American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic GenreUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1991 - 337 Seiten Tracing ideas of the sublime in American literature from Puritan writings to the postmodern epoch, Rob Wilson demonstrates that the North American landscape has been the ground for political as well as aesthetic transport. He takes a distinctly historical approach and explores the ways in which experiences of the American landscape instill desire for other kinds of vastness: self-expansion, national expansion, and American political power. As Wallace Stevens put it, the American will takes "dominion everywhere." |
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... leaves all its life . " This treelike " uttering [ of ] joyous leaves " is done in vast solitude , without a companion - reader to confirm its sense of slow grandeur : “ I knew very well I could not " utter leaves alone , Whitman admits ...
... Leaves of Grass ( iii ) . The poet refigures these class - ridden terms / forms to suit newer , American purposes , as Whitman goes on to show . The 4 July 1855 preface to Leaves highlights three ingredients of the sublime which will be ...
... Leaves of Grass ( see note 9 ) : xxx . 25 Walt Whitman , “ Democratic Vistas , ” in Prose Works 1892 , vol . 2 , ed . Floyd Stovall ( New York : New York Univ . Press , 1964 ) : 398 . 26 The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman ...
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