Whitman & Gardner's Witness to War: Drum-Taps, Lilacs, & Photographic Plates

By M.C. Gardner

Book Overview

M.C. Gardner's Whitman & Gardner's Witness to War is a blending of word and image from a poet and photographer whose work was precipitated out of the American Civil War. The book is 379 pages long. It contains all of the Drum-Taps & Sequel poems with a special analysis of "When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd" and its relationship and influence on T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land". Also featured are Alexander Gardner's photo-plates of the battles of Antietam & Gettysburg and his Lincoln Portraits and his photographs of the execution of the assassination conspirators.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1499789009
• ISBN13: 9781499789003
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"