Film, Video Walt Whitman, Rural New Yorker
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Title
- Walt Whitman, Rural New Yorker
Summary
- Kluge fellow Karen Karbiener delivers a lecture entitled "Walt Whitman, Rural New Yorker." A boy from rural Long Island moves to Brooklyn and, without money or mentorship, conceives, writes, and self-publishes America's declaration of cultural independence. This story remains one of the great mysteries of American literary scholarship. How did Walter Whitman - grammar school dropout and second son of a farmer-turned-carpenter - become Walt Whitman? This lecture will focus on the most obscure yet most seminal period of Whitman's life: his childhood and youth on his beloved "Paumanok," where he claims to have been born as a poet.
Names
- Library of Congress
- John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body
Created / Published
- Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2010-06-24.
Headings
- - Biography, History
- - Literature
Notes
- - Classification: Language and Literature.
- - Karen Karbiener.
- - Recorded on 2010-06-24.
- - Kids, Families.
- - Researchers.
- - Teachers.
Medium
- 1 online resource
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Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021688496
Online Format
- video
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