Walt Whitman Works Reading Order
by Walt Whitman
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
Civil War Poetry and Prose
1872
Specimen Days
1882
November Boughs
1888
Alone on the Beach at Night
1892
An American Primer: With Facsimiles of the Original Manuscript
1904
The Gathering of the Forces
1920
Rivulets of Prose
1928
I Hear America Singing
1966
Lafayette in Brooklyn
1973
The Sleepers; A Poem
1973
Pictures: An Unpublished Poem Of Walt Whitman
1977
The half-breed, and other stories
1978
Memoranda during the War
1988
I Sing The Body Electric
1995
Collect
2004
The Mystic Poets
2004
Shooting Niagara: And After?
2015
Beat! Beat! Drums!
2015
Song of the Broad-Axe
2015
Chants Democratic
2015
To a Pupil
2015
Boston Town
2015
The Poetry of the Future
2018
Somewhere Waiting: Song of Myself
2018
President Lincoln's Funeral Hymn
2018
Live Oak, with Moss
2019
Brooklyn
2019
The World Below the Brine
2021