Specimen Days: & CollectCourier Corporation, 15. aug 1995 - 374 pages Published in 1882, Whitman's uniquely revealing impressions of the people, places, and events of his time, principally the Civil War era and its aftermath, offer a rare excursion into the mind and heart of one of America's greatest poets. His intimate observations and reflections have profoundly deepened understanding of 19th-century American life. |
Contents
A Happy Days Command | 7 |
Through Eight Years Sources of CharacterResults1860 | 20 |
A Secesh Brave The Wounded from Chancellorsville e | 33 |
Hospitals Enseinble | 46 |
The Blue Everywhere A Model Hospital | 59 |
Attitude of Foreign Governments During the War | 64 |
Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier | 71 |
Typical Soldiers | 77 |
A Fine Afternoon 4 to | 135 |
The Spanish PeaksEvening on the Plains | 146 |
Some Old AcquaintancesMemories A Discovery of Old Age | 189 |
Other Concord Notations | 190 |
The Great Unrest of which We are a Part | 196 |
COLLECT | 202 |
Origins of Attempted Secession | 258 |
Preface 1872 to As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free | 275 |
Entering a Long FarmLane To the Spring and Brook An Early Summer Reveille | 83 |
Locusts and KatyDids The Lesson of a Tree | 89 |
SeaShore Fancies | 95 |
The Common Earth the Soil Birds and Birds and Birds | 101 |
February Days | 108 |
Jaunt up the Hudson Happiness and Raspberries | 114 |
StrawColord and other Psyches I2 I | 121 |
A Civility Too Long Neglected | 123 |
Up the Hudson to Ulster County | 129 |
Preface 1876 to L of G and Two Rivulets Centennial Edition | 288 |
A Memorandum at a Venture | 302 |
Two Letters | 315 |
Ventures on an Old Theme | 322 |
The Tramp and Strike Questions | 329 |
Monumentsthe Past and Present Little or Nothing New After All | 335 |
DoughFace Song 339 Lingaves Temptation | 366 |
The Last Loyalist 349 Talk to an Art Union BloodMoney | 372 |
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