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Song of the Redwood Tree
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Whitman Archive Title: Song of the Redwood Tree
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Whitman Archive ID: uva.00064
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Repository ID: #3829
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts at the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia
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Box: 1
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Folder: 90
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Date: about 1873
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 20 leaves, 11 x 12.5 cm to 22.5 x 17.5 cm, handwritten
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Content:
This manuscript contains a rough draft of the poem "Song of the Redwood-Tree" written, according to a note
intialed by Whitman, during October and November 1873 prior to its first
publication in the February 1874 issue of
Harper's Magazine
. In 1876 the poem was published in
the group "Centennial Songs"
and annexed to
Two Rivulets
. The
poem appears ungrouped again in
Leaves of
Grass
(1881). Several leaves contain deleted and undeleted titles or
variant verse references to other published poems: "Eidólons", "Waves in the Vessel's Wake", "(a sonnet)" written "for
Century Verses," which appears from a Library of Congress manuscript to have been
a working title of the group that became "Centennial Verses" and "A California song".
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