Daybooks and Notebooks: Volume I - 9780814794319

Daybooks and Notebooks: Volume IDaybooks, 1876-November 1881\nAuthor(s): Walt Whitman, William White\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814794319, 978-0814794319\nSynopsis\nGeneral Series Editors: Gay Wilson Allen and Sculley Bradley\n Originally published between 1961 and 1984, and now available in paperback for the first time, the critically acclaimed Collected Writings of Walt Whitman captures every facet of one of America's most important poets.\n Daybooks and Notebooks is an invaluable source for reference on Whitman's daily activities. This sixteen-year record supplements the biographical information provided in the six volumes of Whitman's Correspondence, functioning as an account book, diary, journal, commonplace book, and notebook all in one.\n When Whitman began to keep them, the Daybooks were a personal record of predominantly business matters. As William White wrote in the introduction,.