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Specimen Days.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitman, Walt.
- Series:
- Oxford World's Classics Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2023.
- Summary:
- Though well-known to many Whitman scholars, Specimen Days is an underrated 'late' prose work which chronicles the life of one of the world's best loved and most influential poets.
- Contents:
- Cover
- OWC series page
- Specimen Days
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction
- Note on the Text
- Select Bibliography
- A Chronology of Walt Whitman
- A Happy Hour's Command
- Answer to an Insisting Friend
- Genealogy - Van Velsor and Whitman
- The Old Whitman and Van Velsor Cemeteries
- The Maternal Homestead
- Two Old Family Interiors
- Paumanok, and My Life on It as Child and Young Man
- My First Reading - Lafayette
- Printing Office - Old Brooklyn
- Growth - Health - Work
- My Passion for Ferries
- Broadway Sights
- Omnibus Jaunts and Drivers
- Plays and Operas too
- Through Eight Years
- Sources of Character - Results - 1860
- Opening of the Secession War
- National Uprising and Volunteering
- Contemptuous Feeling
- Battle of Bull Run, July, 1861
- The Stupor Passes - Something Else Begins
- Down at the Front
- After First Fredericksburg
- Back to Washington
- Fifty Hours Left Wounded on the Field
- Hospital Scenes and Persons
- Patent-Office Hospital
- The White House by Moonlight
- An Army Hospital Ward
- A Connecticut Case
- Two Brooklyn Boys
- A Secesh Brave
- The Wounded from Chancellorsville
- A Night Battle, over a Week Since
- Unnamed Remains the Bravest Soldier
- Some Specimen Cases
- My Preparations for Visits
- Ambulance Processions
- Bad Wounds - the Young
- The Most Inspiriting of All War's Shows
- Battle of Gettysburg
- A Cavalry Camp
- A New York Soldier
- Home-Made Music
- Abraham Lincoln
- Heated Term
- Soldiers and Talks
- Death of A Wisconsin Officer
- Hospitals Ensemble
- A Silent Night Ramble
- Spiritual Characters Among the soldiers
- Cattle Droves About Washington
- Hospital Perplexity
- Paying the Bounties
- Rumors, Change, &
- C.
- Virginia
- Summer of 1864.
- A New Army Organization Fit for America
- Death of A Hero
- Hospital Scenes - Incidents
- A Yankee Soldier
- Union Prisoners South
- Deserters
- A Glimpse of War's Hell-Scenes
- Gifts - Money - Discrimination
- Items from My Note Books
- A Case from Second Bull Run
- Army Surgeons - Aid Deficiencies
- The Blue Everywhere
- A Model Hospital
- Boys in the Army
- Burial of a Lady Nurse
- Female Nurses for Soldiers
- Southern Escapees
- The Capitol by Gas-Light
- The Inauguration
- Attitude of Foreign Governments During the War
- The Weather - Does It Sympathize with These Times?
- Inauguration Ball
- Scene at the Capitol
- A Yankee Antique
- Wounds and Diseases
- Death of President Lincoln*
- Sherman's Army's Jubilation - its Sudden Stoppage
- No Good Portrait of Lincoln
- Releas'd Union Prisoners from South
- Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier
- The Armies Returning
- The Grand Review
- Western Soldiers
- A Soldier on Lincoln
- Two Brothers, One South, One North
- Some Sad Cases yet
- Calhoun's Real Monument
- Hospitals Closing
- Typical Soldiers
- "Convulsiveness"
- Three Years Summ'd up
- The Million Dead, too, Summ'd up
- The Real War Will Never Get in the Books
- An Interregnum Paragraph
- New Themes Entered Upon
- Entering a Long Farm-Lane
- To the Spring and Brook
- An Early Summer Reveille
- Birds Migrating at Midnight
- Bumble-Bees
- Cedar-Apples
- Summer Sights and Indolencies
- Sundown Perfume - Quail-Notes - the Hermit-Thrush
- A July Afternoon by the Pond
- Locusts and KatyDids
- The Lesson of a Tree
- Autumn Side-Bits
- The Sky - Days and Nights - Happiness
- Colors - A Contrast
- November 8, '76
- Crows and Crows
- A Winter Day on the Sea-Beach
- Sea-Shore Fancies
- In Memory of Thomas Paine
- A Two Hours' Ice-Sail
- Spring Overtures - Recreations
- One of the Human Kinks.
