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Drum-taps : the complete 1865 edition
- Title
- Drum-taps : the complete 1865 edition / Walt Whitman ; edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Lawrence Kramer.
- Author
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, 2015.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Kramer, Lawrence, 1946-
- Description
- xxiii, 170 pages; 18 cm.
- Summary
- Walt Whitman worked as a nurse in an army hospital during the Civil War and published Drum-Taps, his war poems, as the war was coming to an end. Later, the book came out in an expanded form, including "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," Whitman's passionate elegy for Lincoln. The most moving and enduring poetry to emerge from America's most tragic conflict, Drum-Taps also helped to create a new, modern poetry of war, a poetry not just of patriotic exhortation but of somber witness. Drum-Taps is thus a central work not only of the Civil War but of our war-torn times. But Drum-Taps as readers know it from Leaves of Grass is different from the work of 1865. Whitman cut and reorganized the book, reducing its breadth of feeling and raw immediacy. This edition, the first to present the book in its original form since its initial publication 150 years ago, is a revelation, allowing one of Whitman's greatest achievements to appear again in all its troubling glory.
- Series Statement
- New York Review Books poets
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections
- New York Review Books poets.
- Alternative Title
- Poems.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-170).
- Contents
- Drum-taps -- Sequel to Drum-taps.
- Call Number
- JFC 15-287
- ISBN
- 9781590178621 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1590178629 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781590178636 (electronic book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014042909
- OCLC
- 897825523
- Author
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.
- Title
- Drum-taps : the complete 1865 edition / Walt Whitman ; edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Lawrence Kramer.
- Publisher
- New York : New York Review Books, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New York Review Books poetsNew York Review Books poets.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-170).
- Chronological Term
- 1861 - 1865
- Added Author
- Kramer, Lawrence, 1946- editor.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Drum-taps New York : New York Review Books, 2015 9781590178638 (DLC) 2014047616
- Research Call Number
- JFC 15-287