In Search of Walt Whitman

The Early Years (1819-1860) (1x1)

Date de diffusion: Fév 06, 2021

Walt Whitman rises from a hardscrabble boyhood in rural Long Island and Brooklyn to write Leaves of Grass in 1855 that revolutionizes poetry. Many famous poems are profiled as the film explores the mystery of how a seemingly ordinary writer, with little education or training, could have created the literature-altering masterpiece.