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Worshipping Walt.(Brief article)(Book review)
For some devoted readers in the late nineteenth century, Walt Whitman was a "man magnified to the dimensions of a god," and "Leaves of Grass" a divinely inspired gospel. In a series of entertaining and acutely observed biographies of the "Whitman disciples," Robertson situates their fervor in a complex religious landscape. At a time when orthodox religious interpretations were struggling to find footing in an increasingly scientific and pluralistic milieu, "Leaves" offered a sort of ...
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