By Walt Whitman

Favorite quote: Camden, April 3, ‘82 — “I have just return’d from an old forest haunt, where I love to go occasionally away from parlors, pavements, and the newspapers and magazines—and where, of a clear forenoon, deep in the shade of pines and cedars and a tangle of old laurel-trees and vines, the news of Longfellow’s death first reach’d me. For want of anything better, let me lightly twine a sprig of the sweet ground-ivy trailing so plentifully through the dead leaves at my feet, with reflections of that half hour alone, there in the silence, and lay it as my contribution on the dead bard’s grave.”

From the publisher: While known as one of America’s greatest poets, Walt Whitman was also a prolific diarist, note-taker, and essayist. Specimen Days and Collect, first published in 1882, is a choice collection of his uniquely revealing impressions of the people, places, and events of his time, principally the era of the Civil War and its aftermath.

Dimensions: 8 x 5 in

Softcover