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"The Original Eye": Whitman, Schelling and the Return to Origins

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Explores ideas of originality as they relate to Whitman's writing and thought and uses Frederich Schelling to argue that "Whitman's presentation of himself as an original poet in Leaves of Grass was based on an aesthetic strategy involving an imaginative return to origins &

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How to Cite: Scholnick, R. J. (1994) “"The Original Eye": Whitman, Schelling and the Return to Origins”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 11(4). doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1420