Divine Style: Walt Whitman and the King James Bible / F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dobbs-Allsopp, F. W., 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Criticism and interpretation.

Whitman, Walt.

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of grass.

Bible--In literature.

Bible.

Bible--Language, style.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 386 pages) : illustrations ; digital file (PDF)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, [2024]

Language Note:

Text is in English

Summary:

'Divine Style' focuses on Whitman’s output in the years preceding the release of his 1855 opus 'Leaves of Grass' through the general period of the book’s first three editions. In this, Dobbs-Allsopp’s exploration of the period is exhaustive – covering not just Leaves of Grass but recently recovered notebooks, newly digitised manuscripts and additions to the corpus, such as the novel 'Life and Adventures of Jack Engle'.This is a work of careful, detailed scholarship, offering an authoritative commentary that will be a valuable resource for students of Whitman, biblical scholars and scholars of literature more generally.

Contents:

Intro

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Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Prefatory Note on Links

Introduction

1. Whitman on the Bible

Whitman on the Bible: A Retrospective

"The Bible as Poetry"

The Bible and the Birth of (Whitman's) Free Verse

2. The Bible in Whitman: Quotation, Allusion, Echo

Some Preliminary Observations

"No Quotations": The 1850 Poems

The Bible in Whitman's Prose from 1850-53

Biblical Echoes in the Early Notebooks and Unpublished Poetry Manuscripts

3. Whitman's Line: "Found" in the King James Bible?

The Development of Whitman's Long Line: A Chronology

G. W. Allen, Parallelism, and the Biblical Poetic Line

The Verse Divisions of the KJB and Whitman's Line

The KJB Mediated Otherwise

Conclusions

4. Parallelism: In the (Hebrew) Bible and in Whitman

The Politics of Parallelism

Lowth's Idea of Parallelism and Its Modern Reception

Whitman and Biblical Parallelism: Line-Internal Parallelism

A Note on Chronology

Whitman's Parallelism

5. "The Divine Style": An American Prose Style Poeticized

"Plate-glassy style"

(Some) Biblical Elements of Whitman's Plain Style

Formatting of Attributed Speech

Prose into Poetry

"Walt Whitman, an American"

Afterword

Selected Bibliography

I. Works Published by Walt Whitman

II. Collected Writings of Walt Whitman, Special Editions, and Translations

III. Other Literature

List of Figures

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-80511-102-7

1-80511-103-5

OCLC:

1419698296