SOURCE: "Reconsidering Whitman's Intention," in Minor Prophecy: Walt Whitman's New American Religion, Indiana University Press, 1989, pp. 1-11.
In the following essay, Kuebrich contends that Whitman intended his poetry to be, in a sense, a "new religion," in that he hoped to encourage the spiritual growth of his readers and offer a vision which would fuse religious experience with contemporary views on science, technology, and the emerging American republic.
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