I don’t know that the difference between “In this our world: poems” and “In this our world and other poems” means much in terms of authorial intent. Going through
digitized versions, there were at least 3 different expansions of content and the manifestation titles are all minor variations. For example, the third expansion (1898) is entitled “In this our world: poems and sonnets” and has 149 poems.
Despite the differences in content, there does seem to be the idea of “sameness” where things with the tile “In this our world” contain a core of poems that are
the same. In that light, I find the different expressions of the same work idea very attractive.
Jessica
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Walt Whitman's "Leaves of grass," which grew from 12 poems to over 400, is an even more dramatic example of how flexibly a work can be defined. Looking at a couple of the editions of this collection in HathiTrust, it seems clear that "In
this our world" is a collection title, not the title of an individual poem. The puzzle becomes, does "In this our world" name a particular collection of poems, or does it name an expanding project on the part of Gilman like "Leaves of grass"? Note also that
in OCLC, the only title for 1893 editions is "In this our world: poems" That being the case, we could argue that "In this our world and other poems" is actually a preferred title for a different work and not simply an expression of "In this our world," though
it contains "In this our world."
Stephen
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