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Song of the Redwood Tree
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Whitman Archive Title: Song of the Redwood Tree
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Whitman Archive ID: uva.00067
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Repository ID: #3829
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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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Box: 1
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Folder: 91
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Date: about 1873
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 11 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
Written on miscellaneous sheets of paper, including scraps of prose notes and
letters, this manuscript contains eleven numbered leaves. Some pieces which were
pasted together have been lifted and photographed separately to show lines
obscured by the pasted-on scraps. This manuscript contains a rough draft of the
poem "Song of the
Redwood-Tree" written, according to a note intialed by Whitman, during
October and November 1873 prior to its first publication in the February
1874 issue of
Harper's
Magazine
. In 1876 the poem was published in the group "Centennial Songs" and annexed to
Two Rivulets
. The poem appears
ungrouped again in
Leaves of
Grass
(1881). The similarities between this manuscript draft and the
Harper's edition of the poem seem to indicate that Whitman revised these pages in
preparation for the first publication.
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