Longings for Home
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 )
Genre(s): Poetry, Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Language: English
Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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Play 01 | Longings for Home - Read by BRIT | Britannia |
00:03:59 |
Play 02 | Longings for Home - Read by CAM | Cynthia Moyer |
00:04:23 |
Play 03 | Longings for Home - Read by CC | Chiquito Crasto |
00:03:35 |
Play 04 | Longings for Home - Read by CMP | CaprishaPage |
00:04:38 |
Play 05 | Longings for Home - Read by DL | David Lawrence |
00:03:18 |
Play 06 | Longings for Home - Read by FS | fshort |
00:03:30 |
Play 07 | Longings for Home - Read by GC | Snapdragon |
00:03:42 |
Play 08 | Longings for Home - Read by JCM | Jason Mills |
00:03:11 |
Play 09 | Longings for Home - Read by JM2 | Jannie Meisberger |
00:03:54 |
Play 10 | Longings for Home - Read by LB | Lucretia B. |
00:04:02 |
Play 11 | Longings for Home - Read by LAW | Laurie Anne Walden |
00:02:59 |
Play 12 | Longings for Home - Read by RN | ravenotation |
00:04:35 |
Play 13 | Longings for Home - Read by TJD | TJDasch |
00:03:24 |