Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy E-Book

Walt Whitman

• Herausgeber: Walt Whitman
• Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Walter “Walt” Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality.

Born in Huntington on Long Island, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, a government clerk, and—in addition to publishing his poetry—was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. Early in his career, he also produced a temperance novel, Franklin Evans (1842). Whitman’s major work, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 with his own money. The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person with an American epic. He continued expanding and revising it until his death in 1892. After a stroke towards the end of his life, he moved to Camden, New Jersey, where his health further declined. When he died at age 72, his funeral became a public spectacle.

Whitman’s sexuality is often discussed alongside his poetry. Though biographers continue to debate his sexuality, he is usually described as either homosexual or bisexual in his feelings and attractions. However, there is disagreement among biographers as to whether Whitman had actual sexual experiences with men.

Whitman was concerned with politics throughout his life. He supported the Wilmot Proviso and opposed the extension of slavery generally. His poetry presented an egalitarian view of the races, though his attitude in life reflected many of the racial prejudices common to nineteenth-century America and his opposition to slavery was not necessarily based on belief in the equality of races per se. At one point he called for the abolition of slavery, but later he saw the abolitionist movement as a threat to democracy.

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Walt Whitman

Complete Prose Works

Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy

First digital edition 2017 by Anna Ruggieri

CONTENTS

DETAILED CONTENTS

SPECIMEN DAYS

A HAPPY HOUR'S COMMAND

COLLECT

ONE OR TWO INDEX ITEMS

DEMOCRATIC VISTAS

ORIGINS OFATTEMPTED SECESSION

PREFACES TO "LEAVES OF GRASS"

PREFACE, 1855 To first issue of Leaves of Grass.Brooklyn, N.Y.

PREFACE, 1872 To As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free Now Thou Mother with

PREFACE, 1876To the two-volume Centennial Edition ofLeaves of Grass

AMEMORANDUM AT A VENTURE

DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN LECTURE

TWO LETTERS

NOTES LEFT OVER

APPENDIX

PIECES IN EARLY YOUTH

NOVEMBER BOUGHS

OUR EMINENT VISITORS

THE BIBLE AS POETRY

FATHER TAYLOR (AND ORATORY)

