O Captain! My Captain!
by Walt Whitman
Chapter 1 of 13 Version 01
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- Running time
- 24 min
- Language
- English
- Readers
- Annie Coleman Rothenberg, Chip, Fox in the Stars, Marian Brown, Mark Bradford and 7 others
Chapters
About this recording
In honor of President’s Day, LibriVox brings you thirteen versions of O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman. This classic poem was written by Whitman following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. It appears in Leaves of Grass, Whitman’s masterpiece of a poetry collection and is considered by many to be one of his greatest poems. This was the LibriVox Weekly Poetry Project for the week of February 19th, 2006.
(Summary by Annie Coleman)