Essays

Walt Whitman, the Apostle

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Argues that an inadequately investigated feature of Whitman's poetry is the "preacherly performance" his work enacts in an effort to convert the reader into being reborn into "Whitman's image of a new American personality" and thus "redeem the nation."

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How to Cite: Sowder, M. (1999) “Walt Whitman, the Apostle”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 16(3/4). doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1624