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Whitman Archive Title: Ashes of Roses
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00050
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
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Box: 26
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Folder: Ashes of Roses. A.MS. drafts and notes.
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Series: Literary File
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Date: between 1868 and 1871
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 2 leaves, 23.5 x 13.5 and 10 x 13.5 cm, handwritten
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Content:
Poem draft, parts of which have been printed as "? Ashes of Roses." The
manuscript may bear a relationship to "Ashes of Soldiers," a poem published first
in 1865 as "Hymn
of Dead Soldiers" in
Drum-Taps
. It was only in 1871 that Whitman added the
imagery of ashes to this poem. The manuscript was likely composed around
1870-1871, when Whitman was revising and expanding the poem for
republication. Alternatively, the manuscript may be a draft of a unique
poetic work unpublished in Whitman's lifetime.
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