Walt Whitman [videorecording] / [produced by the New York Center for Visual History and presented by South Carolina ETV Network ; producer and screenwriter, Jill Janows ; director, Richard P. Rogers].
Title from cassette label. Originally produced for PBS television in 1986. An Annenberg/CPB project.
Summary:
Explores the life and work of American poet Walt Whitman. Examines his heroic vision of America, his frank call for sexual freedom, and his rejection of traditional constraints of form and subject matter. Incorporates numerous period photographs and paintings, with narrations and literary criticism by by Galway Kinnell, Justin Kaplan, Harold Bloom, Allen Ginsberg, and Donald Hall. Designed for use in a television course on modern American poetry.
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