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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 )

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Longings for Home - Read by BRIT (Britannia)
Longings for Home - Read by CAM (Cynthia Moyer)
Longings for Home - Read by CC (Chiquito Crasto)
Longings for Home - Read by CMP (CaprishaPage)
Longings for Home - Read by DL (David Lawrence)
Longings for Home - Read by FS (fshort)
Longings for Home - Read by GC (Snapdragon)
Longings for Home - Read by JCM (Jason Mills)
Longings for Home - Read by JM2 (Jannie Meisberger)
Longings for Home - Read by LB (Lucretia B.)
Longings for Home - Read by LAW (Laurie Anne Walden)
Longings for Home - Read by RN (ravenotation)
Longings for Home - Read by TJD (TJDasch)
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