Best Selling Books by Walt Whitman

Drum-Taps, first published in 1865, is a collection of poetry written by American poet Walt Whitman during the American Civil War. 18 poems additional poems were added later in the year to create Sequel to Drum-Taps.Includes a biography of the author.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1888 Edition.

Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself", "I Sing the Body Electric", and in later editions, Whitman''s elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom''d".This edition of "Leaves Of Grass" also includes;* a chronology of Walt Whitman* a criticism by George Santayana* a letter of encouragement by Ralph Waldo Emerson* a testimonial by Robert G. Ingersoll* a eulogy delivered at the funeral of Walt Whitman by Robert G. Ingersoll.