Complete Prose Works
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Literary readers who want to know Whitman's prose beyond his poetry
- Students and teachers of nineteenth-century American literature and intellectual history
- English-language readers who enjoy slow reading of essays and taking excerpt notes
- Those who need a public-domain English text for courses or writing reference
Not a good fit for
- General readers who prefer Chinese translations and do not want to read the English original
- Casual readers looking for tightly plotted, story-driven entertainment
- Beginners who need modern annotations and a detailed introduction
Reading tips
- Begin by browsing the table of contents and start with short pieces or topics of interest rather than reading straight through.
- Keep a notebook to record recurring ideas and language features, making it easier to compare passages.
- Alternate selections with poems from Leaves of Grass to notice differences between his prose and poetry.
- Mark passages with unclear historical background and look them up after finishing the whole piece.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was an American poet whose biographical details are limited in publicly available sources, yet whose work has had a profound influence. His representative work Leaves of Grass broke with traditional meter through free verse, celebrating the individual, democracy, and nature in an expansive, rhythmic language, and is regarded as an important marker of the modern transformation of American poetry. Another collection, Drum-Taps, along with The Wound Dresser and The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman, draws largely on war and nursing experience, with a plain and deeply moving tone that shows concern for ordinary people. Complete Prose Works and Poems by Walt Whitman also collect his prose and verse. His writings have been translated into many languages, such as Grashalmen and Poèmes de Walt Whitman, and have circulated widely.
