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1855: A Stop-Press Revision

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Discovers two variants of line 1118 of the 1855 poem eventually entitled "Song of Myself," indicating that Whitman interrupted the printing of the first edition of Leaves of Grass to make a significant revision.

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Schmidgall, G., (2000) “1855: A Stop-Press Revision”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 18(1/2), 74-76. doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1637

Rights: Copyright © 2000 Gary Schmidgall

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2000-07-01

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