The Modern Scholar Audiobook by Karen Karbiener

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/53/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Modern Scholar Subtitle: Walt Whitman and the Birth of Modern American Poetry Author: Karen Karbiener Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins Language: English Release date: 09-24-09 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 39 votes Genres: Classics, Poetry Publisher's Summary: Passionate democracy is what Whitman called his invention, and like the inventions of Edison, it would transform not only the practices of its field but also the larger dimensions of American life. Whitman named what it was to be American, he catalogued and indexed and sang and scribed it, and his influence on his contemporaries and his descendants transcends the boundaries of poetry and becomes, in many ways, the story of young America.