TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dobbs-Allsopp, F. W.
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024//
TI  - Divine Style: Walt Whitman and the King James Bible
PB  - Open Book Publishers
CY  - Cambridge
KW  - Literature & literary studies
KW  - Literature: history & criticism
KW  - Literary theory
KW  - USA
KW  - Biblical studies & exegesis
KW  - Walt Whitman;King James Bible;Nineteenth-Century American poetry;Free verse;'Leaves of Grass';Literature scholarship
AB  - In 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
SN  - 9781805111016
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/133101
LA  - Undetermined language
N1  - English
ID  - 1885781040
ER  -