THE SPANISH ELEMENT IN OUR NATIONALITY

WHAT LURKS BEHIND SHAKSPERE'S HISTORICAL PLAYS

A THOUGHT ON SHAKSPERE

ROBERT BURNS AS POET AND PERSON

A WORD ABOUT TENNYSON

SLANG IN AMERICA

AN INDIAN BUREAU REMINISCENCE

SOME DIARY NOTES AT RANDOM

SOME WAR MEMORANDA

FIVE THOUSAND POEMS

THE OLD BOWERY

NOTES TO LATEENGLISH BOOKS

PREFACE TO THE READER IN THE BRITISH ISLANDS—"Specimen Days in

PREFACE TO "DEMOCRATIC VISTAS" WITH OTHER PAPERS—English Edition

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

NEW ORLEANS IN 1848

SMALL MEMORANDA

LAST OF THE WAR CASES

Endnotes (such as they are) founded on

GOOD-BYE MY FANCY

AMERICAN NATIONAL LITERATURE

A DEATH-BOUQUET

SOME LAGGARDS YET

MEMORANDA

PREFACE

WALT WHITMAN'S LAST

DETAILED CONTENTS

SPECIMEN DAYS

SPECIMEN DAYSA Happy Hour's CommandAnswer to an Insisting FriendGenealogy—Van Velsor and WhitmanThe Old Whitman and Van Velsor CemeteriesThe Maternal HomesteadTwo Old Family InteriorsPaumanok, and my Life on it as Child and Young ManMy First Reading—LafayettePrinting Office—Old BrooklynGrowth—Health—WorkMy Passion for FerriesBroadway SightsOmnibus Jaunts and DriversPlays and Operas tooThrough Eight YearsSources of Character—Results—1860Opening of the Secession WarNational Uprising and VolunteeringContemptuous FeelingBattle of Bull Run,July, 1861The Stupor Passes—Something Else BeginsDown at the FrontAfter First FredericksburgBack to WashingtonFifty Hours Left Wounded on the FieldHospital Scenes and PersonsPatent-Office HospitalThe White House by MoonlightAn Army Hospital WardA Connecticut CaseTwo Brooklyn BoysA Secesh BraveThe Wounded from ChancellorsvilleA Night Battle over a Week SinceUnnamed Remains the Bravest SoldierSome Specimen CasesMy Preparations for VisitsAmbulance ProcessionsBad Wounds—theYoungThe Most Inspiriting of all War's ShowsBattle of GettysburgA Cavalry CampA New York SoldierHome-Made MusicAbraham LincolnHeated TermSoldiers and TalksDeath of a Wisconsin OfficerHospitals EnsembleA Silent Night RambleSpiritualCharacters among the SoldiersCattle Droves about WashingtonHospital PerplexityDown at the FrontPaying the BountiesRumors, Changes, Etc.VirginiaSummer of 1864A New Army Organization fit for AmericaDeath of a HeroHospital Scenes—IncidentsA Yankee SoldierUnion Prisoners SouthDesertersA Glimpse of War's Hell-ScenesGifts—Money—DiscriminationItems from My Note BooksA Case from Second Bull RunArmy Surgeons—Aid DeficienciesThe Blue EverywhereA ModelHospitalBoys in the ArmyBurial of a Lady NurseFemale Nurses for SoldiersSouthern EscapeesThe Capitol by Gas-LightThe InaugurationAttitude of Foreign Governments During the WarThe Weather—Does it Sympathize with These Times?Inauguration BallScene at the CapitolA Yankee AntiqueWounds and DiseasesDeath of President LincolnSherman's Army Jubilation—its Sudden StoppageNo Good Portrait of LincolnReleas'd Union Prisoners from SouthDeath of a Pennsylvania SoldierThe Armies ReturningThe Grand ReviewWestern SoldiersA Soldier on LincolnTwo Brothers, one South, one NorthSome Sad Cases YetCalhoun's Real MonumentHospitals ClosingTypical Soldiers"Convulsiveness"Three Years Summ'd upThe Million Dead, too, Summ'd upThe Real War will never get in the BooksAn Interregnum ParagraphNew Themes Enter'd UponEntering a Long Farm-LaneTo the Spring and BrookAn Early Summer ReveilleBirds Migrating at MidnightBumble-BeesCedar-ApplesSummer Sights and IndolencesSundown Perfume—Quail-Notes—the Hermit ThrushA July Afternoon by the PondLocusts and Katy-DidsThe Lesson of a TreeAutumn Side-BitsThe Sky—Days and Nights—HappinessColors—A ContrastNovember 8, '76Crows and CrowsA Winter-Day on the Sea-BeachSea-Shore FanciesIn Memory of Thomas PaineA Two Hours' Ice-SailSpring Overtures—RecreationsOne of the Human KinksAn Afternoon SceneThe Gates OpeningThe Common Earth, the SoilBirds and Birds and BirdsFull-Starr'd NightsMulleins and MulleinsDistant SoundsA Sun-Bath—NakednessThe Oaks and IA QuintetteThe First Frost—MemsThree Young Men's DeathsFebruary DaysA Meadow LarkSundown LightsThoughts Under an Oak—A DreamClover and Hay PerfumeAn UnknownBird WhistlingHorse-MintThree of UsDeath of William Cullen BryantJaunt up the HudsonHappiness and RaspberriesA Specimen Tramp FamilyManhattan from the BayHuman and Heroic New YorkHours for the SoulStraw-Color'd and other PsychesA Night RemembranceWild FlowersA Civility Too Long NeglectedDelaware River—Days and NightsScenes on Ferry and River—Last Winter's NightsThe First Spring Day on Chestnut StreetUp the Hudson to Ulster CountyDays at J.B.'s—Turf Fires—Spring SongsMeeting a HermitAn Ulster County WaterfallWalter Dumont and his MedalHudson River SightsTwo City Areas Certain HoursCentral Park Walks and TalksA Fine Afternoon, 4 to 6Departing of the Big SteamersTwo Hours on the MinnesotaMature Summer Days and NightExposition Building—New City Hall—River-TripSwallows on the RiverBegin a Long Jaunt WestIn the SleeperMissouri StateLawrence and Topeka, KansasThe Prairies—(and an Undeliver'd Speech)On to Denver—A Frontier IncidentAn Hour on Kenosha SummitAn Egotistical "Find"New Scenes—New JoysSteam-Power, Telegraphs, Etc.America's Back-BoneThe ParksArt FeaturesDenver ImpressionsI Turn South and then East AgainUnfulfill'd Wants—the Arkansas RiverA Silent Little Follower—the CoreopsisThePrairies and Great Plains in PoetryThe Spanish Peaks—Evening on the PlainsAmerica's Characteristic LandscapeEarth's Most Important StreamPrairie Analogies—the Tree QuestionMississippi Valley LiteratureAn Interviewer's ItemThe Women of the WestThe Silent GeneralPresident Hayes's SpeechesSt. Louis MemorandaNights on the MississippiUpon our Own LandEdgar Poe's SignificanceBeethoven's SeptetteA Hint of Wild NatureLoafing in the WoodsA Contralto VoiceSeeing Niagara to AdvantageJaunting to CanadaSunday with the InsaneReminiscence of Elias HicksGrand Native GrowthA Zollverein between the U. S. and CanadaThe St. Lawrence LineThe Savage SaguenayCapes Eternity and TrinityChicoutimi, and Ha-ha BayThe Inhabitants—Good LivingCedar-Plums Like—NamesDeath of Thomas CarlyleCarlyle from American Points of ViewA Couple of Old Friends—A Coleridge BitA Week's Visit to BostonThe Boston of To-DayMy Tribute to Four PoetsMillet's Pictures—Last ItemsBirds—and a CautionSamples of my Common-Place BookMy Native Sand and Salt Once MoreHot Weather New York"Ouster's Last Rally"Some Old Acquaintances—MemoriesA Discovery of Old AgeA Visit, at the Last, to R. W. EmersonOther Concord NotationsBoston Common—More of EmersonAn Ossianic Night—Dearest FriendsOnly a New Ferry BoatDeath of LongfellowStarting NewspapersThe Great Unrest of which We are PartBy Emerson's GraveAt Present Writing—PersonalAfter Trying a CertainBookFinal Confessions—Literary TestsNature and Democracy—Morality

