Minor Prophecy: Walt Whitman's New American ReligionIndiana University Press, 1989 - 240 sivua 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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... soul of man ; ( Have former armies fail'd ? then we send fresh armies — and fresh again ; ) Ever the soul ... soul's development would not be complete . For Whitman believed that the progressive movement of nature and history ...
... soul's development that Whitman united his religious cosmology with his spiritual interpretation of history and his view of the afterlife . According to his cosmology , both the course of evolu- tion and the individual objects and ...
... soul's immor- tality ( " Song of Myself , " sections 33-36 ) , and just as he conceived of the soul's desire for unending love as a promise that it would encounter a higher love in the afterlife ( " Out of the Cradle " ) , so he also ...
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Reconsidering Whitmans Intention | 1 |
A New Religion | 12 |
Interpreting Historys Meaning | 27 |
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