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Article: "Restless explorations": Whitman's evolving spiritual vision in Leaves of Grass.(Critical essay)
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- Papers on Language & Literature
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- June 22, 2007
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The spiritual dimension of American poet Walt Whitman's work has received no shortage of critical commentary. Whitman himself clearly saw his work as spiritual, going so far as to claim in his 1855 preface to the first edition of Leaves of Grass that the work of the poet would soon come to supplant that of churches and priests. At the same time, he envisioned an expanded Leaves as a sort of "New Bible," and by 1872, in another preface to his lifelong project, concluded that his by now massive book of poems had "one deep purpose" above all others, "the religious purpose" (Collect 461). Pondering possible titles early on for what would become Leaves of Grass, Whitman once ...
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Article: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. ...
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July 1, 2002 ;
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