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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... present order of society ] as the work of a great and beneficient and progressive necessity , which from the first pulsation of the first animal life , up to the present high culture of the best nations , has advanced thus far.12 But ...
... present order of society ] as the work of a great and beneficient and progressive necessity , which from the first pulsation of the first animal life , up to the present high culture of the best nations , has advanced thus far.12 But ...
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... present in antebellum culture which Whitman could draw upon to create a program of spiritual development similar to that of the Christian mystical way . After discussing how Whitman's existential claims develop the reader's soul so that ...
... present in antebellum culture which Whitman could draw upon to create a program of spiritual development similar to that of the Christian mystical way . After discussing how Whitman's existential claims develop the reader's soul so that ...
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... present sense of appalling economic injustice and manifold threats to human survival . Yet Whitman's optimism transcends the particular , dated formulation it receives in his larger vision because a considerable degree of faith is ...
... present sense of appalling economic injustice and manifold threats to human survival . Yet Whitman's optimism transcends the particular , dated formulation it receives in his larger vision because a considerable degree of faith is ...
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Reconsidering Whitmans Intention | 1 |
A New Religion | 12 |
Interpreting Historys Meaning | 27 |
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