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Author : Phil Pisani
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329109537
Author : Thomas B. Littlewood
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 080932587X
Concentrating at first on the welfare of children who had lost their fathers in the war, the Legion later became involved in a variety of community service activities and served as a political training ground."--Jacket.
Author : Michael Sweda
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781504957250
Walt Whitman, Americas eternal and greatest poet, returns on the eve of September 11, 2001, to pay a visit to his chosen Camerado, Michael Sweda, in order to inspire the completion of a great American work to complement his Leaves of Grass and to honor America, its people, and the military service members. Michael Sweda delivers with haunting and stunning poetry that recalls that of Whitman and extends Whitmans great poetic vision for a new time and millenniumour time, this time. For anyone who loves America or an American service member, Dialogues with Walt Whitman for the New American Millennium is a must read. Prepare to be swept away and awed with the poetry of Michael Sweda, who honors the tradition of Walt Whitman and who brings Whitman to a new, higher level, just as Whitman envisioned during his lifetime.
Author : Daniel Karlin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191650437
Why did poets continue to call themselves singers, and their poems songs, long after the formal link between poetry and music had been severed? Daniel Karlin explores the origin and meaning of the 'figure of the singer', tracing its roots in classical mythology and in the Bible, and following its rise from the 'adventurous song' of Milton's Paradise Lost to its apotheosis in the nineteenth century-by which time it had also become an oppressive cliché. Poets might embrace, or resist, this dominant figure of their art, but could not ignore it. Shadowing the metaphor is another figure, that of the literal singer, a source of fascination, and rivalry, to poets who are confined to words on the page. The book opens with an emblematic figure of the greatest of all 'singers': Homer, playing his lyre, at the centre of the frieze of poets on the Albert Memorial in London. Chapters on the tragicomic rise and fall of 'the bard', on the link between female song and suffering, and on the metaphor of poetry as birdsong, are followed by detailed readings of poems by Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Walt Whitman, and Thomas Hardy. The final chapter, on the songs of Bob Dylan, suggests that recording technology has given fresh impetus to the quarrel (which is also a love-affair) between poetic language and song. The Figure of the Singer offers a profound and stimulating analysis of the idea of poetry as song and of the complex, troubled relations between voice and text
Author : Charles M. Oliver
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781438108582
Presents a complete reference to the life and works of Walt Whitman.
Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780814794449
Throughout his life, Walt Whitman continually revised and re-released Leaves of Grass. He added and deleted words, emended lines, divided poems, dropped and created titles, and shifted the order of poems. Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems includes all the variants that Whitman ever published, from the collection’s first appearance in 1855 through the posthumous “Old Age Echoes” annex printed in 1897. Each edition was unique, with its own character and emphasis, and the Textual Variorum enables scholars to follow the development of both the individual poems and the work as a whole. Volume I contains introductory material, including a chronology of the poems and a summary of all the editions and annexes, along with the poems from 1855 and 1856. Volume II includes the poems from 1860 through 1867, including the first appearance of “When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom’d” and “O Captain! my Captain!” Volume III features the poems 1870–1891, plus the “Old Ages Annex” and an index to the three-volume set.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89005554050
Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112039398596
