Divine Style: Walt Whitman and the King James Bible

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dc.contributor.authorDobbs-Allsopp, F. W.
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-16T13:37:15Z
dc.date.available2024-05-16T13:37:15Z
dc.date.issued2024-01-16
dc.date.updated2024-05-16T13:37:14Z
dc.descriptionPublication status: ACTIVE
dc.description.abstractIn exploring the seminal works of Walt Whitman, the great American poet, many commentators have acknowledged the underlying influence of The King James Bible. However, a study has yet to elucidate the precise manner in which the Bible has shaped Whitman’s poetic style. This is the deficit that F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp seeks to address in his new piece of literary scholarship: 'Divine Style: Walt Whitman and the King James Bible'. Dobbs-Allsopp, Professor of Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, explicitly approaches Whitman from the perspective of a biblical scholar. Utilising his wealth of expertise in this field, he constructs a compelling, erudite and methodical argument for the King James Bible’s importance in the evolution of Whitman’s style – from his signature long lines to the prevalence of parallelism and tendency towards parataxis in his works. '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.
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0357
dc.identifier.isbn9781805111016
dc.identifier.isbn9781805111023
dc.identifier.isbn9781805111030
dc.identifier.isbn9781805111078
dc.identifier.isbn9781805111047
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dc.identifier.urihttps://thoth-arch.lib.cam.ac.uk/handle/1811/19
dc.languageENG
dc.publisherOpen Book Publishers
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subject1KBB
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dc.subjectDSA
dc.subjectHRCG
dc.subjectBIB006000
dc.subjectLCO002000
dc.subjectLCO022040
dc.subjectLIT004020
dc.subjectLIT024040
dc.subjectLIT025040
dc.subjectDNT
dc.subjectDSBF
dc.subjectQRMF1
dc.subjectPS3242.B5
dc.subjectAmerican and Latin American Studies
dc.subjectLiterature
dc.subjectLiterature: Comparative Literature
dc.subjectFree verse
dc.subjectKing James Bible
dc.subject'Leaves of Grass'
dc.subjectLiterature scholarship
dc.subjectNineteenth-Century American poetry
dc.subjectWalt Whitman
dc.titleDivine Style: Walt Whitman and the King James Bible
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33
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organization.legalNamePrinceton Theological Seminary

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