American Metempsychosis : : Emerson, Whitman, and the New Poetry / / John Michael Corrigan.
The “transmigration of souls is no fable. I would it were, but men and women are only half human.” With these words, Ralph Waldo Emerson confronts a dilemma that illuminates the formation of American individualism: to evolve and become fully human requires a heightened engagement with history. Ameri...
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