Walt Whitman

Introduction / Harold Bloom

Whitman / D.H. Lawrence

Policy made personal / Kenneth Burke

The theory of America / Richard Chase

Whitman justified, the poet in 1860 / Roy Harvey Pearce

The delicacy of Whitman / James Wright

Always going out and coming in / R.W.B. Lewis

Whitman's image of voice / Harold Bloom

The wound-dresser / Paul Zweig.