The Complete Poetry of Walt Whitman (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. 450+ Poems & Verses: Leaves of Grass, O Captain My Captain, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'dBy Walt Whitman
Length21h 1m
About this audiobook
The Complete Poetry of Walt Whitman gathers the expansive lyric architecture through which Whitman reinvented American verse: the evolving Leaves of Grass, the Civil War elegies, democratic chants, spiritual meditations, and intimate songs of body and soul. Written in long, rolling free-verse lines, his poems reject inherited meters in favor of catalogues, apostrophes, biblical cadences, and an oracular first person that speaks both as individual and collective. In the context of nineteenth-century Romanticism and Transcendentalism, Whitman transforms poetry into a civic, erotic, and metaphysical experiment. Walt Whitman, born in 1819 on Long Island, worked as printer, journalist, editor, and Civil War hospital volunteer—experiences that sharpened his attention to laborers, soldiers, cities, suffering, and the democratic crowd. His radical poetics grew from antebellum reform culture, Emersonian self-reliance, and a fierce belief that America required a new, capacious literary voice. This volume is indispensable for readers seeking the origins of modern American poetry. It rewards students, scholars, and general readers alike with its audacity, tenderness, and prophetic reach, offering a complete encounter with a poet who made the self, the body, and the nation sing.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenrePoetry
Length21 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 2, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Introduction
3Author Biography
4Historical Context
5Synopsis (Selection)
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6Leaves of Grass (The Original 1855 Edition) (pt. 1)
7Leaves of Grass (The Original 1855 Edition) (pt. 2)
8Leaves of Grass (The Final Edition) (pt. 1)
9Leaves of Grass (The Final Edition) (pt. 2)
10Leaves of Grass (The Final Edition) (pt. 3)
11Leaves of Grass (The Final Edition) (pt. 4)
12Leaves of Grass (The Final Edition) (pt. 5)
13Leaves of Grass (The Final Edition) (pt. 6)
14Other Poems
15Analysis
16Reflection
17Memorable Quotes
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