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Long before the current wave of book banning, Walt Whitman’s poetry classic was banned from libraries across the United States. The backlash even cost Whitman his Interior Department job.
Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman. 5/23/2020 | 26m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Join host Elisa New to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth. Aired 05/23/2020 | Expires ...
A few days ago, I unfurrowed my brow and abandoned my desk. I bought a $3 copy of "Leaves of Grass" and headed outdoors. Like millions of others since 1855, I fell instantly into the words of Walt ...
Walt Whitman spent half his life writing and revising “Leaves of Grass,” his epic poem of a young man’s journey of self-discovery in a young country, America as it grows into a democracy.
Walt Whitman’s America is large, it contains multitudes. When Edward Weston set out to photograph the United States of the 1940s for a new edition of the 19th-century poet’s Leaves of Grass ...
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