Minor Prophecy: Walt Whitman's New American ReligionIndiana University Press, 1989 - 240 pages 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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... Church and the papacy . A third type of millennialism was developed by some seventeenth - century English biblical scholars who revived the primitive church's belief in a coming earthly millennium , but with a crucial change : the ...
... Church and the papacy . A third type of millennialism was developed by some seventeenth - century English biblical scholars who revived the primitive church's belief in a coming earthly millennium , but with a crucial change : the ...
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... church services during the late 1840s when he began jotting down ideas for the Leaves , 20 Whitman often wrote articles for the Mon- day Daily Eagle which described the church he had visited the previous day.11 Whitman was an admirer of ...
... church services during the late 1840s when he began jotting down ideas for the Leaves , 20 Whitman often wrote articles for the Mon- day Daily Eagle which described the church he had visited the previous day.11 Whitman was an admirer of ...
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... church at Ephesus to " Put on the whole armor of God " ( Eph . 6:13 ) . In Revelations John predicted that the forces of Satan " will make war on the Lamb , and the Lamb will conquer them ( Rev. 17:14 ) and recounts how he saw " the ...
... church at Ephesus to " Put on the whole armor of God " ( Eph . 6:13 ) . In Revelations John predicted that the forces of Satan " will make war on the Lamb , and the Lamb will conquer them ( Rev. 17:14 ) and recounts how he saw " the ...
Contents
Reconsidering Whitmans Intention | 1 |
A New Religion | 12 |
Interpreting Historys Meaning | 27 |
Copyright | |
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