When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd Resources

Websites

Poems Upon Poems

Peruse all the different ways you can use "I" in a poem.

One-Stop Whitman Shop

Here's all you could ever want to know about Whitman's life and work.

Whitman Archive

Feast your eyes on all things Whitman.

Video

Whitman's Choir

Check out this video of the speaker's "song."

Creepy Animated Whitman

Check out the way Whitman might have looked reading, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Eerie.

Student Video Tribute

Um… A for effort?

Audio

Simple, Creepy Reading

Here's a nice and simple reading of our poem with our man animated again. Why are people doing this?

Orchestral Version

Got 42 minutes? Then we have an audio version for you.

Images

Young Walt

Dig the beard—very hipster.

Pensive Walt

Here's our man, lost in thought.

Venerable Walt

Behold, the grandfather of American poetry.

Lilacs Lasting

The lilacs look mighty pretty and hopeful.

Articles and Interviews

The "Intimacy" of Walt Whitman's America

Slate Magazine talks all about how our man managed to make America so vast and yet so familiar to us.

Rediscovered Nineteenth-Century Whitman Articles

Lots of new material has popped up about our man and his lectures on Lincoln, among other things.

Books

Walt Whitman and the Civil War

Here's everything you'd ever want to know about Walt during some of America's toughest times.

To Walt Whitman, America

Apparently Ezra Pound thought Walt Whitman "is America."