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Walt Whitman
![portrait of early American poet Walt Whitman [1819-92] with flowing white beard](images/WaltWhitman-whitebeard.jpg) |
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"Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow
in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." — Walt Whitman
"It is Whitman, our great poet and pragmatic philosopher, who advises [America] not to be curious about God but to affix our curiosity to our own lives and the earth [that] we live on, and then perhaps as far as we can see into the universe with our telescopes." — E.L. Doctorow
Walt Whitman entry at Wikipedia
listed #22 on The Atlantic Monthly's Top 100 Most Influential Figures in American History [Dec 2006]
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1578667/
1855 July 4th: First edition of Walt Whitman's self-published "Leaves of Grass"; many revisions & additions until his death in 1892. --www.bartleby.com/142/
Primary Works
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 | Walt Whitman: Selected Poems [2003] Edited by Harold Bloom 47 works by the "greatest of all American poets" LoA/American Poets Project 7¾x5 hardcover [1/2003] for $15.60 Walt Whitman: Poetry and Prose [1996] Edited by Justin Kaplan Library of America College Editions 7¾x5 pb [5/96] for $17.05 includes "Leaves of Grass", 17 other poems, and 'his complete prose' |
Other Works
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"The Portable Western Reader" [1997] Edited by William Kittredge
Penguin 7¾x5 pb [7/97] for $14.40 over 70 Western tales, from authors Sherman Alexie, W.H. Auden, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Gretel Ehrlich, Louise Erdrich, Allen Ginsberg, John Graves, Catherine McClellan, Larry McMurtry, Czeslaw Milosz, Mari Sandoz, John Steinbeck, Walt Whitman, and many more |
Plays, Motion Pictures & Other Media
character of 'Walt Whitman' listing at IMDb
"Walt Whitman" silent short [1922] /tt0433161/
"Song of Myself" [1976] portrayed by Rip Torn /tt0258190/
"Beautiful Dreamers" [1990] portrayed by Rip Torn /tt0101413/
"The Famous Authors: Walt Whitman" DVD [2007] /B000P6R6L0/
"American Experience: Walt Whitman" [2008 TV episode] portrayed by Chris Cooper /tt1167322/
Works About Walt Whitman
"Walt Whitman: A Life" [Simon and Schuster 1979] by Justin Kaplan ISBN 0671225421.
"WW's America" [] by David S. Reynolds
"American Transcendentalism: A History" [Hill & Wang 2007]
by Philip F. Gura ISBN 978-0-8090-3477-2
"The Transcendentalists" [Univ GA Press 2007]
by Barbara L. Packer ISBN 9780820329581
Links
Walt Whitman entry at Wikipedia
Whitman Archive
Walt Whitman at Bartleby's
Poets.org's Walt Whitman pages
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