Walt Whitman: Background for his works

Year Published: 1957

Complete Record: Presents by drawings, still and live-action photography, highlights in the life of Walt Whitman, while selections from his poems are narrated. Shows how his writings were influenced by his rural life as a youth, his experiences with city life, his observations of pioneer life, his trip to New Orleans from New York and return via Chicago, the Civil War, and post Civil War periods. Tells how his first publications of Leaves of Grass both disgusted and surprised the conventional critics and points out that, although his works finally became recognized and imitated, he never obtained financial success.

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