Specimen Days
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 14 September 2023
- ISBN 9780198861386
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 196x130x15 mm
- Weight 254 g
- Language English 495
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Short description:
Though well-known to many Whitman scholars, Specimen Days is an underrated 'late' prose work which chronicles the life of one of the world's best loved and most influential poets.
MoreLong description:
'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.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
This well-edited and attractive volume, combined with the Oxford World's Classics edition of Leaves of Grass, would serve as an excellent pair of texts for classes largely devoted to Whitman.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Walt Whitman
SPECIMEN DAYS
Appendix A: "Preface. To the Reader in the British Islands"
Appendix B: "Additional Note. Written 1887 for the English Edition"
Explanatory Notes
Glossary of Persons Mentioned
