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Others may praise what they like
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Whitman Archive Title: Others may praise what they like
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Whitman Archive ID: yal.00079
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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Box: 3
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Date: about 1865
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
This manuscript, a draft of "Others May Praise What They Like," was likely written shortly before the poem's publication in
Drum Taps
(1865). Perhaps because this poem did not treat the war, Whitman moved it from
Drum-Taps
into
Passage to India
, and ultimately into the "Autumn Rivulets" cluster of
Leaves of Grass
. On the back of the leaf is a fragment of an undated draft letter to an unspecified correspondent.
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