Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass (version 2)

In honour of Walt Whitman's 200th birthday (31 May 2019) we bring you a solo recording of his seminal work Leaves of Grass. Originally published in 1855, the work started as a collection of 12 unnamed poems....

Foon 18 hours 43 minutes

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Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier

Published 1800 -1900

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Walt Whitman - Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier

Published anonymously in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (with an earlier draft also appearing as “Arrow-Tip” in The Aristidean), The Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier is one of the few known works of long-form...

Chuck Williamson 2 hours 11 minutes

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Walt Whitman - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone

Walter «Walt» Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist, in addition to publishing his poetry—was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, was first...

Bruce Kachuk and 9 more 14 minutes

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Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography

Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Walt Whitman - Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography

This story ran as a serial in 1852 in the New York Sunday Dispatch, and for more than 160 years was buried in obscurity, unknown to the world as novel written by Walt Whitman. Zachary Turpin, a graduate student...

Margaret Espaillat 4 hours 7 minutes

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Walt Whitman - When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer

Whitman claimed that after years of competing for «the usual rewards», he determined to become a poet. He first experimented with a variety of popular literary genres which appealed to the cultural tastes of the...

Algy Pug and 18 more 19 minutes

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Walt Whitman - Song of the Broad-Axe - stanza 4

This Weekly Poem is an excerpt from Song of the Broad-axe (4th Stanza) by Walt Whitman, who was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and...

ashleighjane and 16 more 27 minutes

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Walt Whitman - Hush'd Be the Camps Today

LibriVox readers bring you 16 readings of Hush'd Be the Camps Today by Walt Whitman, in honor of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's death on April 15, 1865. This was the weekly poem for April 12, 2015, to...

Ann Boulais and 15 more 17 minutes

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Walt Whitman - O Captain! My Captain!

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of «O Captain! My Captain!» This was the Weekly Poetry for the week of August 17, 2014. «O Captain! My Captain!» is an elegy for Abraham Lincoln written by Walt...

Ben Adams and 17 more 36 minutes

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Walt Whitman - Drum-Taps

Drum Taps is the next collection of poems published by Walt Whitman after his famous Leaves of Grass. This collection is a direct response to Whitman's personal observations of the Civil War, many of which come from...

Expatriate 1 hour 35 minutes

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Walt Whitman - I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing by Walt Whitman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 26, 2013. This poem is taken from Book 4 of Leaves of Grass, a...

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Walt Whitman - Longings for Home

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Longings for Home by Walt Whitman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 26, 2012. Born on Long Island, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, a...

Britannia and 12 more 49 minutes

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Walt Whitman - Old Ireland

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Old Ireland by Walt Whitman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 1st, 2010.

CalmDragon and 10 more 18 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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