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Specimen Days & Collect
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Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher: Dover Publications
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Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher: Dover Publications
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Specimen Days & Collect Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.3
EAN: 9780486286419
ISBN: 048628641X
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 384
Publication Date: 1995-08-15
Publisher: Dover Publications
Studio: Dover Publications
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.3
EAN: 9780486286419
ISBN: 048628641X
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 384
Publication Date: 1995-08-15
Publisher: Dover Publications
Studio: Dover Publications
Editorial Review of Specimen Days & Collect
Diaries, notes and essays dealing with Whitman's ancestry, boyhood, Civil War experiences, nature, literary subjects and more.
Customer Reviews of Specimen Days & Collect
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: well priced volume
Review: it is a reprint of the first edition 1883 version. The book itself is one of the best American prose works ever, especially the first 80 pages, Whitman's transcribed bloody napkin notes as a nurse in the Civil War and lounging around D.C. It then turns into what he was going to call "notes of a half paralytic," and it is a strange way to read Whitman, less body, less movement, detailing nature like a thoreau journal, but unlike hdt, he travels west, and his lecture in Kansas, where he talks about the language of england not being able to describe this landscape and the form of poetry not working for it are among his most thoughtful and interesting ideas. I like the cover and the basic physical sense of this book, too, though it is just a cheap dover.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: "...as we get to Walt with his masks removed."
Review: Holding a very special place among Whitman's writing, & very unlike anything by Thoreau, Specimen Days is as close as we get to Walt with his masks removed. There is something of a suburbanite in Whitman's appreciation of nature; essentially, he simply went, looked around & wrote down what he saw & what he did. Force of nature that he was, what he mostly saw was, of course, himself. Nature is benign. The Civil War entries are famous. The real war, which Whitman said would never get in the books, makes an appearance in the sad hospitals he visited.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: "..as close as we get to Walt with his masks removed."
Review: Holding a very special place among Whitman's writing, & very unlike anything by Thoreau, Specimen Days is as close as we get to Walt with his masks removed. There is something of a suburbanite in Whitman's appreciation of nature; essentially, he simply went, looked around & wrote down what he saw & what he did. Force of nature that he was, what he mostly saw was, of course, himself. Nature is benign.
Review Summary: well priced volume
Review: it is a reprint of the first edition 1883 version. The book itself is one of the best American prose works ever, especially the first 80 pages, Whitman's transcribed bloody napkin notes as a nurse in the Civil War and lounging around D.C. It then turns into what he was going to call "notes of a half paralytic," and it is a strange way to read Whitman, less body, less movement, detailing nature like a thoreau journal, but unlike hdt, he travels west, and his lecture in Kansas, where he talks about the language of england not being able to describe this landscape and the form of poetry not working for it are among his most thoughtful and interesting ideas. I like the cover and the basic physical sense of this book, too, though it is just a cheap dover.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: "...as we get to Walt with his masks removed."
Review: Holding a very special place among Whitman's writing, & very unlike anything by Thoreau, Specimen Days is as close as we get to Walt with his masks removed. There is something of a suburbanite in Whitman's appreciation of nature; essentially, he simply went, looked around & wrote down what he saw & what he did. Force of nature that he was, what he mostly saw was, of course, himself. Nature is benign. The Civil War entries are famous. The real war, which Whitman said would never get in the books, makes an appearance in the sad hospitals he visited.
Specimen Days is an inspiring message to us. Whitman knew we would be here.
Bob Rixon
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: "..as close as we get to Walt with his masks removed."
Review: Holding a very special place among Whitman's writing, & very unlike anything by Thoreau, Specimen Days is as close as we get to Walt with his masks removed. There is something of a suburbanite in Whitman's appreciation of nature; essentially, he simply went, looked around & wrote down what he saw & what he did. Force of nature that he was, what he mostly saw was, of course, himself. Nature is benign.
The Civil War entries are famous. The real war, which Whitman said would never get in the books, makes an appearance in the sad hospitals he visited.
Specimen Days is an inspiring message to us. Whitman knew we would be here.