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Whitman Archive Title: It seems to me
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Whitman Archive ID: duk.00302
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Repository ID: MS q 33
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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Date: Between 1847 and 1855
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
Note expressing an admonition to avoid similes and ornament in poetry, possibly related to passages in the prose preface to the 1855 edition of
Leaves of Grass
, which express similar sentiments. This scrap has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with "What shall the great poet be then?," "The most superb beauties," and "Make no quotations."
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