O Captain! My Captain!
By Walt Whitman · Running time 0:24:08 · Poetry, Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
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About this book
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)
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