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No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For more information contact:  \nChelsea House  \nAn imprint of Infobase Publishing  \n132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001  \nISBN-10: 0-7910-7676-8  \nISBN-13: 978-0-7910-7676-7  \nFor Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data, please contact the publisher.  \nISBN: 0-7910-7676-8  \nChelsea House books are available at special discounts when purchased in bulk quantities for businesses, associations, institutions, or sales promotions. Please call our Special Sales Department in New York at (212) 967-8800 or (800) 322-8755.  \nYou can find Chelsea House on the World Wide Web at [http://www.chelseahouse.com](http://www.chelseahouse.com)  \nContributing Editor: Stuart Watson Cover designed by Keith Trego  \nPrinted in the United States of America Bang EJB 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is printed on acid-free paper.  \nContents  \nEditor’s Note vii  \nIntroduction 1  \nHarold Bloom  \nHerman Melville’s “Moby Dick” 27  \nD.H. Lawrence  \nMethod and Scope 41  \nF. O. Matthiessen  \nShakespeare and Melville 51  \nCharles Olson  \nNathaniel Hawthorne 77  \nJorge Luis Borges  \nIntroduction to Walden and Civil Disobedience 95  \nSherman Paul  \nWhitman’s Image of Voice: To the Tally of My Soul 127  \nHarold Bloom  \nThe Curse of Kehama 147  \nBarbara Packer  \n“The Poet” 177  \nJulie Ellison  \nHawthorne, Melville, and the Fiction of Prophecy 201  \nRichard Brodhead  \nThe Literary Significance of the Unitarian Movement 241  \nLawrence Buell  \nIntroduction to Leaves of Grass 259  \nJohn Hollander  \nMargaret Fuller’s Aesthetic Transcendentalism and Its Legacy 273  \nKathy Kurtzman Lawrence  \nvi Contents  \nA Mourner Among the Children: Emily Dickinson’s  \nEarly Religious Crisis 297  \nElizabeth Schmidt  \nChronology 343  \nContributors 347  \nBibliography 351  \nAcknowledgments 353  \nIndex 355  \nEditor’s Note  \nMy Introduction, questing for the American Sublime’s difference from England and Continental Europe, follows Emerson and Whitman into the abyss of the American self.  \nD.H. Lawrence, now an absurdly neglected English poet-novelistprophet, is represented by his extraordinary critique of Moby Dick,“the doom of our white race.”  \nThe classic American Renaissance by the tragic Francis Otto Matthiessen defines forever the “Method and Scope” of the greatest era, to date, of the literature of the United States.  \nCharles Olson, poet and Harvard maverick, follows Matthiessen by a pioneer uncovering of Shakespeare’s intense influence upon Moby-Dick, after which the Argentine fabulist, Jorge Luis Borges, renders tribute to Hawthorne, one of his two prime North American precursors.  \nSherman Paul, Thoreau’s best expositor, illuminates both Walden and the fierce essay,“Civil Disobedience.”  \nThe editor, who continues to regard Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” as the crown of our literature, reveals the significance of the grand metaphor of “tally” in the elegy, and elsewhere in our national poet, true ancestor of Wallace Stevens and the Pindaric Hart Crane.  \nEmerson’s most accomplished essay, “Experience,” is explicated by Barbara Packer, while Julie Ellison rhetorically analyzes Emerson’s seminal“The Poet,” which inspired Whitman.  \nRichard Brodhead, Yale’s Dean, brings together Hawthorne and Melville as prophetic makers of fiction, after which L","cbCaiapQMkLjRQGD","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiapQMkLjRQGD","pdf",1931141,379,"English","# Editor’s Note\n# Introduction\n## Emerson and Whitman: The American Sublime\n# Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick”\n# Method and Scope\n# Shakespeare and Melville\n# Nathaniel Hawthorne\n# Introduction to Walden and Civil Disobedience\n# Whitman’s Image of Voice: To the Tally of My Soul\n# The Curse of Kehama\n# “The Poet”\n# Hawthorne, Melville, and the Fiction of Prophecy\n# The Literary Significance of the Unitarian Movement\n# Introduction to Leaves of Grass\n# Margaret Fuller’s Aesthetic Transcendentalism and Its Legacy\n# A Mourner Among the Children: Emily Dickinson’s Early Religious Crisis\n# Chronology\n# Contributors\n# Bibliography\n# Acknowledgments\n# Index","[{\"question\":\"What is the main focus of The American Renaissance volume in Bloom’s Period Studies?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on critical study of key authors and works central to the American Renaissance, connecting literary analysis to broader intellectual and historical context.\"},{\"question\":\"Who provides the introduction to this collection?\",\"answer\":\"Harold Bloom provides the introduction and frames the volume’s interpretive direction.\"},{\"question\":\"Which authors and works are highlighted in the table of contents?\",\"answer\":\"The contents include essays on Herman Melville, D.H. 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