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Stendhal,Jules Verne,Gustave Flaubert,Lewis Carroll,Henrik Ibsen,Charles Dickens,Plato,Honoré de Balzac,Mark Twain,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Rabindranath Tagore,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Walt Whitman,Niccolò Machiavelli,Oscar Wilde,Robert Louis Stevenson,James Fenimore Cooper,Edgar Allan Poe,William Shakespeare,Giovanni Boccaccio,Confucius,,George MacDonald,Bram Stoker,Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,Henry David Thoreau,Jack London,Henry James,Louisa May Alcott,Victor Hugo,Arthur Conan Doyle,Frances Hodgson Burnett,Joseph Conrad,Jane Austen,Herman Melville,George Eliot,Laurence Sterne,Thomas Hardy,Jonathan Swift,Edith Wharton,Benito Pérez Galdós,Daniel Defoe,Henry Fielding,Alexandre Dumas,Kalidasa,Kenneth Grahame,Marcel Proust,Willa Cather,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Homer,Gaston Leroux,Charles Baudelaire,Wilkie Collins,William Makepeace Thackeray,Voltaire,Kate Chopin,Apuleius,John Milton,Frederick Douglass,Laozi,John Keats,James Joyce,Ann Ward Radcliffe,Kahlil Gibran,Kakuzo Okakura,Soseki Natsume,Princess Der Ling,H. G. Wells,W. B. Yeats,J. M. Barrie,G. K. Chesterton,T. S. Eliot,L. M. Montgomery,C. S. Lewis,D. H. Lawrence,E. M. Forster,H. P. Lovecraft,Marcus Aurelius,Friedrich Nietzsche,Lewis Wallace,Ivan Turgenev,Anton Chekhov,Leo Tolstoy,Nikolai Gogol,Sir Walter Scott,George Bernard Shaw,Miguel de Cervantes,Mary Shelley,Cao Xueqin,Emile Zola,Válmíki,Bankim Chandra Chatterjee,P. B. Shelley,Elizabeth von Arnim,Herman Hesse,Dante,Pedro Calderon de la Barca,Sun Tzu,Inazo Nitobé,George Weedon Grossmith
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 28591 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : EAN:8596547772767
Good Press presents to you this unique collection of the greatest classics of all time: Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Ulysses (James Joyce) Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw) Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) Peter and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman) The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe) Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery) Iliad & Odyssey (Homer) The Republic (Plato) Faust, a Tragedy (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne) Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo) The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol) Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) Dona Perfecta (Benito Pérez Galdós) The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Anonymous) Life is a Dream (Pedro Calderon de la Barca) The Divine Comedy (Dante) Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio) The Prince (Machiavelli) Arabian Nights Gitanjali (Rabindranath Tagore) The Poison Tree (Bankim Chandra Chatterjee) Shakuntala (Kalidasa) Rámáyan of Válmíki (Válmíki) Tao Te Ching (Laozi) Art of War (Sun Tzu) The Analects of Confucius (Confucius) Hung Lou Meng or, The Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin) Two Years in the Forbidden City (Princess Der Ling) Bushido, the Soul of Japan (Inazo Nitobé) The Book of Tea (Kakuzo Okakura) Botchan (Soseki Natsume)...
Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026170350
Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1255 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141919836
In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual emancipation and what it meant to be an American. From the joyful 'Song of Myself' and 'I Sing the Body Electric' to the elegiac 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd', Whitman's art fuses oratory, journalism and song in a vivid celebration of humanity.
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Stendhal,Jules Verne,Gustave Flaubert,Lewis Carroll,Henrik Ibsen,Charles Dickens,Plato,Honoré de Balzac,Mark Twain,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Rabindranath Tagore,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Walt Whitman,Niccolò Machiavelli,Oscar Wilde,Robert Louis Stevenson,James Fenimore Cooper,Edgar Allan Poe,William Shakespeare,Giovanni Boccaccio,Confucius,,George MacDonald,Bram Stoker,Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,Henry David Thoreau,Weedon Grossmith,Jack London,Henry James,Louisa May Alcott,Victor Hugo,Arthur Conan Doyle,Frances Hodgson Burnett,Joseph Conrad,Jane Austen,Herman Melville,George Eliot,Laurence Sterne,Thomas Hardy,Jonathan Swift,Edith Wharton,Benito Pérez Galdós,Daniel Defoe,Henry Fielding,Alexandre Dumas,Kalidasa,Kenneth Grahame,Marcel Proust,Willa Cather,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Homer,Gaston Leroux,Charles Baudelaire,Wilkie Collins,William Makepeace Thackeray,Voltaire,Kate Chopin,Apuleius,John Milton,Frederick Douglass,Laozi,John Keats,James Joyce,Ann Ward Radcliffe,Kahlil Gibran,Kakuzo Okakura,Soseki Natsume,Princess Der Ling,H. G. Wells,W. B. Yeats,J. M. Barrie,G. K. Chesterton,T. S. Eliot,L. M. Montgomery,C. S. Lewis,D. H. Lawrence,E. M. Forster,H. P. Lovecraft,Marcus Aurelius,Friedrich Nietzsche,Lewis Wallace,Ivan Turgenev,Anton Chekhov,Leo Tolstoy,Nikolai Gogol,Sir Walter Scott,George Bernard Shaw,Miguel de Cervantes,Mary Shelley,Cao Xueqin,Emile Zola,Válmíki,Bankim Chandra Chatterjee,P. B. Shelley,Elizabeth von Arnim,Herman Hesse,Dante,Pedro Calderon de la Barca,Sun Tzu,Inazo Nitobé
