Civil War Poetry and Prose

Walt Whitman

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780486285078
• eBook ISBN:
  9780486112121
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: American Civil War History
• Index: Literature

Walt Whitman experienced the agonies of the Civil War as a dedicated volunteer throughout the conflict in Washington's overcrowded, understaffed military hospitals. This superb collection of his poems, letters, and prose from the war years, filled with the sights and sounds of war and its ugly aftermath, expresses a vast and powerful range of emotions.
Among the poems include here, first published in Drum-Taps (1865) and Sequel to Drum-Taps (1866), are a number of Whitman's most famous works: "O Captain! My Captain!" "The Wound-Dresser," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," and "Come Up from the Fields, Father." The letters and prose selections—including Whitman’s musings on the publication of his works and the wounded men he tended as well as his impressions of President Abraham Lincoln traveling around Washington—offer keen insights into an extraordinary era in American history.



 

Table of contents

• DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS FICTION
• Title Page
• DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS
• Copyright Page
• Note
• Table of Contents
• POEMS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS (1891–92)
• POEMS NOT INCLUDED IN THE 1891–92 LEAVES OF GRASS
• SELECTIONS FROM MEMORANDA DURING THE WAR (1875–76)
• SELECTED LETTERS
• Alphabetical List of Poem Titles
• Alphabetical List of Poem First Lines