Drum-Taps-Walt Whitman
from Days with Walt Whitman Hosted by Edward Carpenter
Drum-Taps by Walt Whitman. Drum Taps is the next collection of poems published by Walt Whitman after his famous Leaves of Grass. Despite the miseries of war described, Whitman's poems in Drum Taps assert a steady patriotism in favor of Lincoln's war effort. Interestingly, the 1915 edition used for this reading includes an introduction from the Times Literary Supplement which draws analogies between the Civil War and the current throes of World War I, enlisting Whitman posthumously as a supporter of the Allied campaign against Germany. Featured on Days with Walt Whitman. Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org). This episode includes AI-generated content.
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