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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.
The poem “Soldier’s Dream” may have been inspired by a popular contemporary World War I song “A soldiers Dream”. [8] The title closely matches Thomas Campbell’s "The Soldier’s Dream" [9] (1804) written during the Crimean War to address the reading public's anxieties and expectations about the welfare of the common soldier.
Timothy John Manley Corsellis was born on 27 January 1921 in Eltham, London, the third of the four children of Helen (née Bendall) and Douglas Corsellis. [1] His father had lost a fore-arm at Gallipoli, but went on to become a prosperous barrister and learnt to fly his own light aircraft.
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 ...
“I have a dream.” You have heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during ...
Keith Castellain Douglas (24 January 1920 – 9 June 1944) was a poet and soldier noted for his war poetry during the Second World War and his wry memoir of the Western Desert campaign, Alamein to Zem Zem. [2] He was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy.
Whitman had also been on the receiving end of similar news, when his brother, George, also a soldier in the Civil War, was injured. [4] The poem first appeared in Drum-Taps, Whitman's 1865 volume of Civil War-era poetry. [5] Whitman did not substantially revise the poem in subsequent publications. [6] "Beat! Beat! Drums!"
Orson Welles read the poem on an episode of The Radio Reader's Digest (11 October 1942), [9] [10] Command Performance (21 December 1943), [11] and The Orson Welles Almanac (31 May 1944). [12] High Flight has been a favourite poem amongst both aviators and astronauts. It is the official poem of the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Air Force.