American Metempsychosis: Emerson, Whitman, and the New Poetry

Index

44, 61, 106, 107, 115, 151, 155, 157, 158, 179n4, 179n5, 181n4, 183n16, 184n34, 196n41, 198n64 Anaxagoras, 18 Apollonian/Dionysiac, 172 apprenticeship, 17–21, 140 Apuleius, 48, 188n61 Aquinas, Thomas, 137 Aristotle/Aristotelian, 4, 138, 178n1, 179n13, 181n7, 192n22, 195n39 ascendency (textual frame), 75–82 ascent (ladder of), 1–2, 6, 8, 40, 47–55, 63, 71–72, 79, 129, 134, 136–45, 156, 158, 164–65 Aspiz, Harold, 216n72, 220n27 Augustine of Hippo, 137, 191n7, 201n20 Bacon, Francis, 6 Baker, Carlos, 209n18, 210n19 Barthes, Roland, 174, 222n13, 222n14, 222n15 Bartsch, Shadi, 201n12 Bates, David William, 193n33 Bates, Stanley, 46, 192n20 Bauerlein, Mark, 212n45, 220n29 Beach, Joseph Warren, 185n39 beauty, 6, 47, 48, 49–53, 76, 84, 92, 93, 100, 120, 137, 143, 144, 156, 157, 182n13, 200n7, 201n23, 202n31, 218n17, 219n17, 220n25 Being, universal/individual, passim, 60, 73, 164, 187n56; abundance of, 159, 162; Ackerman, Alan, 209n9, 213n48 agent, 74, 124, 138, 184n37, 218n16. See also reception Agrippa, Cornelius, 6 alchemy, magic and occult science, 2, 3, 6, 9, 22, 28–29, 51, 164, 170, 187n57, 188n57 Alcott, Amos Bronson, 5, 135, 179n4, 180n16 Alexander of Aphrodisias, 178n1 America/American, 2–10, 12, 13, 41, 43, 44, 64, 68, 69, 83, 94, 96, 97, 103, 104, 105, 106, 108, 109–16, 128, 129, 130, 131, 133, 137, 140, 145, 147, 151, 157, 158, 159, 168, 179nn4–5, 192n11, 206n95, 208n2, 211n36, 212n43, 213n49, 214n43, 215n57, 216n66, 216n76, 217n6, 220n25; Adam, 3, 106; body, 128, 129, 132, 133, 194n35; consciousness/poetic, 109–14, 116, 130, 133, 168, 195n42, 216n76; metempsychosis passim, 159, 169–71, 192n11; nationhood, 43, 106, 115–16, 147, 168–169, 170; poet/poetry, 7, 103, 105, 116, 119, 131, 138, 168, 170, 173; Pragmatism, 168; psyche, 216n76; religion, 104; selfhood/individuality, 2, 9, 103, 115–16, 169–71, 214n53, 216n76, 220n25; solipsism, 113; sublime, 140, 173; Transcendentalism, 4, 20, 21, 41, Index 238 / index 46, 49–50, 57, 59–60, 62, 69, 71, 100, 109, 112, 124, 127, 128, 129, 134, 135, 150, 184n36 Böhme, Jacob, 7, 34, 74–75, 77, 78–79, 81, 83, 157, 168, 180n20, 202n29, 203n34, 221n54 Brodwin, Stanley, 182n13, 201n23 Bromwich, David, 215n58 Brontë, Emily, 137 Brooker, Jewel Spears, 221n59 Brown, Lee Rust, 185n41, 200n5, 206n90 Browne, Thomas, 75 Bruno, Giordano, 177n1 Buddhism and Confucianism, 12, 19, 157, 167, 177n1 Buell, Lawrence, 180nn1–2, 181n9, 186n47, 190n4, 196n45, 201n18, 202n27, 207n99 Burwick, Fredrick, 90, 205n65, 205n69, 206n75, 206n76 Bussanich, John, 190n76 Callow, Philip, 209n12, 209n15 camera obscura, 75, 88, 90–92 Cameron, Sharon, 93–94, 190n4, 191n5, 206n92 Carlyle, Thomas, 189n69 Carton, Evan, 190n4, 191n6, 203n37, 206n91 Cavell, Stanley, 13–14, 181n6, 192n10, 193n29, 194n35, 198n67, 206n95, 207n95, 208n8 Cavitch, David, 118, 209n10, 214n51, 215n57 Chai, Leon, 185n41 chain, 2, 6, 15, 29, 36, 54, 71, 79, 101, 115, 151, 178n3, 186n46, 188n58; of being, 15, 29, 36, 188n58; golden, 2, 6, 178n3; material, 54 Chambers, Robert, 185n39 Channing, William Ellery, 3–4 Chari, V.K., 208n1, 210n25 Christ, Jesus, 125, 126, 128, 163 circle, 1, 7, 16, 60, 65, 66–68, 74, 77, 88, 96, 127, 135, 148, 156, 196n52, 198n66, 200n8, 200n9, 202n26; creation, 67; and identity, 200n9; self-evolving, 66–68; and Uriel, 68 Civil War, 106, 128–33, 209n10, 210n19, 215n59, 216n71, 220n25 Clarke, James Freeman, 2, 135, 179n6 classification (scientific), 24, 159, 185n41, 211n37 Colebrooke, Henry Thomas, 19 all/complete, 13, 66, 185n41; being/ life/intelligence, 187n56; beyond, 128, 134, 172, 182n12; biology, 151; brightest region of/heightened, 84, 110, 150; chain/scale of, 6, 15, 29, 32, 36, 178n3, 188n58; currents of the Universal Being, 73; dialectical, 210n25; discarded shell of, 82; dissociation of, 162; doorway of, 111; experience of, 127–28; figure/game of, 127; foundation for, 11, 33; historical series of, 8, 15, 17, 20, 22, 23, 26, 27, 31, 36, 56, 76, 78, 80, 88, 95, 102, 108, 110, 112, 121, 130, 138–41, 144, 151, 155, 164; in/for itself, 27, 82; ladder of, 8, 136, 138–41, 144; metempsychotic unfolding of, 22; mimetic dilemma, 114–21, 128; multiple states of, 17, 34, 46, 101, 119; omnipresence of, 190n3, 201n11; and the One, 85; outline of, 159, 163, 164; perception of, 196n50; and soul, 128, 156, 165; and words/speech, 113, 163 bird, 31–32, 51, 109, 129, 131–32, 136, 148, 154, 155, 159, 164–65, 188n66, 197n62, 214n56 Bird, Robert Montgomery, 169–70, 222n3 birth/rebirth, 4, 35, 58, 70, 117, 121, 126, 131, 142, 167, 174, 177n1, 181n3...