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In December of 1862, having read his brother's name in a casualty list, Walt Whitman rushed from Brooklyn to the war front, where he found his brother wounded but recovering. But Whitman also found there a ""new world,"" a world dense with horror and revelation. Memoranda During the War is Whitman's testament to the anguish, heroism, and terror of the Civil War. The book consists of journal entries extending from Whitman's arrival on the front in 1862 through to the war's conclusion in 1865. Whitman details his encounters with soldiers and doctors, meditates on particular battles and on the me
Whitman, Walt --- Diaries --- United States --- History --- Civil War, 1861-1865 --- Personal narratives --- War work --- Poets [American ] --- 19th century --- Poets, American --- American poets --- Whitman, Walt, --- Ouïtman, Ouōlt, --- Uitman, Uolʹt, --- Uitmen, Uot, --- Uitmen, Uolt, --- Viṭman̲, Vālṭ, --- Vālṭ Viṭman̲, --- Witʻŭmŏn, --- Ṿiṭman, Ṿolṭ, --- Vālṭviṭman̲, --- Waltvitmen, --- Whitman, Walter, --- Huiteman, --- Veeitman, --- Уитмен, Уолт, --- ויטמן, וולט, --- װיטמאן, װאלט, --- ويتمن، والت، --- Vitmen, Volt, --- Uitman, Uollt, --- Huiteman, Huate, --- 華特·惠特曼, --- War work. --- Charities --- Social work --- Civilian relief
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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.
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