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Drum-Taps is a collection of poetry composed by American poet Walt Whitman during the American Civil War. The collection was published in May 1865. [1] The first 500 copies of the collection were printed in April 1865, [2] the same month President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Chunwang" (Chinese: 春望; pinyin: Chūnwàng) is a poem by Tang dynasty poet Du Fu, written after the fall of Chang'an to rebel forces led by An Lushan, as part of the civil war that began in 755. Literary critics have recognised it as one of Du's best and best-known works.
Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First World War.. War poetry is poetry on the topic of war. While the term is applied especially to works of the First World War, [1] the term can be applied to poetry about any war, including Homer's Iliad, from around the 8th century BC as well as poetry of the American Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, the ...
Ethel Lynn Beers (born Ethelinda Eliot; January 13, 1827 – October 11, 1879) was an American poet best known for her patriotic and sentimental Civil War poem "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight". Biography
Richard Lovelace (/ ˈ l ʌ v l ə s /, homophone of "loveless"; [1] 9 December 1617 – 1657) was an English poet in the seventeenth century. He was a cavalier poet who fought on behalf of Charles I during the English Civil War.
"O Captain! My Captain!" is an extended metaphor poem written by Walt Whitman in 1865 about the death of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln. Well received upon publication, the poem was Whitman's first to be anthologized and the most popular during his lifetime.
Memoranda During the War (1876) Specimen Days (1882) The Wound Dresser: Letters written to his mother from the hospitals in Washington during the Civil War, edited by Richard M. Bucke (1898) Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America as told to Horace Traubel, edited by Brenda Wineapple ...
Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America's Poet during the Lost Years of 1860-1862. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520-25906-5. Ignoffo, Matthew F. (1975). What the War Did to Whitman: A Brief Study of the Effects of the Civil War on the Mind of Walt Whitman. New York: Vantage Press. ISBN 0-533-01572-3. Matteson, John (2021).