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Works of Walt Whitman: When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd

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

Whitman, Walt
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd

Background.

Whitman's Sequel to Drum-Taps was issued in 1865 and included four
elegies on President Lincoln. The most famous of these is "When Lilacs Last
in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Along with "Out of the Cradle," it represents
Whitman's greatest poetry and is recognized as one of the high points of
American verse. The "Lilacs" elegy is an outpouring of the deep sense of loss
that Whitman felt after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. In
Specimen Days, a prose collection of "diary-jottings" and ...

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