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This motto adorned the front of poetry magazine and was the object of the vitriolic disapproval of ezra pound, who, in 1914, wrote in the pages of the magazine. Composed in 1881 largely out of notes, sketches, and essays written at various stages of the poets life from the civil. Specimen days is a genrebending, haunting, and transformative ode to life in our greatest city and a meditation on the direction and meaning of americas destiny. The very title, specimen days, embodies the central dilemma of the text. Serving at various times as a printers devil, journeyman compositor, itinerant schoolteacher, newspaper editor, and unofficial nurse to northern and southern soldiers during the civil war, he acquired a broad view of american life, central to his. Garland publishing, 1998, reproduced by permission. The whitman of specimen days joseph eugene mullin specimen days consists of fifteen pages of an offhand letter of autobiographical information, another seventyfive pages of diary jottings, warmemoranda of 1862. Walt whitmans specimen days and the discovery of the disability memoir article in prose studies 2712. Walt whitman specimen days is essentially the great american poet walt whitmans scrap book.
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