Specimen Days
Walt Whitman
Play
Length 11 h 4 min
Chapters 20
First published 1882
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.
Chapters
1
A Happy Hour's Command --- Sources of Character-Results-1860 Read by Sue Anderson 50:47
2
Opening of the Secession of War --- Patent Office Hospital Read by Anna Simon 28:25
3
The White House by Moonlight --- The Most Inspiriting of All War's Shows Read by Sarah Jennings 29:00
4
Battle of Gettysburg --- Summer of 1864 Read by Sibella Denton 33:23
5
A New Army Organization Fit for America --- A Model Hospital Read by Sarah Jennings 22:23
6
Boys in the Army --- Death of President Lincoln Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014) 33:08
7
Sherman's Army's Jubilation-Its Sudden Stoppage --- The Real War Will Never Get in the Books Read by David Jaquay 37:40
8
An Interegnum Paragraph --- Colors-A Contrast Read by Great Plains 42:21
9
Nover 8, '76 --- The Oaks and I Read by Joan Freeman 41:13
10
A Quintet --- Death of William Cullen Bryant Read by Belinda Brown 28:39
11
Jaunt Up the Hudson --- Wild Flowers Read by Aaron Elliott 34:52
12
The Civility Too Long Neglected -- Meeting A Hermit Read by Jc Guan 33:34
13
An Ulster County Waterfall -- Swallow on the River Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010) 30:05
14
Begin a Long Jaunt West -- The Women of the West Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014) 58:44
15
The Silent General -- Seeing Niagara to Advantage Read by Sibella Denton 21:47
16
Jaunting To Canada --- Death of Thomas Carlyle Read by Sarah Jennings 28:51
17
Carlyle From American Points of View -- Millet's Pictures Last Items Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014) 51:18
18
Birds - Death of Longfellow Read by David Jaquay 34:04
19
Starting Newspapers --- Nature and Democracy-Morality Read by Rich Meyers 20:27
20
Notes Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014) 3:26
From LibriVox, read by volunteers and in the public domain. LibriVox page (opens librivox.org) , the text (opens gutenberg.org) , all files on the Internet Archive (opens archive.org) .
