Specimen days & Collect (1882) by: Whitman, Walt, (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781530539680)

One of the most creative and individual poets America has produced, Walt Whitman was also a prolific diarist, note-taker, and essayist whose intimate observations and reflections have profoundly deepened understanding of nineteenth-century American life. Specimen Days and Collect, first published in 1882, is a choice collection of Whitman's uniquely revealing impressions of the people, places, and events of his time, principally the era of the Civil War and its aftermath. On page after page, a vast panorama of American life unfolds, and with it rare glimpse of Whitman as poet, empathetic observer, and romantic wanderer. From his years as a wartime nurse in Washington, D.C., come touching glimpses of the dead and dying in military hospitals, memories of Abraham Lincoln, and vivid impressions of the nation's capital in a time of great crisis

Author: Whitman Walt
ISBN-10: 1530539684
ISBN-13: 9781530539680
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/14/2016
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.57d