Walt Whitman Audio Books

LearnOutLoud.com presents an Introduction to Poetry covering famous poems by great poets throughout the history of English poetry.

Listen to the unabridged final edition of Walt Whitman's seminal work of American poetry Leaves of Grass. First published in 1855, Whitman continued to expand and revise this work from 12 poems to nearly 400 poems in 1891 when he published his "deathbed edition".

Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, espeically his experience serving as a nurse during the Civil War and travelling around America.

Elliott Gould, Burt Reynolds, Meryl Streep, and a host of other celebrities read over 100 poems...

A poem by Whitman may be whoops and hollers, or beating of drums, or the ebb of the tide singing to itself among the stones, or laments in the night or cries of ecstasy.

Published anonymously in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (with an earlier draft also appearing as “Arrow-Tip” in The Aristidean), The Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier is one of the few known works of long-form fiction written by Walt Whitman during the earliest part of his career.

G.K. Chesterton argued that Walt Whitman is the greatest American. Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855...

For the Whitman bicentennial, a delightful edition of the incomparable wisdom of America's greatest poet, distilled from his fascinating late-in-life conversations with Horace Traubel

This story ran as a serial in 1852 in the New York Sunday Dispatch, and for more than 160 years was buried in obscurity, unknown to the world as novel written by Walt Whitman.

Drum Taps is the next collection of poems published by Walt Whitman after his famous Leaves of Grass.