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This revised Norton Critical Edition contains the most complete and authoritative collection of Whitman's work available in a paperback student edition. The text of Leaves of Grass is again that of the indispensable "Reader's Comprehensive Edition," edited by Sculley Bradley and Harold W. Blodgett, which is accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory annotations. New to this edition is the full text of the celebrated 1855 first edition of Leaves of Grass, as well as generous excerpts from Whitman's two prose masterpieces, Democratic Vistas ... MORE

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Preface	p. xxi
Abbreviations	p. xxiii
Introduction	p. xxvii
The Text of Leaves of Grass, 1891-1892
Epigraph: Come, said my Soul	p. 2
Inscriptions
One's-Self I Sing	p. 3
As I Ponder'd in Silence	p. 3
In Cabin'd Ships at Sea	p. 4
To Foreign Lands	p. 5
To a Historian	p. 5
To Thee Old Cause	p. 6
Eidolons	p. 6
For Him I Sing	p. 9
When I Read the Book	p. 9
Beginning My Studies	p. 9
Beginners	p. 10
To the States	p. 10
On Journeys through the States	p. 10
To a Certain Cantatrice	p. 11
Me Imperturbe	p. 11
Savantism	p. 12
The Ship Starting	p. 12
I Hear America Singing	p. 12
What Place Is Besieged?	p. 13
Still Though the One I Sing	p. 13
Shut Not Your Doors	p. 13
Poets to Come	p. 14
To You	p. 14
Thou Reader	p. 14
Starting from Paumanok	p. 15
Song of Myself	p. 26
Children of Adam
To the Garden the World	p. 78
From Pent-up Aching Rivers	p. 79
I Sing the Body Electric	p. 81
A Woman Waits for Me	p. 87
Spontaneous Me	p. 89
One Hour to Madness and Joy	p. 91
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd	p. 92
Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals	p. 92
We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd	p. 92
O Hymen! O Hymenee!	p. 93
I Am He That Aches with Love	p. 93
Native Moments	p. 94
Once I Pass'd through a Populous City	p. 94
I Heard you Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ	p. 95
Facing West from California's Shores	p. 95
As Adam Early in the Morning	p. 96
Calamus
In Paths Untrodden	p. 96
Scented Herbage of My Breast	p. 97
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand	p. 99
For You O Democracy	p. 100
These I Singing in Spring	p. 101
Not Heaving from my Ribb'd Breast Only	p. 102
Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances	p. 103
The Base of All Metaphysics	p. 103
Recorders Ages Hence	p. 104
When I Heard at the Close of the Day	p. 105
Are You the New Person Drawn toward Me?	p. 105
Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone	p. 106
Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes	p. 106
Trickle Drops	p. 107
City of Orgies	p. 107
Behold This Swarthy Face	p. 108
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing	p. 108
To a Stranger	p. 109
This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful	p. 109
I Hear It Was Charged against Me	p. 110
The Prairie-Grass Dividing	p. 110
When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame	p. 110
We Two Boys Together Clinging	p. 111
A Promise to California	p. 111
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me	p. 112
No Labor-Saving Machine	p. 112
A Glimpse	p. 112
A Leaf for Hand in Hand	p. 113
Earth, My Likeness	p. 113
I Dreamed in a Dream	p. 113
What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?	p. 114
To the East and to the West	p. 114
Sometimes with One I Love	p. 114
To a Western Boy	p. 115
Fast Anchor'd Eternal O Love!	p. 115
Among the Multitude	p. 115
O You Whom I Often and Silently Come	p. 116
That Shadow My Likeness	p. 116
Full of Life Now	p. 116
