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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... less concrete , less sensuous , less personal , and is no longer animated by its earlier psychological tension and close engagement with the historical process . As a consequence , it loses much of its earlier vitality , the ...
... less concrete , less sensuous , less personal , and is no longer animated by its earlier psychological tension and close engagement with the historical process . As a consequence , it loses much of its earlier vitality , the ...
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... less sophisticated understanding of religion and a less substantial basis for conceiving of himself as a prophet . One questions whether Whitman , without Emerson's encourage- ment , would have found the courage to announce himself as ...
... less sophisticated understanding of religion and a less substantial basis for conceiving of himself as a prophet . One questions whether Whitman , without Emerson's encourage- ment , would have found the courage to announce himself as ...
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... less definite form , outline , sculpture , and becomes vista , music half - tints , and even less than half - tints . True , it may be architecture ; but again it may be the forest wild - wood , or the best effects thereof , at twilight ...
... less definite form , outline , sculpture , and becomes vista , music half - tints , and even less than half - tints . True , it may be architecture ; but again it may be the forest wild - wood , or the best effects thereof , at twilight ...
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Reconsidering Whitmans Intention | 1 |
A New Religion | 12 |
Interpreting Historys Meaning | 27 |
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