Walt Whitman's World

Duration: 14

Year Published: 1966

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: . The feelings of Whitman and his vast humanity. Uses excerpts from his original manuscripts, diaries, Civil War hospital notes, and authentic illustrations of the period., Reviews the life of Walt Whitman through photographs, original letters, and newspaper articles, and includes a narrated excerpt from his "Leaves of Grass." Shows some of the sickness and death in the regiments during the Civil War as recorded in a notebook of Whitman's. Emphasizes the influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Abraham Lincoln on Whitman's poetry, and deals briefly with the assassination and funeral of Lincoln.

Complete Record: . The feelings of Whitman and his vast humanity. Uses excerpts from his original manuscripts, diaries, Civil War hospital notes, and authentic illustrations of the period., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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