COLLECT

COLLECT

ONE OR TWO INDEX ITEMS

ONE OR TWO INDEX ITEMS

DEMOCRATIC VISTAS

DEMOCRATIC VISTAS

ORIGINS OF ATTEMPTED SECESSION

ORIGINS OF ATTEMPTED SECESSION

PREFACES TO "LEAVES OFGRASS"

PREFACES TO "LEAVES OF GRASS"Preface, 1855, to first issue of "Leaves of Grass"Preface, 1872, to "As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free"Preface, 1876, to L. of G. and "Two Rivulets"POETRY TO-DAY IN AMERICA—SHAKESPEARE—THE FUTURE

A MEMORANDUM AT AVENTURE

A MEMORANDUM AT A VENTUREDEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

TWO LETTERS

TWO LETTERS

NOTES LEFT OVER

NOTES LEFT OVERNationality (and Yet)Emerson's Books (the Shadows of Them)Ventures, on an Old ThemeBritish LiteratureDarwinism (then Furthermore)"Society"The Tramp and Strike QuestionsDemocracy in the New WorldFoundation Stages—then OthersGeneral Suffrage, Elections, Etc.Who Gets the Plunder?Friendship (the Real Article)Lacks and Wants YetRulers Strictly Out of the MassesMonuments—the Past and PresentLittle or Nothing New After AllA Lincoln ReminiscenceFreedomBook-Classes-America's LiteratureOur Real CulminationAn American ProblemThe Last Collective Compaction

