From the Material to the Spiritual in the Sea-Drift Cluster: Transcendence in On the Beach at Night, The World below the Brine, and On the Beach at Night Alone

Focuses on three critically neglected poems in Whitman\u27s Sea-Drift cluster ( On the Beach at Night, The World Below the Brine and On the Beach at Night Alone ) and reads the poems as an important interruption in the cluster as a whole, in which the poet establishes crucial ideas of mortality, materiality and spirituality