The Collected Works of Walt Whitman

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works – the Œuvre – of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook – 4355 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Leaves of Grass • The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman • Complete Prose Works • Poems By • Drum-Taps • Leaves of Grass • The Wound Dresser • Song of Myself Selections • When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd • • DETAILED CONTENTS • SPECIMEN DAYS • A HAPPY HOUR'S COMMAND • COLLECT • ONE OR TWO INDEX ITEMS • DEMOCRATIC VISTAS • ORIGINS OF ATTEMPTED SECESSION • PREFACES TO «LEAVES OF GRASS» • PREFACE, To first issue of Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, N.Y. • PREFACE, To As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free Now Thou Mother with • PREFACE, To the two-volume Centennial Edition of Leaves of Grass • 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 • SMALL MEMORANDA • LAST OF THE WAR CASES • GOOD-BYE MY FANCY • AMERICAN NATIONAL LITERATURE • A DEATH-BOUQUET • SOME LAGGARDS YET • MEMORANDA . etc.