Walt Whitman

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Specimen Days By Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman’s scrap book. It documents most of his life’s adventures, especially his experience serving as a nurse during the Civil War and travelling around America. Total running time: 11:04:07.

01 — A Happy Hour’s Command — Sources of Character- Results-1860 — 00:50:47 - Read by

Sue Anderson ® 02 — Opening of the Secession of War — Patent Office Hospital — 00:28:25 - j

Read by Anna Simon ® 03 — The White House by Moonlight — The Most Inspiriting of All War’s Shows — 00:29:00 - Read by Sarah Jennings @ 04 — Battle of Gettysburg — Summer of 1864 — 00:33:23 - Read by Sibella Denton @ 05 — A New Army Organization Fit for America — A Model Hospital — 00:22:23 - Read by Sarah Jennings ® 06 — Boys in the Army — Death of President Lincoln — 00:33:08 - Read by Lucy Burgoyne ® 07 — Sherman’s Army’s Jubilation-Its Sudden Stoppage — The Real War Will Never Get in the Books — 00:37:40 - Read by David Jaquay @ 08 — An Interegnum Paragraph — Colors-A Contrast — 00:42:21 - Read by Great Plains ® 09 — Nov 8 ‘76 — The Oaks and | — 00:41:13 - Read by Joan Freeman ® 10 — A Quintette-Death of William Cullen Bryant — 00:28:39 - Read by Belinda Brown ® 11 — Jaunt Up the Hudson — Wild Flowers — 00:34:52 - Read by Aaron Elliott ® 12 — The Civility Too Long Neglected — Meeting A Hermit — 00:33:34 - Read by Jc Guan ® 13 — An Ulster County Waterfall — Swallow on the River — 00:30:05 - Read by Alan Davis Drake @ 14 — Begin a Long Jaunt West — The Women of the West — 00:58:44 - Read by Lucy Burgoyne ® 15 — The Silent General — Seeing Niagara to Advantage — 00:21:47 - Read by Sibella Denton ® 16 — Jaunting To Canada — Death of Thomas Carlyle — 00:28:51 - Read by Sarah Jennings @ 17 — Carlyle From American Points of View — Millet’s Pictures Last Items — 00:51:18 - Read by Lucy Burgoyne @ 18 — Birds — Death of Longfellow — 00:34:04 - Read by David Jaquay ® 19 — Starting Newspapers-Nature and Democracy-Morality — 00:20:27 - Read by Rich Meyers ® 20 — Collect — End — 00:03:26 - Read by Lucy Burgoyne

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Cover image by Félix Bracquemond (1854). Author photograph by G. Frank E. Pearsall (1872). Copyright expired in US, Canada, EU and all countries with author’s life +70 yrs laws. Cover design by Janette Brown. This design is in the public domain.

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