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• Title: From Very to Whitman: The Shaping of Emerson's Poet.
• Author : Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
• Release Date : January 01, 2005
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 255 KB

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ABSTRACT The poetry of Very and Whitman represents the early and late phases of Transcendentalism respectively, and corresponds to different stages in Emerson's evolving conception of the American bard. While Very corroborated the radical individualism of belief that Emerson advocated in the Divinity School "Address", Whitman, besides fulfilling Emerson's prophetic vision of "The Poet", substantiated Emerson's theory, in Representative men, of the self which embraces its social and material circumstances as raw material for a synthesizing vision and the context for action. Despite their different modes, one cosmic, expansive, and amorous, the other scriptural, introspective, and exhortatory, in the tradition of American romanticism Very emerges as Whitman's precursor in several important respects: his scripturism anticipates Whitman's project of constructing the new Bible; his claims to divine inspiration anticipate Whitman's channeling of the divine energy of nature; his emphasis on sympathy with and insight into nature as a measure of spiritual regeneration anticipates Whitman's identification with natural objects; his Christ persona anticipates Whitman's role as a modern Christ, friend and redeemer of the oppressed and underprivileged; and finally, his twofold poetic voice, expressive of the earthly and transcendent selves, anticipates the twofold persona of Leaves of grass, which fluctuates between buoyancy and divine all-inclusiveness on the one hand and insecurity and human limitation on the other.

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