Drum-Taps The Complete 1865 Edition
Drum-Taps The Complete 1865 Edition by Walt Whitman, published by New York Review of Books on April 7, 2015, is an annotated collection of poetry that captures the profound impact of the Civil War. This edition presents the original work as it was first published, including the powerful elegy “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” which reflects on themes of death, grief, and loss. Whitman’s experience as a nurse in an army hospital informs these poems, offering a somber witness to the realities of war.
Readers will find that this edition of Drum-Taps reveals the raw immediacy and emotional breadth that Whitman originally intended. The collection not only serves as a significant work of American poetry but also contributes to the understanding of modern poetry’s evolution in response to conflict. With 200 pages of evocative verse, this edition allows readers to engage with Whitman’s enduring reflections on the human experience during one of America’s most tragic periods.
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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.
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