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Drum-Taps. Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and other poems is a collection of eighteen poems written and published by American poet Walt Whitman in 1865. Most of the poems in the collection reflect on the American Civil War (1861–1865), including the elegies "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain!
A Union soldier awakens in a southern battlefield. Is the war over?A cinematic setting of selected Civil War poems from Walt Whitman's "Drum-Taps" in "Leave...
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Apr 17, 2012 · Composer Greg Youtz talks about his new piece "Drum Taps" and how the poetry of Walt Whitman inspired him. Drum Taps will be performed at Pacific Lutheran U...
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Title: Sequel To Drum-Taps (1865) Creator(s): Mancuso, Luke Print Source: The contents of this file are based on a pre-print electronic copy of Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. Donald D. Cummings and J.R. LeMaster (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998), reproduced with permission. Some of the entries have been silently updated to reflect recent ...
Title: Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps Date: 1865; 1865–1866 Creator(s): Walt Whitman Whitman Archive ID: ppp.01865 Source: Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps (New York; Washington, D.C., 1865–1866). University of Iowa Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, PS3211.A1 1865. Transcribed from digital images of original copy.
Nov 8, 2006 · "Sequel to Drum-taps. (Since the preceding came from the press.) When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd. And other pieces. Washington [Gibson brothers, printers] 1865-6" : 24 p. at end. A few copies were issued without the sequel, which was added at Lincoln's death
The Sequel to Drum-Taps, published in the autumn of 1865, contained “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” his great elegy on Pres. Abraham Lincoln. Whitman’s horror at the death of democracy’s first “great martyr chief ” was matched by his revulsion from the barbarities of war. Whitman’s prose descriptions of the Civil War ...
