Format:
1 online resource (406 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781805111030
Content:
Intro -- _Hlk137546483 -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Prefatory Note on Links -- Introduction -- 1. Whitman on the Bible -- Whitman on the Bible: A Retrospective -- "The Bible as Poetry" -- The Bible and the Birth of (Whitman's) Free Verse -- 2. The Bible in Whitman: Quotation, Allusion, Echo -- Some Preliminary Observations -- "No Quotations": The 1850 Poems -- The Bible in Whitman's Prose from 1850-53 -- Biblical Echoes in the Early Notebooks and Unpublished Poetry Manuscripts -- 3. Whitman's Line: "Found" in the King James Bible? -- The Development of Whitman's Long Line: A Chronology -- G. W. Allen, Parallelism, and the Biblical Poetic Line -- The Verse Divisions of the KJB and Whitman's Line -- The KJB Mediated Otherwise -- Conclusions -- 4. Parallelism: In the (Hebrew) Bible and in Whitman -- The Politics of Parallelism -- Lowth's Idea of Parallelism and Its Modern Reception -- Whitman and Biblical Parallelism: Line-Internal Parallelism -- A Note on Chronology -- Whitman's Parallelism -- 5. "The Divine Style": An American Prose Style Poeticized -- "Plate-glassy style" -- (Some) Biblical Elements of Whitman's Plain Style -- Formatting of Attributed Speech -- Prose into Poetry -- "Walt Whitman, an American" -- Afterword -- Selected Bibliography -- I. Works Published by Walt Whitman -- II. Collected Writings of Walt Whitman, Special Editions, and Translations -- III. Other Literature -- List of Figures -- Index.
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Language:
English
