Walt Whitman
The Library of America • Story of the Week Reprinted from Walt Whitman: Poetry & Prose (The Library of America, 1982), pages 1084–92.
Originally published as “Revenge and Requital: A Tale of a Murderer Escaped’ in the July-August 1845 issue of the Democratic Review. Revised as “One Wicked Impulse!” for inclusion in Specimen Days & Collect (1882) and reprinted in Complete Prose Works (1892).
Walt Whitman
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Originally published as “Revenge and Requital: A Tale of a Murderer Escaped’ in the July-August 1845 issue of the Democratic Review. Revised as “One Wicked Impulse!” for inclusion in Specimen Days & Collect (1882) and reprinted in Complete Prose Works (1892).
Walt Whitman
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