Walt Whitman's Life #6: The Books He Read & the Scraps He Saved

An episode from 4/1/21`: This is the sixth in a series of readings from biographies of Walt Whitman. Tonight, I continue with Paul Zweig's Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet, which focuses on the years preceding the publication of Leaves of Grass. Here, Zweig talks about the books Whitman learned from the most, even as he tried in his poetry to seem completely unlettered, and without any influences at all.

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