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The singer in the prison
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Whitman Archive Title: The singer in the prison
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Whitman Archive ID: hun.00010
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Repository ID: HM 11206
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
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Repository Title: The singer in the prison
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Date: about 1869
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 4 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
This is draft of "The Singer in
the Prison," a poem first published in December 25, 1869 issue of
Saturday Evening Visitor
with the subtitle "A Christmas Incident." Whitman included it, without subtitle, in the "Leaves of Grass" cluster of
Passage to India
(1871). Finally, in the 1881–82 edition it became part of the "Autumn Rivulets" cluster.
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