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Walt Whitman
Whitman's early years were spent in the New York area. Whitman worked as an editor, teacher, and government clerk, and tended the wounded during the Civil War. In 1849 he made a tour of the Mississippi, Great Lakes, and Niagara Falls; this inspired the first edition of LEAVES OF GRASS. He greatly admired President Lincoln, whose assassination inspired O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN.Release
1994
Minutes
30
Grade Level
S,C
Format
DVD
Whitman's early years were spent in the New York area. Whitman worked as an editor, teacher, and government clerk, and tended the wounded during the Civil War. In 1849 he made a tour of the Mississippi, Great Lakes, and Niagara Falls; this inspired the first edition of LEAVES OF GRASS. He greatly admired President Lincoln, whose assassination inspired O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN.
This film is part of a series. The series title and other films in this series are listed below.
Famous Authors - A 36 Part Series
- Bronte Sisters, The
- Charles Dickens
- D.H. Lawrence
- Daniel Defoe
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Emile Zola
- Ernest Hemingway
- Eugene O'Neill
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- George Bernard Shaw
- George Eliot
- George Orwell
- Henry James
- Herman Melville
- James Joyce
- Jane Austen
- John Keats
- John Steinbeck
- Jonathan Swift
- Marcel Proust
- Mark Twain
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Robert Burns
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Samuel Johnson
- Sir Walter Scott
- Thomas Hardy
- Victor Hugo
- Virginia Woolf
- Voltaire
- W.B. Yeats
- Walt Whitman
- William Blake
- William Faulkner
- William Shakespeare
- William Wordsworth
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- Public Library: $110
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