Days with Walt Whitman: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Days with Walt Whitman, credited to Edward Carpenter, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Days with Walt Whitman by Edward Carpenter. Read in English by czandra "Days with Walt Whitman" is a contemplative summary of the life of Walt Whitman and the making of the poet, by one of his followers. Edward Carpenter collected a half dozen essays he had written about different aspects of the American poet's work and habits. The essays have an ecstatic but grounded style, elevating Whitman to immortality, and showcasing Carpenter's familiarity with ancient Sanskrit texts. - Summary by Czandra

Recording facts

• Recording title: Days with Walt Whitman
• Author credits: Edward Carpenter
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Listed recording duration: 3:11:36

Catalogue topics

• Friendship
• Walt Whitman
• poet

Track guide

1. 01 - Preface, contents, portraits — 2:33
2. 02 - A visit to Walt Whitman in 1877 — 28:54
3. 03 - Walt Whitman in 1884 — 33:37
4. 04 - Notes and appreciations - Whitman as prophet — 24:22
5. 05 - Appendix to Whitman as prophet — 15:13
6. 06 - Poetic form of 'Leaves of Grass' — 36:03
7. 07 - Walt Whitman's children — 14:59
8. 08 - Whitman and Emerson — 32:09
9. 09 - Other works by the same author — 3:46

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