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Longings for Home
Walt Whitman

Total running time: 49:10

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of "Longings for Home," by Walt
Whitman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 26, 2012.

Born on Long Island, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, a government
clerk, and - in addition to publishing his poetry - was a volunteer nurse during the
American Civil War. Early in his career, he also produced a temperance novel,
Franklin Evans (1842). Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, was first published
in 1855 with his own money. The work was an attempt at reaching out to the
common person with an American epic. He continued expanding and revising it
until his death in 1892. After a stroke towards the end of his life, he moved to
Camden, New Jersey, where his health further declined. He died at age 72 and his
funeral became a public spectacle. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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