Specimen Days and Collect - Couverture souple

Whitman, Walt

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1473310296 ISBN 13 : 9781473310292

Editeur : Burman Press, 2013

Synopsis

Contained herein is a vast collection of Whitman’s writing, including vignettes from his childhood, a series of powerful accounts of his work in hospitals during the Civil war, and a large amount of nature writing. Composed in 1881 primarily from sketches, notes, and essays written at various stages of the poet's life from the Civil War onwards, Specimen Days is the closest thing Whitman ever published to a traditional autobiography. A wonderful insight into the mind of America’s most famous poet, this rare classic will appeal to any collector of Whitman’s work and is well deserving of its place atop any bookshelf. Walter "Walt" Whitman was a seminal American poet and journalist. Often hailed as the father of free verse, Whitman is among the most influential poets of the American canon, most famous for his controversial life-long work, Leaves of Grass. This rare book is republished here with a new introductory biography of the author.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Down in theW oods, July 2d, 1882. If I do it at all I must delay no longer. Incongruous and full of skips and jumps as is that huddle of diary-jottings, war-memoranda of 1862- 65, Nature-notes of i877~ 8i, with Western and Canadian observations afterwards, all bundled up and tied by a big string, the resolution and indeed mandate comes to me this day, this hour, (and what a day! what an hour just passing !the luxury of riant grass and blowing breeze, with all the shows of sun and sky and perfect temperature, never before so filling me body and soul) to go home, untie the bundle, reel out diary-scraps and mem oranda, just as they are, large, or small, one after another, into print-pages, and let the melanges lackings and wants of connecT he pages from 8to 20 are nearly verbatim an off-hand letter of mine in January, 1882, to an insisting friend. Following, I give some gloomy ex periences. The war of attempted secession has, of course, been the distinguishing event of my time. I commenced at the close of 1862, and continued steadily through 63, 64, and 65, to visit the sick and wounded of the army, both on the field and in the hospitals in and around Washington city. From the first I kept little note-books for impromptu jottings in pencil to re fresh my memory of names and circumstances, and what was specially wanted, c. In these I brief dcases, persons, sights, occurrences in camp, by the bed side, and not seldom by the corpses of the dead. Some were scratch ddown from narratives I heard and itemized while watching, or waiting, or tending somebody amid those scenes. I have dozens of such little note-books left, forming a special history of those years, for myself alone, full of associations never to be possibly said or sung. I wish I could convey to the reader the associations that attach to these soil dand creas dlivraisons, each com posed of a sheet or two
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Burman Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1473310296
• ISBN 13: 9781473310292
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 598
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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