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Contained herein is a vast collection of Whitman’s writing, including vignettes from his childhood, a series of powerful accounts of his work in hospitals during the Civil war, and a large amount of nature writing. Composed in 1881 primarily from sketches, notes, and essays written at various stages of the poet's life from the Civil War onwards, Specimen Days is the closest thing Whitman ever published to a traditional autobiography. A wonderful insight into the mind of America’s most famous poet, this rare classic will appeal to any collector of Whitman’s work and is well deserving of its place atop any bookshelf. Walter "Walt" Whitman was a seminal American poet and journalist. Often hailed as the father of free verse, Whitman is among the most influential poets of the American canon, most famous for his controversial life-long work, Leaves of Grass. This rare book is republished here with a new introductory biography of the author.

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Date de parution 11 octobre 2019
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EAN13 9781528787451
Langue English
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COMPLETE PROSE WORKS
Specimen Days and Collect
By
WALT WHITMAN

First published in 1883


This edition published by Read Books Ltd. Copyright © 2019 Read Books Ltd. This book is copyright and may not be
reproduced or copied in any way without
the express permission of the publisher in writing
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library


Contents
Walt Whitman
SPECIMEN DAYS
A Happy Ho ur's Command
Answer To An Insi sting Friend
Genealogy— Van Velsor And Whitman
The Old Whitman And Van Velso r Cemeteries
The Matern al Homestead
Two Old Fami ly Interiors
Paumanok, And My Life On It As Child A nd Young Man
My First Reading — Lafayette
Printing Office — Old Brooklyn
Growth —Health—Work
My Passion For Ferries
Bro adway Sights
Omnibus Jaunts And Drivers
Plays An d Operas Too
Through Eight Years.
Sources Of Character — Results—1860
Opening Of The S ecession War
National Uprising And Volunteering
Contempt uous Feeling
Battle Of Bull Run , July, 1861
The Stupor Passes — Something Else Begins
Down At The Front
After First Fr edericksburg
Back T o Washington
Fifty Hours Left Wounded On The Field
Hospital Scenes And Persons
Patent-Off ice Hospital
The White House By Moonlight
An Army H ospital Ward
A Conn ecticut Case
Two B rooklyn Boys
A Secesh Brave
The Wounded From Chan cellorsville
A Night Battle Over A Week Since
Unnamed Remains The Bra vest Soldier
Some Sp ecimen Cases
My Preparation s For Visits
Ambulance Processions
Bad Woun ds—The Young
The Most Inspiriting Of All War's Shows
Battle O f Gettysburg
A Cavalry Camp
A New York Soldier
Hom e-Made Music
Abr aham Lincoln
Heated Term
Soldie rs And Talks
Death Of A Wisco nsin Officer
Hospit als Ensemble
A Silent Night Ramble
Spiritual Characters Among The Soldiers
Cattle Droves Abou t Washington
Hospita l Perplexity
Down At The Front
Paying The Bounties
Rumors, C hanges, Etc.
Virginia
Su mmer Of 1864
A New Army Organization Fit For America
Dea th Of A Hero
Hospital Scen es—Incidents
A Ya nkee Soldier
Union Pri soners South
Deserters
A Glimpse Of War's Hell-Scenes
Gifts—Money—Di scrimination
Items From M y Note Books
A Case From Sec ond Bull Run
Army Surgeons—Aid Deficiencies
The Blu e Everywhere
A Mo del Hospital
Boys In The Army
Burial Of A Lady Nurse
Female Nurses For Soldiers
South ern Escapees
The Capitol By Gas-Light
The Inauguration
Attitude Of Foreign Governments Du ring The War
The Weather —Does It Sympathize With These Times?
Inaug uration Ball
Scene At The Capitol
A Ya nkee Antique
Wounds And Diseases
Death Of Presi dent Lincoln
Sherman's Army's Jubilation — Its Sud den Stoppage
No Good Portrai t Of Lincoln
Releas'd Union Prisoner s From South
Death Of A Pennsylv ania Soldier
The Armi es Returning
The Grand Review
West ern Soldiers
A Soldie r On Lincoln
Two Brothers, One Sout h, One North
Some S ad Cases Yet
Calhoun's R eal Monument
Hospi tals Closing
Typi cal Soldiers
"Con vulsiveness"
Three Yea rs Summ'd Up
The Million Dead, To o, Summ'd Up
The Real War Will Never Get In The Books
An Interregn um Paragraph
New Themes Entered Upon
Entering A Lo ng Farm-Lane
To The Spri ng And Brook
An Early Sum mer Reveille
Birds Migrating At Midnight
Bumble-Bees
Cedar-Apples
Summer Sights And Indolencies
Sundown Perfume —Quailnotes—The H ermit-Thrush
A July After-Noon By The Pond
Locusts A nd Katy-Dids
The Less on Of A Tree
Autu mn Side-Bits
The Sky— Days And Nigh ts—Happiness
Color s—A Contrast
Nov ember 8, '76
Cro ws And Crows
A Winter Day On T he Sea-Beach
Sea-S hore Fancies
In Memory Of T homas Paine.
A Two Ho urs Ice-Sail
Spring Overtures — Recreations
One Of The Human Kinks
An Aft ernoon Scene
