Track | Section | Reader | Length |
01 | Book 1 | Gord Mackenzie | 29:47 |
02 | Book 2 | Hugh McGuire | 33:37 |
03 | Book 3 Part 1 | Gord Mackenzie | 29:48 |
04 | Book 3 Part 2 | Gord Mackenzie | 43:32 |
05 | Book 3 Part 3 | Gord Mackenzie | 46:31 |
06 | Book 3 Part 4 | Gord Mackenzie | 37:38 |
07 | Book 4 | Kara Shallenberg | 50:06 |
08 | Book 5 | Chris Mitchell | 45:57 |
09 | Book 6 | Chris Mitchell | 26:08 |
10 | Book 7 | Chris Mitchell | 24:34 |
11 | Book 8 | Chris Mitchell | 15:35 |
12 | Books 9 | Chris Mitchell | 10:51 |
13 | Book 10 | Chris Mitchell | 15:22 |
14 | Book 11 | Chris Mitchell | 18:08 |
15 | Book 12 | Chris Mitchell | 27:27 |
16 | Book 13 | Eric | 20:43 |
17 | Book 14 | Eric | 10:29 |
18 | Book 15 | Gord Mackenzie | 24:27 |
19 | Book 16 | Brett Shand | 15:05 |
20 | Book 17 | Hugh McGuire | 31:09 |
21 | Book 18 | Hugh McGuire | 9:49 |
22 | Book 19 | Gord Mackenzie | 47:57 |
23 | Book 20 | Hugh McGuire | 23:34 |
24 | Book 21 Part 1 | Kara Shallenberg | 41:10 |
25 | Book 21 Part 2 | Kara Shallenberg | 46:34 |
26 | Book 22 | wedschild | 15:19 |
27 | Book 23 | Annie Coleman Rothenberg | 35:11 |
28 | Book 24 Part 1 | Annie Coleman Rothenberg | 48:13 |
29 | Book 24 Part 2 | Annie Coleman Rothenberg | 44:00 |
30 | Book 25 | Hugh McGuire | 13:04 |
31 | Book 26 | Hugh McGuire | 20:04 |
32 | Book 27 | Chip | 6:27 |
33 | Book 28 | Chip | 21:40 |
34 | Book 29 | Chip | 14:25 |
35 | Book 30 | Chip | 25:54 |
36 | Book 31 | Chip | 14:42 |
37 | Book 32 | Chip | 50:25 |
38 | Book 33 | Denny Sayers | 38:01 |
39 | Book 34 | Tom Yates | 48:48 |
40 | Book 35 | Chris Goringe | 28:44 |
Notes
Running Time: 19 hours 11 minutes
Read by: Multiple readers
Book Coordinator: Gord Mackenzie
Meta Coordinator Annie Coleman Rothenberg
Artwork
Cover: Photograph of Walt Whitman by George C. Cox, 1887
Inset: Title page of Thayer & Eldridge edition, 1860-61
Inset: Steel engraving of Walt Whitman age 37, by Sammuel Hollyer
Insert: Portrait of Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakins 1887
Recordings
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We forget how big America must have seemed to both Americans and Europeans in the nineteenth century, especially when one compared its sheer size to the square mileage of Europe. America was the beneficiary of Europe’s advances in the arts, music and literature; however, America was also the young buck who sought to mark its own territory, to etch its own profile, to speak with its own voice. Early American poetry had relied too much on the classical forms and well-mannered, albeit witty, content of seventeenth century English poems. However, with the English Romantics, Concord’s Emerson and Transcendentalism, America was ready to birth a distinctly American voice that would capture its sweep, its unbounded potential and vast promise. In 1855 an unknown, a self-proclaimed rough, age 37, a man in his prime, Walt Whitman (1819-1892) of New York, published the first edition of twelve poems titled Leaves of Grass. American poetry, all poetry, has never been the same since. This is the great American work, twelve poems that became more than 400 poems written over forty years of Whitman’s life. They celebrate the human being, the physical body, the heart, mind and transcendent soul. These poems revel in the unapologetic glory of the purely physical, sensual necessities, as well as the abstract mysteries of life. As with any genius, Whitman’s model was Life with a capital “L”, and he spent his adult years writing to represent Life as it is, without the artifice of masks, manners or social niceties. Like Life, and like America, Whitman’ poems are beautiful, wild, cruel, unpredictable, yearning, sensual, direct, desirous, self-evident, arbitrary, contradictory, and, sometimes, confusing. Whitman’s poetry is like the storm that destroys a town while it cleans the air and seeds the soil. His poetry is as large as America, as generous as America, and as grand as nature. It is the voice that says America is alive and well, generative, creative, filled with infinite promise. (Summary by Michael Hogan)
Sample
Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0684758936608 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0686175923728 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD box |
Author | Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) |
Year | 1855 |
Recording | |
Read by | Multiple readers |
Length | 19 hours and 11 minutes |
Type of Reading | Collaborative |
Leaves of Grass
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Product Code: DB-1085
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