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Whitman Archive Title: Old Age Recitatives
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00229
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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: 28
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Folder: Old Age Recitatives (1891). A.MS. draft.
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Series: Literary File
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Date: about 1890
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Genre: poetry, prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 30 x 20 cm, handwritten
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Content:
Draft titled "Old Age
Recitatives" written on the verso of an envelope and a letter
(author unknown) stuck together. Beneath the main title and Whitman's
signature is another title, "Sail out for good, Eidólon yacht!" The text
of the poem is identical to the published version of "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon
Yacht!" (1891). Whitman has
written a note about
Arena
magazine's rejection of the poem in the top right
margin.
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