Minor Prophecy: Walt Whitman's New American ReligionIndiana University Press, 1989 - 240 páginas 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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... remarkable , however , because its author was not a Christian but a Whitmanite , the day referred to is not December 25 but May 31 , and the " most divine of men " is not Christ but Walt Whitman . Harvard professor Bliss Perry helped ...
... remarkable extent to which Whitman's poems of heterosexual love draw upon nineteenth - century eugenic theory . Aspiz proves the correctness of John Burroughs's observation , inspired if not written by Whitman himself , that " Children ...
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Reconsidering Whitmans Intention | 1 |
A New Religion | 12 |
Interpreting Historys Meaning | 27 |
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