Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman

(1988)

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1988

Runtime: 57 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Jack Smithie

Cast: Питер Макникол, Луи Тюренн, Galway Kinnel, Allen Ginsberg

Plot

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.