The G ates Opening
The Common Ear th, The Soil
Birds And Bir ds And Birds
Full-St arr'd Nights
Mulleins And Mulleins
Di stant Sounds
A Sun-Ba th-Nakedness
Th e Oaks And I
A Quintette
The Firs t Frost—Mems
Three Young Men's Deaths
F ebruary Days
A Meadow Lark
Su ndown Lights
Thoughts Under An Oak—A Dream
Clover And Hay Perfume
An Unknown
Bi rd-Whistling
Horse-Mint
Three Of Us
Death Of William C ullen Bryant
Jaunt U p The Hudson
Happiness And Raspberries
A Specimen Tramp Family
Manhattan From The Bay
Human And Her oic New York
Hours For The Soul
Straw-Color'd And O ther Psyches
A Night Remembrance
Wild Flowers
A Civility Too Lo ng Neglected
Delaware River —Day s And Nights
Scenes On Ferry And River — Last Win ter's Nights
The First Spring Day On Che stnut Street
Up The Hudson To U lster County
Days At J. B.'S Turf-Fires— Spring Songs
Meet ing A Hermit
An Ulster Coun ty Waterfall
Walter Dumont A nd His Medal
Hudson River Sights
Two City Areas, C ertain Hours
Central Park Wal ks And Talks
A Fine After noon, 4 To 6
Departing Of The Big Steamers
Two Hours On T he Minnesota
Mature Summer Day s And Nights
Exposition Building— New City Hal l—River Trip
Swallows On The River
Begin A Lon g Jaunt West
In The Sleeper
Mi ssouri State
Lawrence And To peka, Kansas
On To Denver—A Front ier Incident
An Hour On Ke nosha Summit
An Egotis tical "Find"
New Sens es: New Joys
Steam-Power, Tel egraphs, Etc
America 's Back-Bone
The Parks
Art Features
Denver Impressions
I Turn South And The n East Again
Unfulfilled Wants —The Ar kansas River
A Silent Little Follower-T he Coreopsis
The Prairies And Great Plai ns In Poetry
The Spanish Peaks — Evening O n The Plains
America's Characterist ic Landscape
Earth's Most Impo rtant Stream
Prairie Analogies— The T ree Question
Mississippi Valle y Literature
An Interv iewer's Item
The Women Of The West
The Si lent General
President Haye s's Speeches
St. Lou is Memoranda
Nights On The Mississippi
Upon Our Own Land
Edgar Poe's Significance
Beethove n's Septette
A Hint Of Wild Nature
Loafing In The Woods
A Con tralto Voice
Seeing Niagara To Advantage
Jaunti ng To Canada
Sunday Wit h The Insane
Reminiscence Of Elias Hicks
Grand N ative Growth
A Zollverein Between The U.s . And Canada
The St. L awrence Line
The Sav age Saguenay
Capes Eternity And Trinity
Chicoutimi A nd Ha-Ha Bay
The Inhabitants —Good Living
Death Of Th omas Carlyle
Carlyle From American Po ints Of View
A Couple Of Old Friends —A C oleridge Bit
A Week's Vis it To Boston
The Bost on Of To-Day
My Tribute T o Four Poets
Millet's Picture s Last Items
Birds—A nd A Caution
Samples Of My Commo n-Place Book
My Native Sand And Sa lt Once More
Hot Weat her New York
Custer' s Last Rally
Some Old Acquaintance s — Memories
A Discover y Of Old Age
A Visit, At The Last, To R . W. Emerson
Other Conco rd Notations
Boston Common —Mor e Of Emerson
An Ossianic Night —Dea rest Friends
Only A Ne w Ferry-Boat
Death O f Longfellow
Startin g Newspapers
The Great Unrest Of Which We Are Part
By Eme rson's Grave
At Present Writ ing—Personal
After Trying A Certain Book
Final Confessions—Li terary Tests
Nature And Democr acy—Morality
COLLECT
One Or Two Index Items
Democ ratic Vistas
Origins Of Attempt ed Secession
Pr eface, 1855
Pr eface, 1872
Pr eface, 1876
Poetry To-Day In America Shaksper e—The Future
A Memorandum At A Venture
Death Of Abra ham Lincoln
Two Letters
I
II
NOTES LEFT OVER
Nationalit y—(And Yet)
Emerson's Books, (The Shad ows Of Them)
Ventures, On An Old Theme
Britis h Literature
Darwinism — (Then Furthermore)
"Society"
The Tramp And Strike Questions:
Democracy In T he New World
Foundation Stages — Then Others
General Suffrage, Ele ctions, Etc.
Who Gets The Plunder?
Friendship, (The R eal Article)
Lacks A nd Wants Yet
Rulers Strictly Out O f The Masses
Monuments — The Past And Present
Little Or Nothing Ne w, After All
A Lincoln Reminiscence
Freedom
Book-Classes — America' s Literature
Our Real Culmination
An Amer ican Problem
The Last Collectiv e Compaction
PIECES IN EARLY YOUTH
Doug h-Face Song
Death In The School-R oom ( A Fact )
One Wi cked Impulse
The L ast Loyalist
Wild Fr ank's Return
T he Boy Lover
The Child And Th e Profligate
Lingave' s Temptation
Little Jane
Dumb Kate
Talk To An Art-Union
Blood-Money
Wounded In The Hous e Of Friends
Sailing The Mississippi At Midnight


Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman was born on 31st May 1819 in the Town of Huntington, Long Island, New York, USA. He was the second of nine children of Walter Whitman and Louisa Van Velsor Whitman. In part due to a series of bad investments, the family lived in various homes in the Brooklyn area, and Whitman recalled his childhood as generally restless and unhappy, given his family’s difficult economic status. Whitman finished his formal scho

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