Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition-Fast Shipping

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Walt Whitman worked as a nurse in an army hospital during the Civil War and published Drum-Taps,his war poems, as the war was coming to an end. Later, the book cameout in an expanded form, including “When Lilacs Last in the DooryardBloom’d,” Whitman’s passionate elegy for Lincoln. The most moving andenduring poetry to emerge from America’s most tragic conflict, Drum-Taps also helped to create a new, modern poetry of war, a poetry not just of patriotic exhortation but of somber witness. Drum-Taps is thus a central work not only of the Civil War but of our war-torn times.

But Drum-Taps as readers know it from Leaves of Grass is different from the work of 1865. Whitman cut and reorganized thebook, reducing its breadth of feeling and raw immediacy. This edition,the first to present the book in its original form since its initialpublication 150 years ago, is a revelation, allowing one of Whitman’sgreatest achievements to appear again in all its troubling glory.