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

By Walt Whitman


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 ]

[ WALT WHITMAN'S LAST {49} ]