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Longings for Home

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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 ) (0 hr 49 min)

Chapters

Longings for Home - Read by BRIT

3:59

Read by Britannia

Longings for Home - Read by CAM

4:23

Read by Cynthia Moyer

Longings for Home - Read by CC

3:35

Read by Chiquito Crasto

Longings for Home - Read by CMP

4:38

Read by CaprishaPage

Longings for Home - Read by DL

3:18

Read by David Lawrence

Longings for Home - Read by FS

3:30

Read by fshort

Longings for Home - Read by GC

3:42

Read by Snapdragon

Longings for Home - Read by JCM

3:11

Read by Jason Mills

Longings for Home - Read by JM2

3:54

Read by Jannie Meisberger

Longings for Home - Read by LB

4:02

Read by Lucretia B.

Longings for Home - Read by LAW

2:59

Read by Laurie Anne Walden

Longings for Home - Read by RN

4:35

Read by ravenotation

Longings for Home - Read by TJD

3:24

Read by TJDasch