![]() Shamanistic shape-shifter, hermetic androgyne, he indeed is prelapsarian Adam in the morning of what has become our evening land.” His still-undervalued art abides in nuance, indirection, gesture, subtle evasiveness, insinuation, ineluctable modalities of the visible, the signature of all things that he summons us to come and see. “Whitman is not one of the poets extraordinary for cognitive power, such as Shakespeare, Blake, or Dickinson. To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.’ ” Give me Vesuvius’ crater for an inkstand!. “ ‘This world’s grievances’ are the Jobean burden of Moby-Dick, of so massive a heft that Melville’s fighting motto transcends American hyperbole: ‘Give me condor’s quill. “Hawthorne, the sage’s silent walking companion, might seem antithetical to Emerson, yet he had to be aware that his Hester Prynne, worshipping only the god within herself, stemmed from the selfhood of ‘Self-Reliance.’ ” ![]()
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