"This self is Brahman" : Whitman in the light of the Upanishads
eScholarship@McGill (McGill) 1996 Nandita. Nautiyal
This thesis examines the reasons why Walt Whitman has been a "puzzle" to literary critics for well over a century. It shows the correspondence between Walt Whitman's work and the mystical tradition of East as also interpreted by American Transcendentalists. Enquiry into "self" is the central theme of most of Whitman's work. Two aspects of this enquiry have been investigated in this thesis and...