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Whitman Archive Title: Wood Odors
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Whitman Archive ID: ucb.00002
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
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Box: 1
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Folder: 3
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Repository Title: Wood Odors Poem
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Date: ca. 1875
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
A draft of a poem unpublished in Whitman's lifetime entitled "Wood Odors." The poem was
apparently written as Whitman was making notes for his 1882-1883 book,
Specimen Days & Collect
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Specifically, the poem appears to respond to the visit he made to the
Stafford farm in New Jersey in the mid-1870s. Some have argued that this draft
is not a poem at all, but a list of phrases toward the composition of
Specimen Days & Collect
(see David
Goodale, "Wood Odors,"
Walt Whitman Review
8
[March
1962], 17). "Wood
Odors" was published first in
Harper's Magazine
221 (December 1960), 43.
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