Literary Recording of the Day – The only known recording of Walt Whitman, from Thomas Edison's recording circa 1899/1890
This is rad: Walt Whitman, the dean of American poetry reading from his poem America. It was taken from a wax cylinder recording that Thomas Edison made in 1889 1890, and is the only known recording of Whitman. He only reads the first four lines but it's fascinating to hear his voice speaking to us from so long ago.
Here's the full text of the poem:
America
All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old,
Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,
Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,
A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother,
Chair’d in the adamant of Time.
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