John Michael Corrigan: 1 book
American Metempsychosis
Emerson, Whitman, and the New Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The “transmigration of souls is no fable. I would it were, but men and women are only half human.” With these words, Ralph Waldo Emerson confronts a dilemma that illuminates the formation of American individualism: to evolve and become fully human requires a heightened engagement with history....
