By Walt Whitman
DETAILED CONTENTS
SPECIMEN DAYS
ORIGINS OF ATTEMPTED SECESSION
PREFACES TO "LEAVES OF GRASS"
PREFACE, 1855 To first issue of Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, N.Y.
PREFACE, 1872 To As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free Now Thou Mother with
PREFACE, 1876 To the two-volume Centennial Edition of Leaves of Grass
A MEMORANDUM AT A VENTURE
DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN LECTURE
TWO LETTERS I TO LONDON, ENGLAND
NOTES LEFT OVER
APPENDIX
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 NEGRO SLAVES IN NEW YORK
SOME WAR MEMORANDA Jotted Down at the Time
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 1848
SMALL MEMORANDA Thousands lost here one or two preserv'd
LAST OF THE WAR CASES Memorandized at the time, Washington, 1865-'66
Endnotes ( such as they are) founded on ELIAS HICKS
GOOD-BYE MY FANCY AN OLD MAN'S REJOINDER
AMERICAN NATIONAL LITERATURE Is there any such thing or can there ever be?
A DEATH-BOUQUET Pick'd Noontime, early January, 1890
SOME LAGGARDS YET THE PERFECT HUMAN VOICE
MEMORANDA
PREFACE
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