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Tag: Walt Whitman

Abraham Lincoln FEATURED

CR Episode 151: Whitman and the Civil War, Part II

21 November 2022 Critical Readings

The panel concludes its series on American Civil War poetry with Whitman’s Drum Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps, focusing in particular upon the structure, symbolism, and historical details of Whitman’s three poems on the death of President Lincoln.

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President James Buchanan FEATURED

CR Episode 150: Whitman and the Civil War, Part I

14 November 2022 Critical Readings

The panel reads a selection of the poems added to the 1860-61 edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, focusing on what the poetry suggests about human nature, political life, and the people of the United States on the eve of the Civil War.

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Walt Whitman FEATURED

CR Episode 76: Excerpts from Leaves of Grass

26 April 2021 Critical Readings

The panel reads excerpts from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, including poems from the inscriptions, Song of Myself, Children of Adam, and Calamus, considering the formal nature of the ‘American Epic’, and Whitman’s use of individualism and universalism.

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