On January 17 1861, a few weeks after South Carolina became the first state to formally secede from the Union, Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier's 'A Word for the Hour' was published in The Boston Evening Transcript. It was to herald the birth of a new era of American poetry - one that expressed t
Civil War Poetry and Prose
✍ Scribed by Walt Whitman
- Book ID
- 111968632
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 228 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780486112121
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Walt Whitman experienced the agonies of the Civil War firsthand as a volunteer in Washington's military hospitals. This superb selection of poems, letters, and prose from that era includes «O Captain! My Captain!» «When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," «Adieu to a Soldier," and many other moving works.
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