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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.
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. poetry by Whitman. Learn about this topic in these articles: discussed in biography. In Walt Whitman: Civil War years. The Sequel to Drum-Taps, published in the autumn of 1865, contained “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” his great elegy on Pres. Abraham Lincoln.
Sequel to Drum-Taps. Drum-Taps, first published in 1865, is a collection of poetry written by American poet Walt Whitman during the American Civil War . 18 additional poems were added later in the year to create Sequel to Drum-Taps .
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] .
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!