Salut au Monde!	p. 117
Song of the Open Road	p. 126
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry	p. 135
Song of the Answerer	p. 141
Our Old Feuillage	p. 145
A Song of Joys	p. 149
Song of the Broad-Axe	p. 155
Song of the Exposition	p. 165
Song of the Redwood-Tree	p. 173
A Song for Occupations	p. 177
A Song of the Rolling Earth	p. 184
Youth, Day, Old Age and Night	p. 189
Birds of Passage
Song of the Universal	p. 189
Pioneers! O Pioneers!	p. 192
To You	p. 195
France	p. 197
Myself and Mine	p. 198
Year of Meteors	p. 200
With Antecedents	p. 201
A Broadway Pageant	p. 203
Sea-Drift
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking	p. 206
As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life	p. 212
Tears	p. 215
To the Man-of-War-Bird	p. 215
Aboard at a Ship's Helm	p. 216
On the Beach at Night	p. 217
The World Below the Brine	p. 218
On the Beach at Night Alone	p. 218
Song for All Seas, All Ships	p. 219
Patroling Barnegat	p. 220
After the Sea-Ship	p. 221
By the Roadside
A Boston Ballad	p. 221
Europe	p. 223
A Hand-Mirror	p. 225
Gods	p. 225
Germs	p. 226
Thoughts [Of ownership--]	p. 227
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer	p. 227
Perfections	p. 227
O Me! O Life!	p. 228
To a President	p. 228
I Sit and Look Out	p. 228
To Rich Givers	p. 229
The Dalliance of the Eagles	p. 229
Roaming in Thought	p. 230
A Farm Picture	p. 230
A Child's Amaze	p. 230
The Runner	p. 230
Beautiful Women	p. 231
Mother and Babe	p. 231
Thought [Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness]	p. 231
Visor'd	p. 231
Thought [Of Justice--]	p. 232
Gliding o'er All	p. 232
Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour	p. 232
Thought [Of Equality--]	p. 232
To Old Age	p. 233
Locations and Times	p. 233
Offerings	p. 233
To the States: To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad	p. 233
Drum-Taps
First O Songs for a Prelude	p. 234
Eighteen Sixty-One	p. 236
Beat! Beat! Drums!	p. 237
From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird	p. 238
Song of the Banner at Daybreak	p. 239
Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps	p. 244
Virginia--The West	p. 246
City of Ships	p. 246
The Centenarian's Story	p. 247
Cavalry Crossing a Ford	p. 251
Bivouac on a Mountain Side	p. 252
An Army Corps on the March	p. 252
By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame	p. 253
Come Up from the Fields Father	p. 253
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night	p. 255
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown	p. 256
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim	p. 257
As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods	p. 258
Not the Pilot	p. 258
Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me	p. 259
The Wound-Dresser	p. 259
Long, Too Long America	p. 261
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun	p. 262
Dirge for Two Veterans	p. 264
Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice	p. 265
I Saw Old General at Bay	p. 266
The Artilleryman's Vision	p. 266
Ethiopia Saluting the Colors	p. 267
Not Youth Pertains to Me	p. 268
Race of Veterans	p. 268
World Take Good Notic	p. 269
O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy	p. 269
Look Down Fair Moon	p. 269
Reconciliation	p. 270
How Solemn as One by One	p. 270
As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado	p. 271
Delicate Cluster	p. 271
To a Certain Civilian	p. 272
Lo, Victress on the Peaks	p. 272
Spirit Whose Work Is Done	p. 273
Adieu to a Soldier	p. 273
Turn O Libertad	p. 274
To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod	p. 275
Memories of President Lincoln
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd	p. 276
