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Whitman Archive Title: [The trilogy]
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00381
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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: 25
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Folder: After All, Not to Create Only (1871). Manuscript Drafts and Notes.
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Series: Literary File
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Date: about 1871
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: about 50 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
Several notes and drafts with an unknown relationship to one another, but
all, at least thematically, resembling the poem first published as
"After All, Not to
Create Only" in 1871 (later published as "Song of the
Exposition"). The pages include trial lines for the poem, as
well as notes which indicate the general ambitions and themes of the
work. Within these pages, other trial titles of the poem are also
included: "After all, not
to command only,"
"After all, not to create
but to obey," and "After all, not to create or destroy
only." On the verso of one of the leaves is a letter from William Black seeking Whitman's autograph.
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