A review by dzengota
Civil War Poetry and Prose by Walt Whitman

3.0

It genuinely occasions on being so beautiful and heroic that he goes past any cynicism one may have about poetry written about war. You hope and know that somewhere there are brave men who laid in their blood-soaked cots knowing that they were going to die; but as their last assertion of autonomy, refused to give in to the weeping despair that it deserves.