Minor Prophecy: Walt Whitman's New American ReligionIndiana University Press, 1989 - 240 من الصفحات Many of Walt Whitman's earliest readers hailed him as a religious prophet. For them, Leaves of Grass was more than literary art; it was sacred scripture. Recent scholarship has, however, dismissed those early enthusiasts as naive, if not crazy. David Kuebrich's new study of Whitman corrects that academic oversight by giving the early Whitmanites their due as the critics who most clearly perceived the nature and purpose of the poet's labors—to begin a new religion. Kuebrich's thorough, intelligent study, based squarely on textual evidence, offers a revisionist interpretation of America's great poet, returning religious vision and spirituality to the center of Whitman studies. |
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... give expression to forms of religious experi- ence that are present in Christianity , as he often does , he clothes them in new symbols and transforms them by adapting them to modern thought . The Leaves , with its emphasis upon the ...
... give expression to forms of religious experi- ence that are present in Christianity , as he often does , he clothes them in new symbols and transforms them by adapting them to modern thought . The Leaves , with its emphasis upon the ...
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... give the religious man the sense of participating in a level of being which , although immaterial , is nevertheless felt to be more real than the natural order . Whitman had this sense of a more important form of knowledge in his ...
... give the religious man the sense of participating in a level of being which , although immaterial , is nevertheless felt to be more real than the natural order . Whitman had this sense of a more important form of knowledge in his ...
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... give it a chance of expanding , through the measured freedom of its own nature and impulses . " " In his journalistic career , Whitman himself dealt " liberally with humanity , " consistently urging a philosophy of freedom , small ...
... give it a chance of expanding , through the measured freedom of its own nature and impulses . " " In his journalistic career , Whitman himself dealt " liberally with humanity , " consistently urging a philosophy of freedom , small ...
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Reconsidering Whitmans Intention | 1 |
A New Religion | 12 |
Interpreting Historys Meaning | 27 |
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