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Profile: One hundred fifty years after publication of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"

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From: NPR Special
Date: 20050704
Author:MADELEINE BRAND

MADELEINE BRAND
NPR Special
07-04-2005
Profile: One hundred fifty years after publication of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"

Host: MADELEINE BRAND
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM

MADELEINE BRAND, host:

New York has been home to many American artists. One of the best known is poet Walt Whitman. He published the classic "Leaves of Grass" 150 years ago this month. DAY TO DAY's Karen Grigsby Bates has this appreciation.

KAREN GRIGSBY BATES reporting:

There's hardly a high school in this country that doesn't, at some point, teach Walt Whitman, the poet who's been called America's voice. Even fictional ...

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