1989 in Poetry - Events

Events

  • Dead Poets Society, a film incorporating excerpts from many traditional poets, ending with the title and opening line of Walt Whitman's lament on the death of Abraham Lincoln, "O Captain! My Captain!"
  • My Left Foot, a film about Christy Brown, the Irish poet, and based on his autobiography

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