Miracles and Vistas: A Walt Whitman Compendium - Walt Whitman

Category: Anthology, Literature, Poetry
Language: English
Keywords: Essays Lecture Short Story Collection

Written by Walt Whitman
Read by Stefan Rudnicki
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Variable

There is a reason the words of Walt Whitman have persisted in American literature, in literature at large, for so long. He was not simply a man of his time, not just a writer for the moment. Whitman was a man of the people and a writer of the soul—the souls of humankind, and the soul of America.

Miracles and Vistas: A Walt Whitman Compendium spans the breadth of Whitman’s literary and lyrical work, from his lectures and essays to his prose and to both his short- and long-form poetry. The Compendium begins with Whitman’s political works, several of which have direct relevance on the state of America and the world today. After these pieces comes a selection of his humorous, touching, and unusual fiction and short poetry. Then the whole compilation culminates in his unparalleled and all-encompassing “Song of Myself.”

Compiled by Stefan Rudnicki with Alison Belle Bews, this original collection from Skyboat Media showcases the “multitudes” contained in Whitman’s writing.

Full Contents:
- Introduction by Stefan Rudnicki
- “Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand”
- “Origins of Attempted Secession”
- “Abraham Lincoln”
- “Some War Memoranda”
- “Last of the War Cases”
- “O Captain! My Captain!”
- “Death of Abraham Lincoln Lecture”
- “President Lincoln’s Funeral Hymn”
- “Democratic Vistas”
- “Miracles”
- “The Love of the Four Students”
- “Revenge and Requital”
- “The Dark Side”
- “Death in the School-Room”
- “A Noiseless Patient Spider”
- “Some Fact-Romances”
- “Song of Myself”

February 28 2023
8 hrs and 59 mins