Mystical Discourse in Wordsworth and Whitman

A Transatlantic Bridge

By (author) D.J. Moores

Book cover: Mystical Discourse in Wordsworth and Whitman

Extent: 248 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Literary Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Studies in Spirituality Supplements

Series volume number: 11

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2006)

ISBN: 9789042918092

Price: $55.00

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In Mystical Discourse D.J. Moores builds on the work of current transatlantic scholarship in a lucid analysis of the connections between William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman. As he demonstrates, the “transatlantic bridge” between both poets lies in their privileging of a type of mystical language he calls “cosmic” rhetoric, which served the function of ideological resistance, as it enabled them to rebel against Enlightenment modes of thinking and being. In a thorough engagement with the work of Wordsworth and Whitman, Moores shows that the cosmic rhetoric of both writers involves a subversive reorientation towards self and society, nature and God, and knowledge and religion, as well as a radical revisioning of language and poetics.

  • By (author) D.J. Moores