O Captain! My Captain!	p. 284
Hush'd Be the Camps To-day	p. 285
This Dust Was Once the Man	p. 285
By Blue Ontario's Shore	p. 286
Reversals	p. 299
Autumn Rivulets
As Consequent, Etc.	p. 300
The Return of the Heroes	p. 301
There Was a Child Went Forth	p. 306
Old Ireland	p. 308
The City Dead-House	p. 308
This Compost	p. 309
To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire	p. 311
Unnamed Lands	p. 313
Song of Prudence	p. 314
The Singer in the Prison	p. 316
Warble for Lilac-Time	p. 318
Outlines for a Tomb	p. 319
Out from behind This Mask	p. 321
Vocalism	p. 322
To Him That Was Crucified	p. 323
You Felons on Trial in Courts	p. 324
Laws for Creations	p. 325
To a Common Prostitute	p. 325
I Was Looking a Long While	p. 326
Thought [Of persons arrived at high positions]	p. 326
Miracles	p. 327
Sparkles from the Wheel	p. 328
To a Pupil	p. 328
Unfolded Out of the Folds	p. 329
What Am I After All	p. 330
Kosmos	p. 330
Others May Praise What They Like	p. 331
Who Learns My Lesson Complete?	p. 331
Tests	p. 332
The Torch	p. 333
O Star of France	p. 333
The Ox-Tamer	p. 334
An Old Man's Thought of School	p. 335
Wandering at Morn	p. 336
Italian Music in Dakota	p. 337
With All Thy Gifts	p. 337
My Picture-Gallery	p. 338
The Prairie States	p. 338
Proud Music of the Storm	p. 339
Passage to India	p. 345
Prayer of Columbus	p. 354
The Sleepers	p. 356
Transpositions	p. 364
To Think of Time	p. 364
Whispers of Heavenly Death
Darest Thou Now O Soul	p. 370
Whispers of Heavenly Death	p. 371
Chanting the Square Deific	p. 371
Of Him I Love Day and Night	p. 373
Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours	p. 374
As If a Phantom Caress'd Me	p. 375
Assurances	p. 375
Quicksand Years	p. 376
That Music Always Round Me	p. 376
What Ship Puzzled at Sea	p. 377
A Noiseless Patient Spider	p. 377
O Living Always, Always Dying	p. 378
To One Shortly to Die	p. 378
Night on the Prairies	p. 379
Thought [As I sit with others at a great feast]	p. 380
The Last Invocation	p. 380
As I Watch'd the Ploughman Ploughing	p. 381
Pensive and Faltering	p. 381
Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood	p. 381
A Paumanok Picture	p. 386
From Noon to Starry Night
Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling	p. 387
Faces	p. 388
The Mystic Trumpeter	p. 392
To a Locomotive in Winter	p. 395
O Magnet-South	p. 396
Mannahatta	p. 397
All is Truth	p. 398
A Riddle Song	p. 399
Excelsior	p. 400
Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats	p. 401
Thoughts [Of public opinion]	p. 401
Mediums	p. 402
Weave in, My Hardy Life	p. 403
Spain, 1873-74	p. 403
By Broad Potomac's Shore	p. 404
From Far Dakota's Canons	p. 404
Old War-Dreams	p. 405
Thick-Sprinkled Bunting	p. 406
What Best I See in Thee	p. 406
Spirit That Form'd This Scene	p. 407
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days	p. 407
A Clear Midnight	p. 408
Songs of Parting
As the Time Draws Nigh	p. 409
Years of the Modern	p. 410
Ashes of Soldiers	p. 411
Thoughts [Of these years I sing]	p. 413
Song at Sunset	p. 414
As at Thy Portals Also Death	p. 416
My Legacy	p. 417
Pensive on Her Dead Gazing	p. 417
Camps of Green	p. 418
The Sobbing of the Bells	p. 419
As They Draw to a Close	p. 420
Joy, Shipmate, Joy!	p. 420
The Untold Want	p. 420
Portals	p. 421
These Carols	p. 421
Now Finale to the Shore	p. 421
So Long!	p. 422
First Annex: Sands At Seventy
Mannahatta	p. 425
Paumanok	p. 425
From Montauk Point	p. 426
To Those Who've Fail'd	p. 426
A Carol Closing Sixty-nine	p. 426
The Bravest Soldiers	p. 427
A Font of Type	p. 427
As I Sit Writing Here	p. 427
My Canary Bird	p. 427
Queries to My Seventieth Year	p. 428
The Wallabout Martyrs	p. 428
