Osborn Oldroyd spent a lifetime gathering Lincoln relics, and here he selects from the hundreds of poems written about the president in newspapers, magazines and books. The anthology opens with Lincoln’s own favourite poem and the Gettysburg Address, then moves through elegies, birthday odes, verses on his mother Nancy Hanks and portraits of the rail-splitter, with illustrations throughout.
A trove for Lincoln admirers and Civil War readers, showing how American poets made a martyr into a national legend. Download the free EPUB.