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 28592 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547754404
DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited and formatted collection of the greatest world classics: Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) Art of War (Sun Tzu) Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol) Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) Dona Perfecta (Benito Pérez Galdós) A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) Gitanjali (Rabindranath Tagore) The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Anonymous) Life is a Dream (Pedro Calderon de la Barca) The Divine Comedy (Dante) Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio) The Prince (Machiavelli) Arabian Nights Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Ulysses (James Joyce) Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw) Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) Peter and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman) The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe) Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery) Iliad & Odyssey (Homer) The Republic (Plato) Faust, a Tragedy (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo) The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) The Poison Tree (Bankim Chandra Chatterjee) Shakuntala (Kalidasa) Rámáyan of Válmíki (Válmíki) Tao Te Ching (Laozi) The Analects of Confucius (Confucius) Hung Lou Meng or, The Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin) Two Years in the Forbidden City (Princess Der Ling) Bushido, the Soul of Japan (Inazo Nitobé) The Book of Tea (Kakuzo Okakura) Botchan (Soseki Natsume)...
Author : Jules Verne,Lewis Carroll,Selma Lagerlöf,Sigmund Freud,Charles Dickens,Plato,Mark Twain,Walt Whitman,Oscar Wilde,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,William Shakespeare,Giovanni Boccaccio,Charlotte Brontë,Anne Brontë,Emily Brontë,Henry David Thoreau,Jack London,Henry James,Louisa May Alcott,Victor Hugo,Arthur Conan Doyle,Frances Hodgson Burnett,Joseph Conrad,Jane Austen,Edgar Rice Burroughs,Herman Melville,James Allen,Guy de Maupassant,George Eliot,Thomas Hardy,Benito Pérez Galdós,Daniel Defoe,Agatha Christie,Upton Sinclair,Anthony Trollope,Alexandre Dumas,Rudyard Kipling,Marcel Proust,Washington Irving,Juan Valera,Charles Baudelaire,William Makepeace Thackeray,Theodore Dreiser,Voltaire,Apuleius,Stephen Crane,Frederick Douglass,John Keats,James Joyce,Kahlil Gibran,Ernest Hemingway,Soseki Natsume,Princess Der Ling,L. Frank Baum,H. G. Wells,H. A. Lorentz,T. S. Eliot,D. H. Lawrence,E. M. Forster,H. P. Lovecraft,Marcus Aurelius,Hans Christian Andersen,Anton Chekhov,Leo Tolstoy,Fyodor Dostoevsky,Sir Walter Scott,George Bernard Shaw,Miguel de Cervantes,Mary Shelley,Wallace D. Wattles,R.D. Blackmore,Pierre Choderlos de Laclos,Johann Wolfgang Goethe,Margaret Cavendish,Herman Hesse,Sun Tzu,Gogol
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 19145 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547780946
This summer, during these strange strange times, immerse yourself in words that have touched all of us and will always get to the core of all of us, of every single person. Books that have made us think, change, relate, cry and laugh: Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman) Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) Middlemarch (George Eliot) The Madman (Kahlil Gibran) Ward No. 6 (Anton Chekhov) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) The Overcoat (Gogol) Ulysses (James Joyce) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot) Odes (John Keats) The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Vanity Fair (Thackeray) Swann's Way (Marcel Proust) Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy) Two Years in the Forbidden City (Princess Der Ling) Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) Pepita Jimenez (Juan Valera) The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) A Room with a View (E. M. Forster) Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser) The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) The Republic (Plato) Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) Art of War (Sun Tzu) Candide (Voltaire) Don Quixote (Cervantes) Decameron (Boccaccio) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Dream Psychology (Sigmund Freud) The Einstein Theory of Relativity The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie) A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle) Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) The Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells) The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe) The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Call