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aisthesis-1244	Mudd, David	“I Hear America Singing”: The Relationship Between American Religion and Democratic Values in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass	2018	8	.pdf	application/pdf	5689	258	57	In American civil religion, pursuit of liberty is a transformative act that breeds holiness and creates new persons by bestowing them with civic virtue; it is this tradition that Whitman taps into and promulgates with his poetry. Aisthesis Volume 9, 20188 “I Hear America Singing”: The Relationship Between American Religion and Democratic Values in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass by David Mudd Ezra Pound, one of America’s most famous poets despite his confused relationship with the country, once declared that above all Walt Whitman was “America’s poet…He is America” (Pound).	cache/aisthesis-1244.pdf	txt/aisthesis-1244.txt