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Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and other poems is a collection of eighteen poems written and published by American poet Walt Whitman in 1865. Most of the poems in the collection reflect on the American Civil War (1861–1865), including the elegies "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain!
Title: Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps. Date: 1865; 1865–1866. Creator (s): Walt Whitman. Whitman Archive ID: ppp.01865. Source: Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps (New York; Washington, D.C., 1865–1866). University of Iowa Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, PS3211.A1 1865. Transcribed from digital images of original copy.
The Sequel gathered together eighteen poems in a twenty-four-page booklet, which was bound into some of the copies of Drum-Taps and included some of Whitman's most recognizable poetry: "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "O Captain!
Sequel to Drum-Taps, published in the fall of 1865 (the title page reads 1865–66), includes “Pioneers! O Pioneers!” and Whitman’s poems on the death of Abraham Lincoln, “ O Captain! My Captain! ” and the elegy “ When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d .”.
Sequel to Drum-Taps. Below are all known versions of this work, organized by the section in which they appear on the Archive. Items. Comments? Published Writings. Literary Manuscripts. Whitman's Life. Letters. Disciples. Commentary. Pictures, Sound, and Video.
Sequel to Drum-Taps, published in the fall of 1865 (the title page reads 1865–66), includes “Pioneers! O Pioneers!” and Whitman’s poems on the death of Abraham Lincoln, “O Captain! My Captain!” and the elegy “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” Both Drum-Taps and Sequel…
These poems, collected under the titles Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps, range in emotional context from "excitement to woe, from distant observation to engagement, from belief to resignation" and "more concerned with history than the self, more aware of the precariousness of America's present and future than of its expansive promise." [1] .
