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Edited by Edward F. GrierNotebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts gathers Whitmans autobiographical notes, his views on contemporary politics, and the writings he made as he educated himself in ancient history, religion and mythology, health (including phrenology), and word-study.

Edited by William WhiteThis collection makes available once again these important sources for reference on the poets daily activities. The sixteen-year record of the Daybooks supplements the biographical information provided in the six volumes of Whitmans Correspondence, and outlines the events of the poets life which gave rise to his many letters and literary reminiscences. The Daybooks record the poets daily activities, functioning as an acc...

Edited by Edward F. GrierNotebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts gathers Whitmans autobiographical notes, his views on contemporary politics, and the writings he made as he educated himself in ancient history, religion and mythology, health (including phrenology), and word-study.

Edited by William WhiteThis collection makes available once again these important sources for reference on the poets daily activities. The sixteen-year record of the Daybooks supplements the biographical information provided in the six volumes of Whitmans Correspondence, and outlines the events of the poets life which gave rise to his many letters and literary reminiscences. The Daybooks record the poets daily activities, functioning as an acc...

General Series Editors Gay Wilson Allen and Sculley BradleyOriginally 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.This two-volume set proves that Whitmanas prose has a quality no less original and distinctive than his poetry.Volume I: Specimen Days, originally written and published as...

Edited by Floyd StovallThis two-volume set proves that Whitmans prose has a quality no less original and distinctive than his poetry.Volume I: Specimen Days, originally written and published as newspaper dispatches, is a collection of Whitmans 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 Camde...

Edited by Floyd StovallThis two-volume set proves that Whitmans prose has a quality no less original and distinctive than his poetry.Volume I: Specimen Days, originally written and published as newspaper dispatches, is a collection of Whitmans 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 Camde...

Discussing letter-writing, this collection of nearly 3, 000 letters written over a half century reveals Whitman. It contains an insert featuring sketches and facsimile pages from the letters.

Discussing letter-writing, this collection of nearly 3, 000 letters written over a half century reveals Whitman. It covers the last seven years of Whitman's life, giving an almost day-by-day account of his long struggle with various ailments, and his stoical acceptance of constant pain.

A collection of nearly 3, 000 letters written over a half century that reveals Whitman. It covers the last seven years of Whitman's life, giving an almost day-by-day account of his long struggle with various ailments, and his stoical acceptance of constant pain.

Discussing letter-writing, this collection of nearly 3, 000 letters written over a half century reveals Whitman. It contains an insert featuring sketches and facsimile pages from the letters.

A collection of nearly 3, 000 letters written over a half century that reveals Whitman. It covers the years in which Whitman radiated a personal and artistic magnetism, despite the paralysis that struck him in 1873.

A collection of nearly 3, 000 letters written over a half century which reveals Whitman. It presents the poet during the years he was developing an international reputation.

Whitman's immortal collection includes some of the greatest poems of modern times, including his masterpiece, "Song of Myself." Shattering standard conventions, it stands as an unabashed celebration of body and nature.

Excerpt from The Wound Dresser: A Series of Letters, Written From the Hospitals in Washington, During the War of the RebellionWhat the United States are working out and establishing needs imperatively the connivance of something subtler than ballots and legislators. The Goethean theory and lesson (if I may brie¿y state it so) of the exclusive sufficiency of artistic, scientific, literary equipment to the character, irrespective of any strong c...

Excerpt from Poemas Algún tiempo se ha tardado en reconocer el ge nio de Walt Whitman. Todavía, a pesar del esfuerzo de muchos críticos, no sólo es discutido, sino también un poco desdeñado. Y, sin embargo, es indiscutible que el autor de Leaves of Grass (hojas de hierba) es un altísimo poeta, uno de los más grandes que produjo el siglo anterior, que se 'honra con tan numerosos y mag nificos poetas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publi...

While serving as a volunteer at military hospitals, the poet recorded soldiers' anecdotes of army life, their last words and final messages, and his own reflections on the Civil War.

Includes various variants, from the collection's in 1855 through the posthumous "Old Age Echoes" annex printed in 1897. This volume contains introductory material, including a chronology of the poems and a summary of various editions and annexes, along with the poems from 1855 and 1856. It includes the poems from 1860 through 1867.

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) contributed to the greatest prose of American letters with Democratic Vistas, now considered a classic discussion of the theory of democracy and its possibilities. In this essay he protests the unrestrained materialism, greed, corruption and spiritual failure of what, two years later, Mark Twain would label "The Gilded Age." Whitman criticizes America for its "mighty, many-threaded wealth and industry" that mask an und...

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