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

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

2020 · 87 min · ★ 10.0 · 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.

Directed by Andrew D. Kaplan · Written by Andrew D. Kaplan

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