(Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman)

Content: 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.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

57 minutes

Year:

1988

Directors:

Jack Smithie

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Production companies:

Annenberg Media

Actors:

Narrator

Walt Whitman

The Voice of the Poet

Self

Crews:

Director

Editor

Editor

Cinematography

Cinematography