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Title:

Walt Whitman / a New York Center for Visual History production ; director, Jack Smithie.

Publisher:

Mystic Fire Video,

Copyright Date:

1995

Description:

1 videocassette (57 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in.

Subject:

Whitman, Walt,--1819-1892.
Poets, American--19th century--Biography.
Biographical films.
Biographies.

Other Authors:

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79081476
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79109040
Hall, Donald, 1928- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79043673
Kinnell, Galway, 1927-2014. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095426
Kaplan, Justin. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80046700
Bloom, Harold. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79003258
MacNicol, Peter.
New York Center for Visual History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88156553
Mystic Fire Video, Inc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88211954

Other Titles:

Voices & visions (Television program) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85372289

Notes:

Louis Turenne; narrator: Peter MacNicol. Originally produced as a documentary film in 1988. An episode from the PBS television series: Voices & visions.

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. Incoporates numerous period photographs and paintings, with narrations by Galway Kinnell and commentary by Allen Ginsberg, Donald Hall, Justin Kaplan and Harold Bloom.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)35322898

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)