Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

Whitman Archive Title: Poem of The Woods

Whitman Archive ID: tex.00043

Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin

Box: 2

Folder: 4

Series: Works, 1846-1913 and undated

Repository Title: Poem of the Woods

Date: probably between 1860 and 1880

Genre: poetry

Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten

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Content: Notes toward a poem to be titled either "Poem of the Woods" or "Poem of the Prairies," intended for a "Chicago edition" that never materialized. Any relationship between this manuscript and Whitman's published work is unknown. The notes are written on the back of a page from Sartain's Magazine , which folded in 1852.

Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

Poem Of The Woods