Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman

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1988 · 57 min · Documentary

Overview

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.

Directed by Jack Smithie

Cast

• Peter MacNicol — Narrator
• Louis Turenne — Walt Whitman
• Galway Kinnel — The Voice of the Poet
• Allen Ginsberg — Self