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Complete Prose Works / Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy — Walt Whitman

Complete Prose Works / Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy

Walt Whitman

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  • Book language: English
  • 612 pages

A collection of Walt Whitman's prose: autobiographical notes, reminiscences, essays and travel sketches drawn from his experience of American life, nature and the Civil War era. It is worth listening to for its calm observational voice and historical insight into everyday life and human kindness.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. COMPLETE PROSE WORKS
  2. Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Good Bye My Fancy
  3. DETAILED CONTENTS
  4. SPECIMEN DAYS
  5. A HAPPY HOUR'S COMMAND
  6. COLLECT
  7. ONE OR TWO INDEX ITEMS
  8. DEMOCRATIC VISTAS
  9. ORIGINS OF ATTEMPTED SECESSION
  10. PREFACES TO "LEAVES OF GRASS"
  11. PREFACE, 1855 To first issue of Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, N.Y.
  12. PREFACE, 1872 To As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free Now Thou Mother with
  13. PREFACE, 1876 To the two-volume Centennial Edition of Leaves of Grass
  14. A MEMORANDUM AT A VENTURE
  15. DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN LECTURE
  16. TWO LETTERS
  17. NOTES LEFT OVER
  18. APPENDIX
  19. PIECES IN EARLY YOUTH
  20. NOVEMBER BOUGHS
  21. OUR EMINENT VISITORS
  22. THE BIBLE AS POETRY
  23. FATHER TAYLOR (AND ORATORY)
  24. THE SPANISH ELEMENT IN OUR NATIONALITY
  25. WHAT LURKS BEHIND SHAKSPERE'S HISTORICAL PLAYS
  26. A THOUGHT ON SHAKSPERE
  27. ROBERT BURNS AS POET AND PERSON
  28. A WORD ABOUT TENNYSON
  29. SLANG IN AMERICA
  30. AN INDIAN BUREAU REMINISCENCE

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