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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Critical Readings in Emerson, Whitman, and Dickinson Volume 2: December 2011 &#160; [To submit your final project to this class magazine, reply with the link from your blog; include in the comment the title of your essay]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luminousallusion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6559980&amp;post=538&amp;subd=luminousallusion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transcendental Afterlives</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have already seen some ways Whitman and Emerson live on in commercials. Consider the recent film &#8220;Tree of Life&#8221; by the director/writer Terence Malick. It strikes me as filled with a transcendentalism that echoes with Emerson, Whitman, and Dickinson&#8211;right down to an interest (as far as I can tell) in Emerson&#8217;s idea of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luminousallusion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6559980&amp;post=536&amp;subd=luminousallusion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transcendental Works and Days: The Theory of This Particular Wednesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did some further reading in Emerson. The essay is titled &#8220;Works and Days,&#8221;collected in the 1870 volume Society and Solitude. I had forgotten that I had read it about two years ago; in fact, I discovered that I had already read it (remembered that I had forgotten it&#8230;) by finding some notes I saved [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luminousallusion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6559980&amp;post=517&amp;subd=luminousallusion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dickinson and Howe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I chose Howe&#8217;s My Emily Dickinson for some critical perspective on the poet. However, I also have it in mind as an example, in Howe&#8217;s own writing and thinking, of a descendant of Dickinson. And of Emerson. Howe&#8217;s book strikes me as very much in the mode of whatever Emerson means by &#8220;creative reading&#8221; in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luminousallusion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6559980&amp;post=476&amp;subd=luminousallusion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elements of Dickinson&#8217;s Poetics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie&#8211; True Poems flee&#8211;      [#1472] Here are some elements of Dickinson&#8217;s poetics, her grammar. For Dickinson, it seems, poetry is and isn&#8217;t formal, can and can&#8217;t be captured in a structure: it lies in a book&#8211;thus hearing one of her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luminousallusion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6559980&amp;post=481&amp;subd=luminousallusion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dickinson: Higginson&#8217;s occupation</title>
		<link>http://luminousallusion.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/dickinson-higginsons-occupation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What vision of poetry was Higginson, was Dickinson, occupied with? In &#8220;Transcendental Poetics,&#8221; Ed Folsom provides us with this insight regarding Higginson&#8217;s view of poetry that influences his understanding (and posthumous editing) of Dickinson. For Higginson, poetry had to be &#8220;perfected&#8221; before being printed. Poetry, above all, required form. For Higginson, Whitman&#8217;s poetry was formless, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luminousallusion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6559980&amp;post=421&amp;subd=luminousallusion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dickinson: invisible as music</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 10:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dickinson&#8217;s poetry presents us with something of a riddle. There are two types of responses I have heard from students in the past, seemingly contradictory. The first is that she is inscrutable, that her poems feel like puzzles in which too many pieces are missing. The second is that she is transparently and obviously interested, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luminousallusion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6559980&amp;post=440&amp;subd=luminousallusion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whitman in old age</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some last thoughts, links, regarding Whitman at the end. The Robert Creeley essay Professor Folsom mentioned, that disputes the conventional view that Whitman&#8217;s poetry in old age fails in comparison to his earlier writing. One of the texts that has been neglected, based on this commonplace that Whitman&#8217;s work after the Civil War fails, is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luminousallusion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6559980&amp;post=462&amp;subd=luminousallusion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whitman and words</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;A Backward Glance&#8221; Whitman discusses what he calls the &#8220;impetus-words&#8221; of Leaves of Grass. One of the words he gives is &#8220;suggestiveness,&#8221; a word that suggests the very importance (and impetus) of words in Whitman&#8217;s poetics, his &#8220;theory experimental&#8221;:  language that connects and communicates to a reader environmentally (the atmosphere of the theme or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luminousallusion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6559980&amp;post=449&amp;subd=luminousallusion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic Vistas: startled by sin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something startles me when I thought I was safest. This opening line from Whitman&#8217;s &#8220;This Compost&#8221; (originally published in the 1856 edition) comes to mind when I try to make sense of &#8220;Democratic Vistas.&#8221; Whitman seems startled by where he finds himself in post-Civil War, reconstruction America. (Remember Emerson&#8217;s opening line in his great essay [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luminousallusion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6559980&amp;post=202&amp;subd=luminousallusion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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