Contents
Whitman on the Bible: A Retrospective 11
The Bible and the Birth of (Whitman’s) Free Verse 43
2. The Bible in Whitman: Quotation, Allusion, Echo 63
Some Preliminary Observations 64
“No Quotations”: The 1850 Poems 73
The Bible in Whitman’s Prose from 1850–53 80
Biblical Echoes in the Early Notebooks and Unpublished Poetry Manuscripts 86
3. Whitman’s Line: “Found” in the King James Bible? 111
The Development of Whitman’s Long Line: A Chronology 112
G. W. Allen, Parallelism, and the Biblical Poetic Line 123
The Verse Divisions of the KJB and Whitman’s Line 137
The KJB Mediated Otherwise 202
4. Parallelism: In the (Hebrew) Bible and in Whitman 223
The Politics of Parallelism 223
Lowth’s Idea of Parallelism and Its Modern Reception 230
Whitman and Biblical Parallelism: Line-Internal Parallelism 241
5. “The Divine Style”: An American Prose Style Poeticized 285
(Some) Biblical Elements of Whitman’s Plain Style 292
Formatting of Attributed Speech 320
“Walt Whitman, an American” 330
I. Works Published by Walt Whitman 352
II. Collected Writings of Walt Whitman, Special Editions, and Translations 354