I loved this book Its an inexpensive collection of Walt Whitman poems letters and essays that is well worth your time this book is worth purchasing and perusing due to its historical value of ruminations on American life Old Musty BooksCompiled when the great poet was 70 years old November Boughs offers verse and prose reminiscences of a singular American life Walt Whitmans reflections begin with the essay A Backward Glance Oer Traveld Roads in which he discusses the genesis of his most famous and controversial book Leaves of Grass A selection of poetry titled Sands at Seventy is followed by a series of essays and recollections that include Slang in America What Lurks Behind Shakespeares Historical Plays The Old Bowery and notes on the life of the Quaker abolitionist Elias Hicks whose body it was rumored he and a youthful group of friends once attempted to exhumeThis affordable highquality edition of a rare book of poetry and prose provides a greater context for the interpretation of Whitmans other works Essential reading for Whitman scholars this volume is also of interest to historians of the Civil War abolitionism and nineteenthcentury America