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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

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688496

Online Format

  • video
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Walt Whitman, Rural New Yorker. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-24, 2010. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688496/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2010) Walt Whitman, Rural New Yorker. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-24. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688496/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Walt Whitman, Rural New Yorker. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-24, 2010. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688496/>.