Minor Prophecy: Walt Whitman's New American ReligionMany 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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... realization and scream at my eyes , ( 5 ) That they turn from gazing after and down the road , ( 6 ) And forthwith cipher and show me to a cent , ( 7 ) Exactly the value of one and exactly the value of two , and which is ahead ...
... realization that the true object or destiny of its love is the God of love it will know more fully in the afterlife . Thus " death , " but death as the soul's transition , not its termination , is the answer to the " unknown want " of ...
... realization and acceptance of his homosexuality , it seems that he would also have written poems of lesbian love . There is special reason to believe this since he promised to sing the female equally with the male and since , as the ...
Contents
Reconsidering Whitmans Intention | 1 |
A New Religion | 12 |
Interpreting Historys Meaning | 27 |
Copyright | |
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