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Whitman Archive Title: Evolutions
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Whitman Archive ID: uva.00187
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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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Folder: 50-51
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Date: 1857-1859
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 6 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten
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Content:
On six leaves of pink paper. The deleted title is "Poemet—."
"Evolutions.—" is written in
light ink, and the number "41—" in a darker ink than the text. Whitman numbered
each leaf in pencil in the upper right corner. This poem was first published in
the January 14, 1860 issue of the
New York Saturday Press
under the title "You and Me and To-day," after which it became section
7 of "Chants Democratic" in
the 1860
Leaves of Grass
. In
1867 Whitman ungrouped it and permanently retitled it "With Antecedents"; in 1881 it was
permanently transferred to the new cluster "Birds of Passage." The manuscript leaves correspond to
the published verses in the 1860
Leaves
of Grass
.
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