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“The kiss of Walt Whitman is still on my lips”
“The kiss of Walt Whitman is still on my lips”
“The kiss of Walt Whitman is still on my lips”
This short podcast centres on a meeting in 1882 between renowned Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde and renowned American poet and essayist Walt Whitman. From different generations, one effete, one a realist, would they find common ground?
Hosted by
Lulu
Freeman
Sound Editing
Viel
Richardson
Listen Now:
0:00/1:34
“The kiss of Walt Whitman is still on my lips”
Written by
Harry
Tucker
Performed by
Stephen
Fry
About this story
This short podcast centres on a meeting in 1882 between renowned Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde and renowned American poet and essayist Walt Whitman. From different generations, one effete, one a realist, would they find common ground?
Delve Deeper
Whitmanarchive.org has a transcription of an article about an interview with Whitman conducted just after the Wilde meeting, published in The Philadelphia Press on 19th January 1882.
Literary Hub has an article ‘When Wilde met Whitman’.
Oscarwildeinamerica.org has photos of the house where they met, and newspaper clippings about the meeting.
“The kiss of Walt Whitman is still on my lips”
Written by
Harry
Tucker
Performed by
Stephen
Fry
About this story
This short podcast centres on a meeting in 1882 between renowned Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde and renowned American poet and essayist Walt Whitman. From different generations, one effete, one a realist, would they find common ground?
Delve Deeper
Whitmanarchive.org has a transcription of an article about an interview with Whitman conducted just after the Wilde meeting, published in The Philadelphia Press on 19th January 1882.
Literary Hub has an article ‘When Wilde met Whitman’.
Oscarwildeinamerica.org has photos of the house where they met, and newspaper clippings about the meeting.
“The kiss of Walt Whitman is still on my lips”
Written by
Harry
Tucker
Performed by
Stephen
Fry
About this story
This short podcast centres on a meeting in 1882 between renowned Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde and renowned American poet and essayist Walt Whitman. From different generations, one effete, one a realist, would they find common ground?
Delve Deeper
Whitmanarchive.org has a transcription of an article about an interview with Whitman conducted just after the Wilde meeting, published in The Philadelphia Press on 19th January 1882.
Literary Hub has an article ‘When Wilde met Whitman’.
Oscarwildeinamerica.org has photos of the house where they met, and newspaper clippings about the meeting.
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