Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-259) and index.
Contents
Introduction / David S. Reynolds -- Walt Whitman, 1819-1892: a brief biography / David S. Reynolds -- Lucifer and Ethiopia: Whitman, race, and poetics before the Civil War and after / Ed Folsom -- Political roots of Leaves of Grass / Jerome Loving -- Whitman and the gay American ethos / M. Jimmie Killingsworth -- Whitman and the visual arts / Roberta K. Tarbell -- Whitman the democrat / Kenneth Cmiel -- Illustrated chronology -- Bibliographical essay / David S. Reynolds.
