General Series Editors Gay Wilson Allen and Sculley Bradley
Originally published between 1961 and 1984, and now available in
paperback for the first time, the critically acclaimed Collected
Writings of Walt Whitman captures every facet of one of America's
most important poets.
The two-volume set of Prose Works 1892 proves that Whitman's
prose has a quality no less original and distinctive than his
poetry.
Originally written and published as newspaper dispatches,
Specimen Days is a collection of Whitman's on-the-spot notes of his
experiences as a volunteer nurse in the hospitals in and around
Washington during the Civil War. It contains, too, his nature
studies, jotted down at the Stafford Farm near Camden during the
years of convalescence after his paralysis in 1873. In these
records of his observations, Whitman's love and devoted care of the
individual soldiers overshadow his concern for the course of the
war itself and his interest in its major personalities. He sees,
above all else, the wounded men in front of him, and these he
describes in the simple, direct language that unmistakably marks
his poetry as well.
Praise for the original edition:
"Indispensable for the serious student of American literature,
these volumes should be purchased by every college, university, and
large public library."
--"Library Journal"
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