Edward Carpenter

Excerpt from Edward Carpenter: An Exposition and an Appreciation
At the age of twenty-five, Edward Carpenter received the creative impulse, and abandoned his profession to place himself at its disposal. With the assistance of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" he was delivered of his spiritual child. It took external form in the poem "Towards Democracy," in which he celebrates his experience, and proclaims it as the promise of an arriving world-experience. The justification of this announcement lies in the fact that the Whole expresses itself in each of its parts in a particular way; and Carpenter, by revealing what had come to be in him, opens a door and discloses that which is coming to be for the race.
Of Cornish descent on his father's side, and of Scottish on his mother's, Edward Carpenter was born at Brighton in the year 1844.
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