas of the Rubáiyát, but
these do not appear in the article as it was printed.
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