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Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman

1988 57 minutes

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Walt Whitman was the first major poet to create a truly American vision and style. His extraordinary example gave American verse much of its subsequent character and diction. Rejecting traditional constraints of form and subject matter, Whitman considered democracy itself appropriate grist for his own poetic mill, inventing a radically different sort of free verse to express what he had to say.

Released

1st January 1988

38 years ago

Runtime

57 minutes

Finishes at 5:40pm

Directed by

Jack Smithie

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