The Collected Works of Walt Whitman E-Book

Walt Whitman

• Herausgeber: PergamonMedia
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Serie: Highlights of World Literature
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Seitenzahl: 3762

Beschreibung

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 4355 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Leaves of Grass • The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman • Complete Prose Works • Poems By • Drum-Taps • Leaves of Grass • The Wound Dresser • Song of Myself Selections • When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd • • DETAILED CONTENTS • SPECIMEN DAYS • A HAPPY HOUR'S COMMAND • COLLECT • ONE OR TWO INDEX ITEMS • DEMOCRATIC VISTAS • ORIGINS OF ATTEMPTED SECESSION • PREFACES TO "LEAVES OF GRASS" • PREFACE, To first issue of Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, N.Y. • PREFACE, To As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free Now Thou Mother with • PREFACE, To the two-volume Centennial Edition of Leaves of Grass • A MEMORANDUM 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 LATE ENGLISH 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 • SMALL MEMORANDA • LAST OF THE WAR CASES • GOOD-BYE MY FANCY • AMERICAN NATIONAL LITERATURE • A DEATH-BOUQUET • SOME LAGGARDS YET • MEMORANDA . etc.

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Table of Contents

COMPLETE PROSE WORKS

Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Good Bye My Fancy

DETAILED CONTENTS

SPECIMEN DAYS

A HAPPY HOUR'S COMMAND

ANSWER TO AN INSISTING FRIEND

GENEALOGY—VAN VELSOR AND WHITMAN

THE OLD WHITMAN AND VAN VELSOR CEMETERIES

THE MATERNAL HOMESTEAD

TWO OLD FAMILY INTERIORS

PAUMANOK, AND MY LIFE ON IT AS CHILD AND YOUNG MAN

MY FIRST READING—LAFAYETTE

PRINTING OFFICE—OLD BROOKLYN

GROWTH—HEALTH—WORK

MY PASSION FOR FERRIES

BROADWAY SIGHTS

OMNIBUS JAUNTS AND DRIVERS

PLAYS AND OPERAS TOO

THROUGH EIGHT YEARS.

SOURCES OF CHARACTER—RESULTS—1860

OPENING OF THE SECESSION WAR

NATIONAL UPRISING AND VOLUNTEERING

CONTEMPTUOUS FEELING

BATTLE OF BULL RUN, JULY, 1861

THE STUPOR PASSES—SOMETHING ELSE BEGINS

DOWN AT THE FRONT

AFTER FIRST FREDERICKSBURG

BACK TO WASHINGTON

FIFTY HOURS LEFT WOUNDED ON THE FIELD

HOSPITAL SCENES AND PERSONS

PATENT-OFFICE HOSPITAL

THE WHITE HOUSE BY MOONLIGHT

AN ARMY HOSPITAL WARD

A CONNECTICUT CASE

TWO BROOKLYN BOYS

A SECESH BRAVE

THE WOUNDED FROM CHANCELLORSVILLE

A NIGHT BATTLE OVER A WEEK SINCE

UNNAMED REMAINS THE BRAVEST SOLDIER

SOME SPECIMEN CASES

MY PREPARATIONS FOR VISITS

AMBULANCE PROCESSIONS

BAD WOUNDS—THE YOUNG

THE MOST INSPIRITING OF ALL WAR'S SHOWS

BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG

A CAVALRY CAMP

A NEW YORK SOLDIER

HOME-MADE MUSIC

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

HEATED TERM

SOLDIERS AND TALKS

DEATH OF A WISCONSIN OFFICER

HOSPITALS ENSEMBLE

A SILENT NIGHT RAMBLE

SPIRITUAL CHARACTERS AMONG THE SOLDIERS

CATTLE DROVES ABOUT WASHINGTON

HOSPITAL PERPLEXITY

DOWN AT THE FRONT

PAYING THE BOUNTIES

RUMORS, CHANGES, ETC.

VIRGINIA

SUMMER OF 1864

A NEW ARMY ORGANIZATION FIT FOR AMERICA

DEATH OF A HERO

HOSPITAL SCENES—INCIDENTS

A YANKEE SOLDIER

UNION PRISONERS SOUTH

DESERTERS

A GLIMPSE OF WAR'S HELL-SCENES

GIFTS—MONEY—DISCRIMINATION

ITEMS FROM MY NOTE BOOKS

A CASE FROM SECOND BULL RUN

ARMY SURGEONS—AID DEFICIENCIES

THE BLUE EVERYWHERE

A MODEL HOSPITAL

BOYS IN THE ARMY

BURIAL OF A LADY NURSE

FEMALE NURSES FOR SOLDIERS

SOUTHERN ESCAPEES

THE CAPITOL BY GAS-LIGHT

THE INAUGURATION

ATTITUDE OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS DURING THE WAR

THE WEATHER—DOES IT SYMPATHIZE WITH THESE TIMES?

