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 the poet as the best interpreter of the divine text : " Poor though he [ the poet ] be in worldly wealth , he has a soul which in Nature's volume reads a lesson which imparts content , nay , highest happiness . That is a holy ...
... soul . The soul was the faculty of religious experience and it enabled the human consciousness to enter into the inner life of external objects : The soul or spirit transmutes itself into all matter - into rocks , and can live the life ...
... soul : " Oh I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only , but of the soul , / Oh I say now these are the soul ! ” ( ll . 163–64 ) . In contrast to the sense of calm and spiritual satisfaction arising from experi- encing the ...
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Reconsidering Whitmans Intention | 1 |
A New Religion | 12 |
Interpreting Historys Meaning | 27 |
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