Introduction by R. H. Rupp -- A pact, by E. Pound -- Letter to Whitman: July 21, 1855, by R. W. Emerson -- Concerning Walt Whitman: December 7, 1856, by H. D. Thoreau -- Structure and poetic growth in Leaves of grass, by V. K. Chari -- Towards a theory of structure in Song of myself, by J. M. Nagle -- Only a language experiment, by F. O. Matthiessen -- Adam creates a world, by R. W. B. Lewis -- Some lines from Whitman, by R. Jarrell -- One's self I sing, by R. Chase -- Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, by S. E. Whicher -- Symbolism in When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, by C. Feidelson, Jr. -- Lilacs as pastoral elegy, by R. P. Adams -- India and the soul's circumnavigation, by J. E. Miller, Jr. -- Shades of darkness in The sleepers, by Sister Eva Mary -- Whitman's short lyrics, by G. W. Allen -- Sympathy on the open road, by D. H. Lawrence -- The self against the world, by R. H. Pearce -- Whitman and Dickinson, by L. L. Martz -- Twain and Whitman, by M. Green -- Conclusion, by R. Asselineau -- Bibliography (p. [126]-128).
