The Evolution of Walt Whitman: an Expanded Edition

CONTENTS......Page 421
PART ONE THE MAIN THEMES OF LEAVES OF GRASS......Page 423
I. MYSTIClSM AND THE POETRY OF THE BODY......Page 425
II. THE ZMPLlCIT METAPHYSICS......Page 443
III. THE ETHICS......Page 500
IV. THE FUNDAMENTAL AESTHETICS......Page 513
V. SEX LIFE “The Love that dare not speak its name.”......Page 530
VI. “THESE STATES” — EGOCENTRISM AND PATRIOTISM......Page 551
VII. DEMOCRACY — ”MYSELF” AND MAN “ENMASSE”......Page 567
VIII. DEMOCRACY AND RACIALISM — SLAVERY......Page 601
IX. INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION......Page 614
PART TWO THE PROGRESS OF HIS ART......Page 627
X. STYLE: FROM MYSTICISM TO ART......Page 629
XI. LANGUAGE: INNOVATlONS AND TRADI-TIONS......Page 647
XII. PROSODY: ORDER WITHIN DISORDER......Page 661
CONCLUSION......Page 675
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 683
ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES......Page 694
NOTES......Page 695
INDEXES......Page 803