Sea-Drift

For other uses, see Sea Drift (disambiguation).

"Sea-Drift" is the title of a section of Walt Whitman's great poetic work Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855. It is a compilation of poems referring to the sea or the sea-shore.[1]

Sea-Drift follows the section titled A Broadway Pageant, and precedes the section By The Roadside.

The poems included in Sea-Drift are:

Musical settings

Various works of 20th-century classical music have been inspired by the poems.

References

  1. Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass “Deathbed edition” 1891-92 (J. M. Dent Ltd., London 1993). First published 1855.
  2. P. Heseltine, Delius (Bodley Head, London 1923), 168.
  3. T. Beecham, Delius (Hutchinson, London 1959), 135, 154.
  4. Sleevenote to HMV LP Greensleeve ESD 7104, Vaughan Williams, A Sea Symphony, LPO/Adrian Boult, text copyright Michael Kennedy 1968.
    • D. Ewen, Encyclopedia of Concert Music (New York; Hill and Wang, 1959).
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