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Garland publishing, 1998, reproduced by permission. Walt whitman 18191892, perhaps the most influential poet in american history, was born on long island but raised in brooklyn, new york. Specimen days walt whitman pdf online keshetinnocent. Bound in original mustard yellow cloth with lettering in gilt on upper cover and spine. Page 170 there is scarcely any earthly object gives me more i do not know if i should call it pleasure but something which exalts me, something which enraptures me than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, in a cloudy winter day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving over the plain. Complete prose works, by walt whitman project gutenberg.
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The first selection printed here dates from the summer of 1863, while the last presents the text of a lecture whitman delivered on three occasions between 1879 and 1881. Librivox recording of specimen days by, walt whitman specimen days is essentially the great american poet walt whitman s scrap book. It documents most of his lifes adventures, espeically his experience serving as a. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Sepia photograph of whitman and butterfly, printed on recto inserted after p.
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Go to the editions section to read or download ebooks. Prose works walt whitman the good gray poet also contributed to the greatest prose of american letters with his war diaries, prefaces and democratic vistas in this complete prose works, the companion volume to s leaves of grass. Walt whitman specimen days lyrics and tracklist genius. Whitmans uniquely revealing impressions of the people, places, and events of his timewith a brilliant new introduction by leslie jamison, author of the bestselling the empathy exams. Walt whitman 18191892, perhaps the most influential poet in american history, was born on long island. Specimen days and collect, first published in 1882, is a choice collection of whitmans uniquely. Complement this particular fragment with a tender illustrated ode to our bond with trees, the story of how marianne moore saved a rare trees life with a poem, and a lyrical short film about our silent companions, then revisit whitman on democracy, identity and the paradox of the. The whitman of specimen days joseph eugene mullin specimen days consists of fifteen pages of an offhand letter of autobiographical information, another seventyfive pages of diary jottings, warmemoranda of 1862. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide. Specimen days has received less critical attention than whitmans other. In the exhibition weve seen artists grapple with the theme of war, its consequences, and its aftermath, but. Leaves of grass by walt whitman, the electronic classics series, jim manis, editor, psuhazleton, hazleton, pa 18202 is a portable document file produced as part of an ongoing publication project to bring classical works of literature, in english, to free and.
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