The First Dandelion	p. 428
America	p. 429
Memories	p. 429
To-day and Thee	p. 429
After the Dazzle of Day	p. 429
Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809	p. 430
Out of May's Shows Selected	p. 430
Halcyon Days	p. 430
Fancies at Navesink	p. 431
The Pilot in the Mist	p. 431
Had I the Choice	p. 431
You Tides with Ceaseless Swell	p. 431
Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning	p. 432
And Yet Not You Alone	p. 432
Proudly the Flood Comes In	p. 433
By That Long Scan of Waves	p. 433
Then Last of All	p. 433
Election Day, November, 1884	p. 434
With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!	p. 435
Death of General Grant	p. 436
Red Jacket (from Aloft)	p. 436
Washington's Monument, February, 1885	p. 437
Of That Blithe Throat of Thine	p. 437
Broadway	p. 438
To Get the Final Lilt of Songs	p. 438
Old Salt Kossabone	p. 438
The Dead Tenor	p. 439
Continuities	p. 440
Yonnondio	p. 440
Life	p. 441
"Going Somewhere"	p. 441
Small the Theme of My Chant	p. 441
True Conquerors	p. 442
The United States to Old World Critics	p. 442
The Calming Thought of All	p. 442
Thanks in Old Age	p. 443
Life and Death	p. 443
The Voice of the Rain	p. 444
Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here	p. 444
While Not the Past Forgetting	p. 445
The Dying Veteran	p. 445
Stronger Lessons	p. 446
A Prairie Sunset	p. 446
Twenty Years	p. 446
Orange Buds by Mail from Florida	p. 447
Twilight	p. 447
You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me	p. 447
Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone	p. 448
The Dead Emperor	p. 448
As the Greek's Signal Flame	p. 448
The Dismantled Ship	p. 449
Now Precedent Songs, Farewell	p. 449
An Evening Lull	p. 450
Old Age's Lambent Peaks	p. 450
After the Supper and Talk	p. 450
Second Annex: Good-Bye My Fancy
Preface Note to 2d Annex	p. 451
Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!	p. 453
Lingering Last Drops	p. 453
Good-Bye My Fancy	p. 453
On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!	p. 454
My 71st Year	p. 454
Apparitions	p. 455
The Pallid Wreath	p. 455
An Ended Day	p. 455
Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's	p. 456
To the Pending Year	p. 456
Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher	p. 456
Long, Long Hence	p. 457
Bravo, Paris Exposition!	p. 457
Interpolation Sounds	p. 457
To the Sun-Set Breeze	p. 458
Old Chants	p. 459
A Christmas Greeting	p. 460
Sounds of the Winter	p. 460
A Twilight Song	p. 460
When the Full-grown Poet Came	p. 461
Osceola	p. 462
A Voice from Death	p. 462
A Persian Lesson	p. 464
The Commonplace	p. 464
"The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete"	p. 465
Mirages	p. 465
L. of G.'s Purport	p. 466
The Unexpress'd	p. 467
Grand Is the Seen	p. 467
Unseen Buds	p. 468
Good-Bye My Fancy!	p. 468
A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads and Prefatory Letter
Prefatory Letter to the Reader, Leaves of Grass 1889	p. 469
A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads	p. 471
Old Age Echoes
An Executor's Diary Note, 1891	p. 485
To Soar in Freedom and in Fullness of Power	p. 486
Then Shall Perceive	p. 486
The Few Drops Known	p. 486
One Thought Ever at the Fore	p. 486
While Behind All Firm and Erect	p. 487
A Kiss to the Bride	p. 487
Nay, Tell Me Not To-day the Publish'd Shame	p. 487
Supplement Hours	p. 488
Of Many a Smutch'd Deed Reminiscent	p. 489
To Be at All	p. 489
Death's Valley	p. 489
On the Same Picture	p. 490
A Thought of Columbus	p. 491
An Album of Whitman Portraits	p. 493
Other Poetry and Prose
Note on the Texts	p. 509
Poems Excluded from Leaves of Grass
Great Are the Myths	p. 510
Poem of Remembrances for a Girl or a Boy of These States	p. 513
