Drum Taps : : the Complete Civil War Poems

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Call Number: 811.4 Wh
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Introduction by James M. McPherson -- Preface: from "Whitman: a study" by John Burroughs -- Original introduction to: "Drum-taps", from "The times Literary Supplement" of April 1, 1915 -- Foreward: Walt Whitman on the National uprising and volunteering -- Walt Whitman on Abraham Lincoln --
POEMS BOOK I: Drum-taps -- Shut not your doors to me proud libraries -- Cavalry crossing a ford -- Song of the banner at day-break -- By the bivouac's fitful flame -- 1861 -- From Paumanok starting I fly like a bird -- Beginning my studies -- The Centenarian's story -- Pioneers! O pioneers! -- Quicksand years that whirl me I know not whither -- The Dresser -- When I heard the learn'd astronomer -- Rise O days from your fathomless deeps -- A Child's amaze -- Beat! beat! drums! -- Come up from the fields, father -- City of ships -- Mother and babe -- Vigil strange I kept on the field one night -- Bathed in war's perfume -- A March in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown -- Long, too long, O land -- A Sight in camp in the day-break grey and dim -- A Farm picture -- Give me the splendid silent run -- Over the carnage rose prophetic a voice -- Did you ask dulcet rhymes from me? -- Year of meteors -- The Torch -- Years of the unperform'd -- Year that trembled and reel'd beneath me -- The Veteran's vision -- O tan-faced prairie-boy -- Camps of green -- As toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods -- Hymn of dead soldiers -- The Ship -- A Broadway pageant -- Flag of stars, thick-sprinkled bunting -- Old Ireland -- Look down fair moon -- Out of the rolling ocean, the crowd -- World, take good notice -- I saw old general at bay -- Others may praise what they like -- Solid, ironical, rolling orb -- Hush'd be the camps to-day -- Weave in, weave in, my hardy soul -- Turn, O libertad -- Bivouac on a mountain side -- Pensive on her dead gazing, I heard the mother of all -- Not youth pertains to me --
INTERLUDE: Walt Whitman on the inauguration -- Walt Whitman on the death of President Lincoln --
POEMS BOOK II: When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd -- Race of veterans -- O captain! My captain! -- Spirit whose work is done -- Chanting the square deific -- I heard you, solemn-sweet pipes of the organ -- Not my enemies ever invade me -- O me! O life! -- Ah poverties, wincing and sulky retreats -- As I lay with my head in your lap, camerado -- This day, O soul -- In clouds descending, in midnight sleep -- An army on the march -- Dirge for two veterans -- How solemn, as one by one -- Lo! Victress on the peaks! -- Reconcilliation -- To the leaven'd soil they trod --
POSTSCRIPT: From Walt Whitman: the Complete Prose, "Three years summ'd up" -- Walt Whitman, "The million dead, too, summ'd up" -- Gettysburg address -- Photo information and credits.
A ... 150th Anniversary Edition of Whitman's celebrated Civil War poems, accompanied by moving photographs and artwork shedding new light on this tragic but significant chapter in American history. [This book] is the complete Civil War poem collection by Walt Whitman, including the celebrated Oh, Captain, My Captain!, and augmented with Whitman's essays from the period on subjects such as Secession, Abraham Lincoln, working in the Civil War hospitals, and the assassination of the president. For the first time ever, each poem is set on a single page, and augmented with stunning artwork from the period: bright, rich, full-color engravings from Currier & Ives; the ... detailed photography of Alexander Gardner and Matthew Brady; watercolors from the battlefield by Winslow Homer and other famous artists; and classic photographs and art from America's richest collections, including the Library of Congress, the National Gallery, the George Eastman House, and many other collections. With ... old-fashioned hot type, beautifully restored period artwork, and an authoritative introduction by Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize-winner James McPherson, this is the richest edition of these moving and thoughtful poems by America's greatest poet ever published.

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