Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
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 fifth edition of...
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