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 Camden during the years of convalescence after his paralysis in 1873.Volume II contains three of Whitmans prose collections, Collect, November Boughs, and Good-Bye My Fancy, plus seven pieces not included in the original 1892 edition of the Complete Prose Works.