Longings for Home

By Whitman, Walt

Book Id: WPLBN0002952481
Format Type:
File Size: 23.66 MB
Reproduction Date: 2012

Title:	Longings for Home
Author:	Whitman, Walt
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Poetry, Adventure, History
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Longings for Home
Historic Publication Date:	1900
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Whitman, B. W. (1900). Longings for Home. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Description
volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Longings for Home by Walt Whitman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 26, 2012. Born on Long Island, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, a government clerk, and – in addition to publishing his poetry – was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. Early in his career, he also produced a temperance novel, Franklin Evans (1842). Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 with his own money. The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person with an American epic. He continued expanding and revising it until his death in 1892. After a stroke towards the end of his life, he moved to Camden, New Jersey, where his health further declined. He died at age 72 and his funeral became a public spectacle. ( Summary from Wikipedia )

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Adventure, History, Memoirs, Nature, Poetry