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Whitman Bicentennial
Popular Portrayals
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) has inspired good-natured satire of his ego, parodies of his distinctive but sometimes bombastic writing style, reverential art-songs setting his poetry to music, artistic renderings, cartoons, folk carvings, pocket editions of his work, commercial uses of his name and image -- like a whimsical finger puppet or a literary-themed cigar-box lid -- and a historic life-casting of his hand. |