Mystical Experience in H.D. and Walt Whitman: An Intertextual Reading of Tribute to the Angels and "Song of Myself"
J. W. Walkington
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1994 DOI: 10.13008/2153-3695.1410 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Mystical experience |
| Citations | 4 |
| Key points | Argues that H.D.'s Tribute to the Angels and Whitman's "Song of Myself" share congruities that reinforce the value of mysticism in both works, using James E. Miller, Jr.'s essay on Whitman's "inverted mystical experience" as a key into H.D.'s poems. |
Abstract
Reads H.D.'s Tribute to the Angels in conjunction with Whitman's "Song of Myself," finding congruities that "reinforce the value of mysticism in both works"; uses James E. Miller, Jr.'s essay "'Song of Myself' as Inverted Mystical Experience" as a key into H.D.'s poems.
Comparable studies
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|---|---|---|---|
| Religious and Mystical Experiences as Artifacts of Temporal Lobe Function: A General Hypothesis | 1983 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| The Psychedelic Mystical Experience in the Human Encounter with Death | 1969 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Vectorial Cerebral Hemisphericity as Differential Sources for the Sensed Presence, Mystical Experiences and Religious Conversions | 1993 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| The epistemic innocence of psychedelic states. | 2016 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Mystical Experience and Religious Doctrine | 1982 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |