Walt Whitman 
The Complete Prose Works of Walt Whitman 

Walt Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.
This collection includes the following:
SPECIMEN DAYS
A HAPPY HOUR’S COMMAND
COLLECT
ONE OR TWO INDEX ITEMS
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS
ORIGINS OF ATTEMPTED SECESSION
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}

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