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Works of Walt Whitman: Drum-Taps

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Whitman, Walt

Whitman, Walt
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Drum-Taps

Background.

The Civil War had a deep effect on Walt Whitman both as a human being and
as a poet. The visible result of the conflict was Drum-Taps, a collection of
fifty-three poems that appeared in 1865 in the form of a seventy-two-page
pamphlet. Later that same year, Whitman reissued the poems with a continuation
entitled Sequel to Drum-Taps, which included the beautiful elegy on Abraham
Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Whitman tacked on the
Drum-Taps poetry to the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass, but it was not until
the ...

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