CONTENTS
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, 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
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 1848
SMALL MEMORANDA
LAST OF THE WAR CASES
Endnotes (such as they are) founded on
GOOD-BYE MY FANCY
AMERICAN NATIONAL LITERATURE
A DEATH-BOUQUET
SOME LAGGARDS YET
MEMORANDA
PREFACE
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