In Search of Walt Whitman, Part One: The Early Years (1819-1860)

10.0 2020 87 min
Documentary History

Walt Whitman rises from a hardscrabble boyhood in Long Island and Brooklyn to write the masterpiece Leaves of Grass in 1855 that revolutionizes literature. Many of his most famous poems are profiled.

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