Drum-Taps

Name: Drum-Taps
SKU: 22635818
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Drum-Taps was written during the American Civil War, "put together," as Whitman wrote to a friend, "by fits and starts, on the field, in hospitals as I worked with the soldier boys." As soon as the war ended in 1865, Whitman published the book, which includes some of his tenderest and most haunting poems, along with the great elegy for Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." All the more extraordinary then that the book as Whitman originally conceived it has not been reprinted in the 150 years since it first came out. Whitman himself decided to break up the sequence when he incorporated the poems into the larger fabric of Leaves of Grass, and in doing so the more personal, urgent, and immediate-diaristic, reportorial, outraged, grief-stricken-character of the original text was obscured. Lawrence Kramer's new, annotated, edition of the first edition of Drum-Taps re-introduces readers to one of Whitman's greatest achievements, a profoundly moving work of witness, courage, and lament.

Author Biography:

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was a great American poet, journalist, and essayist. His work Leaves of Grass, which included a few scattered poems from Drum-Taps, is considered a landmark of American literature. Lawrence Kramer is a pioneering American musicologist and composer and a professor at Fordham University. He has been the editor of the journal 19th-Century Music since 1993 and has written more than ten books on music, most recently Expression and Truth: On the Music of Knowledge. He lives in New York City.

Release date NZ

April 7th, 2015

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General (US: Trade)

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Main

Pages

202

Dimensions

15x178x115

ISBN-13

9781590178621

Product ID

22635818

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