Drum Taps, Walt Whitman
Drum Taps, Walt Whitman
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Drum Taps

Author: Walt Whitman

Narrator: Arthur Walls

Unabridged: 1 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/22/2019


Synopsis

Drum-Taps is a collection of poetry written by Walt Whitman during the American Civil War and first published in 1865. Drum-Taps contains poems that bear witness to the violence of war.

About Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was born in Westhills, Long Island, and acquired his education in Brooklyn, New York. At thirteen he learned typesetting, and two years later he taught a country school. He contributed to the Democratic Review before he was twenty-one. At thirty he traveled through the Western States, spending one year in New Orleans editing a newspaper. Returning home, he took up carpentry and building, which he followed for a while. During the War of the Rebellion, he spent most of his time in the hospitals and camps, in the relief of sick and disabled soldiers. In 1856, Walt published a volume entitled Leaves of Grass. This volume showed unquestionable power and great originality, and it is considered one of the central volumes in the history of world poetry.
Walt continually expanded and revised the book over the course of much of his lifetime. His labors among the sick and wounded made great impressions; these took form in his mind and were published under the title Drum Taps. Walt's poems lack much of the standard of recognized poetic measure. He has a style that is peculiar to himself, and his writings are full of meaning, beauty, and interest.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave

Drum Taps is a collection of 43 Civil War poems by Walt Whitman, arguably the best collection of war poetry written by an American. It was published separately in 1865 but was later incorporated into his Leaves of Grass. The Wound Dresser ~ from Drum-Taps 1. An old man bending I come among new faces, Ye......more

Goodreads review by Cymru

At the risk of appearing to pad my stats, I'm writing a separate review of Drum Taps apart from Leaves of Grass because it is my favorite section as a whole so far and definitely deserves its own review. Similar to individual plays by the Big 3 Greeks, it seems almost obscene to have one rating and......more