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Poetry to-day in America
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Whitman Archive Title: Poetry to-day in America
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Whitman Archive ID: fol.00002
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Repository ID: S.a.106
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in Folger Shakespeare Library
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Repository Title: Poetry today in America--Shakespeare--the future [manuscript], 1881
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Date: 1881
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 8 leaves, printed; handwritten
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Content:
Page proofs of Whitman's essay "The Poetry of the Future" with numerous corrections in Whitman's hand. The essay appeared in the February 1881 issue of
The North American Review
. These corrections were made after the piece's initial publication, and reflect changes that Whitman made before the essay was retitled "Poetry to-day in America—Shakspere—the Future" and included in
Specimen Days
in 1882. It would also be reprinted in
Complete Prose Works
(1892).
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