Walt Whitman

Specimen Days (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.



Walt Whitman's Specimen Days, published in 1882, provides an extraordinary picture of an aging poet reassessing the path of his long life, one intrinsically linked with the trajectoryand traumasof the nation he cherished so deeply. Its diary-like entries, is a prose compilation of a life lived richly and in the service of others, as well an enduring portrait of a monumental writer. Specimen Days reveals the remarkable course of Whitman's life and accomplishments, starting with his boyhood spent roaming the coast of Long Island, to his days as a writer and observer of the cities of New York and Brooklyn, to his volunteer work as a Washington field nurse during the Civil War, and finally to his serene nature writings and travel diaries as an older man. Whitman's book of memories resounds with striking sections on war, nature, people, and travel. Composed by arguably the finest and most original of American poets, Specimen Days is an underappreciated autobiographical masterpiece by one of America's most important writers of any generation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411466883
• Artikelnr.: 49747076

Autorenporträt

Max Cavitch is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman (2007). He has published essays on a variety of topics in the journals American Literary History, American Literature, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Early American Literature, Senses of Cinema, Screen, and Victorian Poetry, and is a member of the collaboration committee of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychiatry.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Walt Whitman
SPECIMEN DAYS
Appendix A: "Preface. To the Reader in the British Islands"
Appendix B: "Additional Note. Written 1887 for the English Edition"
Explanatory Notes
Glossary of Persons Mentioned