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urn:uuid:02fbde7d-48ca-4515-9dec-8f962960993f 03 01 01 urn:uuid:02fbde7d-48ca-4515-9dec-8f962960993f 15 9781805111030 06 10.11647/OBP.0357 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 Divine Style Walt Whitman and the King James Bible 1 A01 F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp First edition. 01 eng 00 404 03 12 D 93 DNT 10 LCO002000 B2 Literature 04 PS3242.B5 12 DS 93 DS 10 LCO022040 B2 Literature: Comparative Literature B2 American and Latin American Studies 12 DSA 93 DSBF 10 LIT004020 12 1KBB 10 LIT024040 93 QRMF1 12 HRCG 10 LIT025040 10 BIB006000 01 06 03 00 In exploring the seminal works of Walt Whitman, the great American poet, many commentators have acknowledged the underlying influence of The King James Bible. However, a study has yet to elucidate the precise manner in which the Bible has shaped Whitman’s poetic style. This is the deficit that F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp seeks to address in his new piece of literary scholarship: 'Divine Style: Walt Whitman and the King James Bible'. Dobbs-Allsopp, Professor of Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, explicitly approaches Whitman from the perspective of a biblical scholar. Utilising his wealth of expertise in this field, he constructs a compelling, erudite and methodical argument for the King James Bible’s importance in the evolution of Whitman’s style – from his signature long lines to the prevalence of parallelism and tendency towards parataxis in his works. 'Divine Style' focuses on Whitman’s output in the years preceding the release of his 1855 opus 'Leaves of Grass' through the general period of the book’s first three editions. In this, Dobbs-Allsopp’s exploration of the period is exhaustive – covering not just Leaves of Grass but recently recovered notebooks, newly digitised manuscripts and additions to the corpus, such as the novel 'Life and Adventures of Jack Engle'. This is a work of careful, detailed scholarship, offering an authoritative commentary that will be a valuable resource for students of Whitman, biblical scholars and scholars of literature more generally. 04 00 Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of Figures Prefatory Note on Links Introduction 1. Whitman on the Bible 2. The Bible in Whitman: Quotation, Allusion, Echo 3. Whitman’s Line: “Found” in the KJB? 4. Parallelism: In the (Hebrew) Bible and in Whitman 5. “The Divine Style”: An American Prose Style Poeticized Afterword Selected Bibliography Index Writings of Walt Whitman Biblical References Subject Index 20 00 Open Access Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers Cambridge, UK 04 01 20240116 2024 06 15 9781805111016 06 15 9781805111023 06 15 9781805111030 06 15 9781805111078 06 15 9781805111047 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0357 99 01 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0357.pdf 99 01