Dreaming in the grass -- Whitman, the transcendentalist poet incarnate -- The quiddity and liquidity of Leaves of grass -- Whitman's transcendental humor -- From Paumanok to India: From Paumanok to more than America ; To more than India -- Whitman: a poet both born and made -- Theodore Dreiser's transcendentalism -- Eugene O'Neill's transcendental phase -- Beyond realism: Sherwood Anderson's transcendentalist aesthetics -- Hemingway, or "sartor resartus" once more -- The tragic transcendentalism of Tennessee Williams -- A neglected transcendentalist poet of the twentieth century: Walter Lowenfels (1897-1976).