Think of the Soul	p. 514
Respondez!	p. 515
[In the New Garden]	p. 518
[Who Is Now Reading This?]	p. 519
[Long I Thought That Knowledge Alone Would Suffice]	p. 519
[Hours Continuing Long]	p. 520
[So Far, and So Far, and On Toward the End]	p. 521
Thoughts--1: Visages	p. 521
Leaflets	p. 522
Thoughts--6: "Of What I Write"	p. 522
Says	p. 522
Apostroph	p. 524
O Sun of Real Peace	p. 526
To You	p. 526
Now Lift Me Close	p. 527
To the Reader at Parting	p. 527
Debris	p. 527
[States!]	p. 531
Thoughts--2: "Of Waters, Forests, Hills"	p. 533
Thoughts--4: "Of Ownership ..."	p. 533
Bathed in War's Perfume	p. 534
Solid, Ironical, Rolling Orb	p. 534
Up, Lurid Stars!	p. 534
Not My Enemies Ever Invade Me	p. 535
This Day, O Soul	p. 535
When I Read the Book	p. 535
Lessons	p. 536
Ashes of Soldiers: Epigraph	p. 536
One Song, America, Before I Go	p. 536
Souvenirs of Democracy	p. 537
From My Last Years	p. 537
In Former Songs	p. 538
The Beauty of the Ship	p. 538
After an Interval	p. 539
Two Rivulets	p. 539
Or from That Sea of Time	p. 540
As in a Swoon	p. 541
[Last Droplets]	p. 541
Ship Ahoy!	p. 541
For Queen Victoria's Birthday	p. 542
L of G	p. 542
After the Argument	p. 543
For Us Two, Reader Dear	p. 543
Passages Excluded from Leaves of Grass Poems
[The Writer of Melodious Verses]	p. 544
[This Is the Breath for America]	p. 544
[Eleves I Salute You!]	p. 545
[Old Forever New Things]	p. 545
[The Teeming Mother of Mothers]	p. 546
[This Is Mastering Me]	p. 546
[O Hot-Cheek'd and Blushing]	p. 547
[Now Lucifer Was Not Dead]	p. 548
[Invocation: To Workmen and Workwomen]	p. 549
[Facts Showered Over with Light]	p. 549
[Language for America]	p. 550
[His Shape Arises]	p. 550
[A Thought of the Clef of Eternity]	p. 551
[What Do You Hear, Walt Whitman?]	p. 552
[You Dumb Beautiful Ministers]	p. 553
[Which Are My Miracles?]	p. 553
[You Who Celebrate Bygones!]	p. 554
[Creations for Strong Artists]	p. 554
[Readers to Come]	p. 555
[O Bitter Sprig!]	p. 555
[Nearing Departure]	p. 556
[Let None Be Content with Me]	p. 556
[Realities, the Visions of Poets]	p. 557
[Give Me the Clue ... the Word Final]	p. 557
[Orators Fit for America]	p. 558
[Epigraph: A Carol of Harvest]	p. 558
[With Additional Songs Every Spring]	p. 559
[Aroused and Angry]	p. 559
Uncollected Poems
Pictures	p. 560
[Miscellaneous Fragments for "Pictures"]	p. 566
[All That We Are]	p. 567
[I Am the Poet]	p. 568
[O I Must Not Forget!]	p. 568
[Love Is the Cause of Causes]	p. 568
[I Last Winter]	p. 569
[I Cannot Be Awake]	p. 569
Light and Air!	p. 569
[Of Your Soul]	p. 570
[What the Sun]	p. 570
[Have You Supplied]	p. 570
[I Do Not Expect]	p. 571
Scantlings	p. 571
Poem of Existence	p. 571
[Until You Can Explain]	p. 572
[Remembrances]	p. 572
Thought	p. 573
To the Future	p. 573
To an Exclusive	p. 574
As of Forms	p. 574
[To This Continent]	p. 575
[The Divinest Blessings]	p. 575
Thought [Of recognition--]	p. 575
[What Would It Bring You]	p. 576
The Two Vaults	p. 576
Two Antique Records	p. 577
O Brood Continental	p. 577
Kentucky	p. 578
To the Prevailing Bards	p. 580
[The Long, Long Solemn Trenches]	p. 580
[There Rises in My Brain]	p. 580
Ship of Libertad	p. 581
After Certain Disastrous Campaigns	p. 582
Sights--The Army Corps, Encamped on the War Field	p. 582
Sonnet	p. 583
While the Schools and the Teachers Are Teaching	p. 584
[Two Elegies on Lincoln]	p. 584
April 1865	p. 585
Beauty	p. 585
[Mask with Their Lids]	p. 586
Starry Union	p. 586
Hands Round	p. 587
Wood Odors	p. 588
Unpublished Poems
A Soul Duet	p. 589
To the Poor	p. 590
Pictures	p. 590
Broadway, 1861	p. 591
[I Too Am Drawn]	p. 591
[I Have Lived]	p. 591
[I Stand and Look]	p. 592
Of My Poems	p. 592
