SYMHC Classics: Walt Whitman, Poet of Democracy

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 September 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This episode is from 2017. Whitman is often touted as the best and most important poet in U.S. history, but he also worked as a teacher and a journalist. And his poetry career didn't start out particularly well.

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0:33.2	Happy Saturday, everybody.
0:34.7	Band Books Week starts tomorrow, September 27th,
0:38.5	so we thought we would pull something out of the archive that's relevant.
0:42.3	And this is our April 17th, 2017 episode on Walt Whitman.
0:47.3	Among other things, his leaves of grass was infamously banned in Boston.
0:52.5	Enjoy!
0:53.5	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, a production of iHeartRadio.
1:07.3	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
1:09.3	I'm Tracy V Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry.
1:12.1	I would be really hard to grow up in the United States,
1:15.5	and not at least here of Walt Whitman.
1:18.3	I'm trying to think of how that would work if you were in any sort of public school system.
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