1 Introduction EZRA GREENSPAN

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

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List of Contributors

Chronology of Whitman's Life

3 Fratricide and Brotherly Love:Whitman and the Civil War M．WYNN THOMAS

4 Reading Whitman's Postwar Poetry JAMES PERRIN WARREN

5 Politics and Poetry:Leaves of Grass and the Social Crisis of the 1850s DAVID S．REYNOLDS

6 Some Remarks on the Poetics of

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8 Appearing in Print:Illustrations of the Self in Leaves of Grass ED FOLSOM

8.1 Frontispiece portrait for the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass.

ILLUSTRATIONS

8.2 Frontispiece engraving for Frederick Douglass,Narrative ofthe Life ofFrederick Douglass,An American Slave.

8.3 Walt Whitman.Engraving by William J．Linton．

8.4 Margin decoration in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

8.5 Walt Whitman.Photograph by Phillips and Taylor.

8.6 Frontispiece portrait for November Boughs(1888).

8.7 Frontispiece for Complete Poems and Prose of Walt Whitman 1855...1888.

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9.1 Edward Gordon Craig and Isadora Duncan,Berlin,1904.

9.2 Edward Gordon Craig,Portrait of Walt Whitman.

9.3 Edward Gordon Craig,The Good Grey Poet.

9.4 Arnold Genthe,Isadora Duncan.

9.5 Abraham Walkowitz,Isadora Duncan:Seven Studies.

9.6 John Sloan,Isadora Duncan in the

9.7 Edward Gordon Craig,Isadora Duncan,Sechs bewegungstudien,1906.

10 Walt Whitman:Precipitant of the Modern ALAN TRACHTENBERG

11 Borges's

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index

Whitman's Writings