"Memorializing Lincoln: Whitman's "Revision" of James Speed's Oration U" by M. Lynda Ely

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Memorializing Lincoln: Whitman's "Revision" of James Speed's Oration Upon the Inauguration of the Bust of Abraham Lincoln

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Compares the texts of James Speed's Oration Upon the Inauguration of the Bust of Abraham Lincoln with writings of Whitman on Lincoln and assesses the poet's editorial influence on Speed's oration, concluding that it "bears the indelible imprint of the poet."

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Ely, M. Lynda. "Memorializing Lincoln: Whitman's "Revision" of James Speed's Oration Upon the Inauguration of the Bust of Abraham Lincoln." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 14 (Spring 1997), 176-180.

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