Specimen Days

Walt Whitman author Max Cavitch editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:14th Sep '23

Should be back in stock very soon

Specimen Days cover

'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. * Ed Folsom, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review *

ISBN: 9780198861386

Dimensions: 196mm x 130mm x 15mm

Weight: 254g

336 pages