INAUGURATION BALL

SCENE AT THE CAPITOL

A YANKEE ANTIQUE

WOUNDS AND DISEASES

DEATH OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN

SHERMAN'S ARMY'S JUBILATION—ITS SUDDEN STOPPAGE

NO GOOD PORTRAIT OF LINCOLN

RELEAS'D UNION PRISONERS FROM SOUTH

DEATH OF A PENNSYLVANIA SOLDIER

W. W.

THE ARMIES RETURNING

THE GRAND REVIEW

WESTERN SOLDIERS

A SOLDIER ON LINCOLN

TWO BROTHERS, ONE SOUTH, ONE NORTH

SOME SAD CASES YET

CALHOUN'S REAL MONUMENT

HOSPITALS CLOSING

TYPICAL SOLDIERS

"CONVULSIVENESS"

THREE YEARS SUMM'D UP

THE MILLION DEAD, TOO, SUMM'D UP

THE REAL WAR WILL NEVER GET IN THE BOOKS

AN INTERREGNUM PARAGRAPH

NEW THEMES ENTERED UPON

ENTERING A LONG FARM-LANE

TO THE SPRING AND BROOK

AN EARLY SUMMER REVEILLE

BIRDS MIGRATING AT MIDNIGHT

BUMBLE-BEES

CEDAR-APPLES

SUMMER SIGHTS AND INDOLENCIES

SUNDOWN PERFUME—QUAILNOTES—THE HERMIT-THRUSH

A JULY AFTER-NOON BY THE POND

LOCUSTS AND KATY-DIDS

THE LESSON OF A TREE

AUTUMN SIDE-BITS

THE SKY—DAYS AND NIGHTS—HAPPINESS

COLORS—A CONTRAST

NOVEMBER 8, '76

CROWS AND CROWS

A WINTER DAY ON THE SEA-BEACH

SEA-SHORE FANCIES

IN MEMORY OF THOMAS PAINE.

A TWO HOURS ICE-SAIL

SPRING OVERTURES—RECREATIONS

ONE OF THE HUMAN KINKS

AN AFTERNOON SCENE

THE GATES OPENING

THE COMMON EARTH, THE SOIL

BIRDS AND BIRDS AND BIRDS

FULL-STARR'D NIGHTS

MULLEINS AND MULLEINS

DISTANT SOUNDS

A SUN-BATH-NAKEDNESS

THE OAKS AND I

A QUINTETTE

THE FIRST FROST—MEMS

THREE YOUNG MEN'S DEATHS

FEBRUARY DAYS

A MEADOW LARK

SUNDOWN LIGHTS

THOUGHTS UNDER AN OAK—A DREAM

CLOVER AND HAY PERFUME

AN UNKNOWN

BIRD-WHISTLING

HORSE-MINT

THREE OF US

DEATH OF WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT

JAUNT UP THE HUDSON

HAPPINESS AND RASPBERRIES

A SPECIMEN TRAMP FAMILY

MANHATTAN FROM THE BAY

HUMAN AND HEROIC NEW YORK

HOURS FOR THE SOUL

STRAW-COLOR'D AND OTHER PSYCHES

A NIGHT REMEMBRANCE

WILD FLOWERS

A CIVILITY TOO LONG NEGLECTED

DELAWARE RIVER—DAYS AND NIGHTS

SCENES ON FERRY AND RIVER—LAST WINTER'S NIGHTS

THE FIRST SPRING DAY ON CHESTNUT STREET

UP THE HUDSON TO ULSTER COUNTY

DAYS AT J. B.'S TURF-FIRES—SPRING SONGS

MEETING A HERMIT

AN ULSTER COUNTY WATERFALL

WALTER DUMONT AND HIS MEDAL

HUDSON RIVER SIGHTS

TWO CITY AREAS, CERTAIN HOURS

CENTRAL PARK WALKS AND TALKS

A FINE AFTERNOON, 4 TO 6

DEPARTING OF THE BIG STEAMERS

TWO HOURS ON THE MINNESOTA

MATURE SUMMER DAYS AND NIGHTS

EXPOSITION BUILDING—NEW CITY HALL—RIVER TRIP

SWALLOWS ON THE RIVER