An Independent American & The Gettysburg Address audio CD

by Gilbert Highet

Track 1: "An Independent American." Walt Whitman's poem on the Fourth of July is read and discussed as a comic revolutionary manifesto; other Whitman poems make a strong contrast to it. Track 2: "The Gettysburg Address." How the Address was written and deliveredd, what impression it made at the time, and the secrets of its memorable style. One 30-minute audio CD, Product No. C23303D.

Audio CD

First published December 15, 2006

About the author

Critic and classical scholar, Gilbert Highet was born in Scotland, educated at Oxford, and taught at Oxford and Columbia for forty years. Married to novelist Helen MacInnes. Best known for teaching in the humanities in the UK and USA.