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Walt Whitman Quarterly Review

ISSN 0737-0679

3 papers in the library · 11 citations · publishing 1987-1996

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Redrawing Whitman's Circle

Walt Whitman Quarterly Review October 1, 1996 Carmine Sarracino 5 citations

Explores Whitman's reception among ardent followers (including George Fox, Father Taylor and Elias Hicks) in the light of Whitman's extra-literary, mystical or neo-religious impact, emphasizing the disparate, essentially incompatible perspectives of "the detached critic" as opposed to the "attached devotee"; compares Whitman's reception to that of "poet-masters" in Eastern cultural traditions.

Figures of Transcendence in Whitman's Poetry

Walt Whitman Quarterly Review July 1, 1987 Carmine Sarracino 2 citations

Employing ideas from the Upanishads, explores Whitman's mysticism in relation to themes of "song and silence" described in early notebooks; argues for a serious understanding of Whitman's "experiences of expanded awareness" in order to "shed light on his desire for simplicity, and at the same time disclose the depth and profundity of those experiences."