- An Afternoon Scene
- The Gates Opening
- The Common Earth, the Soil
- Birds and Birds and Birds
- Full-Starr'd Nights
- Mulleins and Mulleins
- Distant Sounds
- A Sun-Bath - Nakedness
- The Oaks and I
- A Quintette
- The First Frost - Mems
- Three Young Men's Deaths
- February Days
- A Meadow Lark
- Sundown Lights
- Thoughts Under an Oak-A Dream
- Clover and Hay Perfume
- An Unknown
- Bird-Whistling
- Horse-Mint
- Three of Us
- Death of William Cullen Bryant
- Jaunt up the Hudson
- Happiness and Raspberries
- A Specimen Tramp Family
- Manhattan From the Bay
- Human and Heroic New York
- Hours for the Soul
- Straw-Color'd and Other Psyches
- A Night Remembrance
- Wild Flowers
- A Civility too Long Neglected
- Delware River - Days and Nights
- Scenes on Ferry and River - Last Winter's Nights
- The First Spring day on chestnut Street
- Up the Hudson to Ulster County
- Days at J. B. 's - Turf-Fires - Spring Songs
- Melting a Hermit
- An Ulster County Waterfall
- Walter Dumont and his Medal
- Hudson River Sights
- Two City Areas, Certain Hours
- Central Park Walks and Talks
- A Fine Afternoon, 4 to 6
- Departing of the Big Steamers
- Two Hours on the Minnesota
- Mature Summer Days and Nights
- Exposition Building - New City Hall - River Trip
- Swallows on the River
- Begin a Long Jaunt West
- In the Sleeper
- Missouri State
- Lawrence and Topeka, Kansas
- The Prairies-and an Undeliver'd Speech
- On to Denver - A Frontier Incident
- An Hour on Kenosha Summit
- An Egotistical "Find
- New Senses - New Joys
- Steam-Power, Telegraphs, &
- America's Back-Bone
- The Parks
- Art Features
- Denver Impressions
- I Turn Sourth - and Then East Again
- Unfulfill'd Wants - The Arkansas River
- A Silent Little Follower - The Corepsis
- The Prairies and Great Plains in Poetry.
- The Spanish Peaks - Evening on the Plains
- America's Characteristic Landscape
- Prairie Analogues - The Tree Question
- Mississippi Valley Literature
- An Interviewer's Item
- The Women of the West
- The silent General
- President Haye's Speeches
- St. Louis Memoranda
- Nights on the Mississippi
- Upom our Own Land
- Edgar Poe's Significance
- Beethoven's Septette*
- A Hint of Wild Nature
- Loafing in the Woods
- A Contralto Voice
- Seeing Niagara to Advantage
- Jaunting to Canada
- Sunday with the Insane
- Reminisence of Elias Hicks
- Grand Native Growth
- A Zollerein Between the U. S. and Canada
- The St. Lawrence Line
- The Savage Saguenay
- Capes Eternity and Trinity
- Chicoutimi and Ha-Ha-bay
- The Inhabitants - Good Living
- Cedar-Plums Like - Names
- Death of Thomas Carlyle
- Carlyle from American Points of View
- A Couple of Old Friend - A Coleridge Bit
- A Week's Visit to Boston
- The Boston of To-Day
- My Tribute to four Poets
- Millet's Pictures - Last Items
- Birds - and A Caution
- Samples of my Common-Place Book
- My Native Sand and Salt Once More
- Hot Weather New York
- Custer's Last Rally
- Some Old Acqaintances - Memories
- A Discovery of Old Age
- A Visit, at the Last, To R. W. Emerson
- Other Concord Notations
- Boston Common - More of Emerson
- An Ossianic Night - Dearest Friends
- Only A New Ferry Boat
- Death of Longfellow
- Starting Newspapers
- The Great Unrest of which we are Part
- By Emerson's Grave
- At Present Writing - Personal
- After Trying a Certain Book
- Final Confessions - Literary Tests
- Nature and Democracy - Morality
- Appendix A: Preface. To the Reader in the British Islands
- Appendix B: Additional Note. Written 1887for the English Edition
- Explanatory Notes
- Glossary of Persons.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Whitman, Walt Specimen Days
- ISBN:
- 9780192605665
- OCLC:
- 1403080096
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