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Breathjuice

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  • Title: Breathjuice
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: med.00728
  • Source: The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, ed. Edward F. Grier (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 195. Grier based his text on Notes and Fragments, ed. Richard Maurice Bucke (London, Ontario: A. Talbot & Co., printers, 1899), 169. The location of this manuscript is unknown. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This list may relate to the following line from the poem published as "Bunch Poem" in the 1856 Leaves of Grass (later titled "Spontaneous Me"): "Love-thoughts, love-juice, love-odor, love-yielding, love-climbers, and the climbing sap" (310). Because the manuscript has not been located it is difficult to speculate on the circumstances or date of its composition, but it seems likely that it was written in the early to mid-1850s.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Breathjuice." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 08 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: med.00728.xml (TEI)

Key

Textual Feature Appearance
Overwritten brown with strikethrough
Added inline purple with double underline
Uncertain gray with wavy underline
Supplied from another source turquoise with brackets
Metamark green with triple underline
Long deletion gray background with top and bottom border
Breathjuice—Airscents—Airsmells—Airodor—Loveodor—Airdrifts—Breathsmoke—Airjuice for you—Airsough.
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