Specimen Days

Specimen Days - Paperback

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Specimen Days - Paperback

Specimen Days - Paperback

by Walt Whitman , Max Cavitch
$11.95
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'I obey my happy hour's command, which seems curiously imperative. May-be, if I don't do anything else, I shall send out the most wayward, spontaneous, fragmentary book ever printed.'

One of the best kept secrets of modern autobiographical literature, Whitman's autobiography moves in brisk, episodic fashion to chronicle the life of one of the world's best loved and most influential poets. Experimental in form, lyrical in expression, and rich in experiential content, Specimen Days still awaits a much wider readership than it has hitherto commanded. Whitman gives us his life as lived in relation to the shifting urban and rural ecologies of a young nation -a nation that had freshly emerged from catastrophic civil war and that was assuming the vanguard of artistic, technological, economic, political, and philosophical modernity.

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ISBN9780198861386
Author Walt Whitman , Max Cavitch
PublisherOxford University Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedDecember 2023
LanguageENG- English
Pages336
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Specimen Days

Specimen Days - Paperback

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By Walt Whitman and Max Cavitch

About Walt Whitman

WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892) was born on Long Island and educated in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a printer's devil, journeyman compositor, itinerant schoolteacher, editor, and unofficial nurse to Northern and Southern soldiers during the Civil War and is widely considered the greatest American poet of the nineteenth century.

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