Drum-taps
Subtitle: the complete 1865 edition
By: Walt Whitman ; edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Lawrence Kramer
Contributors: Kramer, Lawrence, 1946- editor
Series: NYRB/poets; New York Review Books poets
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781590178621
Subjects: Poetry; History
Work titles: Poems
Description: "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"--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: "This is a New York review book"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-170).
Table of contents: title: Drum-taps; title: Sequel to Drum-taps.