Walt Whitman Audio Books

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was the son of a carpenter. His formal schooling ended at age eleven, when he was apprenticed to a printer in Brooklyn. He spent the next two decades as a printer, freelance writer, and editor in New York. In 1855, at his own expense, he published the first edition of Leaves of Grass, which would mark him as the major poetic voice of an emerging America. Whitman would go on expanding and revising it for the rest of his life, with the final edition appearing in 1892, the year of his death.

Walt Whitman Listeners Also Like These Authors

> show all...
Sort by:
Extended Sample Miracles and Vistas: A Walt Whitman Compendium by Walt Whitman
Extended Sample Drum Taps by Walt Whitman
Extended Sample The Poetry of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
Extended Sample Walt Whitman: A Selection, Vol. 1 by Walt Whitman
Extended Sample Walt Whitman: A Selection, Vol. 2 by Walt Whitman
Extended Sample The Poetry of July by William Shakespeare
Extended Sample Travel Poems, Vol. 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson
Extended Sample Travel Poems, Vol. 2 by Robert Louis Stevenson
Extended Sample Summer: A Season in Verse by Emily Dickinson
Extended Sample Drum-Taps and Memoranda During the War by Walt Whitman
Extended Sample Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Extended Sample Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Page 1 of 1