of the Wild Alice in Wonderland The Fairytales of Brothers Grimm The Fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Stendhal,Jules Verne,Gustave Flaubert,Lewis Carroll,Henrik Ibsen,Charles Dickens,Plato,Honoré de Balzac,Mark Twain,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Rabindranath Tagore,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Walt Whitman,Niccolò Machiavelli,Oscar Wilde,Robert Louis Stevenson,James Fenimore Cooper,Edgar Allan Poe,William Shakespeare,Giovanni Boccaccio,Confucius,,George MacDonald,Bram Stoker,Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,Henry David Thoreau,Jack London,Henry James,Louisa May Alcott,Victor Hugo,Arthur Conan Doyle,Frances Hodgson Burnett,Joseph Conrad,Jane Austen,Herman Melville,George Eliot,Laurence Sterne,Thomas Hardy,Jonathan Swift,Edith Wharton,Benito Pérez Galdós,Daniel Defoe,Henry Fielding,Alexandre Dumas,Kalidasa,Kenneth Grahame,Marcel Proust,Willa Cather,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Homer,Gaston Leroux,Charles Baudelaire,Wilkie Collins,William Makepeace Thackeray,Voltaire,Kate Chopin,Apuleius,John Milton,Frederick Douglass,Laozi,John Keats,James Joyce,Ann Ward Radcliffe,Kahlil Gibran,Kakuzo Okakura,Soseki Natsume,Princess Der Ling,H. G. Wells,W. B. Yeats,J. M. Barrie,G. K. Chesterton,T. S. Eliot,L. M. Montgomery,C. S. Lewis,D. H. Lawrence,E. M. Forster,H. P. Lovecraft,Marcus Aurelius,Friedrich Nietzsche,Lewis Wallace,Ivan Turgenev,Anton Chekhov,Leo Tolstoy,Nikolai Gogol,Sir Walter Scott,George Bernard Shaw,Miguel de Cervantes,Mary Shelley,Cao Xueqin,Emile Zola,Válmíki,Bankim Chandra Chatterjee,P. B. Shelley,Elizabeth von Arnim,Herman Hesse,Dante,Pedro Calderon de la Barca,Sun Tzu,Inazo Nitobé,George Weedon Grossmith
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 28592 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : EAN:8596547718543
DigiCat presents to you this unique collection of the greatest classics of all time: Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Ulysses (James Joyce) Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw) Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) Peter and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman) The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe) Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery) Iliad & Odyssey (Homer) The Republic (Plato) Faust, a Tragedy (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne) Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo) The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol) Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) Dona Perfecta (Benito Pérez Galdós) The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Anonymous) Life is a Dream (Pedro Calderon de la Barca) The Divine Comedy (Dante) Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio) The Prince (Machiavelli) Arabian Nights Gitanjali (Rabindranath Tagore) The Poison Tree (Bankim Chandra Chatterjee) Shakuntala (Kalidasa) Rámáyan of Válmíki (Válmíki) Tao Te Ching (Laozi) Art of War (Sun Tzu) The Analects of Confucius (Confucius) Hung Lou Meng or, The Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin) Two Years in the Forbidden City (Princess Der Ling) Bushido, the Soul of Japan (Inazo Nitobé) The Book of Tea (Kakuzo Okakura) Botchan (Soseki Natsume)...
Author : Robert C. Gordon, PhD
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781469711539
Gospel of the Open Road reclaims Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and Henry David Thoreau as Americas spiritual birthright. It rescues them from literary history, and reveals them in their true light: as democracys prophets of the soul. Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau were religious seers who developed a new form of spirituality, and Gospel of the Open Road explains, in scholarly yet passionate fashion, the deep wisdom that is their enduring legacy. It presents them as a viable spiritual path for those who do not belong, and do not want to belong, to any organized religion.But this book does more. It draws fascinating parallels between the new spirituality taught by Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau and ancient spiritual wisdom as found in shamanism, Goddess worship, Tantra, Taoism, Confucianism, Vajrayana and Zen Buddhism, and Hinduism. This book is an evocative synthesis of humanitys most venerable spiritual wisdom and the most modern of philosophical, social, psychological, political, scientific, and Humanistic concepts. It traces the New Age spiritual revolution to its source in Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau, and explains how to apply their spiritual teachings to our everyday life here on Earth.
