Walt Whitman Works Reading Order

Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times

1842

Life and Adventures of Jack Engle

1852

Leaves of Grass

1855

Song of Myself

1856

Manly Health and Training with Off-Hand Hints Towards Their Conditions

1858

Oh Captain! My Captain!

1865

Drum Taps

1865

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

1865

Democratic Vistas: The Original Edition in Facsimile

1871

Democratic Vistas and Other Papers

1871