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Whitman Archive Title: As of Eternity
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Whitman Archive ID: uva.00307
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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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Folder: 50-51
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Date: 1857-1859
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten
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Content:
On two leaves of pink paper, both 21 x 13 cm, in black ink, with minor revisions
in the same ink. Pinholes mostly in center and at top of both pages. This poem
became section 21 of "Calamus"
in 1860; the lines on the first manuscript page became verses 1-6, and those on
the second ("I hear not the volumes of/ sound merely—...") became 7-9. Retitled
"That Music Always Round
Me" in 1867, it was transferred in 1871 to the "Whispers of Heavenly Death"
cluster in
Passage to India.
In
1881 Whitman incorporated it, with the rest of the cluster, in the main body of
Leaves
.
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