PIECES IN EARLY YOUTH

PIECES IN EARLY YOUTHDough Face SongDeath in the School-RoomOne Wicked ImpulseThe Last LoyalistWild Frank's ReturnThe Boy LoverThe Child and the ProfligateLingave's TemptationLittle JaneDumb KateTalk to an Art UnionBlood-MoneyWounded in the House of FriendsSailing the Mississippi at Midnight

NOVEMBER BOUGHS

NOVEMBER BOUGHSOUR EMINENT VISITORS, Past, Present and Future

THE BIBLE AS POETRY

THE BIBLE AS POETRY

FATHER TAYLOR (AND ORATORY)

FATHER TAYLOR (AND ORATORY)

THE SPANISH ELEMENT IN OUR NATIONALITY

THESPANISH ELEMENT IN OUR NATIONALITYWHAT LURKS BEHIND SHAKSPERE'S HISTORICAL PLAYS?

A THOUGHT ON SHAKSPERE

A THOUGHT ON SHAKSPERE

ROBERT BURNS AS POET AND PERSON

ROBERT BURNS AS POET AND PERSON

A WORD ABOUT TENNYSON

A WORD ABOUT TENNYSON

SLANG IN AMERICA

SLANG IN AMERICA

AN INDIAN BUREAU REMINISCENCE

AN INDIAN BUREAU REMINISCENCE

SOME DIARY NOTES AT RANDOM

SOME DIARY NOTES AT RANDOMNegro Slaves in New YorkCanada NightsCountry Days and NightsCentral Park NotesPlate Glass Notes

SOME WAR MEMORANDA

SOME WAR MEMORANDAWashington Street ScenesThe 195th PennsylvaniaLeft-hand Writing by SoldiersCentral Virginia in '64Paying the First Color'd Troops

FIVE THOUSAND POEMS

FIVE THOUSAND POEMS

THE OLD BOWERY

THE OLD BOWERY

NOTES TO LATE ENGLISH BOOKS

NOTES TO LATE ENGLISH BOOKSPreface to Reader in British IslandsAdditional Note, 1887Preface to English Edition "Democratic Vistas"

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

NEW ORLEANS IN 1848

NEW ORLEANS IN 1848

SMALL MEMORANDA

SMALL MEMORANDAAttorney General's Office, 1865A Glint Inside of Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet AppointmentsNote to a FriendWritten Impromptu in an AlbumThe Place Gratitude fills in a Fine Character

LAST OF THE WAR CASES

LAST OF THE WAR CASESELIAS HICKS, Notes (suchas they are)George Fox and Shakspere

GOOD-BYE MY FANCY

GOOD-BYE MY FANCYAN OLD MAN'S REJOINDEROLD POETSShip AhoyFor Queen Victoria's Birthday

AMERICAN NATIONAL LITERATURE

AMERICAN NATIONAL LITERATUREGATHERING THE CORNA DEATH BOUQUET

SOME LAGGARDS YET

SOME LAGGARDS YETThe Perfect Human VoiceShakspere for America"Unassailed Renown"Inscription for a Little Book on Giordano BrunoSplintersHealth (Old Style)Gay-heartednessAs in a SwoonL. of G.After the ArgumentFor Us Two, Reader Dear

MEMORANDA

MEMORANDAA World's ShowNew York—the Bay—the Old NameA Sick SpellTo be Present Only"Intestinal Agitation""Walt Whitman's Last 'Public'"Ingersoll's SpeechFeeling FairlyOld Brooklyn DaysTwo QuestionsPreface to a VolumeAn Engineer's ObituaryOld Actors, Singers, Shows, Etc., in New YorkSome Personal and Old Age JottingsOut in the Open AgainAmerica's Bulk AverageLast Saved ItemsWALT WHITMAN'S LAST

SPECIMEN DAYS