Corrupted by music halls, theaters, and above all taverns, he gradually becomes a drunkard. The novel tells the rags to riches story of Franklin Evans, an innocent young man from the Long Island countryside who seeks his fortune in New York City. Published in 1842, during a period of widespread temperance activity, it became Whitman’s most popular work during his lifetime, selling some twenty thousand copies. Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times was his first and only novel. Not many people know that Walt Whitman arguably the preeminent American poet of the nineteenth century began his literary career as a novelist. “The Million Dead, Too, Summ’d Up”: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Writings (With: ) (2021)įranklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times.Every Hour, Every Atom of Walt Whitman’s Early Notebooks and Fragments (2020).Whitman’s Dogs: Leaves of Grass and Other Poems (2016).Masculine Beauty of Walt Whitman’s Poetry Of Same-Sex Affection (2014).Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman (2005).Wrenching Times: Poems from Drum-Taps (1991).Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts: Volume I: Family Notes and Autobiography, Brooklyn and New York (1984).Walt Whitman’s Diary in Canada – With Extracts from Other of His Diaries and Literary Note-Books (1977).New York dissected: A sheaf of recently discovered newspaper articles by the author of Leaves of grass (1976).The Wound Dresser: A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion (1975).Guide to Manly Health and Training (1858).Leaves of Grass and Other Writings (1855).Selected Letters of Walt Whitman (1855).President Lincoln’s Funeral Hymn (2018).Somewhere Waiting: Song of Myself (2018).The half-breed, and other stories (1978).Pictures: An Unpublished Poem Of Walt Whitman (1977).An American Primer: With Facsimiles of the Original Manuscript (1904).Democratic Vistas and Other Papers (1871).Democratic Vistas: The Original Edition in Facsimile (1871).When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer (1865).Manly Health and Training with Off-Hand Hints Towards Their Conditions (1858).Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An Auto-Biography A Story of New York at the Present Time in which the Reader Will Find Some Familiar Characters (1852).Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times (1842).

Masculine Beauty by Walt Whitman