My Own Poems	p. 592
Of the Democratic Party 58-59-60	p. 592
[To What You Said]	p. 593
[While Some I So Deeply Loved]	p. 593
Reminiscences 64	p. 594
[Disease and Death]	p. 594
Starry Union	p. 594
[What the Word of Power]	p. 594
Last Words	p. 595
[Glad the Jaunts for the Known]	p. 595
Champagne in Ice	p. 596
To the Soul	p. 596
[Two Little Buds]	p. 597
[Sunrise]	p. 597
Uncollected Manuscript Fragments
[Sesostris]	p. 598
After Death	p. 598
[America]	p. 598
America to the Old World Bards	p. 599
[American Air]	p. 599
[War]	p. 599
[As Nature]	p. 599
We Are	p. 600
[As to You]	p. 600
[As We Are]	p. 600
? Ashes of Roses	p. 600
The Body	p. 601
[Can ?]	p. 601
[Decoration Day]	p. 601
[Divine Is the Person]	p. 602
Ebb and Flood Tides	p. 602
[The Epos of a Life]	p. 602
[The Grappler]	p. 602
[Have I Refreshed]	p. 603
[Hear My Fife!]	p. 603
[I Have Appeared]	p. 603
[Immortality]	p. 603
[I Admire]	p. 604
[I Am a Look]	p. 604
[I Am a Student]	p. 604
[I Am Become]	p. 604
[I Am Not Content]	p. 604
[I Am That Halfgrown Angry Boy]	p. 605
[I Know Many Beautiful Things]	p. 605
[I Know That Amativeness]	p. 606
[I Shall Venerate]	p. 606
[I Subject All the Teachings]	p. 606
[In American Schools]	p. 607
[I'll Trace This Garden]	p. 607
[It Were Easy to Be Rich]	p. 608
[Life, Light]	p. 608
[Living Bulbs]	p. 608
[Nor Humility's Book]	p. 608
[O I See Now]	p. 609
[Osirus]	p. 609
[The Poet Is a Recruiter]	p. 609
[The Power by Which]	p. 609
[Prince of Wales]	p. 609
[A Procession Without Halt]	p. 610
[Remember If You Are Dying]	p. 610
[Sanity and Ensemble]	p. 610
[Shall We Sky-lark]	p. 611
[Ships Sail upon the Waters]	p. 611
The Soul's Procession	p. 611
[Spirituality, the Unknown]	p. 612
[That Is Profitable]	p. 612
[These Are the Caravan]	p. 612
Proem	p. 612
[Undulating, Swiftly Merging]	p. 613
[What, Think You]	p. 613
[Who Wills with His Own Brain]	p. 613
[Why Should I Subscribe]	p. 614
[Will You Have the Walls]	p. 614
[The Woman That Sells]	p. 614
[Poetic Lines in 1855-56 Notebook]	p. 614
Prefaces
Preface 1855--Leaves of Grass, First Edition	p. 616
Prefatory Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson--Leaves of Grass 1856	p. 636
Emerson to Whitman, 1855	p. 637
Whitman to Emerson, 1856	p. 638
Preface 1872--As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free	p. 647
Preface 1876--Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets	p. 652
Leaves of Grass (1855 Text)	p. 662
Live Oak, with Moss	p. 752
From Democratic Vistas	p. 757
From Specimen Days	p. 774
Whitman on His Art
Comments, 1855-1892	p. 783
A Whitman Manuscript	p. 789
Criticism
Criticism 1855-1955
Leaves of Grass: A Volume of Poems Just Published	p. 793
Leaves of Grass: Broklyn, 1855	p. 795
Fresh Fern Leaves: Leaves of Grass	p. 798
[Excerpts from two letters to H. G. O. Blake]	p. 800
An Englishwoman's Estimate of Walt Whitman	p. 802
The Gospel According to Walt Whitman	p. 807
[Whitman in Retrospect]	p. 810
Whitman	p. 813
[Review of Calamus]	p. 822
Whitman	p. 823
Some Lines from Whitman	p. 830
An Essay on Leaves of Grass	p. 836
Recent Criticism
To Heal a Nation	p. 845
To Stand Between: Walt Whitman's Poetics of Merger and Embodiment	p. 850
The Twenty-Ninth Bather: Identity, Fluidity, Gender, and Sexuality in Section 11 of "Song of Myself"	p. 855
Whitman: Hieroglyphic Bibles and Phallic Songs	p. 863
The Poetics of Union in Whitman and Lincoln: An Inquiry toward the Relationship of Art and Policy	p. 872
The Poetics of Reconstruction: Whitman the Political Poet after the Civil War	p. 890
Walt Whitman: A Chronology	p. 901
Selected Bibliography	p. 905
Index of Titles and First Lines	p. 907
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