Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these publications in chronological order.
- Whitman’s final "deathbed" edition, 1892
- Rimbaud’s Une Saison en enfer, 1873
- Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, first edition 1855
- Keats’ odes of 1819
- Darío’s Azul…, 1888
Hints
- The English Romantic ode comes first.
- Leaves of Grass spans nearly forty years between its first and last editions.
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- Keats’ odes of 1819
- Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, first edition 1855
- Rimbaud’s Une Saison en enfer, 1873
- Darío’s Azul…, 1888
- Whitman’s final "deathbed" edition, 1892
Why
The sequence makes the point that Leaves of Grass brackets the rest: Whitman began revising before Rimbaud was born and stopped after Darío had launched modernismo. A single book keeps pace with four decades of European experiment.
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