Walt Whitman: Complete Collection of Works with analysis and historical background: Drum-Taps, Leaves of Grass, Patriotic Poems, Complete Prose Works (Annotated and Illustrated) (Annotated Classics)

* Illustrated with the original images.

* Annotated with concise introduction, including analysis of Walt Whitman's works as well as modern view on Whitman's historical background.

* Original footnotes are hyperlinked for easy reference.

* The collection includes alphabetical index of Whitman's works.

* Each book features its own active Table of Contents.

* Includes Whitman's Franklin Evans novel.

* Features links to Whitman's famous poems as well as his Patriotic Poems.

* Includes Walt Whitman's Biography by Robert Louis Stevenson and William Clarke.

* Includes Walt Whitman's most famous quotes.

* All Annotated Classics books are beautifully designed for easy reading and navigation on e-Readers and mobile devices.



CONTENTS:



POETRY:

Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps (1865)

Leaves of Grass (1855) Illustrated

Poems by Walt Whitman selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (1855)

Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day (1865)

I Sing the Body Electric (1865)

A Noiseless Patient Spider (1891)

O Captain! My Captain! (1865)

One Hour to Madness and Joy (1860)

One's Self I Sing (1867)

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking (1859)

Patrolling Barnegat (1856)

Pioneers! O Pioneers! (1865)

Prayer of Columbus (1900)

Song of Myself (1855)

Song of the Open Road (1856)

This Dust Was Once the Man (1871)

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (1865)



THE PATRIOTIC POEMS:

America

I. POEMS OF WAR

Thick-Sprinkled Bunting

Beat! Beat! Drums!

City of Ships

A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown

Come Up From the Fields Father

A Twilight Song

A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim

Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me

Song of the Banner at Daybreak

The Dying Veteran

The Wound-Dresser

Dirge for Two Veterans

From Far Dakota's Cañons

Old War-Dreams

Delicate Cluster

To a Certain Civilian

Adieu to a Soldier

Long, Too Long America



II. POEMS OF AFTER-WAR

Weave In, My Hardy Life

How Solemn as One by One

Spirit Whose Work Is Done

The Return of the Heroes

Memories of President Lincoln

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

O Captain! My Captain!

Hush'd be the Camps To-day

Ashes of Soldiers

Pensive on her Dead Gazing



III. POEMS OF AMERICA

I Hear America Singing

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

Song of the Broad-Axe

Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun

Faces

O Magnet-South

By Broad Potomac's Shore

Our Old Feuillage!

A Broadway Pageant

The Prairie States



IV. POEMS OF DEMOCRACY

To Foreign Lands

To Thee Old Cause

For You O Democracy

Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood

What Best I See in Thee

As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days

The United States to Old World Critics

Years of the Modern

O Star of France

Thoughts

By Blue Ontario's Shore

Epilogue: Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps



PROSE:

Complete Prose Works: Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Good Bye My Fancy (1909):

Specimen Days

Collect

Democratic Vistas

Prefaces to "Leaves of Grass"

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

Abraham Lincoln

New Orleans in 1848

Small Memoranda

Last of the War Cases

Good-Bye My Fancy

American National Literature

Gathering the Corn

A Death-Bouquet

Some Laggards Yet

Memoranda

Walt Whitman's Last



Franklin Evans (1842)



Memoranda During the War (1876)



The Wound Dresser (1898)



The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman (1918)



BIOGRAPHY, HISTORY, QUOTES & ANALYSIS:

Walt Whitman by Robert Louis Stevenson

Walt Whitman by William Clarke

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