Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : "Generations hence" / Ed Folsom
  • Whitman biography in 1992 / Gay Wilson Allen
  • The Binns biography / Jerome Loving
  • Whitman : bibliography as biography / Joel Myerson
  • Whitman unperturbed : the Civil War and after / Vivian R. Pollak
  • The European roots of Leaves of grass / Roger Asselineau
  • "Tallying, vocalizing all" : discourse markers in Leaves of grass / C. Carroll Hollis
  • Whitman's physical eloquence / M. Jimmie Killingsworth
  • Reconstructing language in Democratic vistas / James Perrin Warren
  • The obfuscations of rhetoric : Whitman and the visionary experience / Arthur Golden
  • The body politic in Democratic vistas / Harold Aspiz
  • The politics of labor and the poet's work : a reading of "A song for occupations" / Alan Trachtenberg
  • Whitman and the dreams of labor / M. Wynn Thomas
  • Whitman and the homosexual republic / Betsy Erkkila
  • Whitman and the politics of identity / Robert K. Martin
  • Whitman's multitudinous poetic progeny : particular and puzzling instances / James E. Miller, Jr.
  • The Whitman legacy and the Harlem Renaissance / George B. Hutchinson
  • Whitman, Dos Passos, and "Our storybook democracy" / Kenneth M. Price
  • "Teach me your rhythm" : the poetics of German lyrical responses to Whitman / Walter Grünzweig
  • Whitman criticism in the light of Indian poetics / V.K. Chari.