Mystical Discourse in Wordsworth and Whitman: A Transatlantic Bridge

By D.J. Moores

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042918098
• ISBN13: 9789042918092
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"