Walt Whitman
Subtitle: sweet bird of freedom
By: Turtle on the Move Productions
Contributors: Manus, Willard, 1930-; Turtle on the Move Productions; Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 29
Other titles: Sweet bird of freedom.
Description: An aging Walt Whitman gives insight about his life and his art. We learn about the frustrations he has endured as a poet, and of his disappointing relationships with his publishers, editors, and contemporary Ralph Waldo Emerson. Portions of poems from Leaves of grass are interwoven throughout.
Notes: Written by Willard Manus.

Producer/director, Philip E. Schmidt ; producer, Marcelo M. Cruz ; director of photography, Dana J. Kilgore.

Dallas McKennon.

VHS.