Song of Ourselves : : Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy / / Mark Edmundson.
In the midst of a crisis of democracy, we have much to learn from Walt Whitman’s journey toward egalitarian selfhood.Walt Whitman knew a great deal about democracy that we don’t. Most of that knowledge is concentrated in one stunning poem, Song of Myself.Esteemed cultural and literary thinker Mark E...
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Edmundson, Mark, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Song of Ourselves : Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy / Mark Edmundson. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource (240 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on Citations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Song of Ourselves -- I Celebrate Myself -- Undisguised and Naked -- The Marriage of Self and Soul -- The Grass -- All In -- A Vision of Democracy -- These States -- Songs of Triumph -- Poet of the Body -- The Sun -- The Generative God -- The Animals -- Walt Becomes Other -- A Massacre -- A Sea Fight -- American Jesus -- Democratic Götterdämmerung -- Walt and the Priests -- Walt’s God -- Walt and the Reader -- Death and Democracy -- Part II: In the Hospitals -- Publication -- In Washington -- Letters Home -- Tom Sawyer -- The Vision Completed -- Part III: Song of Myself (1855) -- Song of Myself -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In the midst of a crisis of democracy, we have much to learn from Walt Whitman’s journey toward egalitarian selfhood.Walt Whitman knew a great deal about democracy that we don’t. Most of that knowledge is concentrated in one stunning poem, Song of Myself.Esteemed cultural and literary thinker Mark Edmundson offers a bold reading of the 1855 poem, included here in its entirety. He finds in the poem the genesis and development of a democratic spirit, for the individual and the nation. Whitman broke from past literature that he saw as “feudal”: obsessed with the noble and great. He wanted instead to celebrate the common and everyday. Song of Myself does this, setting the terms for democratic identity and culture in America. The work captures the drama of becoming an egalitarian individual, as the poet ascends to knowledge and happiness by confronting and overcoming the major obstacles to democratic selfhood. In the course of his journey, the poet addresses God and Jesus, body and soul, the love of kings, the fear of the poor, and the fear of death. The poet’s consciousness enlarges; he can see more, comprehend more, and he has more to teach.In Edmundson’s account, Whitman’s great poem does not end with its last line. Seven years after the poem was published, Whitman went to work in hospitals, where he attended to the Civil War’s wounded, sick, and dying. He thus became in life the democratic individual he had prophesied in art. Even now, that prophecy gives us words, thoughts, and feelings to feed the democratic spirit of self and nation. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024) Democracy in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh 1855. Abraham Lincoln. Democracy. Harold Bloom. Leaves of Grass. Preface to Leaves of Grass. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Song of Myself. Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln. Walt Whitman. Whitman. spiritualized democracy. “The Poet”. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021 English 9783110754124 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021 9783110753899 ZDB-23-DKU Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110739114 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674258983?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674258983 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674258983/original |
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